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Mining is heavy business, and this giant Komatsu excavator is too. It weighs 2 million pounds, but comes standard with fully-electric drive mode, allowing even the world’s largest mining operations to suddenly zero-out emissions from excavation vehicles. The PC9000-12 is the largest excavator Komats...

An algorithm has suggested images of what were thought to be Anne Boleyn might not be.

A London restaurant employing people who have experienced homelessness has relaunched, with a MasterChef judge as chef The post London’s unique charity-led restaurant gets a makeover appeared first on Positive News.

mihailomilovanovic/Getty Images Australians are familiar with the disturbing statistics of intimate partner homicide: one Australian woman is killed every 11 days, on average, by a current or former intimate partner. While these deaths are increasingly reported on, suicide represents a largely hidde...

Two photographers recently set a world record for the number of individual baleen whales seen in a single group at 304. It’s not just hard rockers that can form supergroups. Humpback whales seem to like it too, though scientists don’t know why. What they do know, however, is that they will congregat...

Scientists have pulled off a first: teleporting a photon’s state between two separate quantum dots. This was done over a 270-meter open-air link, proving quantum information can travel between independent devices. The achievement marks a key step toward building quantum networks for ultra-secure com...

Rotem Dozetas/Getty Each animal species has an optimal temperature at which it can metabolise food and its immune system can best fight off pathogens. As our recent research shows, temperature directly affects the immune systems of vertebrates – regardless of how they moderate their own body temper...

An “astonishing” find has led to a “valuable starting point” to developing a treatment for a disfiguring childhood disease. If the reader knows the word “noma” for the famous Danish restaurant, well buckle up because it is also a flesh-eating bacterial disease that affects the mouth and face of chil...

Forty years after poems first appeared on London’s Underground, the project continues to shape the daily journeys of millions The post ‘Having poetry in a public space transports us, even if we don’t understand it’ appeared first on Positive News.