UFO seen next to erupting Calbuco volcano in Chile
Video footage captured by a local resident showed a luminous object hovering in the air near the erupting Cabulco volcano on Wednesday, 1,000 kilometres...
Decoded Woolly Mammoth genomes provide clues on how they became extinct
Scientists have decoded the DNA of two Woolly Mammoths, providing further clues on how they became extinct. Before the last woolly mammoth on Earth...
Search for alien life outside our solar system stepped up by NASA
NASA is stepping up the search for alien life outside our solar system by bringing together science experts from various fields in what it...
Thinking you’re invisible may be useful for anxiety disorders
People can be tricked into thinking they are invisible, researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden showed. They reported in the journal Scientific Reports...
Amazon rainforest destruction making climate change problem worse
Since the 1960s, we have destroyed more than 10% of the Amazon rainforest, say University of Edinburgh scientists, who add that this deforestation has...
Exploding stars help us understand Earth’s lighting and thunderclouds
Scientists say that by studying exploding stars we can better understand lightning and thunderclouds on Earth. The cosmic rays from the distant universe allow...
Hubble Space Telescope 25th birthday celebration with nature’s own fireworks
The Hubble Space Telescope is 25 years old today. On 24th April, 1990, it was launched into low Earth orbit on Space Shuttle Discovery....
Amazon Web Services posts revenue of $1.566 billion in Q1 2015
Amazon released information about the performance of its cloud business and the numbers indicate that the business is thriving.
In the first quarter of 2015...
Google first quarter revenue rose by 12% to $17.3 billion
Google Inc posted first quarter revenue of $17.3 billion on Thursday, a 12 percent year on year increase.
The tech giant said that there was...
Our oceans are worth $24 trillion, but we are neglecting them, says WWF
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says the world’s oceans are worth at least $24 trillion, but their resources are rapidly eroding. In a new...