The nurses in the COVID unit at UF Health hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, cannot believe they are here again, reconfiguring their space like a jigsaw puzzle to find room for yet more patients. Over the past three weeks, coronavirus cases have risen across a country in the grip of the Delta variant, but the surge
Month: August 2021
Live events will be covered by a £750m insurance scheme backed by the government in a bid to stop cancellations over COVID-19. Industry figures have long called for the government to step in after finding that insurers would not cover them for losses caused by the pandemic. Many organisers campaigned for a scheme guaranteed by
Wales will move to alert level zero at the weekend, but the country’s first minister has warned it “does not mean the end of restrictions and a free-for-all”. Mark Drakeford said people should continue to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The step, the biggest easing of measures since the pandemic began, will see all
Mining in Australia is big business, very big business. The royalties fund much of the government spending at the state and federal level. Providing over 10% of Australia’s GDP, or $200 billion AUS, Australia’s mining companies demand to be listened to. So, when BHP sells its coal and oil assets and starts talking up electric
Sir Keir Starmer has led criticism of Boris Johnson after he said Margaret Thatcher gave the UK a “big early start” in its battle against climate change when she closed coal mines in the 1980s. The prime minister made the comment during a visit to Scotland, when he was asked if he would set a
Ambient air carbon capture has come in for its share of ridicule over the years, but fans of the technology finally have something to cheer about. As applied to farming, carbon can be plucked from the air to boost crop yields. All that’s needed is an assist from solar power and some other equipment. An
Nova Innovation Tidal energy business Nova Innovation has said it is able to move forward with a project centered around scaling up the production of tidal turbines after receiving funding from the Scottish government. The £2 million ($2.78 million) funding boost, announced Thursday, will be used to support the company’s Volume Manufacturing and Logistics for
A Belarusian sprinter who has flown to Poland after a stand-off with her country’s officials at the Tokyo Olympics said her grandmother had advised her not to return home. Krystina Tsimanouskaya had refused her team’s orders to go back to Belarus early from the Games after she criticised coaches. The 24-year-old’s criticism on social media
Ford, GM, and Stellantis, also known as the Detroit Big Three, announced today a joint goal for electric vehicles to achieve 40% to 50% of their sales in the US by 2030. Who is going to buy the other 50% of their cars? Over the last year, Ford, GM, and Stellantis (mainly Chrysler, Dodge, Ram,
The Bank of England has warned inflation will increase further this year to double the target rate, but insisted rising prices will only be temporary as it kept interest rates on hold. The monetary policy committee (MPC) also kept in place measures to support the economy, despite some calls for them to be cut to cool
4:01 AM ET Associated Press KAWAGOE, Japan — Already with her first major title and the No. 1 ranking, Nelly Korda took a big step toward a gold medal Thursday with a 9-under 62 that tied an Olympic record and gave her a four-shot lead. Still to be determined was how much golf was left
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX apart from being a vocal supporter of cryptocurrencies, has confirmed that his biography is being penned by Walter Isaacson. The author is known for his popular biography of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and is a professor at Tulane University. This will be the second biography of Musk,
Two drugs firms have been accused by the UK’s competition watchdog of illegal pricing and abusing their dominant position to overcharge the NHS for vital anti-epilepsy tablets. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had provisionally found that coronavirus vaccine-maker Pfizer and Flynn broke competition law by charging unfairly high prices for phenytoin sodium
A bipedal robot, designed at the Oregon State University (OSU), has created history after it completed 5km in just about 53 minutes. Cassie, the robot, has been developed under the supervision of robotics professor Jonathan Hurst and produced by Agility Robotics, which focuses on leg mobility. The robot was first introduced, in collaboration with artificial
NASA has shared another stunning view of the Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) at night time. The image, glittering with stars right above the Southeast African coast, was captured by one of the ISS crew members while flying in the space station at an altitude of 423 km, the American space agency said.
Solarflux, a company specializing in parabolic dish concentrator technology, has developed the FOCUS parabolic dish concentrator, which converts 72% of the solar energy it gets into usable heat. This news comes from Solarflux, which just announced the results of an independent report by Lehigh University’s Energy Research Center. The report was conducted in close accordance
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