California Is Hoping Its Latest Plastic Bag Ban Will Actually WorkThe old law had a loophole that resulted in a rise in plastic grocery bag waste. A new law aims to fix that.
Wegovy’s Creator Invested £6bn in This Town. So Why Is It Not Booming?Europe’s most valuable company has invested billions in Kalundborg on Denmark’s coast - but it has many problems.
Hello Kitty Turns 50: Here’s How She Became a Global MoneymakerAs Hello Kitty’s commercial success expanded beyond Asia, so did her personal profile.
The World’s Largest Building Breaks Ground in Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaThe Mukaab will cost $50 billion, and will be roughly the size of 20 Empire State Buildings
Who Shrank India’s Middle Class?It was not that the warning signals were absent. Analysts have been saying it – that real incomes are shrinking; and consumption is slowing down. But it is when
Amazon looks to advanced nuclear reactors to meet climate goalsTwo days after Google cut a “world’s first” deal to purchase electricity from advanced nuclear reactors, Amazon announced three new agreements of its own today.
Trump’s Tariff Talk Might Already Be Hurting the EconomyHis allies now claim that he wouldn’t really impose massive global tariffs if elected. But the uncertainty created by threats is bad enough. Perhaps the most levelheaded defense of Donald Trump’s misguided plan for steep global tariffs is that they’ll never be imposed.
Being Sugar-Deprived Had Major Effects on These Children’s HealthPeople who were restricted to limited amounts of sugar in the first few years of life were less likely to develop diabetes and high blood pressure decades later, a new study has found. The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, took advantage of a unique situation in the United Kingdom.
Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf StellaratorFor a machine that’s designed to replicate a star, the world’s newest stellarator is a surprisingly humble-looking apparatus. The kitchen-table-size contraption sits atop stacks of bricks in a cinder-block room at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in Princeton, N.J.
Amazon goes nuclear, investing more than $500 million to develop small module reactorsAmazon Web Services is investing over $500 million in nuclear power, announcing three projects from Virginia to Washington State. AWS, Amazon's subsidiary in cloud computing, has a massive and increasing need for clean energy as it expands its services into generative AI.
Crypto Is So BackIf you thought crypto was a problem before, you should be alarmed. The worst is likely yet to come. Cryptocurrency has been declared dead so many times that its supposed demise is a running joke within the industry.
Somewhere Amid the Frappuccinos, Fans Say Starbucks Lost SomethingFor 32 years, Greg Tutunjian, 73, has picked up his coffee at Starbucks. He’s partial to its dark-roast Red Eye, but starting to question his loyalty to the chain that serves it up. While waiting for his order, Mr.
How Gothic Architecture Became SpookyTwenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of Gothic architecture, was working in his office when a student knocked on the door.
Scout Motors’ plan to ditch dealers is exactly what customers wantLess than 12 hours after Scout Motors unveiled a pair of buzzy electrified vehicles last week, car dealers started threatening lawsuits. Scout, which is backed by Volkswagen, thinks that dealers are history.
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