Spectacular thunderstorm photographed by UK astronaut Tim Peake from space
British astronaut Tim Peake has captured another spectacular photograph from space, this time of a fierce thunderstorm - a massive cumulonimbus cloud - which...
Hawking radiation theory solved after black hole made of sound waves created
A scientist has created a black hole made of sound waves that has probably proved the Hawking Radiation theory - if this is confirmed...
Austin Reed goes into administration with 1000 staff facing redundancy
British fashion retailer Austin Reed has gone into administration, the second high-profile chain of UK shops to do so in the past two days....
Mars surface in astonishing detail using new stacking and matching technique
We can now see the surface of Mars in astonishing detail thanks to a team of British researchers who used a revolutionary image stacking...
Large Hadron Collider 300 TB of data made public by CERN
CERN, based in Switzerland, has made 300 TB of high-quality data from the Large Hadron Collider available to the public online through the CERN...
Plant summons ants with sweet droplets to kill insects when attacked and wounded
When insects start eating and wounding a specific plant, it secretes sweet droplets which attract ants – the ants kill the plant-devouring insects and...
Today is World Penguin Day some of them need our help
Today, 25th April 2016, is World Penguin Day, when all of us worldwide should share our love for penguins, find more about them, and...
Swiss cheese dates back to first millennium BC the Iron Age
Swiss cheese has been around for a very long time – scientists say Alpine cheese-making dates back to the first millennium BC, i.e. the...
Mass exodus of dinosaurs from Europe 125m to 100m years ago say scientists
There was a mass exodus of dinosaurs from Europe from 125 to 100 million years ago, a team of scientists says. During that period...
Peruvian mummy 4500 years old discovered sheds light on ancient history
A 4500 year old Peruvian mummy has been discovered by archaeologists, who said that the woman who had been buried near one of the...