by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers clashed over science, ethics and politics at a House hearing Thursday on using fetal tissue in critically important medical research, as the Trump administration reviews the government's ongoing support for such studie...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Powerful natural disasters in Texas on the scale of Hurricane Harvey's deadly destruction last year will become more frequent because of a changing climate, warned a new report Thursday ordered by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Amazon.com Inc. now owns Whole Foods and runs its own delivery service. Starting Thursday, Instacart said it will begin separating itself from Whole Foods and eventually no longer let its customers order from the Amazon-owned grocer through its app...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
We'll need to be mining a dozen times as many metals to meet demand for wind turbines and solar panels by 2050.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
We are now in an age where big decisions about our lives, from health care to recruitment, are being governed by computer programmes and data. The Royal Society has been running a series of events in its ongoing “You and AI” series and the most rece...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Investors are not pleased with the company's recently announced equity offering.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The presidency of the climate talks in Katowice, Poland, had asked for a draft of the final package to be ready by Thursday afternoon after almost two weeks of negotiations, but work continued into the evening to get it ready. The draft lays out opt...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The successful test flight presages a new era of civilian space travel that could kick off as soon as next year, with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic battling billionaire-backed ventures such as Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, to be...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Last year two federal judges, one in Philadelphia and one in Oakland, California, had blocked the government from enforcing rules allowing businesses or nonprofits to obtain exemptions from the contraception policy on moral or religious grounds. The...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The company thinks it’s found the answer in sensors. JDI has shifted about a third of its research staff to sensor development, more than 100 people, from just a handful a year ago, Chief Technology Officer Kazutaka Nagaoka said in an interview in T...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — The Latest on the U.N. climate talks in Poland and other climate news (all times local):
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Here's How to Watch the Geminids 2018 Meteor Shower
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Europe's biggest utility Enel and Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD on Thursday marked the arrival of 100 electric buses in Chile and said they would work together on similar plans for three other Latin American nations. Enel provided the financin...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, flew higher than it ever has before on Thursday, surpassing what the US Air Force considers the boundary of space, and marking the first manned flight to space from US soil since 2011. The brief, suborbital...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
"This puts the 'use it or lose it' conjecture into question," said lead author Roger Staff of the University of Aberdeen in the UK. Instead, childhood mental ability and intellectual engagement throughout life seem most related to cognitive scores a...