Credit: Dr Linda Stannard/UCT/Science Photo Library With no sign that an outbreak of a new coronavirus is abating, virologists worldwide are itching to get their hands on physical samples of the virus. They are drawing up plans to test drugs and vaccines, develop animal models of the infection and investigate questions about the biology of
Month: January 2020
Brig. Gen. (sel.) Michael Conley has been named vice commander of the Space Operations Command. WASHINGTON — The chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force Gen. John Raymond has named Air Force Brig. Gen. (sel.) Michael Conley vice commander of the Space Operations Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, the service announced
Chevron posted a $6.6 billion loss in the fourth quarter due to $10.4 billion worth of write-offs related to the company’s shale gas production sites in Appalachia and deep-water projects in the Gulf of Mexico. In December, the company warned that this charge would be between $10 billion and $11 billion. Shares slid more than
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A team of scientists in Australia said on Wednesday they have successfully developed a lab-grown version of the new coronavirus, the first to be recreated outside of China, in a breakthrough that could help quicken the creation of a vaccine. (L-R) The Royal Melbourne Hospital’s Dr Julian Druce, Virus Identification Laboratory Head
Amazon has surpassed a $1 trillion valuation after reporting blowout earnings for its fourth quarter on Thursday. Shares of Amazon hit a new all-time intraday high Friday, climbing more than 9.2% in early trading. The surge propelled Amazon’s market cap to hit roughly $1.02 trillion at the open. Amazon saw its market cap gain almost
What’s inside a clam? A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and sometimes a pearl. And you thought oysters were fancy. MORE WHAT’S INSIDE: What’s Inside A Puffer Fish? What’s Inside A Rattlesnake’s Tail? What’s Inside A Camel Hump? —————————————————— #Clam #Animal #ScienceInsider Science Insider tells you all you need to
Mar Garcia Hernandez, a researcher at the Institute of Materials Science in Madrid (ICMM), talks to science journalist Anna Demming about her career to date. Garcia Hernandez also comments on the topical review article she recently co-ordinated for the journal 2D Materials about producing and processing graphene and related materials Materials arranger: Garcia Hernandez has co-ordinated
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) maintained Alert Level 3 for Taal Volcano on Thursday, January 30, pronouncing that magma is still moving underneath. In a hearing of the Senate committee on urban planning, housing, and resettlement, Phivolcs Director Renato Solidum Jr explained they recorded a harmonic tremor associated with magma movement on Thursday.
BOSTON (Reuters) – Pending U.S. securities rules that would limit shareholder proposals have divided passive and active U.S. fund firms as some take a harder line on issues like climate change. FILE PHOTO: A police officer drives past a refinery in the industrial east end in Pasadena, Texas, U.S., September 18, 2018. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo
Wider than regular road tires, mountain bike tires have raised knobs or lugs that add stability on uneven terrain. Built to withstand the trail, these tires can handle it all. Stream Full Episodes of How It’s Made: https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-its-made/ Subscribe to Science Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribeScience Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceChannel Follow us on Twitter: Tweets by ScienceChannel
Chinese authorities have put protective measures in place as the new coronavirus spreads.Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Scientists and health authorities around the world are racing to halt the spread of a deadly virus that emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December. Thousands of people have already contracted the new coronavirus, which causes respiratory illness.
