A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.
A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.
Online video site Hulu is again up for sale, with Yahoo and pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
An atomic research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected about 50 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the facility, the lab's operator said Saturday.
An injured turtle found by a fisherman in Florida has been returned to the sea after being treated at a rescue centre.
Sarah McClay died at South Lakes Wild Animal Park after 'inexplicably' walking into tiger enclosure, where she was mauledA zoo keeper who was mauled to death by a tiger had no reason to be in its enclosure, according to the animal park's owner.Sarah McClay, 24, was attacked by a Sumatran tiger at South Lakes Wild…
Despite recent fears of sceptics winning public debates, they are not all powerful, but have cast a spell upon their opponentsEarlier this week, Martin Wolf of the Financial Times announced that the "climate sceptics have won". His comments echo those of former Nasa scientist James Hansen who told an audience in Edinburgh last year that…
It's been quite a week for Britain's first official astronaut. Meeting the prime minister, a press scrum at the Science Museum; and an agonising interview with Jeremy Paxman. How did he cope?There is something about human space flight that simultaneously feels both entirely futuristic and of the past; a future written into stories and dreams…
What we have learnt from Martian probes
A great blue wave has spread across the country in one of our greatest natural spectacles, as carpets of bluebells have come into flower. But the bluebells were some four or five weeks later this spring than last year, and the cold spring made their appearance more patchy than usual. Britain has around half the…
Figures of speech are to be applauded when used wisely, but start employing 'epicentres' and 'seismic shifts', and you're in dangerLord Foulkes of Cumnock, the former Labour Scotland minister, said the other day of Nigel Farage: "He is like a bull in a china shop and has just come into Scottish politics with flat feet…
