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Did the UK outsmart the EU over AstraZeneca vaccines?

In the “vaccine spat” between the EU and the UK, the common perception is that the UK is winning. The UK health secretary, Matt Hancock, has said this is because his government secured a better…

new research cracks the mystery of how the first continents formed

Earth is an amazing planet. As far as we know, it’s the only planet in the universe where life exists. It’s also the only planet known to have continents: the land masses on which we…

Suez Canal says close to clearing backlog after ship dislodged By Reuters

What baseball can learn about COVID-19 case spikes and crowd size from the NFL’s 2020 season

Baseball season is here, and thousands of cheering fans are back in the ballparks after a year of empty seats and cardboard cutouts as fan stand-ins. Still cautious of the COVID-19 risk, most teams were…

An Australian ‘space command’ could be a force for good — or a cause for war

As the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) celebrated 100 years with a spectacular and well-attended flyover in Canberra yesterday, many eyes were lifted to the skies. But RAAF’s ambitions go even higher, as its motto…

Power play – India wields oil ‘weapon’ to cut dependence on Saudi By Reuters

2/2 © Reuters. Oil tankers are seen parked at a yard outside a fuel depot on the outskirts of Kolkata 2/2 By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – When India’s government last month asked refiners…

Biden wants corporations to pay for his $2 trillion infrastructure plans, echoing a history of calls for companies to chip in when times are tough

President Joe Biden just proposed a roughly US$2 trillion infrastructure plan, which he ambitiously compared to the interstate highway system and the space race. He aims to pay for it solely by taxing companies more,…