Butterfly numbers exploded in UK in early April
Butterfly numbers in the UK have ‘rocketed’, according to a report by The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), which put the record number for...
Sarah Brightman postpones space flight plans, cites personal family reasons
Sarah Brightman, the British classical crossover soprano, songwriter, actress, and dancer, has postponed her flight to the International Space Station that was scheduled to...
Osborne announces next Budget will be in July
George Osborne announced that on July 8 he will deliver his first all-Tory Budget.
Mr. Osborne said that the budget is going to aimed at...
S&P 500 closed at record high on Friday
The S&P 500 reached a new closing high for a second day straight on Friday in choppy trade after disappointing reports on US industrial production...
Stock Market Overview: May 15, 2015
General overview: US stocks edged higher, while major European indexes fell.
US:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened at 18,251.97 and gained 20.32 points (a 0.11%...
Lyft raises $150 million, led by $100 million from Carl Icahn
Lyft, Inc. raised a further $150 million, led by a $100 million investment from activist investor Carl Icahn, of Icahn Enterprises LP. An activist...
Dress colour confusion down to bluish and yellowish colouring
Why did some people see a blue and black dress while others saw it as white and gold? It was all down to the...
Flies are afraid, they experience fear, and thus have emotions – probably
Do flies have emotions? Scientists have found they display the typical signs of fear when exposed to an overhead shadow. Their response to visual...
First warm-blooded fish, the Opah, discovered by NOAA scientists
Until recently, everybody believed the only fully warm-blooded animals on Earth were birds and mammals. A new study has found that the Opah (Lampris...
Giant Antarctic ice shelf will disintegrate by 2020, NASA warns
A massive Antarctic ice shelf - Larsen B - is rapidly weakening and will probably disintegrate completely by 2020, scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion...