Incredible first image ever taken of a black hole is crowned as 2019’s ‘breakthrough of the year’ by prestigious journal Science Black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 was imaged in April It was the first time ever a proper photograph of a black hole was seen It required the invention of a … Read more
People’s understanding of supposedly ‘equivalent’ words used to express emotions — such as love, fear or anxiety — vary greatly between different languages, a study found. Researchers studied words describing emotion in more than 2,000 languages and found ‘significant variation’ in how emotions are expressed across cultures. For example, the researchers found that among the … Read more
Meet Robofly: Tiny autonomous robotic insect weighing less than one gram that can carry five times its weight AND withstand multiple heavy hits from a swatter It has artificial muscles on to its three legs that it moves 400 times a second The robot’s body is made of soft materials making it very flexible and bendible … Read more
Toyota has revealed the next update of its T-HR3 humanoid ‘avatar’ service robot ahead of next year’s Olympic Games. The robot is capable of flexible movements that mirror the actions of its human operators up to six miles away, almost in real time. Using a 5G connection and a human controller connected to wiring and … Read more
Facebook tests cloud gaming waters with $78 million acquisition of Madrid-based company PlayGiga Facebook made its first-ever cloud gaming acquisition by purchasing PlayGiga It’s unclear what Facebook’s plans are and if it will launch its own service PlayGiga hosts 300 games for customers in Argentina, Chile and Spain By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 16:46 GMT, 19 … Read more
Rare ‘Nintendo PlayStation’ that was developed in collaboration with Sony 30 years ago and scrapped before release is expected to fetch MILLIONS at auction ‘SNES PlayStation’ was the result of a brief collaboration between gaming giants The ultra-rare prototype includes both a cartridge slot and CD-ROM disc drive It’s thought to be the last remaining unit … Read more
The world’s oldest forest dating back 386 million years to ‘the age of the fish’ has been discovered near New York. The fossilised roots of trees that were thought to be up to 65ft tall were found at the bottom of a quarry in the Catskill region near the small town of Cairo. The forest … Read more
It is the year of the foldable phones and Samsung seems to be leading the pack. The South Korean firm just released its Galaxy Fold and new leaks suggest a prototype for a predecessor is in the works. Five images were shared on a Chinese social media site that highlight a ‘clamshell’ folding design that … Read more
World’s tiniest ‘gingerbread house’ that is smaller than a human hair is created by a microscope specialist and features bricks, trim and a Canadian flag for a welcome mat Engineer Travis Casagrande of McMaster University, Canada, carved the house under an electron microscope A beam of charged gallium ions was used like a sandblaster to … Read more
The hotly-debated identity of the Leaning Tower of Pisa’s creator has finally been confirmed as the 12th century sculptor-turned-architect, Bonanno Pisano. He was long-believed to have masterminded the project, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but several other claimants have been considered over the centuries. Italian scholars analysed a stone inscription first unearthed … Read more
Critically-endangered ‘monkey tree frog’ that walks instead of jumping thanks to its ‘human-like’ opposable thumbs discovered in Brazil Team of biologists filmed the green monkey tree frog in Vilhena, northern Brazil Frog walks because its thumbs operate independently from the rest of its fingers Critically-endangered Phyllomedusa camba eats 1,000 disease-carrying insects a day on average, making … Read more
A British firm has made the world’s first ‘hyperscooter’ — which has a top speed of 38 miles per hour and is steered by the strapped-in rider’s limbs and body-weight. The electric scooter comes in both three and four-wheeled varieties, can travel up to 28.5 miles on a single charge and can even follow the … Read more
A previously unseen type of explosion has been spotted in the Sun’s upper atmosphere for the first time, and it could lead to better solar weather predictions, NASA says. The Sun’s surface is constantly moving. The super-hot plasma creates magnetic fields that twist together and, as the star rotates, they snap apart and join together … Read more