UK number of unemployed down to seven year low
The jobless rate in the UK continued to drop, according to The Office for National Statistics (ONS), with the number of unemployed at a...
Shake Shack shares surge on impressive sales growth
Shake Shack posted quarterly results on Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations.
Revenue surged 56 percent to $37.8 million, driven by a 12% rise in...
Microsoft reveals lineup of Windows 10 editions
When Windows 10 launches it will come in at least six different flavors, with variants of the OS tailored for businesses, personal users, and...
US retail sales unchanged in April on weak big-ticket purchases
US retail sales were unchanged in April as consumers kept spending in check, cutting back on purchases of big-ticket items such as automobiles.
The results...
Slower but ‘solid’ GDP growth, low inflation, rising at end of 2015, says Bank...
Economic growth in 2014 was described as 'robust' by the Bank of England in its 'Inflation Report' released on Wednesday 13 May, although it...
Eat more insects, aim of new cookery kit created by student
Product design student Courtney Yule has created a cookery kit to encourage us to include insects in our daily dietary intake. Insects, like grasshoppers,...
Transition from dinosaur snout to bird beak recreated by scientists
Scientists have managed to replicate the molecular process that led to the first bird beaks from dinosaur snouts by using the fossil record as...
Inge Lehmann discovered Earth’s inner core – 127th birthday today
Inge Lehmann (13 May, 1888 – 21 Feb, 1993), a Danish seismologist and geophysicist who discovered the Earth's inner core, was born exactly 127...
Ocean acidification may not have killed off ammonites 66 million years ago, say scientists
The belief that ocean acidification, caused by the asteroid impact sixty-six million years ago, killed off all the ammonites, could be wrong, say scientists...
Super angry robot customer for staff training being created
A super angry robot, that gets upset about the slightest thing, is being built by New Zealand software marketing solutions company Touchpoint Group Ltd. Imagine...