Posts by Newsmaker

Merck CEO Pulls Out of Trump Panel, Demands Rejection of Bigotry

Merck CEO Pulls Out of Trump Panel, Demands Rejection of Bigotry

The chief executive of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies resigned on Monday from a business panel led by...

Guam’s Tourism Popularity Unhurt by North Korea Threats

Guam’s Tourism Popularity Unhurt by North Korea Threats

Tourists haven’t been deterred from visiting the tropical island of Guam even though the U.S. territory has been the target...

First Walking Polymer Could Be Used in Robots

First Walking Polymer Could Be Used in Robots

Synthetic polymers, primarily plastics, are used to make a host of items, from paint to plastic bottles to sunglasses and...

Neo-Nazi Site Moves to Google After GoDaddy Dumps It

Neo-Nazi Site Moves to Google After GoDaddy Dumps It

Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer moved its domain registration to Google after hosting firm GoDaddy said it would sever ties...

Chinese Newspaper Warns Trump Risks ‘Trade War’

Chinese Newspaper Warns Trump Risks ‘Trade War’

A Chinese state newspaper warned Monday that President Donald Trump “could trigger a trade war” if he goes ahead with...

Are Immigrants Driving the Motor City?

Are Immigrants Driving the Motor City?

Beside rows of rusting shipping containers, a decorative wrought iron fence surrounds Taquería Mi Pueblo, one of the first family-run...

Star Tau Ceti Has Two Planets in Habitable Zone

Star Tau Ceti Has Two Planets in Habitable Zone

Scientists from U.S. and Britain have found four planets, slightly larger than Earth, orbiting a star visible with a naked...

Solar Energy ‘Flower’ Harvests Clean Energy

Solar Energy ‘Flower’ Harvests Clean Energy

Some countries depend heavily on fossil fuels for power, including the Philippines. But now a kind of solar energy “flower”...

Beleaguered Detroit Relying on Immigrants to Revitalize City

Beleaguered Detroit Relying on Immigrants to Revitalize City

Detroit, Michigan, knows hardship and recovery. One of the hardest hit areas in the country during the Great Recession, the...

Electric Car Worry: Where Can You Charge It?

Electric Car Worry: Where Can You Charge It?

Around the world, support is growing for electric cars. Automakers are delivering more electric models with longer range and lower...

US Stocks Post Gains Friday After Several Down Days

US Stocks Post Gains Friday After Several Down Days

U.S. stock market indexes posted gains in Friday’s trading, a change in direction after several down days amid tensions between...

Interview: How North Korea Tensions Impact Stock Markets

Interview: How North Korea Tensions Impact Stock Markets

Rising tensions between the United States and North Korea brought a wave of falling stock prices recently as worried investors...

Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks

Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks

U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla is close to testing a long-haul self-driving electric truck that could drive in convoys following...

Google CEO Defends Diversity Efforts

Google CEO Defends Diversity Efforts

Google’s workforce needs to “represent the world in totality,” said Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, at an international girls coding...

Israel, Land of Milk and Honey – and Now Whiskey?

Israel, Land of Milk and Honey – and Now Whiskey?

Israel has been known as the land of milk and honey since Biblical times – but the land of single...

New Cell Technology Works With Ambient Energy

New Cell Technology Works With Ambient Energy

Researchers in the United States have unveiled a prototype of a battery-free mobile phone using technology they hope will eventually...

Oil-state Senators Advise Against US Ban on Venezuela Oil

Oil-state Senators Advise Against US Ban on Venezuela Oil

Four U.S. Senate Republicans from oil-refining states Thursday urged the Trump administration not to block oil shipments from Venezuela as...

Arctic Fjords Help Russia Combat Fish Shortage Problems

Arctic Fjords Help Russia Combat Fish Shortage Problems

Arctic fjords that hid Soviet nuclear-powered submarines during the Cold War are now being used as a weapon in the...

Artificial Intelligence Robots Aiding in Battle Against Crippling Nerve Disease

Artificial Intelligence Robots Aiding in Battle Against Crippling Nerve Disease

Artificial intelligence robots are turbocharging the race to find new drugs for the crippling nerve disorder ALS, commonly called Lou...

Cooking Gas Shortages Force Venezuelans to Turn to Firewood

Cooking Gas Shortages Force Venezuelans to Turn to Firewood

Venezuelan homemaker Carmen Rondon lives in the country with the world’s largest oil reserves, but has spent weeks cooking with...

US Defense Secretary Mattis Begins Tech Outreach with Amazon Visit

US Defense Secretary Mattis Begins Tech Outreach with Amazon Visit

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis kicked off his first official visit to the U.S. technology industry on Thursday with a...

Egypt Inflation Surges to 33 Percent After Fuel Subsidy Cuts

Egypt Inflation Surges to 33 Percent After Fuel Subsidy Cuts

Egypt’s official statistics agency says the country’s inflation rate has jumped to 33 percent in July – up from 29.8...