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BP

BP Gulf spill fine to be capped at $13.7 billion

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District Court Judge Carl Barbier ruled that 3.19 million barrels of oil leaked into the sea in 2010 after the rig explosion at BP’s...
David Cameron

Raise wages now that oil prices have fallen, Cameron urges employers

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Employers should reward their workers with higher wages now that oil prices have fallen and companies are making more money, British Prime Minister David...
UCSB

Ocean life faces colossal threat from human activity, warn scientists

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Humans are plundering the oceans with seafloor mining, shrimp farms, satellite-guided giant-scale sea-fishing with a gold-rush-like fervor that threatens to destroy much of its...
elon musk

Elon Musk wants to build a Hyperloop test track in Texas

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Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, announced on Thursday that he is in the process of developing and building a test loop...
swiss franc

Swiss franc surge causes chaos in currency markets

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The currency markets have been in chaos because of the sudden decision by Switzerland to remove its currency peg to the euro. The Swiss...
Google HQ

Google in talks to buy the mobile-payments firm Softcard

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Google Inc is in talks to acquire Softcard, the mobile-payments company, according to a report by TechCrunch that cited people familiar with the matter. The...
Global warming

2014 was the warmest year since record keeping began

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New data reveals that 2014 was the hottest year since scientists began keeping records 135 years ago. According to climate experts at NASA and the...

Kepler telescope discovers planet that may support life

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NASA's Kepler Space Telescope discovered a star with three planets, one of which could have what it takes to support life, something that has...
Beagle 2 lander

Beagle 2 Mars Lander found twelve years later

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The British-led Beagle 2 Mars Lander, which scientists believed had been lost in 2003, has been found partially deployed on the red planet’s surface,...
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Exoplanets probably more habitable than we thought, says new study

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Exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – are probably more hospitable to life than most people think, says a team of astrophysicists from...