Yves Rossy has completed his flight over the Grand Canyon. He jumped out of a helicopter at 2,440 metres (8,000 feet) and soared over the Canyon at 330 km (205 mph) for eight minutes before deploying his parachute.
"My first flight in the US is sure to be one of the most memorable experiences in my...

Amazon's chief executive has revealed that the company is testing a new service involving delivery by mini-drones to get packages to customers in just 30 minutes."I know this looks like science fiction. It's not," Mr Bezos said. We can do half-hour delivery ... and we can carry objects, we think, up...

To iron a shirt, you first hang it up in the machine’s cabinet on adjustable hangers. The doors close, and it then an internal steam iron presses the shirt – taking out any creases. Effie's inventors promise it can cut ironing time down by 95 per cent and will dry and iron 12 separate pieces of clot

Humans have been obsessed with eclipses for centuries. But, what can they actually teach us about our place in the solar system? Total solar eclipses have helped bring about some of the most important astronomic discoveries. Nicolaus Copernicus’ eclipse observations helped him determine that the Ear

SUCCESS! With this mission, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket deliverED 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit for ORBCOMM, a leading global provider of Machine-to-Machine communication and Internet of Things solutions. The ORBCOMM launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The 11 satellites were deplo

Alaska Airlines Flight 870, alter its flight path on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 so that passengers could get a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse from the plane’s windows.Wrote the airline: “Tuesday’s rendezvous over the Pacific Ocean is not luck, but a precisely planned equation. The calculations began a

American astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote and narrated a YouTube piece for Minute Physics called A Brief History of Everything, with the scientist explaining and condensing the epic 16 billion year history of the universe into a succinct eight minute video. While the basic co

A 22-year-old gunman opened fire in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people and leaving more than two dozen injured before he was subdued by "heroic" patrons and arrested by police who were on the scene within minutes. In response to the shooting, President Biden again called on ...

The much-anticipated film version of the Broadway smash In the Heights lands in theaters and on HBO Max June 11. As means of whetting appetites, we’ve also got the opening number. In the Heights follows a group of friends living in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. The handsome

Thousands of people around the world have rallied in solidarity with anti-racism protests in the United States following the police killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was pinned to the ground by a white officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The officer, who has since ...