Fire whirls and pyrocumulus clouds: How fire creates its own weather
Substantial fires can create their own weather -- and do it in several ways.
2023-08-01 20:20
US opens safety probe into complaints from Tesla drivers that they can lose steering control
U.S. auto safety regulators have opened another investigation into safety problems with Tesla vehicles
2023-08-01 19:56
Merck Raises 2023 Sales Forecast as Cancer Drug Keytruda, Gardasil Vaccine Surge
Merck & Co.’s Keytruda and Gardasil soundly beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly sales, driving the company’s annual revenue
2023-08-01 19:25
Exclusive-China asks some banks to reduce or delay dollar buying to ease pressure on yuan -sources
SHANGHAI/BEIJING China's currency regulators have in recent weeks asked some commercial banks to reduce or delay their dollar
2023-08-01 18:53
Rhino poaching decreases as South Africa tackles threat
JOHANNESBURG The number of rhinos killed for their horns in South Africa decreased in the first six months
2023-08-01 18:48
German beer sales resume their downward trend after a post-COVID pickup
Official figures show that German beer sales resumed a long-term downward trend in the first six months of this year after rallying in 2022 thanks to the end of most COVID-19 restrictions
2023-08-01 18:21
Fire rages at Kharkiv college dormitory destroyed by Russian drone strike
Educational facilities, including a dormitory, were destroyed in Russian drone attacks in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said on Tuesday, 1 August. Footage released by Ukrainian officials shows a bombed building on fire and firefighters tackling the blaze. One person was injured after a drone hit an empty dormitory building and another three struck a sports facility in a night-time attack, the service said. According to president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Russia attacked the city with five Shahed drones.
2023-08-01 18:15
BP profits are cut in half to $2.6 billion as oil and natural gas prices fall
Energy giant BP says it earned nearly $2.6 billion in the second quarter
2023-08-01 17:57
Wall Street Economists Are Looking at a September Rate Pause
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has left the door open to another interest-rate hike, but Wall Street economists
2023-08-01 17:27
Chinese Developer Country Garden Slides as Funding Woes Worsen
One of China’s last major developers to have so far avoided defaults amid the nation’s property debt crisis
2023-08-01 17:22
Myanmar junta pardons some Suu Kyi offences, but former leader still faces decades in detention
Myanmar's ruling military junta has pardoned Aung San Suu Kyi on five charges for which she was previously convicted, reducing the lengthy sentences handed down to the deposed, democratically elected leader after generals seized control of the Southeast Asian nation.
2023-08-01 17:22
Chatbots sometimes make things up. Not everyone thinks AI's hallucination problem is fixable
Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn’t take long for them to spout falsehoods
2023-08-01 16:50