“All countries, regardless of their size and level of development, can participate.” At a time when NASA and its partners are trying to decide how long to maintain the International Space Station, China has taken the significant step of inviting the world to its planned orbital station. The China Space Station, or CSS, could […]
Virgin Galactic is celebrating a successful second test flight of SpaceShipTwo, the rocket-powered passenger spacecraft that may someday take tourists to the edge of space. Today’s test took the VSS Unity, the second craft built in this class, up to 114,500 feet and Mach 1.9, or nearly 1,300 miles per hour. Unity’s first powered flight […]
Drug-maker Bayer, agreeing to the largest divestiture in American antitrust enforcement history, will sell agricultural businesses and assets worth about $9 billion to chemical giant BASF, clearing the way for approval of its $66 billion acquisition of Monsanto, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The assets include Bayer’s canola, soybean and vegetable seed businesses, as well […]
The most commonly consumed vitamin and mineral supplements provide no consistent health benefit or harm, suggests a new study led by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto. Published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the systematic review of existing data and single randomized control trials published in […]
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson has spent more time in space than any other U.S. astronaut in history. From growing up on a farm in Iowa’s smallest town to living and working at the International Space Station (ISS), Whitson has called many places home. But if you ask her where her home is now, the answer […]
Nearly 230,000 pounds of Spam have been recalled. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a press release some Hormel canned pork and chicken products could be “contaminated with foreign matter, specifically pieces of metal.” The USDA says there are reports of minor oral injuries linked to the recall. The affected products are Hormel cans […]
Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son may not be so similar to Warren Buffett after all. Softbank (SFTBF), Son’s deal-hungry tech company, is no longer pursuing a stake in European reinsurance provider Swiss Re (SSREF). The Zurich-based insurer announced the news in a short statement Monday, but it didn’t explain why the two companies called off the […]
If you needed another reason to hit the snooze button on the weekends, researchers from Sweden have found that sleeping in on days off could help you live a longer life. A study published this week in the Journal of Sleep Research focused on the impact of “weekend sleeping” — or, simply, sleeping on days […]
On May 22, a SpaceX rocket launch left one poor, seemingly high-end camera horribly disfigured and forever ruined. Now, NASA has shared the specifics of what happened. Bill Ingalls, the space and aeronautics agency’s photographer, is the one who was tasked that day with capturing the launch. But even his 30 years of experience couldn’t […]
Harley-Davidson workers across the USA are reeling from the planned closure of the motorcycle maker’s Kansas City plant, yet it is expected to reap huge financial benefits from the federal corporate tax cut. The Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer benefited from the tax cuts enacted Jan. 1, then announced cuts of 350 jobs across the company in […]
Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) is expecting to meet this week in Beijing with China’s antitrust regulators in a final push to secure clearance for its proposed $44 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors NV (NXPI.O), three sources told Reuters. The acquisition has been caught in the crosshairs of rising U.S.-China trade tensions, with sources saying an approval […]
Germ-free childhoods followed by infections later in life can trigger the onset of childhood leukemia, a new study suggests. The paper, published Monday in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, finds that acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common type of childhood cancer, is caused by a two-step process. The first step is a genetic mutation before […]