WASHINGTON — NASA plans for the first time to allow researchers to fly with their payloads on commercial suborbital vehicles, ending years of debate and deliberation. NASA released Jan. 29 a draft solicitation seeking payloads for its Flight Opportunities program, which provides rides for such payloads on high-altitude balloons, parabolic aircraft flights and commercial suborbital
The GMC Hummer EV will be revealed on May 20 and built at General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck plant in Michigan. GM DETROIT – General Motors is resurrecting the Hummer, best known as a gas-guzzling, military-style SUV, as an all-electric “super truck” with massive horsepower, acceleration and torque. The Detroit automaker confirmed the plans Thursday and released
NASA has said goodbye to the Spitzer space telescope after 16 years of service using infrared light to unveil otherwise invisible features of the universe, including seven planets the size of Earth around the star Trappist-1. “It’s quite amazing when you lay out everything that Spitzer has done in its lifetime, from detecting asteroids in
A figurine of the Nintendo Co. video-game series The Legend of Zelda character Link is displayed inside the Nintendo TOKYO store during a media tour in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg via Getty Images Shares of Nintendo plummeted on Friday afternoon a day after the company reported operating profit
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here This is the highest-resolution image of the Sun ever taken.Credit: NSO/NSF/AURA The first images from the world’s most powerful solar telescope show churning plasma in amazing detail. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii can
WASHINGTON — Comtech is acquiring Gilat Satellite Networks for $532.5 million, a move the company says will position it to capitalize on large anticipated demand for new ground segment infrastructure. Melville, New York-based Comtech Telecommunications Corp announced the Gilat acquisition Jan. 29, the same day it said it would also buy antenna builder CGC Technology Limited
Andy Buchanan | WPA Pool | Getty Images Oil prices jumped on Friday following sharp losses this week, as the World Health Organization (WHO) came out against travel and trade restrictions in declaring a global emergency over the spread of the coronavirus that originated in China last year. Oil prices had fallen nearly 4% through
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It may sound more like science fiction than science fact, but researchers have created bionic jellyfish by embedding microelectronics into these ubiquitous marine invertebrates with hopes to deploy them to monitor and explore the world’s oceans. A jellyfish augmented with a microelectronics implant designed by researchers Nicole Xu and John Dabiri is
In this installment of the Physics World Weekly podcast we look at how a new technique for infrared spectroscopy uses ultrashort laser pulses to minimize problems associated with noise. We chat with the physicist and mathematician Ginestra Bianconi of Queen Mary, University of London about how complexity science is providing important insights into epidemics and
The whole world has to be on alert to address the spread of coronavirus, the World Health Organization said. The health agency urged nations to prepare in detecting any cases that occur and isolate and deal with the sick. WHO will reconvene its expert committee on Thursday to determine whether or not to claim the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak a
Jeff Bezos Matthew Staver | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is set to report fourth-quarter earnings after Thursday’s closing bell. Here are the key numbers: Earnings per share: $4.03 per share, according to analysts surveyed by Refinitiv Revenue: $86.02 billion, per Refinitiv Amazon Web Services: $9.81 billion, according to FactSet Amazon is expected to see
Author notes Yoshiki Tanaka Present address: Department of Medical Chemistry and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Konoe-cho, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan Affiliations RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan Yoshiki Tanaka , Hideaki E. Kato , Motoyuki Hattori , Kaoru Kumazaki , Tomoya Tsukazaki , Ryuichiro Ishitani & Osamu Nureki Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry,
When Fan Xu needs a break from his mechanics of soft materials research at Fudan University, he likes to visit the campus’s lotus pool for a calming breath of fresh air. When you’re a physicist, though, sometimes a short break can backfire—in Xu’s case, leading to an 18-month study of thin biological tissue. It all
WASHINGTON — Boeing is taking a $410 million charge to its earnings to cover a potential additional uncrewed test flight of its CST-100 Starliner, although company officials say there’s no decision yet about whether such a flight is necessary. The company said in its fourth quarter earnings release Jan. 29 that it was taking the
Tim Graham | Getty Images The Trump administration is set to finalize a regulation Thursday that will end penalties against oil, gas and construction businesses that “incidentally” cause the deaths of birds as a result of their work, The New York Times reported. The regulation would reduce protections for birds offered by the Migratory Bird
An image shows the Sun’s surface at the highest resolution ever taken, shot by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), the world’s largest solar telescope, on the island of Maui, Hawaii, U.S., January 29, 2020, in this image obtained January 30, 2020. NSO/NSF/AURA/Handout via REUTERS (Reuters) – Images from a powerful new telescope installed
A woman tries out a new Apple 11 Pro during an Apple product launch event at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California on September 10, 2019. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Apple has beaten Samsung on quarterly smartphone shipments for the first time in two years, according to figures from several industry analysts. The
Gold standard: image of the surface of the Sun taken by the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope. (Courtesy: NSO/AURA/NSF) An image of the Sun with the highest spatial resolution ever has been taken by the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope. Shown above is the full field image, which is displayed in false colour and shows
