LOS ANGELES -- Aarchan Joshi plans to shoot for the moon before dawn Wednesday. And not just any moon. Rather, he'll be out to photograph luscious images of a rare "Supermoon." "It's three separate things that don't happen very often," says Joshi, an ophthalmologist in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance. At...
Would you like some dungemite on your toast? Astronauts on deep-space missions could recycle their own feces to make food. It's a long way to Mars, and astronauts will need to eat. Limited cargo room for long-haul flights means future space travelers will need to recycle and reuse everything possible...
A new species of dinosaur found in the Egyptian desert is shedding light on Africa's missing history of dinosaurs. Few fossils have been unearthed from the last days of the dinosaurs, between 100 and 66 million years ago, on the continent. Scientists say the dinosaur, which lived about 80 million years...
JAB and its partners are taking a gulp from 3G Capital’s fountain. They’re merging Keurig Green Mountain, the coffee-pod outfit it took private in 2016 for $14 billion, with publicly traded Dr Pepper Snapple. It’s reminiscent of how the Warren Buffett-backed architects of Kraft Heinz operate. The strategic novelty is...
Microsoft employees have treehouses. Apple workers have what's been called a spaceship. And now Amazon.com's staffers have a rain forest — or at least something like one — right in the middle of downtown Seattle. On a typically rainy and covercast Monday, in a particularly Amazonian version of a ribbon-cutting...
Asian shares extended their bull run on Monday amid upbeat corporate earnings and strong global economic growth, while the dollar struggled to bounce as the White House continued to complain of “unfair” trade practices by competitors. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.26 percent, aiming for a...
New dengue vaccines being developed by Takeda Pharmaceuticals Co Ltd and U.S. government scientists are poised to provide a safer alternative to Sanofi’s Dengvaxia, according to vaccine experts, because they already take into account some of the issues that sidelined the product last year. Sanofi revealed in November that Dengvaxia...
The revolution in U.S. shale oil has battered Canada’s energy industry in recent years, ending two decades of rapid expansion and job creation in the nation’s vast oil sands. Now Canada is looking to its own shale fields to repair the economic damage. Canadian producers and global oil majors are increasingly...
When President Donald Trump’s imposed steep tariffs on imported washing machines last week it was a “Not Again” moment for officials in this north Tennessee city that has lost jobs to an international trade dispute before. The move threatens to stunt the launch of a new LG Electronics (066570.KS) washing...
Amazon owns Whole Foods and is busy cutting prices. Walmart is stepping up its supermarket game. The German discounters Aldi and Lidi are expanding in America. Competition in the grocery business is intense. And it's putting pressure on Kroger to fight back. Kroger (KR) stock rose almost 3% on Thursday after...
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