American Airlines posts record first quarter profit of $932 million
American Airlines posted impressive first-quarter profit of $932 million, which is nearly double the profit it made in the same quarter last year of...
Deutsche Bank says it will deconsolidate Postbank
Deutsche Bank said on Friday that it plans to deconsolidate its Postbank retail banking unit and cut risks in investment banking as it faces...
Diet Pepsi will no longer contain aspartame in the US
PepsiCo announced that it will be replacing the controversial sweetener aspartame with sucralose in Diet Pepsi.
Aspartame-free Diet Pepsi is set to hit shelves in the...
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....