In the days leading up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews has been celebrating the work of some of its own scientists. The centre is profiling several of its female scientists on its Facebook site this weekend. In the past, marine science seemed […]

People like paying for news — especially when it’s the New York Times. The publisher’s online subscription business, embarked upon somewhat sheepishly in 2011, has now cultivated over 2.2 million paying readers. An additional 400,000 or so pay for the Times’ standalone Crossword and Cooking apps. But what’s particularly noteworthy is how quickly the business […]

BITCOIN had a price boost yesterday as the cryptocurrency hit its highest price for a week, passing the $9,000 mark, before it saw its value once again slump. The online currency has had a torrid start to 2018 after it saw its price plunge from an all time high of nearly $20,000 in December 2017 […]

China, India, Russia and the United States are all racing to regulate aspects of the cryptocurrency space. Bitcoin (BTC), Ripple (XRP), Ethereum (ETH), and most others have fallen dramatically throughout January as a result. Cryptocurrencies are recovering as regulation starts to be viewed as an …

When Tina Fey’s film “Mean Girls” came out in 2004, the comedy was lauded as a silly, satirical excoriation of modern high-school life and its cliques, cafeteria antics and materialism. “Mean Girls” was a “Clueless” for the millennial age. And it was so fetch. Fast forward to 2018. “Mean Girls” is about to begin a new […]

The Super Bowl has been called “The Marketer’s Holiday” for good reason. At $5 million for a 30-second spot, it’s one of the highest-grossing media events in the world. And with all the hype around previews before The Big Game, it’s become a frenzy to follow all the activity of the big brands before and […]

The Mercedes Formula 1 team now has such strength in depth that it could withstand any of its senior technical personnel leaving, reckons boss Toto Wolff. Paddy Lowe left his role as Mercedes’ executive technical director ahead of 2017 and moved to Williams. But Mercedes still earned a fourth straight F1 title double, with James […]

Sunday, 11 February, is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To mark the day, we asked female scientists from around the world to reflect on their experiences and offer their advice. The responses have been edited for clarity and brevity. Being a woman in physics has been challenging and lonely at times. I […]

It looks like Bitcoin is going to take over the world after all. The capitalization is ceaseless, and every time it grows a couple of Ks, the fan base is only getting bigger. Not blind to the fact, entrepreneurs are looking at more advanced ways to make profit aside from simply buying and selling bitcoin. […]

Engineers at Russia's top nuclear research facility have reportedly been detained after they attempted to mine bitcoin on its computers. Several employees at Russia's nuclear centre in the city of Sarov have been detained after making “an attempt to use the work computing facilities for personal ends, …