After being separated from her mate, a leopard shark in an Australian aquarium has reproduced asexually.   It is only the third reported case among all vertebrate species and the first reported case of a shark switching from sexual to asexual or parthenogenetic reproduction.  ...

Funding for more testing of Argus II, otherwise known as the 'bionic eye', would be provided by the National Health Scheme (NHS), the British agency has recently announced.    NHS (National Health Service) England said very recently that surgery that will see an implant placed in their...

Aiming to cut the journey time between Abu Dhabi and Al Ain to as little as eight minutes is an American hyperloop company.   To explore locations for stations and tracks within the next few months, Abu Dhabi's Department of Municipal Affairs and Transport signed an agreement on Monday with...

Bitcoins, the web-based digital currency, would be sold on its ticket machines by Switzerland's national railways firm SBB as the firm is branching out next month with the launch of a new service.   The state-owned company announced on Friday that in a two-year experiment that will test...

Diamond has always faced a conflict question - Why not grow a stone in a laboratory, free from bloody wars and ethical conflicts that taint the $79 billion diamond industry?   And it is questions like these that was the reason for the birth of companies like Ada Diamonds — a start-up make...

A millennial who had only recently been allowed to set foot on a Wall Street floor, was obviously in deep trouble as he made bad bets and lost $4.9 million in a single afternoon  in a panic to recoup his losses.   But this wasn’t the end to his career as he was simply taking part in a...

Joshua Neally was helped to reach the nearest hospital in time by his brand-new Tesla Model X when he started having severe chest pains and potentially saved his life.   The 37 year old Neally felt a sudden biting pain in his chest when the air was sucked from his lungs while he was...

Predictions that within a decade, commercial flights with electric aircraft will become a reality have started after a round-the-world trip in a solar-powered airplane was completed by a 63-year-old former Swiss Air Force pilot and a hypnotherapist five years his junior with a penchant for hot-air...

In a move that aims to bring the unmanned flying machines closer to being used for deliveries, Amazon, the U.S. e-commerce giant said that it has partnered with the U.K. government to test drones in Britain's rural and suburban areas.   Permission to explore "three key innovations" have been...

In what is being seen as a major technological change for the online retail business, Amazon’s delivery drones can now recharge and pick up packages from docking stations.   Amazon, one of the world’s largest online retailing firms and an e-commerce giant, would now be allowed to build such...

Derived from an affectionate anagram of the phrase "my dog,", Roobo, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, recently pulled back the curtain on an artificial intelligence-powered "pet robot" named Domgy. Even though his functions are more like robotic housekeeper Rosie than the family's pet dog...