Science
Alligator study suggests that dinosaurs had good hearing – making them deadly hunters
They processed sound in the same way as alligators - their closest living relative
Huge earthquake in the tropics ‘could trigger another Ice Age’
Over the last 540 million years the Earth has weathered three such events - with ice sheets and glaciers stretching far beyond the polar cap
Scientists shove smartphone into BLENDER to analyse its contents
The findings showed that, concentration-wise, the phone contained 100 times more gold – and 10 times more tungsten – than geologists would call ‘high-grade’.
People & animals traveled from all over Britain for huge ‘feasts’ near Stonehenge more than 4,000 years ago
Analysis of pig remains reveals that feasts in the Stonehenge area and across the ancient kingdom of Wessex attracted people and their beasts from hundreds of miles away
Scientists have created a “time machine” that has reversed direction of time
In startling news scientists have somehow managed to reverse the direction of time, using a quantum computer. Researchers working with a quantum computer used subatomic particles and observed them travelling back in time, appearing to break a cardinal rule of physics. Their experiment defies the second law of thermodynamics – a rule of physics that governs the direction of events from the past to the future, with time running in one direction. Negatively-charged electrons reordered themselves in their original order...
New species of monkey that lived 22 million years ago is ‘missing link’ in primate evolution
It was only identified through its teeth - and fills a six million year gap in the fossil record.
Routine eye test can detect the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease – in seconds
It offers hope of patients being given drugs decades before symptoms develop when they are most likely to work.
Hundreds of children had their hearts cut out in biggest mass sacrifice ever discovered in The Americas
More than 140 boys and girls aged between five and 14 were killed in the largest known mass sacrifice of children in The Americas
Dinosaurs ‘thriving’ before asteroid strike that wiped them out
For decades scientists have believed dinosaurs were already in decline because of changes in the climate