Earth’s rocky surface is the result of ‘intense bombardment’ of extraterrestrial impacts hitting the surface billions of years ago Experts say impacts from space triggered the rise of tectonic plates on Earth Layers of round particles condensed from the impact were discovered Particles date back about 3.2M years ago, similar to when plates appeared By … Read more
Iron in Earth’s oceans one billion years ago almost starved the world of oxygen and destroyed any chance of complex life evolving, study finds Phytoplankton that lived in the ocean’s a billion years ago produced oxygen But the presence of iron inhibited this process and limited photosynthesis Oxygen dropped to around one per cent of today’s … Read more
Earth was once a ‘waterworld’ just like the one depicted by Hollywood in the Kevin Costner blockbuster, according to new research. A global ocean covered the planet 3.2 billion years ago, when the first primitive microbes were emerging. There would have been hardly any dry land – mirroring the way it looked in Waterworld, the … Read more
REVEALED: A flaw in chips powering Asus and Huawei Wi-Fi routers left more than ONE BILLION devices open to being hacked The flaw was revealed at a security conference and has already been patched It affected more than a billion devices and two major brands of Wi-Fi routers iPhones, Samsung phones, and Amazon Echos were among … Read more
Three former Barclays executives have been cleared of fraud over a £4billion investment deal with Qatar at the height of the banking crisis. Scotsman Roger Jenkins, 64, was said to be Barclays’ ‘gatekeeper’ to the wealthy Middle Eastern state, and in 2008 helped the bank with two large capital raisings to avoid a government bailout. … Read more