They had teeth the size of bananas, were as long as buses and limos, and preyed on dinosaurs that fed near their waterways. Those are among some of the findings presented in a new study announced this week about an enormous ancient animal called the “terror crocodile,” or Deinosuchus. The research, published in the Journal […]
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The coronavirus is raging through the White Mountain Apache tribe. Spread across a large reservation in eastern Arizona, the Apaches have been infected at more than 10 times the rate of people in the state as a whole. Yet their death rate from Covid-19 is far lower, just 1.3 percent, as compared with 2.1 percent […]
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WASHINGTON — Just six days before Joseph R. Biden Jr. tapped Kamala Harris to be his running mate in the presidential election, the California senator released sweeping environmental justice legislation. The timing, climate activists said, was important if not prescient. The Climate Equity Act, an expanded version of a bill Ms. Harris and Representative Alexandria […]
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From the standpoint of sex, male frogs tend to segregate into two camps: the monogamous bunch and the free wheeling philanderers. This split seems to apply to all amphibians, which don’t really compromise between these two amorous extremes. Researchers have long found this odd; plenty of other animals practice group fidelity, wherein one male strikes […]
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Image caption The Isle of Wight has been picked as a test bed for England’s contact-tracing app for a second time England’s revamped coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to begin public trials on Thursday. The software will be based on Apple and Google’s privacy-centric method of one smartphone detecting another. Engineers are still trying to […]
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Image copyright t.me/nexta_live Image caption Nexta Live has seen its subscriber numbers surge to over 1.5 million this week For days Belarusians have had little information of the unrest filling their streets, with state-run TV making little attempt to report it and other websites and social media offline. But one source of information that has […]
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Nearly 250 million years ago, a very odd reptile patrolled the shorelines and coves of the Triassic Alps. Called Tanystropheus, it had a toothy head and a body echoing that of modern monitor lizards. But between them stretched a horizontal, giraffe-like neck. The question of how this 20-foot creature used that nine-foot neck has bedeviled […]
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Facebook, Twitter and chat apps like WhatsApp have proved fertile ground for unfounded rumours about Covid-19 At least 800 people died around the world because of coronavirus-related misinformation in the first three months of this year, researchers say. A study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene […]
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Image copyright Google Google’s AI can now identify food in the supermarket, in a move designed to help the visually impaired. It is part of Google’s Lookout app, which aims to help those with low or no vision identify things around them. A new update has added the ability for a computer voice to say […]
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Image copyright Reuters Facebook has updated its rules to tackle posts containing depictions of “blackface” and common anti-Semitic stereotypes. Its Community Standards now explicitly state such content should be removed if used to target or mock people. The company said it had consulted more than 60 outside experts before making the move. But one campaigner […]
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