Category : science

Take Nyquil When You Can't Sleep? You May Want To Read This First.

There are some consequences to using over-the-counter medicine to help you drift off.

India Lifts Off Rocket Carrying Moon Lander in Unprecedented Bid

(Bloomberg) -- India successfully launched its second mission to moon on Monday, a week after a technical snag forced the South Asian nation to postpone the attempt.The unmanned Chandrayaan-2, which means “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit, was launched at 2...

French journalists arrested at Australia anti-coal protest

A French television crew filming a protest against a newly approved Indian-owned coal mine was arrested by Australian police Monday and charged with trespassing. Construction of the Adani project near the Great Barrier Reef has been under fierce deb...

Philips Profit Shows How Plant Rejig Offers Trade War Remedy

(Bloomberg) -- Royal Philips NV’s efforts to revamp supply chains to mitigate the impact of the U.S.-China trade dispute are paying off, with the Dutch health-care company reporting better-than-estimated profit.The maker of scanners and diagnostic ge...

More Basra water crises unless Iraq govt fixes 'failures': HRW

Nearly 120,000 people were hospitalised last summer after drinking polluted water, in a mass health crisis that sparked deadly protests against the dire state of public services. In a damning report, HRW found the generally poor state of water quali...

Trump tweeted heartlessly about Ebola in 2014. He's ill-equipped to handle 2019 outbreak.

The Ebola epidemic in Congo looms as a potential crisis in America. And Donald Trump is singularly ill-equipped to deal with this in a rational way.

Trading Frenzy Grips China’s New Stock Venue After Big IPO Gains

(Bloomberg) -- They propelled a little-known semiconductor manufacturer to a 521% surge, traded a mid-sized railway company 13 times more feverishly than the world’s largest bank and valued a chipmaking-gear producer at an eye-watering 730 times earn...

What distinguishes quantum thermodynamics from quantum statistical mechanics?

Yoram Alhassid asked the question at the end of my Yale Quantum Institute colloquium last February. I knew two facts about Yoram: (1) He belongs to Yale’s theoretical-physics faculty. (2) His PhD thesis’s title—“On the Information Theoretic Approach...

Asahi Suffers $2 Billion Hangover on Overseas Beer Expansion

(Bloomberg) -- Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. is already getting a headache from its $11 billion Australian foray.Japan’s biggest brewer, seeking to escape a slow-growing, aging market at home, is buying the Australian assets of Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, w...

Should You Start Colorectal Cancer Screening Before Age 50?

People should begin screening for colorectal cancer at age 45, according to guidelines released last year by the American Cancer Society. Previous guidance from the ACS, as well as guidelines rel...

Opponents of Hawaii telescope gather for protest march

Hundreds of opponents of a planned telescope on Hawaii's highest peak have gathered for a protest march. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that activists opposed to the Thirty Meter Telescope started marching Sunday morning in Waikiki. Last week...

Wanna Bet $1.3 Trillion on Chinese Regulators?

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- If you hold shares in New York-listed Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., you don’t own a stake in a Chinese internet powerhouse.What you have are the American depositary receipts of a Cayman Islands company that has a contract with th...

'Flesh-eating' bacteria: Here's how you can avoid contracting necrotizing fasciitis

Across the U.S., there appears to be a rise in cases of people contracting 'flesh-eating' bacteria. Experts weigh in on the cause of the bacteria and what families can do to stay safe while enjoying the rest of summer vacation.

Europe space agency to join new race to the moon

Europe is to launch a spacecraft to the Moon as it seeks to become a contender in the new space race that has taken off 50 years after the historic US lunar mission. The Paris-based European Space Agency (ESA) is to land a a robotic rover on the lun...

Why You Experience Blood Glucose Lows When Training for a New Sport

The author shares why you require more glucose when you are training for a new sport when you have diabetes.

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