Whitening Arctic may halt sea ice melt, but not climate change
Artificially whitening the surface of the Arctic Ocean will reflect more of the Sun’s energy back into space and restore much of the sea...
Lakes under Antarctica desert may support life, so maybe life on Mars
Under the dry valleys in Antarctica there are several interconnected lakes and brine-saturated sediments that could sustain life, and if so, dramatically increase the...
Meteorite hunt underway from giant fireball, could be worth a lot of money
A giant fireball was seen flying over Britain and Ireland on Sunday evening. The meteor is believed to have crashed somewhere in Ireland or...
Saturn moon Hyperion looks like a porous sea sponge in stunning image
When unmanned spacecraft Cassini flew by Hyperion, one of Saturn’s outer moons, it took this stunning image of the potato-shaped celestial body that looks like a...
Twitter shares plummet by over 18 percent after Q1 results
Twitter shares plummeted by around 20 percent on Tuesday after poor first quarter results were leaked ahead of schedule.
Revenue was shy of market estimates...
GoPro Inc. buys French software maker Kolor
GoPro Inc. posted quarterly revenue of $363.1 million, a 54 percent increase versus the same period last year.
Analysts had expected revenue of $341 million, according to...
Ford expects 2015 to be “a breakthrough year” for profits
Despite lackluster net income in the first quarter, Ford expects performance to improve this year.
The automotive giant expects full-year pretax profit of $8.5 billion...
Ceres mysterious bright spot – NASA wants your opinion
NASA is calling on members of the public to vote on what they think the mysterious bright spot is on the dwarf planet Ceres,...
3D map of Universe most comprehensive yet, spans nearly 2bn light years
The most comprehensive 3D map of the Universe has been created by astrophysicists from Canada and France, who say it spans almost two billion...
MoS2 performance improved dramatically with boron nitride encapsulation, like graphene
The performance of 2-dimensional material MoS2 (molybdenum disulfide) can be significantly improved by encapsulation in boron nitride, say scientists from the US, Japan, Denmark...