Recharge times and distance covered in one recharge are some of the biggest challenges facing the electric vehicle industry. But now scientists claim that it is now possible to recharge electric cars in seconds and travel from London to Edinburgh without stopping due to a plastic based on soft contact-lens technology which has the potential…
A common cancer drug triggers the development of new eggs, an outcome which was previously thought to be impossible, found scientists which have offered new hope to infertile women. It is possible to reverse the clock and coax the ovaries back into a pre-pubescent state where they begin to produce new eggs, researchers at the…
Pushing the forward oil curve upside down, bankers, merchants and brokers said that U.S. shale oil companies are using the post-OPEC rally to hedge their oil price risk for next year and 2018 above $50 a barrel. Offsetting the first output cut by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in eight years, higher U.S. oil…
A new feature for its genetically modified corn seeds that it says will not only boost yields but cut down on fertilizer use and carbon-dioxide emissions is being introduced by Monsanto Co., a lightning rod for critics of modern agricultural techniques. A friendly fungus that helps corn plants in their earliest growth stages has been…
After former managers at Nokia struck up partnerships with Google and phone manufacturer Foxconn and licensed the handset brand from Microsoft, the smartphones from the Finnish company are poised for a comeback. Nokia chose Microsoft’s unpopular Windows operating system for its “Lumia” range after it missed the shift to smartphones despite once being the world’s…
In what will mark only the third time in more than a quarter century that the White House has rejected an investment by an overseas buyer as a national security risk, U.S. President Barack Obama is poised to block a Chinese company from buying Germany’s Aixtron SE, reported Bloomberg quoting people familiar with the matter.…
To help shoppers decide what gifts they most want for Christmas, Ebay is using “emotional recognition technology”. Shoppers can enter a booth containing a screen, headphones and a camera, and browse items to find out which ones they “emotionally connect with” at a pop-up store in London which the online private auction site opened on Tuesday.…
Since August this year, researchers say that most of the million Google accounts breached by malware infections dubbed “Gooligan” are based in Asia and hence the region has become the ground zero for malware which is aimed at Android operating systems. Researchers from Check Point Software Technologies said that the new malware is able to…
In order to boost mainstream acceptance of electric cars, four of the world’s top carmakers have agreed to invest in thousands of fast-charging sites across Europe, the companies said on Tuesday. German rivals Volkswagen, Daimler’s Mercedes, BMW an Ford Motor Co’s European division have entered a joint venture to develop 400 charging stations, spurred by…
As trading desks await the outcome of a ballot that again has the potential to disturb the political order, they are readying for another sleepless night on Dec. 4 after the shock of Britain’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential election victory. In what is the latest potential banana skin for investors, a judgment on…
