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…
Brazil’s banking clans could to pay over £827m 3.5bn reals for Shares in Havaianas flip-flop maker Alpargatas for a majority stake in Havaianas. Proceeds from a sale of Alpargatas, whose shares are up sharply this year, could help pay down the heavy debt load of owners, who are also implicated in a corruption scandal. Cambuhy Investimentos…
Sixteen people have died after a C-130, US military plane crashed in the LeFlore County, the southern state of Mississippi 100 miles north of Jackson, the state capital, at around 16:00 local time ( 21:00 GMT) on Monday 10th July 2017. All the victims were on the Marine Corps aircraft died according to the LeFlore…
Countess Eva Ekeblad was a Swedish noble and agronomist who discovered Vodka from potato, moonshine, potato wine and the method of extracting starch from potatoes paving way for gluten-free baking. She also discovered a method of bleaching cotton textile and yarn with soap in 1751. She was the first female member of the Royal Swedish…
Tesla will build world’s largest lithium-ion battery in South Australia to store renewable power and prevent blackouts in the power grids. Elon Musk, Tesla’s founder, secured the contract to build the battery within 100days. He said “ I do see South Australia willing to do a project of this magnitude which the world will look…
Samsung to displace Intel Corp from the No. 1 spot in Semiconductor sales. Samsung Electronics reports record quarterly profit on the back of sales of memory chips and display panels for the quarter ending in June 2017. The Korean Electronics giant have overtaken Intel as the largest chipmaker thanks to neverending de3amnd for chips…
The world of money is making people go round, as households and organisations have to deal with everchanging economies and payment systems like bitcoin and Applepay. You may ask what is money and how dow we make any sense of it? Three eminent Sociologists Nina Bandelj, Frederick Wherry and Viviana Zelizer, edited Money Talks, and…
JK Rowling is the highest-earning author in the world according to US business magazine Forbes. The Harry Potter writer amassed £170m ( $300m) last year after she wrote her first best-selling books about the boy wizard in 1997. She beat the literature’s next biggest earner, James Patterson, of Along Came A Spider fame by six…
The Swedish firm Volvo would switch to electric for all models and would not rely on an internal combustion engine by 2019. Yesterday’s UK car sales of diesels figures showed a 15 per cent drop, following stern warnings about air pollution deaths and costly levies. There was also upward sales surge of electric and hybrid…