Consumer food waste hit 931 million tonnes in 2019, 17 per cent of global production. Although this figure includes non-edible waste such as bones, it suggests huge amounts of food are going uneaten Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2270058-over-one-sixth-of-all-food-produced-ends-up-being-thrown-in-the-bin/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Google’s Stadia Problem? A Video Game Unit That’s Not Googley Enough
The tech giant likes to test and tweak. Stadia promised to change the industry and failed to deliver. From a report: Google’s streaming video game service Stadia had ambitious plans to disrupt the gaming industry, which is dominated by consoles. The tech giant had planned to pack Stadia with original content, announcing two years ago that it was hiring hundreds of…
Bones of St. James the Younger, one of the 12 apostles, belong to someone else
Bone fragments long thought to have come from St. James the Younger, one of the 12 apostles who may have been Jesus’ brother, couldn’t have come from him, a new study finds. Source: https://www.livescience.com/st-james-relic-someone-else.html
White dwarfs wear the crushed corpses of planets in their atmospheres
When a star collapses into a white dwarf, it throws its solar system into total chaos. Sometimes, that chaos leaves a mark in its atmosphere. Source: https://www.livescience.com/white-dwarf-swallow-dead-planet-bones.html
Why do dogs bury bones?
A dog’s burying instinct comes courtesy of its wild ancestor, the gray wolf. Source: https://www.livescience.com/why-do-dogs-bury-bones.html
Treasure trove of ancient human remains hint at undiscovered species
A haul of more than 100 ancient human bones found in a cave in South Africa may belong to a previously undiscovered human species Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263973-treasure-trove-of-ancient-human-remains-hint-at-undiscovered-species/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Treasure trove of ancient human remains hints at undiscovered species
A haul of more than 100 ancient human bones found in a cave in South Africa may belong to a previously undiscovered human species Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263973-treasure-trove-of-ancient-human-remains-hints-at-undiscovered-species/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Stone Age Europeans used human bones to make arrowheads
Barbed bone points that washed up on the shores of Europe were used as arrowheads or spear tips, and some were made of human bones Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2262840-stone-age-europeans-used-human-bones-to-make-arrowheads/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Child’s bones buried 40,000 years ago solve long-standing Neanderthal mystery
We don’t know whether it was a boy or a girl. But this ancient child, a Neanderthal, only made it to about two years of age. Source: https://www.livescience.com/neanderthal-child-burial-solves-mystery.html
Ancient humans may have hibernated to survive brutal glacial winters
Signs of disease in the bones of hominins who lived in glacial Europe half a million years ago hint they hibernated to cope with harsh winters – but the evidence is disputed Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2262133-ancient-humans-may-have-hibernated-to-survive-brutal-glacial-winters/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…