First mobile phone call made thirty years ago in London
The UK’s first mobile phone call was made just over 30 years ago on January 1st, 1985, from Parliament Square in London. Fledgling telecom...
Yahoo and Microsoft searches suffered temporary outages on Friday
Microsoft’s Bing.com and Live.com, as well as Yahoo, which uses Bing technology in its searches, had outages on Friday, due to a defective code...
A record-setting year for Calgary condos and townhouses
Despite posting a year-over-year decline of 7.5% in December, 2014 was a record-setting year for condominium apartments and townhouses in Calgary, according to the...
Canadian exporters hit by ruble slide and Russian retaliatory sanctions
Several Canadian exporters who saw business decline as a result of the ruble’s crash and retaliatory sanctions by Russia against the West hope 2015...
Giant and mysterious coronal hole appears at sun’s south pole, says NASA
NASA astronomers say a massive and mysterious coronal hole appeared close to the Sun’s south pole on January 1st.
The hole, which appears as the...
What is climate change? Causes and effects of climate change
Climate change is a term used to describe the change in the statistical properties of the climate system over a prolonged period.
Therefore, changes that...
Fanged frog gives birth to tadpoles, does not lay eggs
There are more than 6,000 species of frogs in the world, but there is only one that we know of that gives birth to...
Mortgage approvals fall to 1.5-year low while consumer credit rises to 7-year high, UK
The total number of mortgage approvals in the UK in November for home buyers declined to a nearly 18-month low, while consumer credit jumped...
UK manufacturing growth weakens to 18-month low
UK manufacturing growth in December weakened to a one-and-a-half year low. New orders were sluggish while price pressures also remained subdued, according to a...
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will start working again in March
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle collider, has undergone a $151 million upgrade and is set to be operational again...