Over-the-board competitive chess is back in earnest this week, after fully 18 months of pandemic cancellations and postponements. The British championship at Hull University has its final round on Sunday,…
Year: 2021
World’s largest study of spatial navigation offers free study platform to researchers
After a successful journey gathering data from 4.3 million participating players, the groundbreaking citizen science app Sea Hero Quest is now available for studies of cognition and spatial navigation. Sea…
GM, General Electric to study rare earth supply projects for EVs
General Motors Co (GM.N)and General Electric Co(GE.N)said on Wednesday they plan to study ways they could develop a supply chain of rare earths and other minerals used to make electric…
The latest iOS 15.1 beta includes iPhone 13 Pro camera features
Two new iPhone 13 Pro camera features that Apple promised would be coming in future software updates have shown up in the latest developer beta of iOS 15.1. Now users…
Wildlife Officers Finally Figure Out How to Remove Tire That Was Around an Elk’s Neck for 2 Years
An equal parts comedy and tragedy in the Colorado mountains finally gave to an end, after a young bull elk who had a car tire dangling around his neck for…
Southampton finally sign up to diversity code as FA announces new targets
Southampton have ended their status as the only Premier League club not signed up to the Football Association’s football leadership diversity code (FLDC), with a call for authorities to do…
Migraine history may raise risk for peripartum depression, anxiety
Nike Zoe Welander, from Uppsala University in Sweden, and colleagues surveyed a sample of 4,831 women about their history of migraine prior to pregnancy. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale was…
Dow aims to add $3 bln to core earnings by 2030 with new net-zero unit
Dow Inc (DOW.N) unveiled on Wednesday plans to boost its core earnings by $3 billion a year over the next decade, with investments that include building a new net-zero carbon…
AirPods Pro can help you hear conversations better after recent firmware update
Apple’s promised Conversation Boost feature that uses the AirPods Pro to make it easier to hear people’s voices is available now (via Macrumors). Support for the new feature was included…
Landmark Trial Successfully Eliminates Invasive, Disease Carrying Mosquito Spreading Dengue, Yellow Fever and Zika
In a first for the Southern Hemisphere, researchers have shown a bacteria can successfully sterilize and eradicate the invasive, disease-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito which is responsible for spreading dengue, yellow…