Category : science

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

These are the animals that went extinct in 2018

With the end of 2018 comes the near-certain reality that some critters, after millions of years of existence on Earth, are gone for good.  There's little question that humanity's continued exploitation of wild animals and the depletion of t...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Toyota's Going in Big on Robots

Toyota’s got big plans for robots, Elon Musk’s Twitter feed might finally be reined in, and Palladium is “this year’s hottest metal.” All that and more on The Morning Shift for Friday, December 28th, 2018.

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

UK's Royal Mail sorry for D-Day landings stamp blunder

Britain's Royal Mail apologized on Friday after historians pointed out that a stamp design it planned to issue to commemorate the D-Day landings in France in fact showed U.S. troops going ashore thousands of miles away weeks earlier. The stamp, part...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Record backing for climate petition against French govt

A petition launched by French environmental groups calling for legal action against the state for failing to act to curb climate change has received unprecedented public support after weeks of fuel-price protests. It also dwarfs the 1.17 million sup...