New Horizons space probe awake and on track to reach Pluto in 2015
NASA’s probe called New Horizons is only six months away from reaching Pluto. No other spaceship in history will have traveled such a distance...
West Antarctica is melting at an alarming rate, says study
The ice sheet in West Antarctica is melting at an extremely alarming rate. According to a recent study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters,...
100bn frames per second 2-D camera developed at Washington University
A 2-D camera that can capture events at the incredible speed of 100 billion frames per second has been developed by a team of...
California drought the driest in 1,200 years, says new study
The 2012-2014 California drought has been the worst in 1,200 years, say scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Minnesota....
European Extremely Large Telescope receives approval for construction
The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) is now under construction. The observatory will be managed by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and will be...
Update – Nuclear power plant accident “no threat” says Ukraine Energy Minister
An accident at the Zaporizhye nuclear power plant was reported on Wednesday by Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk. The power plant is in south-east...
ScottishPower ordered by regulator to improve customer service or face sales ban
ScottishPower has been ordered by Ofgem to improve its service or face a sales ban. The regulator said that the energy company has to...
Scottish Power facing sales ban for poor customer service and Ofgem probe
Scottish Power Ltd. has been threatened with a sales ban unless it can fix some serious problems regarding customer service, the UK government regulator...
Candu and China National Nuclear Corp. sign joint venture agreement
Canadian designer and supplier of nuclear reactors Candu Energy Inc. and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) have signed a framework joint venture agreement to...
Walney Extension wind farm gets green light from UK government
The UK government has given the green light for the extension of the Walney offshore wind farm, already one of the largest in the...