Blackstone buys “Times Square” office building in the City of London for £268.4 million
Blackstone Group LP has agreed to purchase an office building in the heart of London’s financial district, "Times Square", for £268.4 million from Land...
Panasonic is making some of its technologies royalty free to spur growth in the...
Panasonic is making some of its own software and patents royalty free in an effort to boost the development of the Internet of Things...
Chinese manufacturing dropped to lowest level in 11 months
Chinese manufacturing dropped to its lowest level in nearly a year as new orders decline, according to HSBC's preliminary manufacturing index.
The lackluster manufacturing results...
Huge explosion in the sky 345 years ago was a stellar collision, not a...
In 1670, European astronomers saw a spectacular explosion in the sky, which the European Southern Observatory says was not a nova, but a much...
UK factory orders stagnate in March as manufacturers lose steam
UK factory orders stagnated in March because of a significant drop in new business from abroad.
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) survey of 468...
‘The Map that Changed the World’ unearthed by an archivist 200 years later
The first geological map of a country ever produced and previously thought lost has been uncovered by an archivist at The Geological Society of...
Boeing ‘force field’ as seen in Star Trek registered at US patent office
The Boeing Company, the aerospace and defence giant, has obtained a patent for a Star Trek-style “force field” technology aimed at protecting military vehicles...
Giant 400-km wide asteroid impact zone discovered in Australia
An asteroid that broke in two moments before crashing into Earth created a 400 kilometre (248 mile) wide impact zone in Central Australia, researchers...
Woolly mammoth could make a comeback using cloning techniques, geneticists say
After inserting 14 Woolly Mammoth genes into the DNA of a modern Asian Elephant, Harvard University geneticists say we are a step closer to...
New Apple TV with Siri voice control feature coming mid-2015
Excitement is mounting surrounding growing expectations of a new Apple TV with a Siri voice control feature plus a bunch of significant updates to...