Category Archives: Technology

Antibiotics produced from extinct species could fight infections

Molecules taken from the bodies of extinct species, including the woolly mammoth and giant sloth, were resurrected and appeared to fight infections. In an effort to discover new antibiotics, scientists have used artificial intelligence to extract biological data from long-dead species in the hope of finding missing pieces that can be repurposed. The Machine Biology… Read More »

Retesting of Ghost of Tsushima with the new Arc A770 shows Intel has a mountain to climb to compete with AMD and Nvidia

Last month I put Ghost of Tsushima through a benchmarking meat grinder and tested every graphics preset on multiple CPUs and GPUs. Scaling and framing were also explored to see how good of a job Nixxes Software did in porting the PS4 to the powerful gaming PC. For the most part everything went really well,… Read More »

From glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have been using bioluminescence to communicate for millions of years. Here’s what scientists still don’t know about it

People have long been fascinated by organisms that can produce light. Aristotle, a scientist as well as philosopher, wrote the first detailed descriptions of what he called “cold light” more than 2,000 years ago. More recently, pioneering researchers such as World War II Army veteran Emmett Chappelle and deep submersible pilot Edith Widder have advanced… Read More »

Turtle Beach Atlas Air review

Out of the box, the Atlas Air is a very impressive affair. It is an open-back wireless gaming headset with great emphasis on lightness, which explains its simple rear appearance. It weighs a light 301 grams and, compared to some rivals in this price range, it definitely feels more like a blunt weapon in the… Read More »

How to Delete a Page in Word on Mac and Windows?

Microsoft Word makes it extremely easy for novice writers who might want to “forget” the first few pages of a manuscript on the next great American novel to delete a page containing text, graphics, or other content. At work How to delete a page in Word. How to Delete a Blank Page in a Word… Read More »

Bird flu is extremely lethal to some animals but not others. Scientists want to know why

NEW YORK (AP) – Bird flu has been blamed for the deaths of millions of wild and domestic birds worldwide in the past two years. It killed hordes of seals and sea lions, destroyed mink farms, and wiped out cats, dogs, skunks, foxes, and even a polar bear. But it doesn’t seem to have touched… Read More »

El Niño makes a comeback, but La Niña could bring dry conditions back to California

After a year of dominance, El Niño’s rampage is over; But its climate-wrecking counterpart, La Niña, is immediately warming and could signal a return to dryness for California. El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, sometimes called ENSO. The climate pattern in the tropical Pacific is the largest driver of… Read More »

Myanmar’s embattled military government blocks VPNs, hindering the free flow of news

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has launched a massive effort to block free communication on the internet and shut down access to virtual private networks, or VPNs, that can be used to bypass the blocking of banned websites and services. The initiative to restrict access to information began at the end of May, according… Read More »

A massive solar storm slams into Mars, posing a risk to future astronauts on the red planet

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. When the sun unleashed an extreme solar storm and slammed into Mars in May, it engulfed the red planet in auroras and a stream of charged particles and radiation, according to NASA. The Sun has… Read More »