by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(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...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
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...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
SRIHARIKOTA/BENGALURU, India (Reuters) - India launched a rocket into space on Monday in an attempt to safely land a rover on the moon, its most ambitious mission yet in the effort to establish itself as a low-cost space power. If successful, the $1...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(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...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
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...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
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.
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(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...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
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...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(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...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Lightning struck at a Florida beach on Sunday, leaving eight people injured, police said. The victims were struck at Clearwater Beach near Tampa on Sunday afternoon, according to the Clearwater Police Department. The department said one person was...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
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...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
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...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(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...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
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.
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
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...