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ELECTRIC vehicles will always be more costly than fuel-burners, according to a senior BMW executive. “No, no, no,” is Klaus Frölich’s reply when asked if EVs will ever equal the prices of equivalent conventional cars. “Never.” | Continue reading
BITS of plastic have been detected in the faeces of people in Europe, Russia and Japan, according to research claiming to show for the first time the widespread presence of plastics in the human food chain. | Continue reading
TONNES of strawberries are being dumped or going to waste around the country as the needle contamination scare threatens the future of the half-a-billion-dollar industry. | Continue reading
IT sounds like the opening scene of a conspiracy-theory movie. But this time, it’s real. US federal agents have swarmed onto a mountaintop observatory from a Blackhawk helicopter, ordering staff to leave and sealing the facility off from the public. | Continue reading
COULD we stop worshipping rich men who are jerks? | Continue reading
IN A small coastal town in the South China Sea, just 4200 kilometres from Darwin, China is building a facility designed to shoot radio waves into Earth’s upper atmosphere. | Continue reading
THE South African government has begun the process of seizing land from white farmers. | Continue reading
WHEN Lisa Brennan-Jobs was born on a farm in 1978, her father was nowhere to be seen. | Continue reading
THE Malaysian Government has released its final report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. It says all the evidence points to an incontrovertible conclusion — that it was under manual control, and that it was deliberately flown out into the Indian Ocean. | Continue reading
GANGSTERS shooting up bars. Broken dusty streets. A casino on every corner. Unlimited booze, drugs and prostitution. | Continue reading
EVERYONE knows pilots use the phrase “roger that” when they’re in the air — but have you ever given any thought as to why? | Continue reading
NASA’s seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blotting out the sun. | Continue reading
DEEP-sea explorer James Cameron has said it’s no surprise that the missing MH370 plane has not yet been found and that it would be “human arrogance” to think otherwise. | Continue reading
EVEN your selfies and brunch photos aren’t safe from the long arm of Facebook, it was revealed overnight, as the tech giant admitted it had taken billions of photos from Instagram accounts around the world to boost its own research. | Continue reading
WHEN you think of people making a motza from a tech start-up, you usually think of a young whipper snapper wearing sneakers and a baseball cap. | Continue reading