The Draconid meteor shower will peak tonight, meaning stargazers have the best chance of seeing some of its shooting stars if the skies are clear. If the weather is cloudy, however, it should also be visible for the next two evenings. But with meteor showers appearing in the night sky all year long, how can you tell your Draconids from ...
The unused cables and broken tech items you have tucked away at home could help steer the UK away from a copper crisis, according to new research. The research by campaign group Recycle Your Electricals (RYE) suggests the UK has 1.3 billion unused or binned electricals, including 627 million cables, which could hold the answer to the nation’s fast-approaching gap ...
US officials have confirmed they are considering breaking up Google’s “illegal monopoly” of internet searches. The tech giant could face restrictions on its own products – including its Chrome browser, Play Store and Android operating system, the US Justice Department said. It comes after a judge found in August the company had broken anti-trust laws to ensure its dominance of ...
Lab-grown meat and vegetable products may be getting closer to approval for consumption in the UK as the food safety watchdog will be researching them to ensure they are safe. Cell-cultivated products (CCPs) are a new type of food made without using traditional farming methods such as rearing livestock or growing plants and grains. Their attraction for both consumers and ...
This year’s Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine has been awarded to two American scientists who discovered how “microRNA” controls the decoding of genetic information in living organisms. Studying the tiny nematode worm C “elegans”, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun independently discovered that small sequences of RNA were essential in determining whether certain genes are turned into proteins that carry ...
“I went on Facebook to see if he would go the extent of meeting up with me. He did… but I never went.” Savanna Harrison, 27, is a professional “checker”, using social media to expose cheating partners after being cheated on herself. She wanted to help other women avoid the same heartbreak she felt, so she started working for a ...
The UK needs a strategy to meet growing demand for data centres or risk losing its advantage in the race to develop artificial intelligence (AI), one of the sector’s largest players has told Sky News. Data centres – warehouses housing processors that power cloud computing – are central to the digital economy. They provide the power, connections and security required ...
A 20-year-old TikTok personality has been charged with murder after the body of a therapist was discovered wrapped in a tarpaulin on a motorway. Terryon Thomas, best known online as Mr Prada, was arrested in East Baton Rouge, Louisana, on Tuesday after 69-year-old therapist William Nicholas Abraham was found dead on the side of a road near Tangipahoa Parish a ...
The Northern Lights may make an appearance over the UK over the next couple of nights, after a series of solar flares erupted from the sun. The Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, are caused by solar storms interacting with the Earth’s atmosphere. When solar storms react with atmospheric gases above our north and south magnetic poles, the result is beautiful ...
Women increasingly feel pressured to choose between having a family and their career in tech, according to a new study. Almost half (49%) of women in tech said they felt pressured to make the choice between family and work, a seven per cent increase from last year. Half said they had experienced sexism in their tech workplace. The findings were ...