Morning Markets: News that WeWork’s leading investor is ready to ditch its controversial CEO is notable. Most investors leave founders alone. But when another SoftBank...
Morning Markets: News that WeWork’s leading investor is ready to ditch its controversial CEO is notable. Most investors leave founders alone. But when another SoftBank...
One of the basic things evolution has taught us is that as time goes by, the body shapes of living beings tend to change. However, this is not the case with two species of annelid...
Gaseous planets like Jupiter and Saturn have a much lower density than Earth (Saturn could even float in a huge bathtub) but now astronomers have discovered what can be called a new class of even...
A catalytic reactor that uses renewable electricity to produce pure liquid fuels was developed by the chemical and biomolecular engineer Haotian Wang. This new catalyst uses carbon dioxide as a real raw material to produce...
A new nanometre-scale distance measurement system, a kind of nanometric "optical ruler," was developed by a research group at the Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore (NTU).
Currently there is a limit, called a "diffraction limit,"...
A group of researchers claims to have simulated the functioning of a quantum computer in a classical computer, a result that according to the same scientists at the University of Linköping, Sweden, who carried out...
A device that "acts as a synapse in the living brain," capable of storing and forgetting information when it is no longer used, was built by a group of researchers from the Moscow Institute of...
A new research project developed by an engineer from the University of Aarhus was funded by the European Union. In particular, the project provides for the possibility to extract 100% phosphorus from waste materials such...
Using bacteria to make 'living' liquid crystals so that they can work in a relatively autonomous way is a curious idea. For some years now, there has been a great deal of interest in these...
Water can be "easily" purified with pollen, without resorting to chemical additives or alcohol: this is the result that a team of researchers had to present their efforts to the American Chemical Society (ACS) Autumn...
Labour's Lucy Powell writes to the justice secretary over "flawed" conspiracy charges.Image source, The AgencyFour teenagers should not have been jailed for eight years...
One of Brazil’s largest hedge fund managers is ditching a year-long bet against developing-nation currencies as global liquidity fuels appetite for risk.
SPX Capital, which...
A swimmer sustained "catastrophic injuries" in Wednesday's attack, Australian officials say.Image source, Getty ImagesA swimmer has been killed after sustaining "catastrophic injuries" in the...