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A vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is seen ahead of being administered at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland December 8, 2020. Liam McBurney | Pool | Reuters The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is “rapidly” working toward clearing Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use after a key panel overwhelmingly endorsed the
The IOP’s Teacher Training Scholarship programme provides an attractive route into physics teaching for recent graduates as well as mid-career scientists and engineers working across a range of industries Back to school: Alastair Miatt (above) says the industry perspectives gained throughout his career at Jaguar Land Rover now help him to make physics relatable to
Darius Slaughter, who is the author of an Amazon best-seller “Hostile: An Urban Tragedy,” has launched the Beauty and Brains challenge on Instagram and Facebook. He is also challenging female Greeks to step up to the challenge and make a profound impact in the world. The purpose of this challenge is not only to bring
Refresh for updates Coming out of Disney Investor Day, there were a number of release date changes, many of which were announced yesterday, i.e. Black Panther moving from May 6, 2022 to July 8, 2022. However, Disney has re-dated a few others they took off the list temporarily, i.e. the 20th titles King’s Man, Death on the Nile, and Free
Satellite firm’s funding round caps a year of growing Chinese space industry investment alongside cooperation agreements between space companies and local governments. HELSINKI — Chinese remote sensing company Changguang Satellite has secured $375 million for its constellation of optical Earth observation satellites. Changguang Satellite Co. Ltd., a commercial offshoot of the state-owned Changchun Institute of
Twitter saw gaming conversations nearly double on the platform in this pandemic year, which isn’t unexpected given the lockdowns and social distancing. It’s also no surprise that multipla games such as PUBG and Among Us dominated the conversations, as one of the few ways to safely and responsibly connect with friends. The conversation about gaming
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Atlanta, Georgia, October 27, 2020. Brian Snyder | Reuters WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden will travel to Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday to stump for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, his first campaign trip since he was
She has said loudly and clearly, with her actions, that now is the time to fight for a better future for all. She’s fighting for young people, women, refugees, the LGBTQ community. She’s using her platform to bring people into the democratic process. She’s raising her voice to demand real change. I spoke with Dua
President Donald Trump’s “desperation” to avoid the justice system “is a sign of weakness and fear,” a lawyer for writer E. Jean Carroll on Friday told the judge presiding over her rape defamation suit against Trump. Carroll’s attorney, Joshua Matz, delivered the critique as he urged Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Kaplan to reject Trump’s latest effort
Like folklore, Taylor Swift’s new album evermore continues her work creating songs that are a blend of fact and fiction. But while almost all of evermore‘s songs are more fiction than fact, telling the stories of characters she created, she did include one track that seems to be explicitly about her own life and relationship
For some now, the question of whether Harrison Ford’s character in the celebrated Indiana Jones franchise will be recast has been a big topic for heated debates. While it is understandable that one can’t expect the actor to play the role forever, to even think of any other actor in his place is akin to
Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina may be ending, but the final episodes will bring back some familar faces for fans who watched the original TV show. In Part 4 of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Beth Broderick and Caroline Rhea reprise their iconic roles as Aunt Zelda and Aunt Hilda…but with a twist! In a newly
Like much of the world, scientists thrive on coffee. It’s not just because of the caffeine though, it turns out that even spilled coffee fuels research. Most people are annoyed by nagging coffee stains, but to physicist Sidney Nagel they were inspiration. If you’re a coffee lover (or you live with one), I guarantee that
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Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Walt Disney (DIS) – Disney said its Disney+ streaming service now has 86.8 million subscribers, a number it says could grow to 260 million by 2024. The company said over the past 2 months, the service has added more than 13 million subscribers.
Our strolls through the cemeteries of Berlin, then, are no more funereal and depressing than, say, the performance of Dvořák’s majestic Requiem, which we attended on a Saturday evening in the Berliner Dom (as one in the series of requiems performed annually around Totensonntag.)—Theodore Ziolkowski, “Time Interred: Walks through Berlin’s Cemeteries,” World Literature Today 79,
The JP Morgan Chase & Co. headquarters, The JP Morgan Chase Tower in Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan, New York. Tim Clayton – Corbis | Corbis Sport | Getty Images SINGAPORE — While there’s “nothing new” to sustainable investing, technology has made it easier to state the financial case for considering non-financial metrics, according to JPMorgan.