This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (orange)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the…
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Coronavirus World Map: Distribution of COVID-19 cases as of April 24, 2020. Credit: WHO WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 95 Risk Assessment Global Level:…
As electricity generation from PV has become one of the cheapest energy sources available, its market opportunities have expanded. Meanwhile, the European PV industry has…
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to tell…
Lockdown has seen opera singers belt out arias from their balconies and families recreate entire musicals in their living rooms. Pop stars like Chris Martin…
Facebook has added a wave of new video-calling features to WhatsApp, Messenger and its main app, following increased demand for social video calling. New Messenger…
[embedded content] The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Michael Markman, Keith Teare, Denis Pombriant, Brent Leary, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Tuesday, April 21,…
Laura Behrens Wu Contributor Laura Behrens Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Shippo, which is building a shipping platform for 21st century e-commerce. Since…
For pre-seed startups, precarious times are baseline until they secure their first customer, first hire and first check. But no matter how built-in turbulence might…
As countries around the world consider how best to reopen their countries, it’s worth considering how South Korea has been able to “flatten the curve”…
The Pentagon’s fight with the Federal Communications Commission over satellite company Ligado’s spectrum use is basically over, keen observers say, heralding greater use of the…
Halden’s technique boasts high sensitivity, with the potential to detect the signature of a single infected individual among 100 to 2 million persons. To accomplish…
Lisa Wehden Contributor Lisa Wehden is an investor at Bloomberg Beta, a VC fund focused on the future of work; previously she launched Entrepreneur First…
The New York Public Service Commission has approved plans for an offshore wind solicitation of at least 1 gigawatt, and possibly 2.5 gigawatts, to help…
These images, using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, show the average nitrogen dioxide concentrations from January 1 to March 24, 2020, and March 25…
Matt Ocko, co-founder of venture firm Data Collective (DCVC), was among a small group of VCs viewed as alarmists when they began tweeting about the…
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory supercomputing system powering research to fight COVID-19 is in for a major upgrade that will nearly double its peak performance.…
The adage that technology evolves faster than government can buy it is quickly becoming an outdated notion, largely due to the influx of as-a-service offerings…
The coronavirus has decimated the travel industry, and Airbnb, the home rental company that appeared unstoppable not so long ago, has not been spared. While…
Today marks the conclusion of a years-long saga that started when John Oliver did a segment on Net Neutrality that was so popular that it…