Gene that shaped Darwin’s finches’ beaks identified by US and Swedish scientists
American and Swedish scientists have identified a gene that influenced the beak shape of Darwin’s finches, also known as Galápagos finches, which evolved from...
Oceans’ stored CO2 helped end the last ice age
The last ice age ended mainly because of a release of CO2 stored deep in the ocean, which helped warm the planet, say Australian...
Stradivarius loud, deep-sounding violins were created by accident
When the Stradivari family created the world’s best-sounding violins because of their longer, f-shaped sound holes and thicker back plates, they did so by...
Bees thrive as well in towns as in the countryside
Towns and cities are ideal habitats for pollinators like bees, in fact, with such a wide variety of flowering plants in British urban gardens,...
Nvidia posted revenue of $4.68 billion for fiscal 2015
The computer chip giant Nvidia posted better than expected quarterly gains on Wednesday, thanks to a surge in demand for its computer graphics chips.
For...
Tesla posts Q4 loss of $107.6 million, 2014 loss of $294 million
After trading hours on Wednesday Tesla Motors announced that it lost $107.6 million the fourth quarter (86 cents per share), worse than the $74.7...
Global warming figures were rigged by climate activists, says Christopher Booker
“Official” records were systematically tweaked to show that our planet was warming considerably more than it really was, if at all, Christopher Booker wrote...
EE investing £1.5 billion to expand its 4G network
EE announced that it will be investing £1.5 billion in expanding the reach of its 4G network over the next couple of years.
The telecom...
Smiley from space caused by galaxy cluster and gravitational lens
A smiley face has everybody excited, however scientists say it is no celestial extraterrestrial message but simply the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 and a bit...
UK’s first driverless vehicle unveiled
Transport Systems Catapult has just unveiled the first autonomous vehicle to run on UK public footpaths as part of a large scale project to...