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A skeleton uncovered at the site.Image: University of Sheffield Archaeologists working in eastern England have discovered a previously unknown Anglo-Saxon cemetery dating back some 1,600 years. At least 20 graves have been uncovered, including many lavish burials belonging to women. The graves were uncovered at a site in Lincolnshire Wolds, a vast range of picturesque…

Photo: Getty Back in 2011, Facebook settled a case with the Federal Trade Commission and signed a unique agreement in which it pledged to follow several guidelines to protect users’ privacy. It’s very possible that this year’s Cambridge Analytica scandal showed that Facebook violated that agreement and could face “trillions of dollars” in fines. But…

The production of artificial meat is not yet put on stream, and such products are perceived rather as an exception to the rule. But all goes to that soon artificial meat will become quite a commonplace. We recently wrote to you about that in the US approved the use of artificial meat, and now it…

Official page of the InSight mission to the NASA website reports that yesterday, stranded on the Red planet a new research module has transmitted a message to Earth about the successful opening of its solar panels and began collecting energy. The signal from the module to the Ground relayed orbiting spacecraft NASA’s Mars Odyssey. In…

Global warming is one of the most likely causes of destruction of life on Earth. Scientists have observed a sharp change in the climate of the planet and believe that the increase in temperature will inevitably kill our planet. Lately the problem got so acute that researchers from Harvard University has suggested a very risky…

Cells regularly die and are replaced by new ones. The mechanism of “planned” cell death is called apoptosis and is a completely normal physiological process. But what is typical for normal cells, the cancer cells. They simply lost this feature. But what if it would be possible to force tumour cells to ‘remember’ this mechanism?…

Border patrol agent Dennis Dickey’s big gender reveal explosion, seen at the precise moment it sparked a 47,000-acre wildfire.Screenshot: Arizona Daily Star (YouTube) The Arizona border patrol agent who used a firearm to detonate explosives during a “gender reveal” party in April 2017, sparking a wildfire which eventually spread across 47,000 acres and caused $8.2.…

Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) Even though I know all these retro consoles are largely an effort turn my nostalgia into big-time corporate profits, they’re damn hard to resist. There’s just something about gray plastic and the old school boot up sound that hits a deep part of my brain as few things do, so when…

Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) Googlers have, over the past few months, been fighting for a louder voice and greater self-determination within a company that’s increasingly gone astray of its bare-minimum unofficial motto, “don’t be evil”—and more often than not, they’re winning. But there’s still one big fly in the ointment. Discomfort over revelations, first reported…

Photo: David Nield (Gizmodo) Notifications keep you in touch with your friends, breaking news, the weather, and much more, but you don’t necessarily want them arriving all through the day—when you can be interrupted at any moment, your attention and productivity are always going to take a hit. Here’s how to get notifications delivered on…