Sci-Tech news

• Climate change is heating up Alaska: Parts of the US state hit record high temperatures of 67F

  28-12-2021 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Previous records, recorded in the 1980s, were in the low to high 40s, but temperatures typical sit in the 30s this time of year. Alaska is warming faster than any other US state due to climate change.
  
  Read more

• Apple gives some engineers a rare $180,000 bonus to prevent them from defecting to Meta

  28-12-2021 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The shares vest over four years, providing an incentive for engineers to stay at Apple. Not all engineers received the bonus and those who didn't believe 'the selection process is arbitrary,'
  
  Read more

• HEAD LICE on ancient South American mummies contain more human DNA than a tooth

  28-12-2021 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team were able to extract the DNA from the 'cement' head lice used to glue their eggs to hairs on mummified bodies in South America, thousands of years ago.
  
  Read more

• Israel tries to contain avian flu outbreak after 5,000 wild cranes die

  28-12-2021 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some 5,000 wild cranes have died and hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys are being culled.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• SpaceX's Starship is now grounded until MARCH: FAA changes date of its environmental review to Feb

  28-12-2021 21:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world will have to wait at least two months until SpaceX launches its next Starship rocket. The FAA said on Tues that it is pushing its final environmental review to February 28, 2022.
  
  Read more

• England goalies save the same number of spot kicks as other nations, study confirms

  28-12-2021 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The country's dismalrecord of penalty shootouts could be down to 'enormous pressure' rather than ability, say experts at the German Sport University, Cologne.
  
  Read more

• Fossil of bird that lived 120 million years ago had a tongue as long as its head

  28-12-2021 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The small bird, which lived in what is now China, is the earliest example of a bird being able to stick its tongue out, which is found in today's ducks, hummingbirds and woodpeckers.
  
  Read more

• Alexa 'challenges' 10-year-old girl to put penny in wall socket - mimicking TikTok trend in 2020

  28-12-2021 17:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Kristin Livdahl tweeted about the incident on Sunday, stating that Alexa told her child to 'plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs.'
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Environmentally minded owners are switching to insect diets for their pets

  28-12-2021 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The move is designed to reduce the overall environmental impact household pets have on the planet, as insect farms have a lower carbon footprint than livestock.
  
  Read more

• Learning remotely could increase the risk of depression in older schoolchildren, study warns 

  28-12-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers analysed parent-reported mental health outcomes for more than 2,000 school-age children living in Canada at the time of the Covid-19 outbreak.
  
  Read more

• LG TONE Free FP9: Earbuds sport features like noise cancellation and bacteria-killing case

  28-12-2021 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline tested LG's TONE Free FP wireless headphones, which sport active noise cancellation and a case that kills 99.9 per cent of bacteria.
  
  Read more

• Riot Games to pay $100m in discrimination case

  28-12-2021 14:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The League of Legends maker agrees to settle a 2018 gender discrimination class-action lawsuit
  
  Read more

• We Are at the Dawn of the Age of Physics-Supplied Energy

  28-12-2021 13:00
  
  Power can become cleaner, cheaper, and better. Here’s how.
  
  Read more

• The Year in Overflow Culture

  28-12-2021 13:00
  
  Thanks to the constant content machine, there’s more culture online than anyone knows what to do with. Here’s the most baffling of the internet’s 2021 leftovers.
  
  Read more

• Tech CEOs Must Properly Get Behind Net Zero Goals

  28-12-2021 13:00
  
  Reducing emissions alone won't get the world to net zero—so entrepreneurs are betting on carbon-capture tech.
  
  Read more

• 4 of the Best Dive Watches From 2021

  28-12-2021 13:00
  
  They are the most popular type of timepiece by far, and this year many new models were launched. We’ve picked four favorites.
  
  Read more

• NASA's James Webb Space Telescope swings past the MOON on its million mile journey into solar orbit 

  28-12-2021 12:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The $10 billion telescope, a joint project between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), reached lunar altitude in the early hours of this morning.
  
  Read more

• Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny

  28-12-2021 12:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amazon has fixed its voice assistant so that it will not suggest the dangerous “challenge” again.
  
  Read more

• Hubble Space Telescope's best images

  28-12-2021 11:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Affectionately known as 'our eye on the Universe', the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, via the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
  
  Read more

• Australia's giant 'thunder birds' were wiped out 48,000 years ago due to BONE DISEASE

  28-12-2021 11:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The find, by researchers at Flinders University, unveiled severe bone infections in several dromornithid remains mired in the 160 sq km beds of Lake Callabonna fossil reserve.
  
  Read more

• Elon Musk criticised after China space complaint to UN

  28-12-2021 09:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The SpaceX boss is attacked on Chinese social media after the complaint was made public.
  
  Read more

• Archaeology: Mummy of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep I is 'digitally unwrapped' for the first time

  28-12-2021 06:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Found in 1881 at Deir el-Bahari, Amenhotep I's mummy has never been unwrapped by modern Egyptologists because the specimen and its facemask is so beautifully preserved.
  
  Read more

• The African nation aiming to be a hydrogen superpower

  28-12-2021 01:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Namibia wants to use its abundance of sunshine and wind power to make and export hydrogen.
  
  Read more

Follow @scitech_UK on Twitter!