David Einhorn speaking at the SOHN conference in New York, May 6, 2019. Heidi Gutman | CNBC Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn, the successful short-seller whose returns have suffered as of late because of the bull market run, told clients in a letter on Tuesday that the hedge fund has added to its short position on
The virus first surfaced at the end of 2019 in an animal and seafood market in Wuhan, central China.Credit: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty As hundreds of millions of people in China take to the roads, railway and skies to be with their families for the new year holidays, authorities in the country and around the world have
SAN FRANCISCO – Made In Space is moving its corporate headquarters from Mountain View, California, to Jacksonville, Florida. The company founded in Mountain View in 2010 established a presence in Jacksonville in 2015 and a partnership with Space Florida in 2017. Since then, Space Florida has provided financing to help the commercial space startup expand
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan says money will keeping flowing to environment, social and governance funds (ESG) as more investors send the message that they want to own companies with a mission that aligns profits with broader social goals. “We have $25 billion in ESG funds, and more is going there,” Moynihan said on
KANGAROO ISLAND, Australia (Reuters) – Bees swarm around Peter Davis as he unloads his precious, buzzing cargo into their new home in a part of South Australia’s Kangaroo Island that was not devastated by recent bushfires. Peter Davis, owner of Island Beehive, locks Ligurian beehives to prepare them for transport on Kangaroo Island, Australia, January
Senior author Wei Gao monitors a volunteer wearing flexible sweat sensors while exercising. (Courtesy: Caltech) An international team of scientists has developed an affordable microfluidic-based sensor able to track variations in levels of metabolites and nutrients in a patient’s blood simply by analysing their sweat. The device could be used to diagnose and monitor a
Damage to the ozone layer might also be liable for half of Arctic warming over 50 years, a new study claims. An international team of researchers says the findings highlight ozone-depleting substances (ODS) as an unrecognized source of twentieth-century Arctic climate change. ODS, a set of very harmful greenhouse gases, are halogen compounds that destroy
The ISRO said it has successfully completed the three orbit-raising manoeuvres of communication satellite GSAT-30 on Monday, which was launched on January 17 onboard Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. The space agency said the cumulative duration of operation of the propulsion system for these manoeuvres was two hours and 29 minutes. Due to these
An employee waits for an elevator at a Facebook office. Toby Melville | Reuters Facebook is set to hire another 1,000 people in the U.K by the end of 2020. The social media giant’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, will announce the new jobs in London on Tuesday, which will bring its total headcount in
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here Research with human embryos is fraught, so some researchers are creating synthetic embryos from stem cells.Credit: Juan Gartner/Science Photo Library/Getty US scientists say they are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain federal funding for research that
Named “Birds of a Feather,” the mission is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand as early as Jan. 31. WASHINGTON — Small satellite launch services provider Rocket Lab announced Jan. 20 that its Electron vehicle’s first mission of 2020 will be for the National Reconnaissance Office. Named “Birds
Iraq doesn’t want to be caught in a “tug of war” between the U.S. and Iran, according to the chief executive officer of a UAE-based oil and gas company. “It’s perhaps a bit late, but (Iraq is) trying to avoid becoming — long term — a battleground between the two sides,” Majid Jafar, CEO of Crescent
NASA is going to the Moon and on to Mars, in a measured, sustainable way. Working with U.S. companies and international partners, NASA will push the boundaries of human exploration forward to the Moon. NASA is working to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon within the next decade to uncover new scientific discoveries
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Mining giant BHP Group (BHP.AX) said on Tuesday that poor air quality caused by smoke from Australia’s bushfires is hurting coal production, as authorities cautioned a reprieve from hazardous fire conditions could end within days. Rubble are seen at a property damaged by bushfires in Kangaroo Valley, Australia, January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Angie
A lethal viral outbreak in China probably originated in a Wuhan animal market, which has since been closed.Credit: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Scientists are increasingly concerned about a new virus that is spreading in Asia. The number of people known to have the respiratory illness, which originated in China, has more than doubled in the past few
ARLINGTON, Va. — A consortium established last year to develop a rating to measure how well satellites comply with space sustainability guidelines expects to have an initial version of its rating system ready by late this year or early next year. The World Economic Forum (WEF) announced in May 2019 it selected a group that
