Canadian pension funds acquire Chicago toll road for $2.8 billion
Three Canadian pension funds announced on Friday that they will be acquiring the company holding the rights to run and operate the Chicago Skyway...
Mars’ moon Phobos is gradually falling apart, say NASA scientists
Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, has long, shallow grooves lining its surface that scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center believe are the...
Blood rain culprit strange microalgae, not a punishment
A blood rain downpour in the autumn of 2014, that shocked the inhabitants of several villages around Zamora in northwest Spain, was caused by a...
Most luminous gamma-ray pulsar known discovered, NASA
Scientists have discovered the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar known. It is also the first gamma-ray pulsar to be found in a galaxy other than our...
Great tits in love prefer to starve than be separated
Great tits in love have a bond that would be the envy of most human couples. They prefer to go without food rather than...
5400 mph winds found on exoplanet, 20x greater than anything on Earth
An exoplanet with 5400 mph winds - which is seven times the speed of sound, or twenty times faster than anything ever recorded on Earth - has...
Ultra-porous liquid with may be our carbon capture solution
An ultra-porous liquid that absorbs incredible quantities of gas in its tiny holes, invented by an international team of researchers, could become our solution...
Amazon launches next-day grocery delivery service in the UK
Amazon is expanding its presence in Britain's grocery market with the launch of a new service for its Prime customers called “Pantry”.
Pantry allows Amazon...
US retail sales only rose 0.1% in October
US retail sales rose a modest 0.1% in October, missing economists’ expectations of a 0.3% rise.
Total retail sales for the month were $447.3 billion....
UK construction sector contracted for third consecutive month
Britain’s construction sector contracted for the third straight month in September, according to the recent data released by the the Office for National Statistics...