A Japanese deep sea drilling vessel, Chikyu, yesterday set a new world record, by drilling down over 2,111 meters below the seafloor to collect rock samples.
It didn't go 1,170 miles in 24 hours without stopping, but for an electric car, it's still a mighty impressive distance — the equivalent of a mad dash from Seattle to Orange County, Calif.
Apple's profits almost doubled in the first quarter of this year compared with last, hitting $11.6 billion. Revenue increased 59 percent to reach $39.2 billion.
UCLA scientists say they've significantly enhanced polymer solar cells' performance by building a new 'tandem' device that combines multiple cells with different absorption bands.
Astronomers have discovered the two largest black holes ever - 10 billion times as massive as our own sun - which look set to consume everything within a region five times the size of our solar system.
Innsbruck physicists have set a world record, achieving controlled entanglement of 14 quantum bits (qubits) and thus creating the largest quantum register ever.
Guinness World Records has added the Kinect to its roll of honor - not for sitting in a tub full of baked beans for a record time, but for being the fastest-selling electronic device in history.
