Cockroaches have super jaws five times stronger than humans
Cockroaches have incredibly strong jaws that in relative terms are about five times stronger than the force human beings can generate from their jaws....
HMRC replacing 170 offices in the UK with 13 regional hubs
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will close all of its 170 offices across the UK and replace them with 13 regional hubs. The major...
UK house prices continue to rise
Property prices in the UK continued to increase in October, while the number of homes put up for sale fell for the ninth month...
Roku unveils its most affordable media player for Black Friday
Roku Inc. announced that it is rolling out a new media player called the Roku® SE set to hit the U.S. for a limited-time...
Firefox OS preview available for Android users to download
Mozilla launched an app offering Android users a chance to experience its new Firefox OS mobile operating system.
An app is being offered by Mozilla...
Facebook launches standalone news app called “Notify”
Facebook launched its new standalone news app called Notify today.
The app provides users with news updates, weather alerts, and other important information.
Notify represents Facebook’s...
Earth-sized exoplanet discovered ‘next door’, galactically speaking
Scientists have discovered the closest Earth-sized exoplanet so far – just 39 light-years from our planet, GJ 1132b is a rocky world like ours,...
Solar system’s most distant object, 103 times further from Sun than Earth, spotted
Scientists have detected our Solar System's most distant object even seen, a frigid world very far away – 103 times further from the Sun...
Asteroid filmed ripping apart by a dead star, forming glowing ring
An asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star, and forming a ring of glowing debris has been captured in an image by scientists...
Persian Gulf heat inhospitable for humans one day – study
Persian Gulf heat may become so intense due to climate change that much of the region could become inhospitable for human life, say two scientists...