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A digital accelerometer from a Motorola Xoom smartphone. | Photo Credit: Raimond Spekking (CC BY-SA) A: Your smartphone knows which way is up due to its accelerometer. It’s a chip whose parts shift slightly when the phone accelerates or when gravity acts along a particular direction. The phone’s software reads the accelerometer’s measurements along the…
The Greenland shark can live up to 500 years. The kind of longevity that probably has something to do with its home: cold, dark depths of the North Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean. Scientists have been studying the sharks’ biology — from its slow metabolism to cellular repair — to find answers for healthy ageing…
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Russia has asked the U.S. to stop its pursuit of an oil tanker that was heading to Venezuela and is now fleeing the U.S. Coast Guard in the Atlantic Ocean, the New York Times reported on Thursday (January 1, 2026), citing two people with knowledge of the matter. American forces have been pursuing the tanker,…
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Widening demonstrations sparked by Iran’s ailing economy spread Thursday (January 1, 2026) into the Islamic Republic’s rural provinces, with at least seven people being killed in the first fatalities reported among security forces and protesters, authorities said. The deaths may mark the start of a heavier-handed response by Iran’s theocracy over the demonstrations, which have…
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The U.N. said Thursday (January 1, 2026) that a Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip drowned in floods that engulfed his tent camp, with videos showing rescuers trying to pry his body out of muddy waters by pulling him by the ankle. It was the latest sign of the miseries that winter is inflicting on…
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Australia’s Usman Khawaja. File. | Photo Credit: AP Usman Khawaja will be retiring from international cricket after this week’s fifth Ashes test against England at Sydney Cricket Ground, the Australia batsman said on Friday (January 2, 2026). The 39-year-old made his test debut at the same ground in the final match of the 2010-11 Ashes…
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