Taal Volcano remained quiet on Tuesday as it had presumably stopped ejecting sulfur dioxide and spewed only weak plumes. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Philvolcs), only four low-frequency tremors were detected in the last 24 hours. The alert status has been lowered from Level 4 to Level 3 but the Duterte
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Uniper over the next five years aims to close three German hard coal-fired power plants, half its European coal-fired capacity, two people familiar with the plans told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The coal power plant Scholven of German energy utility company Uniper is pictured in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, September 28, 2018. Picture taken September
According to the World Health Organization, there are 1.1 billion smokers worldwide and an estimated 1.8 million deaths from lung cancer annually. Lung cancer caused by smoking can take decades to arise, and smokers have up to a 30-fold higher risk of developing the disease than do non-smokers1. Carcinogenic components of tobacco smoke promote lung
WASHINGTON — The House space subcommittee approved a NASA authorization bill Jan. 29 that has attracted criticism from NASA and some in the space industry, although members said they plan to continue to refine the bill. The space subcommittee of the House Science Committee approved H.R. 5666, the NASA Authorization Act of 2020, on a
Royal Dutch Shell products in Torzhok, Russia. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell reported a sharp fall in full-year net profit on Thursday, citing challenging macroeconomic conditions and lower oil and gas prices. Net income attributable to shareholders on a current cost of supplies (CCS) basis and excluding identified
The US plans to step up its space rocket launches in 2020, officials said Wednesday, an increase driven largely by private sector companies like SpaceX. The government is expecting to issue between 40 to 50 licenses in the 2020 budget year which began in October, said Wayne Monteith, the official in charge of space flight
LONDON (Reuters) – It’s 2023. Britain’s brightest and best drug researchers are packing their bags as clinical trials start to dwindle, leaving a nation renowned as a global leader in pharmaceutical development to face a future in the slow lane. FILE PHOTO: Petri dishes are pictured in an unknown location in a Cancer Research UK
Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk attends an opening ceremony for Tesla China-made Model Y program in Shanghai, China January 7, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters Tesla shares extended their rally on Wednesday, rising more than 11% after market hours following better-than-expected results for the last quarter of 2019. On an earnings call to discuss the
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Large swathes of southeast Australia were bracing on Thursday for a days-long heatwave that threatens to stoke bushfires that have been burning in the region for months. FILE PHOTO: Dead trees mark the scorched landscape surrounding the Kangaroo Valley Bush Retreat after a wildfire in Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales, Australia, January
A farmer attempts to fend of desert locusts in Ethiopia.Credit: Giulia Paravicini/Reuters United Nations appeals for locust help Hundreds of millions of desert locusts, in swarms larger than cities, are ravaging East Africa. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and a number of aid agencies are appealing for urgent help to deal
WASHINGTON — The C-Band Alliance said it will cost Intelsat, SES and Telesat $3.3 billion to clear 300 megahertz of C-band spectrum for U.S. 5G wireless networks without leaving satellite-dependent television broadcasters in a lurch. The C-Band Alliance released the new cost figure earlier this week just ahead of a bipartisan group of U.S. senators
Getty Images Oil prices fell on Thursday as the death toll from the new virus in China climbed to 170 and more airlines cancelled flights to the country’s major cities, while rising U.S. crude inventories added to the negative tone. Brent was down 35 cents, or 0.6%, at $59.46 a barrel by 0225 GMT, having
An undated image of Afrodelatorrichnus ellenbergeri, a set of hand-feet impressions of a quadrupedal dinosaur, are seen preserved in a sandstone layer in South Africa alongside an interpretive outline of the tracks, in a combination of photos released January 29, 2020. Bordy et al. 2020 PLoS One/Handout via REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 183 million
Cash boost: The measures announced by the UK government include £600m for mathematical sciences. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Linda-Bestwick) The UK government has announced a raft of measures to boost science in the country as it gets ready to leave the European Union on 31 January. They include investing £300m over five years to fund mathematical sciences, the
Unless you have lived in your home for a quite some time, the thought of replacing your windows might not yet have stricken you. Most homeowners never think about the operation and the statistics of the windows until something goes terribly wrong. Obscured glass, water and air transference, thermal leaks, insect intrusions and inoperable windows
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., arrives for a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Facebook not only uses information from your activity on Facebook and its related products like Instagram to target you with ads,
A type of non-neuronal brain cell called a glial cell can give rise to a lethal cancer called glioblastoma1. Half of the cells in the human brain are glial cells, which normally act to support the function and communication of neurons2. Yet despite decades of research, there are no existing treatments for glioblastoma that substantially
WASHINGTON — SpaceX completed its second Starlink launch of the month Jan. 29, conforming to a target cadence the company set last year to launch two dedicated Starlink missions monthly throughout 2020. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 9:07 a.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, with another 60 Starlink internet satellites.
Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud attends the Future Sustainability Summit at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) on January 14, 2020. KARIM SAHIB | AFP via Getty Images OPEC’s battle to support oil prices as China’s coronavirus spreads internationally shows the producer group is struggling to wield the same influence over
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