tech2 News StaffOct 08, 2019 15:12:49 IST Bones can talk. Ask the scientists from the University of Helsinki and the Russian Academy of Sciences studied the bones and teeth from mammoths that lived in Northern Siberia, Alaska, the Yukon and the Wrangel Island. They looked at the isotope compositions of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and strontium […]
Smartphone batteries aren’t supposed to explode, which is why the ones that do always seem to make the news. Most of the time, affected users survive these unfortunate accidents, but some of them can be fatal. A man in Malaysia died more than a year ago when one of the two phones he was charging
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New light had been shed on the day the dinosaurs died, after scientists drilled almost a mile into the crater left by the asteroid that wiped them out 66 million years ago. Rocks dug out of the crater are essentially “time capsules” from the day a giant asteroid smashed into Earth with the equivalent power
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A second person has died from a severe lung illness after vaping, according to a lead investigator on the case in Oregon. The investigator said that the person had apparently become sick after vaping T.H.C. from a product purchased from a recreational marijuana shop in the state. The investigator, Dr. Ann Thomas, a pediatrician and
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? You can find anything on the internet apart from the specific thing you’re looking for. No wonder the boffins at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are bigging up the enormity of the task of decoding data from its recently rediscovered zombie satellite. They probably did a web search for the
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The world lost one of the great, unsung entrepreneurs of history this week: Charles Lazarus, the founder of Toys R Us, who passed away at age 94. His death came, coincidentally, as two other big business milestones happened: First, the multi-billion dollar company he founded went into liquidation, meaning it’s almost certain to close its
We’ve seen it over and over recently, with passengers on United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Delta Airlines, and now American Airlines. They witness or endure something disturbing: a dog placed in an overhead bin; a toddler and family kicked off a flight. Then, through a combination of passion, determination, immediacy and direction, they make the story go viral. Now,
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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. It’s hard to know whether these things happen predominantly on United flights, or whether the airline’s lagging brand reputation makes such stories emerge more readily. Yesterday, ululations were emitted in horror after a woman told the story
As I mentioned in my most recent column, I had a “cardiac incident” while camping with my 12-year-old son. It started as a burning in the center of my chest and a drenching cold sweat. At first, I told myself it was a panic attack or severe indigestion, but as it continued, I realized that
