Researchers built drone with tiny microphones that can find screaming humans in a natural disaster 

Researchers in Germany have developed a drone that can locate humans by their screams. Rather than a terrifying ‘Terminator’-like scenario, the autonomous devices would be used to assist first responders in rescuing hard-to-find survivors after a natural disaster. The engineers recorded themselves making sounds someone in jeopardy might create, like screams, bangs and claps. Then … Read more

Japanese researchers develop new super compact toilet paper

Japanese researchers develop super compact toilet paper where a single roll is 980ft long – THREE TIMES the height of the Statue of Liberty A Japanese team of researchers developed the 300 metre (980ft) single-ply They say just two rolls can provide as much toilet paper as a standard 12 roll pack No information on … Read more

Avoid eating processed meats entirely, researchers advise

Eating just two sausages per week increases your risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and early death, experts have warned.  A multinational team of researchers tracked the diets and health outcomes of 134,297 people from 21 countries spanning five continents, including Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Sweden and China.  They found a 46 per cent higher risk of major … Read more

Researchers uncover the previously unknown identities of prisoners at Auschwitz

The identities and histories of prisoners in Nazi Germany’s most notorious death camp Auschwitz have been uncovered following two years of painstaking research. Historians, archivists and IT specialists at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland and the Arolsen Archives in Germany teamed up for the project. They searched though over 160,000 documents concerning the fate … Read more

China is trying to ‘destroy’ the Uighur people, independent researchers say

China has violated every rule in the UN’s genocide convention as it tries to ‘destroy’ Uighur Muslims, a think tank has claimed. Beijing’s use of ‘re-education’ camps, mass imprisonment, forced sterilization, rape, and transfer of Uighur children to state institutions violate all five definitions of genocide laid out by the UN, the Newlines Institute for Strategy … Read more

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine works well against UK and South African variants, researchers say

Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine works well against UK and South African variants of the virus, researchers say Vladimir Putin green-lit approval for mass-use of Sputnik V in Russia last August Last month is order review of the vaccine’s effectiveness against new variants Researchers suggest the Russian-made shot protects against UK and South African variants … Read more

Urban legend of parking attendant at Bristol Zoo might be true, researchers say

Gorillas in the myth: Urban legend that self-styled parking attendant collected fortune from visitors to Bristol Zoo over 20 years then retired to the sun might be true, researchers say Tale claims man worked as car park attendant without authority for two decades  It has been disputed by both Bristol Zoo and Bristol City Council … Read more

Researchers see little evidence in-person school drives COVID-19 cases

CDC researchers find ‘little evidence’ of schools contributing to spread of COVID – indicating in-person classes will be safe if precautions are taken Studies in the US found little evidence schools were spreading COVID-19 This shows a ‘path forward’ to in-person classes, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday … Read more

US Army researchers are developing muscle-bound, Terminator-like war robots that have living tissue

Day of the cyborgs: US Army is developing muscle-bound, Terminator-like war robots that use LIVING TISSUE in place of actuators The Army Research Laboratory wants to grow living muscles for robots The team says the living tissue would replace actuators that hold joints This would give robots similar agility and versatility to biological systems  The goal … Read more

US claims researchers at Chinese institute fell ill weeks before the world knew of Covid 

The Chinese government is under growing pressure to reveal the true origins of the coronavirus pandemic after US intelligence placed a Wuhan lab at the centre of the mystery.  American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with Covid-like symptoms in autumn 2019 – weeks before the … Read more