When Amazon representatives came to visit Arlington, Texas, in February, the company was intrigued by the city’s potential to host its second headquarters. Arlington is about 20 minutes away from a major airport and offers unique perks. It was the first US city to officially offer self-driving shuttle rides to the public, and its soon-to-be-vacated […]
From 2007 to 2011, Idaho was number three in the nation for melanoma deaths, according to a 2014 study by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. BOISE – Idaho consistently ranks among the states with the highest death rates from melanoma, the most common form of skin cancer. From 2007 to 2011, Idaho was […]
How do you sit on your nest of eggs when you weigh over 1,500kg? Carefully – according to a new study from an international team of researchers in Asia and North America. Dinosaur parenting has been difficult to study, due to the relatively small number of fossils, but the incubating behaviour of oviraptorosaurs has now […]
The World Trade Organization ruled on Tuesday the European Union had maintained illegal support to Airbus (AIR.PA), prompting the United States to threaten sanctions against European products in the first of two key aircraft subsidy decisions due this year. The WTO report coincides with mounting trade tensions over U.S. aluminium and steel tariffs and the […]
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) on Tuesday said it has more than doubled its investment in generic drugmaker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TEVA.TA), and confirmed it has become Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) second-largest shareholder. Berkshire also shed an investment dating to the mid-1970s that reflected Buffett’s longstanding love for newspapers, selling its stake in Graham […]
In an effort to save half a million lives each year, the World Health Organization on Monday urged developing nations to follow the lead of affluent countries and eliminate man-made trans fatty acids from their food supplies. By taking six specific steps, officials from the United Nations’ health agency said countries could reduce a tidal […]
The case for a giant plume of water vapor wafting from Jupiter’s potentially life-supporting moon Europa just got a lot stronger. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted tantalizing signs of such a plume multiple times over the past half decade, but those measurements were near the limits of the powerful instrument’s sensitivity. Now, researchers report […]
More than two dozen people have died from carbon monoxide poisoning after accidentally leaving their cars running in the garage, according to The New York Times. Dozens more suffered debilitating injuries. Why is this happening? It’s a mistake that’s made easier by modern keyless ignition systems, which allow drivers to start and shut off their […]
A tweet from President Donald Trump railing against the loss of manufacturing jobs is hardly remarkable, but the president turned heads on Sunday when he tweeted about the loss of jobs in China. “President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into […]
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, which has discovered 2,649 confirmed exoplanets and 2,724 candidate exoplanets since 2009, is running out of fuel and therefore nearing the end of its mission. When its second reaction wheel broke in 2013, rendering the telescope unable to maintain a steady gaze at the targeted field of view, mission engineers re-purposed […]
Stress is taking its toll with almost three quarters of Scots who took part in a survey feeling unable to cope in the past year. In the poll, commissioned by the Mental Health Foundation, more than a third of people (35%) had experienced suicidal thoughts or feelings due to stress. One sixth of those surveyed […]
By analyzing the samples, the team recorded long-term information on inversion of the magnetic poles of the Earth. These periodic however unusual inversions can be found in residue containing zircon minerals with uranium, which can be used for radiocarbon dating, empowering the example to fill in as a clock. From past so many years Astrologers […]
