On Saturday night Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a few announcements via Twitter about new options for the Tesla Model 3. Specifically, the CEO said that in July the Model 3 would be available with options for a dual-motor and all-wheel drive. On a normal Model 3, that addition will come at a cost of […]
The FDA has approved the first in a new class of migraine drugs that aim to fight painful migraine headaches before they start. Erenumab (Aimovig) is the first of four new migraine drugs in the pipeline that target calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), a molecule that’s produced in nerve cells of the brain and spinal cord. […]
Astronomers have made the most distant ever detection of oxygen. They observed it in a galaxy of stars that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. But what is really fascinating is that this oxygen can only have been produced in an even older group of stars that would have dispersed it when […]
U.S. grocery delivery company Instacart suffered a new setback on Thursday when Kroger Co (KR.N), one of its major U.S. customers, announced a partnership with British automated online grocery service Ocado Group Plc (OCDO.L). Kroger’s deal with Ocado – coming less than a year after Amazon.com (AMZN.O) bought key Instacart partner Whole Foods – puts […]
PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) has agreed to acquire iZettle, one of Europe’s best known financial technology startups, for $2.2 billion, the companies said on Thursday. The deal will enable PayPal to expand its presence in in-store payments globally, and will mark the largest-ever acquisition by the San Jose, California- based company. iZettle is best known […]
Kermit the Frog used to sing that it wasn’t easy being green, but that isn’t the case for some real-life lizards. They apparently find being green so easy that even their blood is green. A study published Tuesday suggests seems that this lime-green blood has evolved independently several times in lizards. Scientists are now trying […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, — At a media teleconference before the first flight of the Block 5 Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX CEO and lead designer Elon Musk outlined some of the various upgrades to the Falcon 9 on the Block 5 version and revealed that, sometime next year, the company plans to launch, recover, re-fuel and […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon Prime members will soon get 10% off some sale items at Whole Foods supermarkets along with discounts on selected popular items. The program launches in Florida Wednesday and will extend nationwide this summer. To get the deals, Prime members will need to download the Whole Foods app on their phone and […]
When Amazon representatives came to visit Arlington, Texas, in February, the company was intrigued by the city’s potential to host its second headquarters. Arlington is about 20 minutes away from a major airport and offers unique perks. It was the first US city to officially offer self-driving shuttle rides to the public, and its soon-to-be-vacated […]
From 2007 to 2011, Idaho was number three in the nation for melanoma deaths, according to a 2014 study by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. BOISE – Idaho consistently ranks among the states with the highest death rates from melanoma, the most common form of skin cancer. From 2007 to 2011, Idaho was […]
How do you sit on your nest of eggs when you weigh over 1,500kg? Carefully – according to a new study from an international team of researchers in Asia and North America. Dinosaur parenting has been difficult to study, due to the relatively small number of fossils, but the incubating behaviour of oviraptorosaurs has now […]
The World Trade Organization ruled on Tuesday the European Union had maintained illegal support to Airbus (AIR.PA), prompting the United States to threaten sanctions against European products in the first of two key aircraft subsidy decisions due this year. The WTO report coincides with mounting trade tensions over U.S. aluminium and steel tariffs and the […]
