A worker in a face mask walks past gates at the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai, China, on Feb. 17, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Here are the companies making headlines in midday trading. Tesla – Shares of the electric vehicle maker jumped more than 6%, hitting a new all-time high, after the
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Men tend to store fat behind their abdominal wall, which pushes their abs outward and creates a protruding beer belly. And as they get older, they become more likely to grow a gut. That’s because their levels of testosterone —a sex hormone that helps keep men slim— decreases. MORE HEALTH SCIENCE CONTENT: Why Some People’s
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here Fire tore through several rooms used to store plant, animal and human specimens at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.Credit: Rogerio Pateo/NAV/DAA UFMG A fire has destroyed valuable collections at a natural-history museum in
So you want to colonize Mars, huh? Well Mars is a long ways away, and in order for a colony to function that far from Earthly support, things have to be thought out very carefully. Including how many people are needed to make it work. A new study pegs the minimum number of settlers at
DORTMUND, GERMANY – APRIL 05: (BILD ZEITUNG OUT) A black Labrador retriever is seen on April 05, … [+] 2020 in Dortmund, Germany. (Photo by Alex Gottschalk/DeFodi Images via Getty Images) Getty Images Most dog lovers have heard the old adage that one human year is equal to seven years for our canine friends. Scientists
Cans are stationed in front of an Amazon Air jet at a WFS facility in Phoenix. The coronavirus pandemic has shed a bright light on Amazon‘s treatment of warehouse workers and prompted the company to take extraordinary steps to reassure employees, legislators and the broader public that it’s protecting workers. Amazon has changed how its
WASHINGTON — A smallsat launched a year ago to demonstrate solar sail technologies continues to operate and is now beginning an extended mission. LightSail 2, a cubesat launched in June 2019 to demonstrate that a solar sail could change the orbit of a spacecraft, formally started an extended mission June 25, the one-year anniversary of
The Saltend Chemicals Park is a major facility located in the north of England. Robert Brook | The Image Bank | Getty Images Norwegian energy major Equinor has released details of a major U.K.-based project that will combine hydrogen generation with carbon capture and storage. The Hydrogen to Humber Saltend, or H2H Saltend, project will
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For most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and there was extra dry land where people lived. Archaeologists could only speculate about how people used those now-submerged lands, and whether any traces remain today. But in a study published today in PLOS ONE, we report the
One of the largest known black holes in the Universe has turned out to have an appetite to match its prodigious size. New measurements reveal that it’s an absolute chonk, clocking in at around 34 billion times the mass of the Sun – and it devours almost one Sun’s worth of mass every day. This
Naval soldiers prepare to fire a gun salute during a burial at sea. This would be catastrophically… [+] unsafe in any region where the bullets could come down and land on a human. U.S. Navy photo / Kevin J. Steinberg. “What goes up, must come down,” is an old saying that remains true for any
Apple is holding a keynote today on the first day of its developer conference, and the company is expected to talk about a ton of software updates. WWDC is a virtual event this year, but you can expect the same amount of news, in a different format. At 10 AM PT (1 PM in New
SAN FRANCISCO – The Southwest Research Institute won a $15.6 million contract to design and build the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) Lagrange 1 satellite. NOAA announced the cost plus, fixed-fee contract July 1, which it awarded through NASA. Under the contract, the Southwest
An aerial view shows a cruise ship (L) and tanker vessel anchored near the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 28, 2020 off the coast of Long Beach, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Oil prices dipped on Thursday after the United States recorded its biggest one-day spike
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TOPLINE Asked about face masks during a press junket for the upcoming Apple TV+ movie Greyhound, actor Tom Hanks didn’t hold back, calling “shame” on those who opt out of wearing the face coverings. Tom Hanks at the 2020 Academy Awards in February. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello KEY FACTS People magazine first reported the comments of
Meet Envision, a new startup accelerator. The group, built and run by a collection of students and recent graduates, just closed the application process for its first cohort of startups. Its goal isn’t merely to find some companies and give them a boost, however. According to Annabel Strauss and Eliana Berger, two co-founders of Envision,
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department has reversed its decision to award contracts funded under the Defense Production Act to six small launch companies. DoD announced on June 16 it selected Aevum, Astra, X-Bow, Rocket Lab, Space Vector and VOX Space to receive noncompetitive contracts to launch two rideshare missions for government customers over the next
When the COVID-19 outbreak first reached Louisiana and residents were ordered to stay at home, Marie Marlene V. Foret tapped into some skills she learned seven decades ago. Foret chairs the tribal council of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, which has lived along the bayous south of Houma, Louisiana for generations. When Foret was a child in the
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