Could the oldest building blocks for life on Earth, at two-million years old, hold the key to saving our planet from the climate emergency?
Tech & Science Daily hears from Professor Eske Willerslev, who says the team not only found ancient DNA from Greenland’s frozen trees, flowers and bushes, but crucial evidence related to Arctic elephants.
Professor Willerslev worked on the project with colleagues from Cambridge University and the University of Copenhagen, and says the findings offer clues to help understand how the planet is affected by extremes of hot and cold.
Former Theranos executive Sunny Balwani has been jailed for nearly 13 years after his earlier conviction of 12 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Balwani was the business partner of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the failed and fraudulent blood-testing startup, who was earlier sentenced to over 11 years in prison. Both plan to appeal their sentences.
The US state of Indiana is suing TikTok’s parent company over claims it failed to protect young users from inappropriate content.
One lawsuit claims the video app is not doing enough to keep youngsters from harm on the platform, while the second reheats the allegation the company is not revealing what kind of access, if any, China’s government gets to user data. ByteDance is yet to comment.
If you thought the moon was just a muted gray color – think again, because shots remastered by a British author reveal flecks of orange in the lunar rock.
Hundreds of images polished-up in 2022 HD detail what Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt saw during their 1972 Apollo 17 mission, the last moon landing.
Plus, it’s almost time for the winners of the Game Awards 2022 to be announced.
All will be revealed on Thursday night or very early on Friday, depending on where you live, while the Standard’s compiled its own Game of the Year for 2022, and we hear from ES arts and culture writer and commissioning editor Vicky Jessop.
Also, could the London Eye could become a permanent Thames fixture and what’s happened to San Francisco police’s idea to arm robots?
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