Apple chief Tim Cook on Thursday slammed a European Commission ruling demanding the US tech behemoth pay Ireland €13 billion in back-taxes as "political crap", urging the Irish government to launch an appeal.
Business
Sep 1, 2016
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Apple's chief executive says the company has put aside "several billion dollars" to pay tax liabilities in the United States as it repatriates some of its huge overseas earnings.
Business
Sep 1, 2016
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Astronauts took their second spacewalk in two weeks Thursday, taking care of some long overdue radiator work outside the International Space Station.
Space Exploration
Sep 1, 2016
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The recovery of beaches across the South West following the severe storms of 2013/14 is to be explored as part of a major new research initiative.
Environment
Sep 1, 2016
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The European Union's executive Commission on Thursday approved a proposed mobile phone joint venture in Italy between subsidiaries of VimpelCom and Hutchison, conditional on the sale of assets that will allow a new French ...
Business
Sep 1, 2016
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Archaeologists in Berlin have unearthed a large number of human bones from a site close to where Nazi scientists carried out research on body parts of death camp victims sent to them by sadistic SS doctor Josef Mengele.
Archaeology
Sep 1, 2016
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An increasingly divided Auckland of "ghettos and gated communities" is what lies ahead if the city and nation fail to tackle the widening gap between rich and poor. Solutions must come from all quarters – local and central ...
Social Sciences
Sep 1, 2016
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A team of marine biologists from the University of Technology Sydney and Macquarie University provided the first evidence of bleaching in Sydney Harbour's unique temperate corals last April. Since then, the scientists have ...
Environment
Sep 1, 2016
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A research team at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea, developed ciliary microrobots for chemical and cell delivery that can be precisely controlled and that move via paramecium-like ...
Robotics
Sep 1, 2016
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Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington are developing novel ways to use metal ions to activate simple hydrocarbons present in natural gas or petroleum products to produce more complex molecules valuable to the chemical ...
Materials Science
Sep 1, 2016
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