This image shows Vestas’ V90-3MW wind turbines being used at the Kentish Flats Windfarm in England. John Turp | Moment | Getty Images Danish firm Vestas said Monday that it was aiming to produce “zero-waste” wind turbines by the year 2040. The wind turbine manufacturer explained that its goal would mean operating a value chain
A Tesla Model 3 car is on display during the Auto China 2018 at China International Exhibition Center on April 25, 2018 in Beijing, China. VCG/VCG | Getty Images Tesla blasted customer complaints that its cars may suddenly accelerate on their own Monday, calling the reports “completely false.” The 127 complaints about Tesla vehicles suddenly
Composites made from metal-organic frameworks can destroy nerve agents under relevant conditions. Courtesy: Journal of the American Chemical Society A textile coated with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) could make an efficient anti-nerve agent material, according to experiments by researchers at Northwestern University in the US. The MOFs, which are based on zirconium, could act as catalysts
One of the most important travel necessities is a good pair of shoes. This is especially important if you intend to do activities like hiking on your trip. With the wrong type of shoe, going across uneven terrain might increase the chances that you will strain your ankles. To prevent this from happening, let’s look
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Rescuers in Nepal called off efforts on Monday to find seven people, including four South Korean trekkers, after fresh avalanches hit the Annapurna region where the group went missing last week, an official said. FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of climbers who await rescue after an avalanche hit in Deurali, Nepal January
US Army nurses in 1947. Shifting social norms have driven the swift rise and demise of smoking in many places.Credit: Underwood Archives/UIG/Shutterstock Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work Robert H. Frank Princeton Univ. Press (2020) In 1989, just 12% of US adults favoured legalization of same-sex marriage; by 2015, that figure was around
HELSINKI — U.S. and Chinese officials are working towards meeting for a bilateral Civil Space Dialogue around March in the first such discussion since 2017. “The U.S. and China were not able to schedule a Civil Space Dialogue in 2019, but are in the planning stage for the U.S. to host the Dialogue during the
An Iraqi worker gauges gas emissions from an oil pipe at the Daura oil refiner Getty Images Oil prices rose to their highest in more than week on Monday after two large crude production bases in Libya began shutting down amid a military blockade, setting the stage for crude flows from the OPEC member to
A Boeing 747-8 Lufthansa airplane takes off from the Airport Tegel in Berlin. Britta Pedersen | AFP | Getty Images Lufthansa is partnering with Google’s cloud unit in an effort to minimize the impact of flight delays and other irregularities on its passengers. The German airline group will use Google Cloud’s infrastructure to bring its
Timothy Whelan, principal investigator of this study, is a professor of oncology at McMaster University and a radiation oncologist at the Juravinski Cancer Centre. (Courtesy McMaster University) Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is non-inferior to conventional whole-breast irradiation in preventing breast tumour recurrence, according to long-term findings of a trial of over 2100 women. The
As the Philippines’ Taal Volcano unrest entered its 2nd week, government volcanologists reiterated that evacuees are strongly advised to remain out of the danger zone as Alert Level 4 remains raised. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) underscored on Monday, January 20, that scientific records showing a risky eruption remain possible “in hours to days.” Phivolcs Director Renato Solidum
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Drought-ravaged parts of rural Australia have been hit by dust storms that threaten to drift over more heavily populated cities including Sydney, bringing a new element to the extreme weather that has dominated the country over summer. A duststorm approaches a farm, northwest of Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia in January 19,
NASA is closely monitoring an asteroid with an estimated diameter of about 755 feet – larger than the Golden Gate Bridge tower or more than twice the height of London’s Big Ben - that is currently heading towards Earth and is expected to skim past the planet on Monday. Flying towards the planet at a speed
WASHINGTON — NASA will decide in the coming weeks whether to extend a crewed SpaceX test flight to the International Space Station, a move that could help alleviate a crew time crunch on the station. A successful in-flight abort test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Jan. 19 makes it increasingly likely that that the spacecraft
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai-based start-up Cafu is expanding its fuel-delivery operations to Oman, marking its first international market entry since it began services in November 2018. “We are humbled to be able to take our homegrown innovative services from Dubai to the world, starting today with Oman,” Cafu Founder and CEO, Rashid Al
mixmagic | iStock | Getty Images The European Union’s overhaul of data privacy regulation is estimated to have generated 114 million euros ($126 million) in fines since it was introduced almost two years ago. Since its implementation in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) led to over 160,000 data breach notifications across Europe,
