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,...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Those of you with dark enough skies last week might have caught a glimpse of the green comet 46P/Wirtanen. It was bright enough to see with the naked eye, and occurred alongside the Geminid meteor shower.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Constant upgrades are the key.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev said that the mysterious hole in a Soyuz capsule docked to the International Space Station was drilled from the inside, according to the Associated Press.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Venezuela's foreign ministry on Tuesday described as "interventionist and disrespectful" U.S. comments on a weekend incident in which the country's navy stopped two ships exploring for oil for Exxon Mobil off Guyana's coast. In response to the eve...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The name Saul Levine might not ring a bell, but anyone who’s driven on the 405 between Wilshire and Santa Monica Blvd. has undoubtedly seen the billboard for his KKGO Go Country 105 radio station, which sits atop the headquarters of Mount Wilson FM B...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Were a contract to materialize, the F-15X could become the Air Force’s first new fighter that wasn’t a stealth jet since 2001