Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’
17 April 2018
Plants in the UK are set to blaze into flower virtually simultaneously, because flowering has been delayed two weeks by the unusually cold weather
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How Facebook let a friend pass my data to Cambridge Analytica
16 April 2018
Facebook has been alerting users whose data ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica – and our reporter Timothy Revell is one of the unlucky millions
Tune in your head? Mind-reading tech can guess how it sounds
16 April 2018
We now have the ability to hear another person’s thoughts. Researchers have identified the brain activity involved in imagining sounds in your head
A high IQ may protect men from a cause of psychological stress
14 April 2018
Men with higher intelligence scores seem less likely to develop psychological problems due to inflammation
Lost shark seen for first time in a decade - in a fish market
13 April 2018
Photographs of a Ganges river shark snapped at a fish market in Mumbai are the first confirmed record of the species for more than a decade
Rise of the ATM hackers - how scammers are getting free money
13 April 2018
Hacking into cash machines to get them to spit out money or just blasting them open is on the rise, whilst card skimmers are decreasing in popularity
Young Saturn gave Jupiter the building blocks for its big moons
13 April 2018
After Jupiter formed, it likely had no nearby material to build moons. Young Saturn may have tossed rocks at the gas giant that grew into its four biggest moons
The Antarctic is melting even in the middle of subzero winter
13 April 2018
Warm mountain winds are causing extensive winter melting on the surface of the Larsen C ice shelf, which could contribute to its breakup
No more bad, blocky video calls thanks to smart AI compression
13 April 2018
An AI that compresses images by simply throwing bits away and making up what should be there instead could make blocky video calls a thing of the past
The weekly alcohol limit still carries a risk of early death
12 April 2018
An analysis of nearly 600,000 people found those drinking around five glasses of wine or pints of beer a week were at an increased risk of early death
