Pearson in £780m Penguin asset sale

Pearson is set to raise £780m ($1bn) from the sale of a 22 per cent stake in Penguin Random House to co-owner German media mogul Bertelsmann, which would reinforce German media group’s global domination of world of book publishing. Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools, corporations and students. Over…

Supernova explosions created in UK lab

Researchers from the University of Oxford and Imperial College London have recreated the effects of Supernovae- violent star deaths- within the confines of their laboratory, using one of their largest, most intense lasers on the planet, as part of their research at the week-long Royal Society of Summer Science Exhibition. Witnessing these experiments can help…