Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the prominent billionaire investor, has been arrested. He is one of the richest and most influential investors in the world. He has big investments in Twitter, Lyft and Citigroup. He has gone into business with Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg. Prince Alwaleed made early bets on some …
In the fall of 2015, hazardous levels of smoke from agricultural fires blanketed much of Equatorial Asia. Schools and businesses closed, planes were grounded and tens of thousands sought medical treatment for respiratory illness. In a new study, Harvard University researchers and their colleagues estimate that the 2015 smoke event caused upwards of 100,000 deaths …
China is developing a next-generation bullet train that can run at 400 kilometers an hour and is suitable for cross-border services, a senior researcher with the nation’s high-speed rail program said on Sunday. It will have wheels that can be adjusted to fit various gauges on other countries’ tracks, compared with trains now that need …
Researchers can build complex, nanometer-scale structures of almost any shape and form, using strands of DNA. But these particles must be designed by hand, in a complex and laborious process. This has limited the technique, known as DNA origami, to just a small group of experts in the field. Now a team of researchers at …