Germany's constitutionally-enshrined debt brake must remain in place, the new leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party told his party's legislators, according to participants in the closed meeting. Armin Laschet, who is a front-runner in the race to become Germany's next Chancellor, was referring to calls earlier in the day by senior Merkel lieutenant Helge Braun, who had suggested that the mechanism should be reformed due to the pandemic.
The European Union has approved a plan that includes giving state aid to Tesla, BMW and others to support the production of electric vehicle batteries, helping the bloc to cut imports and compete with industry leader China.
Many new technologies need new materials to make them work. And when dealing with medicine, science and engineering, many of these new materials must also be micro-sized to do the business. Enter Miodrag (Mike) and Vojislava (Vava) Grbic.
Cloud computing has been a defining trend of the last decade, impacting everyone from individual consumers to global enterprises. The ability to access on-demand data storage and computing resources in the cloud is much cheaper, faster, and easier than buying and maintaining on-premise solutions.
Optical investigations and manipulations often form the core of biological experiments. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Kazuki Okamato and a team of scientists in pharmaceutical sciences, neuroscience, medicine, physics and artificial intelligence at the University of Tokyo, Japan, introduced a new borosilicate glass material containing a rare-earth ion terbium (III) (Tb3+).
Scientists have set a world record for the most stable transmission of a laser signal through the atmosphere, effectively eliminating atmospheric turbulence. While twinkling stars and shimmering mirages over hot roads are fascinating sights, many scientists would find research a whole lot easier if these phenomena didn't exist.
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Large-scale production of vegetables and fruit in Spain with intensive plastic consumption in its greenhouse industry is believed to have leaked microplastic contaminants since the 1970s into the surrounding Mediterranean seagrass beds. This is shown in a new study where researchers have succeeded in tracing plastic pollution since the 1930s and 1940s by analyzing seagrass sediments.
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The demand for COVID-19 vaccines currently outstrips supply, but at some point in the next few months that will likely reverse. Yet likely adoption of the vaccine may be waning. According to a survey of Americans conducted in December, only 63% of individuals surveyed said they would take the COVID-19 vaccine, down from 83% in March.
Bob Nicholls/Paleocreations.com 2020 For the first time ever, a team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have described in detail a dinosaur's cloacal or vent-the all-purpose opening used for defecation, urination, and breeding. Although most mammals may have different openings for these functions, most vertebrate animals possess a cloaca.
Researchers continue to expand their understanding of the role weather elements such as ultraviolet (UV) radiation play in the spread of the pandemic. As if the winter darkness doesn't present its own health challenges in a non-pandemic year, a recent study suggests that the sun's lack of intensity in the coldest months of this year might also be enhancing the transmission of COVID-19.
Special immune cells found in the brain, microglia, play a key role in the processes that make you feel uneasy and depressed in correlation with inflammation. This is the conclusion of a study using mice carried out by researchers at Linköping University, Sweden.
US prefers instability in the South China Sea. Illustration: Liu Rui/GT The website of US Indo-Pacific Command reported on Saturday that the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (TRCSG) entered the South China Sea on that day to conduct routine operations.
Bacteria that cause life-threatening infections sometimes resort to the nastiest ploy of all: Stealing the human body's defense weapons and exploiting them to their own advantage. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now uncovered one such strategy used by Salmonella.
Automation does not always result in success, and poor automation can be as damaging to the pharmaceutical organization as no automation at all. This article addresses what happens when automation goes wrong and how mistakes can be avoided by adopting a risk-centric approach.
Good evening, ETtech reader. Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS) has overtaken Accenture as the world's most-valued IT services firm. India plans to permanently ban the 59 Chinese apps it blocked in June 2020. Among those is TikTok. In the Delhi High Court today, the government said that WhatsApp, with its new and contentious privacy policy, is treating Indians differently than Europeans.
The S&P 500 index is making new all-time highs once again. It's accompanied by all the other major stock-market indexes too - the Dow Jones Industrial Average , the NASDAQ-100 and the Russell 2000 . These charts remain positive with upward momentum. Their moving averages and "modified Bollinger Bands" are moving higher.
Our nearest astronomical neighbor is Proxima Centauri, a tiny red dwarf star some 4.25 light years from here. In recent years, Proxima has become the focus of huge attention. In 2016, astronomers discovered it hosted an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone where conditions should be ripe for liquid water.
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