Sony launches Spotify-powered music streaming app
Sony has officially launched its new Playstation Music app. The Japanese tech giant teamed up with Spotify to make a music streaming service available on...
Mercury is dark because of carbon dusting from passing comets, study says
Mercury’s surface is dark and barely reflective because of a steady dusting of carbon from passing comets which covered the planet in a soot-like...
Tatooine-like planets with twin sunsets likely widespread
Tatooine, a fictional desert planet, Star Wars’ Luke Skywalker’s home, has twin sunsets because it exists in a binary star system (solar system with...
Robot ants could be super factory workers of the future
Bionic ants created by German scientists mimic the seamless teamwork of real insects by making individual decisions linked to a common group goal to get...
Graphene lightbulb, cheaper, durable and more energy-efficient coming to shops
A graphene lightbulb with a longer lifetime, cheaper manufacturing costs, and lower energy emissions has been launched by Graphene Lighting PLC, a spin-out based...
RSPB praises pheasant shoot farmers, triggering outrage among bird lovers
Scores of RSPB supporters threatened to cancel their membership after hearing that one of the charity’s directors supported “progressive” pheasant shoots because they were...
Thousands of British Airways frequent flier accounts hacked
British Airways announced that tens of thousands of frequent flier accounts have been hacked.
The airline said over the weekend that thousands of frequent flyer...
Stephen Hawking trademarking his name
World famous cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and research director at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, Professor Stephen Hawking, has applied...
Volvo unveils ultra-reflective safety spray paint called LifePaint
Every year in the UK over 19,000 cyclists are involved in accidents. Most of these accidents could be avoided if cyclists were easier for...
Bird colours driven by predation and foraging success more than sex, study finds
In the bird world, the males tend to have the brighter feathers. So it is understandable that experts have suggested that evolution has made...