A huge rotating disc galaxy has been discovered by astronomers and 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang it was already ‘well-ordered, cold’ and intact. The Wolfe Disk galaxy was found by astronomers from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The universe is 13.8 billion years old and most galaxies, … Read more
Africa’s young and fit population will help the continent avoid an enormous death toll from COVID-19, according to figures from the World Health Organization. Analysis from the UN’s international public health body predicts more than a quarter of a billion Africans will contract the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus within a year. It claims that the COVID-19 death toll will … Read more
The UK stock market may be back in ‘bull’ rather than ‘bear’ territory, but I say pull the other one. This is more ‘cock and bull’ than bull, and will bring little comfort to the army of investors who rely on shares to provide them with an income. For these income-seekers, many dependent upon a … Read more
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is on unclear legal footing after his bizarre Twitter rant sent stocks of the electric car company in a freefall, wiping $14 billion from the company’s market capitalization and $3 billion from Musk’s net worth. ‘Tesla stock price is too high imo,’ Musk tweeted on Friday, before going on to vow to sell off … Read more
The cost of the coronavirus pandemic on the US healthcare system could be hundreds of billions of dollars in direct medical expenses, a new study suggests. Researchers say the average cost of the infection alone is $3,045, four times higher than the flu and five times more than a case of whooping cough. With as … Read more
Billionaire Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has given nearly $400 million less to his coronavirus relief effort than the ‘billion dollars’ he claimed, federal documents reveal. Earlier this month Dorsey tweeted that he would be donating $1 billion – which he said was about 28% of his wealth – to a fund he set up to … Read more
The Earth’s tectonic plates started moving more than 3.2 billion years ago – just over 1.3 billion years after the Earth first formed and earlier than originally thought. The outermost shell of the Earth is broken down into seven major tectonic plates and many smaller ones that move between 0.4 inches and 6.2 inches per … Read more
Britain’s garden centres could reopen almost immediately – with strict social distancing rules – under proposals being considered by Ministers. Businesses have warned that £200 million-worth of seasonal plants will be destroyed if centres are forced to stay closed until June. That would mean an overall loss of £1.6 billion due to the lockdown, so … Read more
Britain’s garden centres could reopen almost immediately – with strict social distancing rules – under proposals being considered by Ministers. Businesses have warned that £200 million-worth of seasonal plants will be destroyed if centres are forced to stay closed until June. That would mean an overall loss of £1.6 billion due to the lockdown, so … Read more
Mitch McConnell wants to have another round of small business bailouts on the Senate floor by Thursday in an expansion of the Paycheck Protection Program. ‘It is quickly becoming clear that Congress will need to provide more funding or this crucial program may run dry. That cannot happen,’ McConnell said in a statement Tuesday. McConnell … Read more