Science

General Electric is taking a “small step” into sneaker design to commemorate the role — or rather, sole — it had in mankind’s first “giant leap” on the moon.

Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. has recovered more than 13,500 silver and gold coins, and gold ingots, or oblong blocks, from the SS Central America. The Central American ship was a California Gold Rush ship that was caught in a hurricane in 1857 and sank 160 miles off the coast of South Carolina, according to a statement.

Mysterious ‘gigantic’ hole in remote region spotted by helicopters over gas-rich Yamal peninsula. The striking puncture in the earth is believed to be up to 80 metres wide but its depth is not estimated yet. A scientific team has been sent to investigate the hole and is due to arrive at the scene on Wednesday. The cause of its sudden …

Wali continues to fizzle. Forecasters downgraded it to a tropical depression Friday morning and then to a post-tropical cyclone Friday afternoon. It became the first tropical storm of the 2014 Central Pacific Hurricane Season Thursday. Wali continues to move to the northwest at 12 mph and this motion is expected to continue until Wali dissipates within 36 hours. At 5 …

Scientists from the University of Utah have developed an image of deep volcanic plumbing, as well as partly molten rock of Mount Rainer, which is expected to erupt again someday. The image was developed after measuring the Earth’s power to conduct electricity and seismic waves, according to a press release issued by the University of Utah.

Canada will join NASA in a mission to bring back rocks from an asteroid that’s considered a potential threat to hit the Earth some day. Known as a “sample return” mission, the unmanned spacecraft would launch for the asteroid Bennu in late 2016, arriving in 2018.

Shark Chokes On Sea Lion In Australia, fisheries officials were left puzzled by the case of the four-metre (13-ft) white pointer. It had previously been seen thrashing around in the sea off Coronation Beach, 430km (270 miles) north of Perth. Experts found the shark, which washed up earlier this week, had no sign of visible injury or disease – but …

The United Arab Emirates has previously conquered the sky by constructing the world’s tallest building and now the oil-rich country has set its sights on the stars, promising to send the first unmanned Arab spaceship to Mars by 2021.

Scientists have discovered the largest “four-winged” dinosaur, according to a new study. The newfound predator has the longest feathers yet outside of birds. According to scientists, the findings yield insights on how dinosaurs may have flown. The feathered dinosaur is 125-million-year-old and is named Changyuraptor yangi. It sports feathers over its body, including its arms and legs, which give an …

A mysterious unexplained cater has appeared in northern Siberia that has sparked an urgent expedition. Aerial images of the gas rich region where the hole was discovered is up to 80m wide in Yamal, a peninsula jutting into Arctic waters whose name translates as “the end of the world.”

Archaeologists from Cambridge University have discovered a prehistoric form of book keeping continued even after our ancestors could read and write. The discovery was made at an archaeological dig in southeast Turkey. There scientists uncovered a large number of clay tokens which date from a time when writing was commonplace, and two thousand years after it was believed this form …