Cockroaches have always been the stuff of late-night horror, those tiny brown streaks that vanish into the dark the moment you flick on the kitchen light. But in a new study from North Carolina State University, scientists have shown that these unwelcome guests are doing more than raiding crumbs and testing your courage: they are quietly contaminating the air you breathe.In apartment complexes across Raleigh, researchers tracked how the number […]

Flying from Sydney to London in a single leap has been aviation’s white whale for decades. It’s a route so long that even the most advanced aircraft had to bow to fuel constraints (and the limits of human patience). Now, Qantas says it is almost ready to make that myth routine.Its first Airbus A350-1000ULR, the flagship of the airline’s Project Sunrise program, has completed the major assembly stages in Toulouse, […]