By Heidi Harley

science / science - 5 years ago

Nigeria bolsters security on eve of presidential election

The two leading candidates in Saturday's vote are President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in 2015, and Atiku Abubakar, a businessman who served as vice president from 1999 to 2007. The country, which has Africa's largest economy, is dealing with pockets of instability: authorities are trying to...

science / science - 5 years ago

Mars looks dead, but don't count it out just yet

Mars' surface is a lifeless, unwelcoming desert. But beneath its red soil the planet still might be alive -- geologically.Big space news broke in 2018: Using a ground-penetrating radar aboard a Mars satellite, a group of scientists detected a thin 12-mile lake thousands of feet beneath the Marti...

science / science - 5 years ago

Musk-Like or Not, This 36-Year-Old CEO Has Amazon Riding Shotgun

Of course Scaringe, now 36, didn’t have a truck to show then. What he did have was something in common with Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, the chairman of a Saudi auto distributor who, like Scaringe, also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Scaringe showed up recommended by MIT contacts,...

science / science - 5 years ago

XPO Sinks as Analysts Link $600 Million Shortfall to Amazon

While XPO didn’t identify the mystery client, Wall Street analysts and industry consultants said it was almost certainly Amazon.com Inc. The e-commerce giant has been building its own package-delivery business to reduce its dependence on third-party carriers and logistics companies. XPO’s largest c...