by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Last year Tesla CEO Elon Musk was given a lucrative new compensation plan, with the catch being that he would only get his bonus if he helped the company reach some pretty high financial goals. The thinking was this package was meant to keep our IRL...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Hawaii officials say police are arresting protesters who are blocking a road to prevent construction of a giant telescope on a mountain that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred. Police arrived to Mauna Kea on Wednesday and started taking away abou...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Physical activity has long been linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. For the current study, researchers assessed activity levels several times over eight years for 14,599 men and women who were between 40 and 80 year...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Governments could stop the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from sliding into the ocean and submerging coastal cities by launching a last-ditch engineering project to blanket its surface with "artificial snow", according to a study released on Wednesday. Sc...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo an international emergency. An emergency committee of experts convened by the WHO, the global health arm of the United Nations, recommended...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Scientists say they nearly eliminated disease-carrying mosquitoes on two islands in China using a new technique. In the experiment, researchers targeted Asian tiger mosquitoes, invasive white-striped bugs that can spread dengue fever, Zika and other...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Scientists seeking to avoid catastrophic sea-level rises from the melting West Antarctic ice sheet have come up with a "terrible" solution: use snow cannons to pump trillions of tonnes of ice back on top. The gargantuan ice sheet contains enough fro...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
West Antarctica is an ominous place. In this exceptionally remote region, ice is breaking off into the sea faster than it's naturally replenished by snowfall. Massive icebergs -- recently one five times the size of Manhattan -- have broken off in...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Experts have begun restoration work on the golden-plated coffin of Egypt's boy-king Tutankhamun for the first time since the discovery of the tomb in 1922, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities said on Wednesday. The coffin and the treasured collecti...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. took a beating for a second straight day over its controversial cryptocurrency plans as Democratic lawmakers argued the proposal posed vast privacy and national security risks.At a Wednesday hearing before the House Finan...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Two weeks after the weather gods shone down on South America’s mid-winter total solar eclipse, sky watchers in Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America enjoyed a Half-Blood Moon lunar eclipse Tuesday. Although it wasn't a total lunar eclip...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Netflix Inc.’s earnings should help answer a key question for the streaming giant: whether customers are willing to pay more in an increasingly competitive market.After boosting prices in markets around the world, the company will deli...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
A flock of sheep that has taken a 140-kilometre (87-mile) tour around Paris, nibbling on grass at historic monuments and housing blocks along the way, ended their 12-day journey on the banks of the river Seine on Wednesday. The trip began in the low...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
On this day 50 years ago, the Apollo astronauts who were being hailed as heroes didn't have all that much to do. They were a central part of a mission watched around the world, one which would define the century that followed, and which required...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
A cannonball discovered this week by archaeologists provides a further indication of how close Napoleon Bonaparte came to winning the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The 3 kilogramme (6-pound), rusty cannonball was found on Monday near the site of a fie...