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(Bloomberg) -- Naspers Ltd. delayed a planned listing of its international internet assets in Amsterdam until September after an error sending details to shareholders meant a vote on the deal can’t go ahead as planned next week.The announcement just...
science / science - 4 years ago
Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine stressed Friday the need for dramatic climate action and international support to ensure her people are not left as "sitting ducks" when sea levels inevitably rise. In an interview with AFP in Geneva, Heine det...
science / science - 4 years ago
Thousands of students from across Europe protested Friday near a coal mine in western Germany, urging governments to take bolder action against climate change. Organizers said up to 20,000 protesters from 16 countries took part in the rally in Aache...
science / science - 4 years ago
"What's going on with your skin?" my mom asked (bluntly, but lovingly) during a FaceTime call. I didn't know how to answer. I was 23, and my skin was acting up in ways it never had before, not even when I had vicious breakouts as a...
science / science - 4 years ago
In astrology, Cancer season begins today! The fourth sign of the zodiac is in tune with their emotions, loves the comforts of home, and is an intensely loyal friend and partner. Cancerians are all about romance rather than casual relationships — but...
science / science - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Cable provider Altice USA will keep its offices in the New York skyscraper that Amazon.com Inc. had planned to move into before abandoning a deal to build a major campus in the city.The television company has been at One Court Square s...
science / science - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwe and Zambia chose General Electric Co. and Power Construction Corp. of China to build a $4 billion hydropower project straddling their border, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said.The 2,400-megawatt Batoka Gorge plant h...
science / science - 4 years ago
It is astounding how nature can be both beautiful and scary as hell, as the above video of lightning captured in slow motion shows. The video was taken on Sunday, June 16, 2019 in College Station, Texas, as heavy storms steamrolled across the state. ...
science / science - 4 years ago
British Prime Minister Theresa May's office suspended Foreign Office Minister Mark Field on Friday while an investigation takes place into his treatment of a climate change protester at the gala Mansion House dinner. The City of London Police, the C...
science / science - 4 years ago
Central and Eastern European countries blocked a planned EU pledge to cut carbon emissions to a net zero by 2050 at a summit in Brussels on Thursday night. Poland, Hungary, Estonia and the Czech Republic refused to support summit conclusions that wou...
science / science - 4 years ago
Pfizer (PFE) announces definitive deal buy Array BioPharma. Merck (MRK), Roche (RHHBY) and AstraZeneca (AZN) win approvals for new drugs/line extensions.
science / science - 4 years ago
This Cancer season is all about Mama Bear vibes, so don't expect to fall in love.
science / science - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- While global banks have been pouring money into information technology -- to the tune of $1 trillion over three years -- only a handful appear to be fully committed to a digital transformation and are therefore reaping the benefits, ac...
science / science - 4 years ago
Thirty years ago, an Inuit man in west Greenland subsistence-hunting for whales shot a trio of strange cetaceans with front fins like belugas and tails like narwhals (the so-called "unicorns of the sea"). He was so flummoxed by the odd crea...
science / science - 4 years ago
In most maps of the solar system, you can expect to see the eight canonical planets (plus whatever Pluto is at the moment) trailing the fiery orange sun like polite little ducklings in a row. In biologist Eleanor Lutz's new map of the solar syste...