Inside the Biggest Rocket Ever Built
Time was, nobody gave much thought to the town of Boca Chica, a little community at the toe of Texas, hard up against the Gulf of Mexico….
Read moreAt-Home COVID-19 Tests Expire. Here’s What to Know About Yours
If you stockpiled at-home COVID-19 tests during the great Omicron shortage, you may want to do a little research before using your diagnostics. Like food and medications,…
Read moreExperts 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,…
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