Editor’s note: Daniel Bliss is a professor of electrical engineering at Arizona State University and the director of the Center for Wireless Information Systems and Computational Architecture. In this interview, he explains the ideas behind…
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© Reuters. By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com — Crude oil prices rose modestly on Friday, as the market again looked through short-term developments on the Covid-19 front to focus on the prospect of a recovery in demand…
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Tesla is about to make Elon Musk the third richest man in the world, after it was added to the S&P 500 index, causing shares in the company to rise by 13%. But Tesla isn’t…
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There are now two COVID-19 vaccines that, at least according to preliminary reports, appear to be 94.5% and 95% effective. Both were developed in a record-breaking 11 months or so. I am an infectious diseases…
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© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – Crude oil prices rose Friday marking a third-straight week of gains as investors weighed up positive Covid-19 vaccine news against the prospect of further lockdowns souring demand. On…
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The pandemic has seriously altered how we work. According to statistics published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in September 2020, US$35 trillion (£26 trillion) has been lost globally in labour income. There has also…
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Chemical clues left behind by humble microbes have rewritten the timeline of one of the biggest mass extinction events in Earth’s history. The so-called “end-Triassic mass extinction”, thought to have occurred just over 200 million…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind a pump-jack outside Saint-Fiacre By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose in early trade on Thursday, taking the week’s gains to more than 12% on…
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Editor’s note: President-elect Joe Biden has said fixing the economy will be one of his administration’s top priorities when he takes office in January. R. Andrew Butters, assistant professor of business economics and public policy…
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Australia’s chief scientist, Alan Finkel, will bring his five-year stint in the role to a close at the end of 2020. His successor will be Cathy Foley, a physicist and current chief scientist at the…
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