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon astronaut capsule, lifts off on an in-flight abort test , a key milestone before flying humans in 2020 under NASA’s commercial crew program, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Joe Skipper CAPE CANAVERAL (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia on Monday boosted emergency grants and loans for small businesses hit by bushfires that have ravaged the country during the peak tourist season, as firefighters used cooler weather to prepare for a return of hazardous fire conditions. Burnt bushland on Kangaroo Island, Australia January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Tracey Nearmy The fires have
WASHINGTON — SpaceX successfully tested the abort system of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, one of the final milestones before the vehicle is cleared to carry astronauts to the International Space Station. A Falcon 9 carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 10:30 a.m. Eastern, one
The Dynamic Earth Centre in Edinburgh, UK. (Courtesy: Margaret Harris) “Only three or four in every hundred PhD students in the United Kingdom will land a permanent staff position at a university. Start planning your next step now!” This eye-catching statistic – and the imperative that follows it – appeared front and centre on the
Oil and fuel manufacturing has doubled in some areas of the United States in two years. The production, which leads to air pollution, was seen from space. In the new research published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists used satellites to see the influences of the trend. Researchers noted a significant increase in the release of the
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing on Sunday in a dramatic test of a crucial abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, a big step its mission to fly NASA astronauts for the first time as soon as this spring. A Crew Dragon astronaut capsule launched at 10:30
Fabrice Lerouge | Getty Images A new form of sextortion scam bilks unsuspecting victims out of money after telling them they’ve been recorded privately on home security cameras. It’s an alarming new version of the old scam where criminals try to convince you they have illicit recordings or information about you, which they’ll release unless
FILE PHOTO: A demonstrators holds pro-Tesla poster during an action to support plans by U.S. electric vehicle pioneer Tesla to build its first European factory and design center in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany January 18, 2020. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski BERLIN (Reuters) – U.S. electric car pioneer Tesla (TSLA.O) has agreed to buy a property on the
As preparations for the Chinese New Year get under way, fears mount for the jubilant crowds who could potentially be infected by a newly emerged virus.Credit: Wu Hong/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock I applaud Chinese colleagues’ prompt release of the genome sequence of the virus responsible for the mystery respiratory illness in Wuhan in central China (see Nature http://doi.org/djhc;
HELSINKI — China carried out its second orbital launch in just over 24 hours late Wednesday, sending the Yinhe-1 commercial 5G satellite into low Earth orbit. A Kuaizhou-1A solid launch vehicle lifted off from a mobile platform at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 10:02 p.m. Eastern. Aboard was the 227-kilogram Yinhe–1
New construction surrounds the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 booster rocket on historic Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. January 18, 2020. REUTERS/Steve Nesius CAPE CANAVERAL (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX will try again on Sunday to destroy one of its own rockets in a test of
Toward the end of NBCUniversal’s two-hour long presentation of its Peacock streaming video service Thursday, the media and entertainment company dropped a revealing piece of information that rival companies haven’t made available. Comcast’s NBCUniversal estimates its streaming service will generate average revenue per user (ARPU) per month of $6 to $7. This is an aggregate
Taken from the January 2020 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. After sharing the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of the first exoplanet, Didier Queloz talks to Rebecca Pool about the future of planetary exploration Planetary pioneer: Didier
A local agency said that the coffee farms in the province of Batangas and Cavite would take more than a year to recover after the volcano erupted on Sunday. Rene Tongson, the director of the Philippine Coffee Board, said that the total damages caused by Taal’s wrath are around ₱600 million ($32 million), a way
MELBOURNE/KANAGAROO ISLAND, Australia (Reuters) – The Australian government said on Sunday it will provide financial aid to the country’s tourism sector that’s been badly hit by long-lasting bushfires, as business owners fretted about cancellations that stretch into the months ahead. The first cruise ship to visit since the bushfires, is seen in waters off Kangaroo
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to destroy one of its own rockets on Saturday to test a crucial emergency abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, the company’s final milestone test before flying NASA astronauts from US soil. Less than two minutes after liftoff from a launchpad in Florida, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will fire
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