Bombardier slashing 1,750 jobs as business jet demand slumps
Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company Bombardier Inc. announced on Thursday that it planned to reduce its workforce by 1,750 in its business jet...
Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight, say British astronomers
The Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight, say British astronomers. With clear skies forecast for most of the UK this evening, get up from your...
Loggerhead sea turtle survival threatened by goannas in Australia
Loggerhead sea turtles nests are being destroyed by goannas that are eating thousands of eggs and hatchlings at Wreck Rock Beach, between Bundaberg and...
Practical quantum computer a step closer, say IBM scientists
IBM is a step closer towards creating a practical quantum computer, company scientists announced on Wednesday. A quantum computer computes using superpositions of quantum...
Whitening Arctic may halt sea ice melt, but not climate change
Artificially whitening the surface of the Arctic Ocean will reflect more of the Sun’s energy back into space and restore much of the sea...
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft about to crash into Mercury at 8750 mph
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which left Earth in 2004 to study Mercury, will crash into the planet’s surface as soon as it runs out of propellant,...
Exploding stars provide clues on electric fields of thunderclouds
Exploding stars produce cosmic rays, which could help us better understand lightning and thunderclouds on Earth, says an international team of scientists. They explained...
UFO seen next to erupting Calbuco volcano in Chile
Video footage captured by a local resident showed a luminous object hovering in the air near the erupting Cabulco volcano on Wednesday, 1,000 kilometres...
Exploding stars help us understand Earth’s lighting and thunderclouds
Scientists say that by studying exploding stars we can better understand lightning and thunderclouds on Earth. The cosmic rays from the distant universe allow...
Chemical weapons in warfare marks 100th anniversary
Large scale use of chemical weapons in warfare has been occurring for exactly 100 years, as of yesterday 22nd April. One hundred years ago,...