Owning materials from an asteroid now legal in United States
Owning materials from an asteroid is now legal in the Unites States, after President Barack Obama signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act...
Liquid metal brings shape-shifting to electronics industry
Do you remember the liquid metal, shape-shifting android assassin in the Terminator 2 movie of the 1990s? That science-fiction notion could one day become...
Dell shares increase by 5.5 percent following buyout offer
Dell shares have increased by 5.5 percent to $13.68 per share, following a buyout offer from founder of company, Michael Dell.
Mr Dell is attempting...
Anthropocene started at the first nuclear test on July 16, 1945
Anthropocene started when the first nuclear test took place, on July 16th, 1945, a research team suggests. Anthropocene refers to the current geological age,...
Encana sells Western Canadian Montney assets to KKR and Veresen for $412m
Encana Corporation says it is selling its natural gas pipeline and processing assets in northeast British Columbia to a new 50/50 limited partnership of New York’s...
Missing link in evolution of complex life found
A missing link in the evolution of complex life has been found, helping us understand how animals (including humans), plants and fungi evolved from...
New tool Sunlight expands tracking of personal data on the Web
Scientists at Columbia University’s Data Science Institute are to present ‘Sunlight’, a second-generation tool that they say brings transparency to the Web. They will...
General Electric announces 12,000 job cuts to save $1 billion next year
General Electric (GE) announced that it is cutting 12,000 jobs at its global power business to help save $1 billion next year.
The decision to...
Eurozone GDP flatlines in Q2
While Eurozone GDP flatlines in the second quarter, the economies of the other European Union (EU) nations surge ahead. Put simply, the EU is...
Musk plans on making Internet available in space
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, is set on making Internet available in Space.
Musk made an announcement on Friday that he wants...