by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
It's getting bigger. Last week, NASA released photos of the space exploration craft New Horizons gradually approaching an ancient, little-known object in deep space, called Ultima Thule. Ultima orbits the sun one billion miles past Pluto, and N...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Oil edged up to $51 a barrel on Wednesday after reaching its lowest since June 2017 on perceptions that a price slide prompted by worries over the global economy had been overdone amid an OPEC-led effort to tighten supply. Crude has been caught up i...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
A Chinese court sentenced the former general manager of Sinochem Group to 12 years in prison, state TV reported on Wednesday. Cai was appointed to lead Sinochem in 2014 after a long career at China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec) where he was...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
CARITA BEACH, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities urged people to avoid the coast in areas where a tsunami killed at least 430 people over the weekend in a fresh warning issued on the anniversary of the catastrophic 2004 Asian earthquake and tsun...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
ROME (AP) — A quake triggered by Mount Etna's ongoing eruption jolted eastern Sicily before dawn Wednesday, slightly injuring 10 people and prompting frightened Italian villagers to flee their homes.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's cyber watchdog on Wednesday issued new regulations for financial information on the internet, saying providers are not allowed to distort the interpretation of the country's fiscal and monetary policies. Financial...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Private buyers of Iranian crude have had "no problems" exporting it, Iran's oil minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday by state news agency IRNA, despite U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports. Iran began selling crude oil to private compan...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Capable of cruising at speeds in excess of Mach 3.2, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft to ever to see operational service. But even though its performance has never been matched, the SR-71 was retired as the C...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Clouds of ash spewed from the nearby Anak Krakatau, or child of Krakatau, almost obscuring the volcanic island where a crater collapse at high tide on Saturday sent waves up to 5 meters (16 feet) high smashing into the coast on the Sunda Strait, betw...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Australia and New Zealand welcomed the decision to abandon the Antarctic whale hunt, but expressed disappointment that Japan would engage in any killing of the ocean mammals. The decision, some experts said, allows Japan to save the money it spends...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Iconic former French film star and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has asked President Emmanuel Macron for a Christmas "miracle", with closed circuit TV in abattoirs and a curb to hunting. Bardot has appealed to Macron several times in recent...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Millions of teenagers seeking their 15 seconds of fame are flocking to TikTok, but many of their parents are only now learning about the express-yourself video app -- often to their dismay. The social network became the most downloaded on Apple's Ap...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Kevin Cowtan, Professor of Chemistry, University of York and Stephan Lewandowsky, Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
In June 2018, GR Engineering Services Limited (ASX:GNG) announced its most recent earnings update, which indicated that the company experienced a minor headwind with earnings declining from AU$13m to AU$12m, Read More...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Mars is the hottest topic in the space science world these days, with new rovers, orbiters, and landers finding out new and exciting things about the Red Planet with startling regularity. Multiple manned missions are already in their earliest stages,...