Scientists have grown a synthetic mouse embryo just by using stem cells. They did not rely on fertilised eggs which are considered a prerequisite for the development of an embryo. Researchers, from the Weizmann Institute of Science, have utilised previous advancements made in their lab. These included an efficient method to reprogram stem cells back
Month: August 2022
The US hiring boom continued last month, as employers added 528,000 jobs – more than double the number expected. The government data showed a labour market continuing to defy surging inflation and back-to-back quarters of contraction in GDP, which have raised fears of a recession. It marked the 19th consecutive month of payrolls expansion, and
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Oil prices have fallen sharply from their recent peaks, but there’s still a case for buying oil stocks, according to Bill Smead, chief investment officer at Smead Capital Management. That’s because energy prices are likely to stay high or even increase further, he told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” on Thursday. He described the slide in
At 5am on 24 February 2022, Eugene Abdukhanov was in his car as the first bombs hit Ukraine. Nearly six months on, the things he saw as he drove for his life are sights he will never forget. “All of a sudden, these explosions started to happen right round me,” he tells Sky News. “Everything
Four people are fighting for their lives after being hit by lightning outside the White House during a severe thunderstorm. Two men and two women suffered critical injuries after they were struck in Lafayette Park, less than 500ft (150m) away from President Joe Biden‘s official residence in Washington DC. US Secret Service members were deployed
South Korea’s first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the payload including a new disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space. Danuri — a portmanteau of the Korean words for “Moon” and “enjoy” — was on a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in
Just a day after the Bank of England warned of a 15-month recession, there are signs in housing and recruitment that the slowdown is already well under way. Figures out on Friday showed that house prices fell in July (in monthly terms) for the first time in more than a year, with warnings that the
A legal ruling is due this morning on whether Archie Battersbee’s family can move him from hospital to a hospice so he can die “with dignity”. The family’s lawyers had appealed for the move in a long High Court hearing on Thursday, the culmination of several legal challenges which had aimed to ensure the boy’s
Taiwan’s premier has condemned China as the “evil neighbour next door” after its military began live firing drills around the island. Su Tseng-chang told reporters in the capital Taipei he believed China was arbitrarily destroying the Taiwan Strait – the world’s most frequently used waterway – with its military exercises, and its actions were being
In this article TSLA Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures as he visits the construction site of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, August 13, 2021. Patrick Pleul | Reuters At the Tesla 2022 shareholders’ meeting on Thursday, investors asked CEO Elon Musk how the company plans to spend its money in coming years, and
Actor Kevin Spacey and his production companies have been ordered to pay the makers of House Of Cards almost $31m (£25.5m) to make up for losses incurred by his sacking for sexually harassing crew members. The ruling confirms a decision by a private arbitrator last year in favour of the production companies behind the popular
Rishi Sunak won the audience, but Liz Truss appears to have a grip on the Tory membership in the country. All the clues as to why both are true could be found in Thursday night’s 90-minute Battle for Number 10 on Sky News with Kay Burley, which tested the breadth, depth and agility of the
Electric vehicle maker Lordstown Motors released its Q2 2022 earnings report today, and despite not delivering an EV yet, the company posted its first operating profit. Lordstown Motors ($RIDE) is often included in the same discussion with the group of recent EV makers to go public, like Rivian and Lucid Motors. Like many of its
We’re adding four stocks to our Investing Club Bullpen, including Starbucks (SBUX) and Airbnb (ABNB). Jim Cramer announced them in Thursday’s “Monthly Meeting.” The Bullpen should be treated like a watch list of sorts and an outside area to perform homework and due diligence. As the baseball metaphor suggests, it consists of stocks in reserve
In this article TEAM Atlassian co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar Atlassian Atlassian shares rose as much as 12% after the collaboration software maker disclosed more quarterly revenue than analysts had expected, while meeting consensus on earnings. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: 27 cents per share, adjusted, vs. 27 cents per share as expected
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