The lavish Pompeii home of an esteemed statesman and general has been identified by archaeologists, courtesy of graffiti scrawled on a wall by a young girl. Archaeologists have been working to excavate the site and found the graffiti just 4.5ft (1.39m) above the ground on one of the villa’s interior walls. It is thought she, … Read more
Valuable stone axes discovered at a 6,000-year old hilltop burial site in Germany suggest Neolithic societies were not as egalitarian as previously thought The two rare weapons were found at a tumulus site west of Frankfurt in the 1880s Experts have linked them to a burial mound recently found at the neolithic site The presence of … Read more
iPhone vulnerability that lets users ‘jailbreak’ their devices to run apps and software that have not been approved by Apple is discovered Jailbreaking is able to run because of exploits and bugs found in Apple software This is the first time a jailbreak has worked on newer Apple devices in four years It uses an … Read more
Chimps smack their lips together to talk to each other at almost the same speed as humans – providing evidence for early language Primatologists found Chimpanzees move their lips two to five times a second This is similar to humans, which can move their lips two to seven times a second Research provides additional clues … Read more
Finding it difficult to concentrate while working from home? The make-shift home office can often be improved with a decent pair of noise cancelling headphones to help you drown out any distracting noises. One new contender in the world of noise-cancelling is HONOR with its debut set of headphones, the true wireless Magic Earbuds. There … Read more
The lavish Pompeii home of an esteemed statesman and general has been identified by archaeologists, courtesy of graffiti scrawled on a wall by a young girl. Archaeologists have been working to excavate the site and found the graffiti just 4.5ft (1.39m) above the ground on one of the villa’s interior walls. It is thought she, … Read more
Asteroids Ryugu and Bennu that both orbit between Earth and Mars may be chunks of the same giant space rock that was smashed apart in a collision Mathematical modelling suggests a possible relationship between the asteroids Astronomers at University of Arizona and Laboratoire Lagrange made prediction But tests on samples from both rocks will be … Read more
A South Korean cafe has installed a coffee-making robot that speaks to customers to help comply with social distancing measures. The new robotic barista at the cafe in the city of Daejeon eliminates the need for a human worker, who would be more likely to spread the virus to customers. The machine is described as ‘courteous … Read more
One in three women in Europe has inherited a Neanderthal gene associated with fertility that increases their chances of giving birth to healthy children The Neanderthal receptor for progesterone is linked to fewer pregnancy issues Women who report fewer miscarriages were more likely to have this receptor Authors looked at data from 450,000 European women … Read more
Britons will be able to see a rocket hurtle across the sky at 9.50pm tonight as it heads for the International Space Station. The Falcon 9, the first manned space flight to leave US soil in nine years, is set for blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 21.33 BST (16:33 ET) this evening. Elon … Read more