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China Could Trounce U.S. In Advanced Technologies
US officials issued new warnings about China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence and a range of advanced technologies that could...

By The Financial District
Oct 25, 20212 min read


Big Tech Data Centers Compete For Water In Town Bogged Down By Drought
Conflicts over water are as old as history itself, but the massive Google data centers on the edge of this Oregon town on the Columbia...

By The Financial District
Oct 25, 20212 min read


Japan Okays Plan To Push Clean Energy, Nuke Power Plants
Japan adopted a new energy policy late last week that promotes nuclear and renewables as sources of clean energy to achieve the country’s...

By The Financial District
Oct 23, 20212 min read


Ever-Changing COVID-19 Virus Requires Ever-Changing Vaccine
The measles vaccine lasts forever. The chickenpox vaccine is good for as long as 20 years. The DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis)...

By The Financial District
Oct 22, 20212 min read


South Korea Launches 1st Domestically-Produced Space Rocket
South Korea launched its first domestically developed space rocket on Thursday but President Moon Jae In said a dummy satellite separated...

By The Financial District
Oct 22, 20212 min read


'Big John,' World's Biggest Triceratops Fossil, To Be Auctioned
The 66 million-year-old skeleton of a triceratops -- the largest one ever found -- is going on the auction block Thursday and is expected...

By The Financial District
Oct 22, 20212 min read


Pig-To-Human Transplants Come A Step Closer With New Test
Scientists have temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest...

By The Financial District
Oct 22, 20211 min read


Plant-Based Aviation Fuel To Cut Carbon Emissions
After four years of searching, scientists have found a new plant-based aviation fuel that could significantly reduce the environmental...

By The Financial District
Oct 21, 20211 min read


Dominguez Taps Youth For Climate Change Ideas
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has called on young innovators to contribute their skills and ideas in the fight against climate...

By The Financial District
Oct 21, 20212 min read


Biogen Trial Of ALS Drug Misses Main Goal, But Dev't Continues
A late-stage trial of Biogen Inc.'s experimental treatment for an inherited form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) failed to reach...

By The Financial District
Oct 20, 20211 min read


U.S. Firm Seeks To Replace Diesel Generators With Mini Nuclear Reactors
California company Radiant has secured funding to develop a compact, portable, "low-cost" one-megawatt nuclear micro-reactor that fits...

By The Financial District
Oct 20, 20211 min read


Half Billion Peso Irradiation Facility Up
The Board of Investments (BOI) has approved the PHP548.7-million project of Irradiation Solutions, Inc. (ISI), which will start commercial..

By The Financial District
Oct 19, 20211 min read


U.S. Coast Guard: 1,200-Ft. Ship Caused California Oil Pipeline Spill
Investigators believe a 1,200-foot (366-meter) cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it...

By The Financial District
Oct 18, 20212 min read


NASA's Asteroid Hunter Lucy Soars Into The Sky With Diamonds
A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids.

By The Financial District
Oct 17, 20212 min read


Unable To Form Oceans, Venus Became A Wasteland: Scientists
While previous studies suggested Venus might have once been covered in oceans, new research has found the opposite: Venus has likely...

By The Financial District
Oct 15, 20213 min read


Scientist Solves Puzzle Of Strange Blocks Washing Up On Brazil Coast
About three years ago, some beachgoers in north-eastern Brazil made a curious discovery when they stumbled across a crate-like object...

By The Financial District
Oct 14, 20212 min read


Chilean Scientist Plans To Clean Up Mining With Metal-Eating Bacteria
In Chile, a scientist is testing "metal-eating" bacteria she hopes could help clean up the country's highly polluting mining industry.

By The Financial District
Oct 12, 20212 min read


Penn State Scientists Devise Green Method To Extract Rare Earths
A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as...

By The Financial District
Oct 11, 20212 min read


Northwestern U Team Develops Fabric vs Biological Threats
A Northwestern University research team has developed a versatile composite fabric that can deactivate both biological threats, such as...

By The Financial District
Oct 11, 20212 min read


UN Urges Nations To Spend More On Species Protection
The global community must invest much more and raise the scale and speed of its pledges to protect nature and prevent species loss.

By The Financial District
Oct 11, 20212 min read


Nobel Chemistry Prize Goes To Duo For Molecule Building
German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of asymmetric...

By The Financial District
Oct 8, 20211 min read


Molecules From Chilean Tree Used To Make Vaccine vs COVID
Down a dusty farm track in Chilean wine country, behind a wooden gate wrapped in chains, forestry experts are nursing a plantation of...

By The Financial District
Oct 7, 20212 min read


Records Prove Slow Response To California Oil Spill
The US Coast Guard received the first report of a possible oil spill off the Southern California coast more than 12 hours before a company..

By The Financial District
Oct 7, 20212 min read


Physics For Climate And Other Complex Phenomena Bag 2021 Nobel Prize In Physics
Three Laureates share this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of chaotic and apparently random phenomena.

By The Financial District
Oct 5, 20213 min read
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