by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
NASA has released images of a huge meteor that exploded over Earth last yearwith more than 10 times the energy of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshimaduring World War II
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Charles Tillman Building Boat to Cross Lake Michigan for Charity
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk Energy use is the biggest cause of climate change, and it’s the first place to enact meaningful strategies to lower greenhouse emissions. It’s also a smart angle for talking ab...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Oil prices were steady on Monday, with concerns of a sharp economic slowdown competing with support from tighter supply due to OPEC's production cutbacks and U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuela. Brent crude oil futures were down 7 cents, or 0.1 per...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 1,000 cases in less than nine months. A total of 1,009 people have reported symptoms of hemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's northeastern provinces of...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
In a telephone interview with Reuters, Gates was optimistic about the global plan to eradicate the paralyzing viral disease, but said Afghanistan's conflict and power struggles hamper progress. "The big issue there is always with the Taliban," said...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Naspers chose Euronext Amsterdam to list a business that includes its 31 percent holding in Tencent, as well as investments in Russian internet platform Mail.Ru, German food delivery business Delivery Hero and Indian e-commerce startup Swiggy. The l...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
In the recommendation to European capitals due to be unveiled on Tuesday, member states will be given several months to report to the EU potential cyber threats to the 5G network in their home markets, according to a person familiar with the matter....
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Son, speaking at the Milken Institute conference in Tokyo, said he was close to striking a deal to acquire 30 percent of the U.S. e-commerce pioneer with Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos in its early years. Son offered $100 million, but Bezos insi...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc said on Monday the European Commission approved its diabetes drug Forxiga for use as an oral supplement to insulin in adults with a rare type of the disease. Forxiga can now be used along with insulin in patients wi...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The U.S. ride-hailing giant will pay $1.4 billion in cash and $1.7 billion in convertible notes for Careem, the people said, asking not to identified because the talks are private. The notes will be convertible into Uber shares at a price equal to $...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Sanctions on Venezuela's oil industry have made winners out of Gulf of Mexico offshore heavyweights Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc as U.S. refiners in need of substitutes are scooping up oil produced in the region. The two major oil companies prod...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Haunted mansions have ghosts, football teams have mascots, and labs have in-house theorists. I found myself posing as a lab’s theorist at Caltech. The gig began when Oskar Painter, a Caltech experimentalist, emailed that he’d read my first paper abou...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
A trove of Aztec sacrifices including a richly adorned jaguar dressed as a warrior and recently discovered in downtown Mexico City could lead archaeologists to the most tantalizing find yet: an Aztec emperor's tomb. Discovered off the steps of the A...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
"There are legal responsibilities that need to be discussed," Smith, who’s also the software maker’s chief legal officer, wrote in a Sunday blog post that said a company team had begun a pre-planned trip to the country the day before. After video of...