Science & Technology

Lt. Timothy Holland, NOAA Corps, emerges from a balloon assembly station with an ozonesonde attached to a weather balloon before releasing it over the South Pole. Credit: Josiah Horneman, Station Physician's Assistant, Antarctic Support Contract The 2021 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area on October 7 and ranks 13th largest since 1979, scientists from…

Giant panda. Credit: Anssi Nokelainen The high-contrast pattern of giant pandas helps them blend in with their natural environment. Researchers at the University of Bristol, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Jyväskylä have used state-of-the art image analysis techniques to demonstrate, counterintuitively, that the unique colourings work to disguise the giant panda. The…

Pesquet said his experience in space made him appreciate Earth's fragility. From his perch 400 kilometres above Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has had a unique perspective on the climate-fuelled natural disasters that have swept the planet over the past six months. Pesquet recently finished up his second mission at the International Space Station, an…

When you type a search query in Mozilla Firefox’s address bar, you see various search suggestions appear beneath your query. If you don’t find these suggestions helpful, you can turn them off. We’ll show you how. Firefox Gives You Options In Firefox, you can disable address bar search suggestions for any search engine that you…

Microsoft Microsoft has been busy with the launch of Windows 11, and now the company is starting to roll new features out to the OS. The company is adding a new page to the Settings app that’ll let you see information related to your Microsoft account in Windows 11 build 22489. In a Windows Insider blog…

While the concept of forking a GitHub repository is similar to cloning, there is an important difference between the two. We explain what the difference is, when you may want to fork instead of clone, and how to do it. Cloning vs Forking: What’s the Difference? When you clone a repo, you copy that repository…

With clean label and free from trends rapidly growing across the APAC region, particularly in economically advanced markets such as Australia, consumers are showing increased demand for food products which are both less processed and contain no unnatural additives.The processed meat industry in particular has long suffered a poor reputation over products such as sausages…

XD CEO Huang Yimeng said Chinese regulators are ‘very well-versed with the video games industry’, despite a crackdown that has left the industry reeling XD, operator of the TapTap games store, has grown rapidly since its 2019 IPO, but revenues are down this year as it awaits approval for its own titles Published: 5:00pm, 28…

New changes to the UK’s research and development (R&D) tax relief scheme to include cloud computing and data costs were announced today as part of a number of measures relating to technology set out in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review (SR) for 2021. Announcing the changes under the government’s ambition to make the UK…

Microsoft’s chief environmental officer says it’s not too late to prevent a climate disaster, but doing so will require a group effort and levels of tech innovation on a par with those needed to put a man on the moon By Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK Published: 27 Oct 2021 14:00 Solving the climate crisis…