For 10 minutes the first flight by an aircraft, powered fully by solid hydrogen, has stayed in the air. It is an experimental drone and runs on pellets that emit only water vapour when they burn. The fuel cell is also three times as light as a comparable lithium battery. Previously, large tanks of liquid …
Thousands of people didn’t get to cast their ballots in the recent Arizona primaries. Hundreds of people were still in line at 11:30pm in Phoenix, more than four hours after polls closed. One reason it is so hard to vote in Arizona is because the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. As a result, there were 70 percent fewer polling …
So much does our culture prize personality over achievement that even lawyers these days have to have an “interesting” one. Take the director general of business tax – at Britain’s Inland Revenue – one Jim Harra. A key figure in negotiating a derisory tax deal with Google, he has also, believe it or not, been voted …
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Over the past 12 years, Novobiotic Pharmaceuticals has cultivated 50,000 strains of microorganism no one else could. And they’ve discovered 25 new antibiotics. One made headlines a year ago because it kills bugs in a new way, and one to which it is much more difficult for bacteria to develop resistance. These 25 antibiotics will not necessarily …
Palo Alto is a technology boom town with a per-capita income well over twice the average for California. But 93% of the homeless population end up sleeping outside or in their cars. Palo Alto has almost no shelter space, just 15 beds that rotate among city churches through a shelter program called Hotel de Zink. A 2013 census …
