Experts Are Skeptical About Superconductor Breakthrough News
On Saturday July 22, researchers in South Korea published a paper announcing the synthesis of what could be the world’s first ambient-temperature superconductor. If their findings are…
Read moreThe Hunt for Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa Just Got a Little Easier
It’s hard not to love Europa. It is far and away the most promising of Jupiter’s 79 moons, covered in a rind of water ice perhaps 30…
Read moreTo Discuss Death, Look to Hospice
Just because death is inevitable doesn’t make it easy or natural to talk about. In a new study, researchers wondered if hospice workers—experts in end-of-life care—had lessons…
Read moreThe Hubble, About to Be Outclassed, Is Still Making Record-Setting Discoveries
There are people in their 30s who have never lived in a world without the Hubble Space Telescope peering into the cosmos. The venerable observatory was launched…
Read moreU.N. Weather Agency Issues ‘Red Alert’ on Climate Change
GENEVA — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and…
Read moreWatches of Switzerland directors purchase £890,000 of stock
Chief Financial Officer Anders Romberg, Chairman Ian Carter and non-executive directors Tea Colaianni and Robert Moorhead spent an aggregate of about £890,000 ($1.1 million) buying more than…
Read moreAmazon’s Deliveroo deal faces in-depth UK competition probe
Amazon led a $575 million fundraising by Deliveroo in May and the probe could disrupt the e-commerce giant’s efforts to compete with Uber Eats, Just Eat and…
Read moreBlue-collar director vote gives U.S. labor another crack at Amazon.com
A resolution from shareholders including nonprofit Oxfam America calls for Amazon to consider nominating an hourly employee to its board. The proposal picked up valuable, and rare,…
Read moreBrexit and e-shopping deal another big blow to UK physical stores – Springboard
Footfall had grown 0.2% in November 2017 but it hasn’t grown since and so the latest figures marked a full years’ worth of declines. The East, South…
Read moreCattle slaughter crackdown ripples through India’s leather industry
The election of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) three years ago has emboldened right-wing Hindu groups to push harder…
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