Scientists Analyzing Repeating Radio Signal From Space

Scientists Analyzing Repeating Radio Signal From Space

Posted by on Feb 13th, 2020

Researchers have discovered a repeating radio signal that they have traced to a single source a half-billion light-years away. Researchers looking at data from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst... 
Pete Rose Gets Presidential Support For Reinstatement

Pete Rose Gets Presidential Support For Reinstatement

Posted by on Feb 11th, 2020

Former Cincinnati Reds baseball star Pete Rose has asked once again to be reinstated by Major League Baseball. Rose is petitioning to remove his name from Major League Baseball’s ineligible list and his campaign has the... 
Antarctic Peninsula Sees Record Breaking Temperatures

Antarctic Peninsula Sees Record Breaking Temperatures

Posted by on Feb 9th, 2020

It’s not typical for the temperatures in Antarctica to be nearly the same as those in Southern California, but that is what happened in the first week of February. That week, the weather in the Antarctic Peninsula reached a... 
Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Chinese Drone Deployment

Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Chinese Drone Deployment

Posted by on Feb 7th, 2020

Chinese authorities are now deploying drones to help in the fight against the new coronavirus outbreak. Videos have emerged on the Twitter-like Chinese social media platform Weibo of interactions between citizens and the unmanned... 
Macy’s Launches New Cost-cutting Effort

Macy’s Launches New Cost-cutting Effort

Posted by on Feb 5th, 2020

Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) is launching a new $1.5-billion cost-cutting plan to revive its business. Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette said in a statement, “We are taking the organization through significant structural change to lower... 
New Flavored Vaping Ban Has Big Loophole

New Flavored Vaping Ban Has Big Loophole

Posted by on Feb 3rd, 2020

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is banning most flavored e-cigarettes, but the ban has a big loophole that some are saying defeats the main purpose of the ban. While the ban only allows menthol and tobacco flavors for refillable cartridge-based... 
Landmine Use Restrictions Lightened

Landmine Use Restrictions Lightened

Posted by on Feb 1st, 2020

A ban on the U.S. military’s use of anti-personnel land mines outside of the Korean Peninsula has been lightened by the Trump administration. A new Defense Department policy will be released detailing out how and when U.S. military commanders... 
Practice Fusion Settles Criminal And Civil Charges

Practice Fusion Settles Criminal And Civil Charges

Posted by on Jan 30th, 2020

Silicon Valley start-up Practice Fusion has agreed to pay $145 million in fines to resolve criminal and civil charges related to obtaining kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for promoting their products and misrepresenting... 
Astronauts Fix Space Station’s Antimatter Detector

Astronauts Fix Space Station’s Antimatter Detector

Posted by on Jan 28th, 2020

Spacewalking astronauts finished repairs on a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station this weekend. The spacewalk officially started about 15 minutes late, at 7:04 a.m. EST (1204 GMT) Saturday and concluded... 
Ancient Viruses Discovered In Glacial Ice

Ancient Viruses Discovered In Glacial Ice

Posted by on Jan 26th, 2020

A team of scientists from the United States and China have discovered a multitude of new virus groups in 15,000-year-old Tibetan glacial ice. Their research uncovered 33 groups of virus genuses in the ice cores taken from the... 
Living Concrete Made From Bacteria And Sand

Living Concrete Made From Bacteria And Sand

Posted by on Jan 22nd, 2020

Researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder have created a “living concrete” that can grow and regenerate itself. The concrete, a mixture of gelatin, sand, and cyanobacteria, is a potential breakthrough in the nascent... 
New York Mets Manager Carlos Beltrán Out Over Sign-Stealing Scandal

New York Mets Manager Carlos Beltrán Out Over Sign-Stealing Scandal

Posted by on Jan 18th, 2020

Carlos Beltrán is out as manager of the New York Mets after being implicated in a sign-stealing scandal that has rocked Major League Baseball. Commissioner Robert Manfred recently announced findings that the Houston Astros illegally... 
Visa To Acquire Plaid For $5.3 Billion

Visa To Acquire Plaid For $5.3 Billion

Posted by on Jan 16th, 2020

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) has announced that it is purchasing financial technology company Plaid for $5.3 billion. Visa expects the acquisition to close in three to six months pending regulatory approval. Goldman Sachs was the exclusive... 
Too Many People Delay Knee Replacement Surgery

Too Many People Delay Knee Replacement Surgery

Posted by on Jan 14th, 2020

With an aging population, more and more Americans are undergoing knee replacement surgery. More than 600,000 knee replacements are done each year in the United States and that number is expected to rise to 1.28 million by 2030,... 
Chinese Paddlefish Declared Extinct

Chinese Paddlefish Declared Extinct

Posted by on Jan 12th, 2020

One of the world’s largest freshwater fish has just been declared extinct. The Chinese paddlefish, or Chinese swordfish, apparently succumbed to the overfishing, habitat fragmentation, and loss of biodiversity in its native...