2019

The US consumers have spent $11 billion more online for domestic flights this year, compared to pre-pandemic levels, a report showed on Friday. Domestic flight bookings so far this year have driven $76 billion in online spending, 17 percent more than the comparable period in 2019 (pre-pandemic), where $65 billion had been spent.While the $11 billion difference is partly driven by higher prices, bookings have also grown 5 percent compared to 2019, according to data from Adobe Analytics Insights.In comparison, the same…

The microblogging site Twitter and Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) have been summoned to appear before the Congress MP Shashi Tharoor-led…

Update (12 May 2022): The big day of the announcement is today! Make sure to check back to ScienceAlert's home page for a live blog of the press conference at roughly 08:40 am EDT, or 12:40 UTC. Read below on what we think we can expect.Original (29 April 2022): In two weeks' time, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is going to present the world with new information about our Milky Way.It's anyone's guess what the announcement will be, but based on what we know of their recent efforts, there's reason to get excited…

A 1,000-pound (453 kilograms) migrating great white shark surfaced off the coast of New Jersey April 28 while seeking rich fishing grounds farther north.Researchers nicknamed the shark 'Ironbound' when he was first caught and tagged in 2019, as he was found near West Ironbound Island near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The 12.4-foot-long (3.7 meters) shark migrating when he showed up on satellite.  "Mating season is over, we think, and Ironbound is on his way north to get into some good feeding ground and bulk up again for the…

In 2019, the United States sent an average of US$7.2 billion dollars worth of plastic to landfill, according to new estimates from the Department of Energy (DOE).When considering the price of manufacturing, marketing and processing all that trashed material, the costs to the economy are significant. Nor does that consider the environmental price of plastic pollution.  While landfills are often considered the cheapest way to dispose of waste, in many ways that's a shortsighted approach. Setting up a system of recycling …