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Chevron says fire extinguished at Richmond, Calif. refinery By Reuters

Chevron says fire extinguished at Richmond, Calif. refinery By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Chevron gas station sign is seen in Del Mar, California, April 25, 2013. Chevron will report earnings on April 26. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo (Reuters) – Chevron Corp (NYSE:) said a…

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Using captured CO₂ in everyday products could help fight climate change, but will consumers want them?

Using captured CO₂ in everyday products could help fight climate change, but will consumers want them?

Would you drink carbonated beverages made with carbon dioxide captured from the smokestack of a factory or power plant? How would you feel if that captured carbon dioxide were in your child’s toys, or in…

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Gold Down Over Record Low Jobless Claims, Higher-than-Expected Producer Prices By Investing.com

Gold Down Over Record Low Jobless Claims, Higher-than-Expected Producer Prices By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Gold was down on Friday morning in Asia as U.S. Treasury yield fell. Investors also digested a record low number of jobless claims and a higher-than-expected. inched down…

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Why the inflation rate doesn’t tell the whole story – all it takes is a spike in a category like used cars to cause consumer prices to soar

Why the inflation rate doesn’t tell the whole story – all it takes is a spike in a category like used cars to cause consumer prices to soar

Markets, economists and policymakers have been fretting about inflation for months, worried that the trillions of dollars being spent in recent and future government stimulus programs could overheat the economy and send prices soaring. On…

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Where do meteorites come from? We tracked hundreds of fireballs streaking through the sky to find out

Where do meteorites come from? We tracked hundreds of fireballs streaking through the sky to find out

If asked where meteorites come from, you might reply “from comets”. But according to our new research, which tracked hundreds of fireballs on their journey through the Australian skies, you would be wrong. In fact,…

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Top U.S. fuel pipeline recovering from devastating ransomware attack By Reuters

Top U.S. fuel pipeline recovering from devastating ransomware attack By Reuters

3/3 © Reuters. A bagged nozzle at a pump notifies motorists that it no longer has fuel after a cyberattack crippled the biggest fuel pipeline in the country, run by Colonial Pipeline, in Chapel Hill,…

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Here’s how much your personal information is worth to cybercriminals – and what they do with it

Here’s how much your personal information is worth to cybercriminals – and what they do with it

Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are stolen worldwide every year. Most of the media coverage of data breaches tends to focus on how the breach happened, how many records were stolen…

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Money for telescopes and vaccines is great, but the budget’s lack of basic science funding risks leaving Australia behind

Money for telescopes and vaccines is great, but the budget’s lack of basic science funding risks leaving Australia behind

The story of the past year has been the pandemic: from the first outbreaks in early 2020, the identification of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and methods to detect it, through to lockdown and quarantine measures, vaccine…

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Oil Down as Ever-Rising COVID-19 Numbers in India Fans Fuel Demand Worries By Investing.com

Oil Down as Ever-Rising COVID-19 Numbers in India Fans Fuel Demand Worries By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Oil was down Thursday morning in Asia over concerns about the ever-surging numbers of COVID-19 cases in India and after the U.S. released a draw of crude inventory.…

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Judge rejects NRA’s bankruptcy bid, allowing New York’s lawsuit against the gun group to proceed: 5 questions answered

Judge rejects NRA’s bankruptcy bid, allowing New York’s lawsuit against the gun group to proceed: 5 questions answered

A federal judge in Dallas said on May 11, 2021 that he was dismissing the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case after finding that the gun group did not file it “in good faith.” The NRA…

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