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Probe captures Pluto’s blue hazes

The New Horizons mission has returned its first colour image of Pluto's atmospheric hazes and shows them to have a blue tinge.

First published by | October 8, 2015 | Science & Technology | 0 responses

CITE: The $1 billion city that nobody calls home

In the arid plains of the southern New Mexico desert, between the site of the first atomic bomb test and the U.S.-Mexico border, a new city is rising from the sand.

First published by | October 6, 2015 | Science & Technology | 0 responses

Can NASA’s far-out travel plans bring sustainability to Spaceship Earth?

America’s space agency is going long. Its next generation of explorations will send travelers on journeys beyond the moon, to Mars and maybe beyond.

First published by Kevin | October 5, 2015 | Science & Technology | 0 responses

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had help from volcanoes, study says

Scientists have long blamed a single culprit in the sudden and violent mass extinction that took out the dinosaurs ...

First published by Kevin | October 1, 2015 | Science & Technology | 0 responses

Electricity from the air – Drayson’s big idea

Free energy from the air.

First published by | September 30, 2015 | Science & Technology | 0 responses

Twitter looking beyond 140 characters with new product: Re/code

Micro-blogging website operator Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is working on a product that will allow users to share content longer than 140 characters,

First published by | September 29, 2015 | Science & Technology | 0 responses

Water flows on Mars, raising possibility that planet could support life: scientists

Briny water flows during the summer months on Mars, raising the possibility that the planet long thought to be arid could support life today,

First published by | September 28, 2015 | Science & Technology | 0 responses

‘Supermoon’ set to coincide with lunar eclipse

Astronomers are gearing up to spot a rare phenomenon, as a lunar eclipse coincides with a so-called "supermoon".

First published by | September 27, 2015 | Science & Technology | 0 responses

Black holes heading for ‘massive collision,’ says astronomer

A really, really big bang not due for a hundred millennia may help astronomers test one of the central theories of physics, according to one of the authors of a new paper.

First published by | September 22, 2015 | Science & Technology | 0 responses

Skype service taken offline by network problems

A problem with Skype's status system has meant many people are currently unable to use the service.

First published by | September 21, 2015 | Science & Technology | 0 responses