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BenevolentAI said the latest round of funding will help it scale drug development and its AI platform.
BEIJING, April 19- China's war on pollution is at risk of reaching a "stalemate", with poor weather conditions undermining the country's efforts to reduce smog, an environment ministry spokesman said on Thursday. Air pollution rose by more than a quarter in parts of northern China in March, and the region has been hit by another bout of smog in the second half of April,...
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Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods is taking its plant-based "Impossible Burger" to the shores of Hong Kong.
A company called EarthNow plans to use satellites to provide "live and unfiltered" footage of almost anywhere on earth.
Mike Massimino, former NASA astronaut and Intrepid Museum senior advisor, talks about a brand new way to experience space from an astronaut's perspective.
An email sent to Tesla employees from Elon Musk says the company will stop production and take steps to produce 6,000 Model 3 cars per week by the end of June.
CNBC's Morgan Brennan talks exclusively with ULA’s Tory Bruno about competition, new spacecraft, rocket engines and launch prices.
FRANKFURT, April 17- More than 100 parts for U.S. space agency NASA's deep-space capsule Orion will be made by 3 D printers, using technology that experts say will eventually become key to efforts to send humans to Mars. If that was to shock the electronics on a space craft there could be significant damage, " Scott Sevcik, Vice President Manufacturing Solutions at...
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FRANKFURT, April 17- More than 100 parts for U.S. space agency NASA's deep-space capsule Orion will be made by 3 D printers, using technology that experts say will eventually become key to efforts to send humans to Mars. If that was to shock the electronics on a space craft there could be significant damage, " Scott Sevcik, Vice President Manufacturing Solutions at...
The growing demand for rechargeable batteries could lead to shortages in key materials.
Incyte's trial failure dealt a blow to immunotherapy, but cancer researchers believe the field still holds potential for patients.
The legal challenge, led by New York state, came nine months after a federal appeals court sided with environmental activists who sued to block the EPA from freezing enforcement of its own rules to control methane leaks from new or modified fossil fuel facilities. In both instances, EPA chief Scott Pruitt has been accused of putting the interests of oil and gas...
Tesla produced 2,020 Model 3 vehicles in the last week of the quarter, and said it will not need an equity or debt raise in 2018.
Alphabet's venture capital investment arm, GV, has seen four of its portfolio companies go public in the last year.
March 29- Starbucks Corp and other coffee companies must put a cancer warning label on coffee products sold in California, a Los Angeles judge ruled. Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said in a proposed decision Wednesday that Starbucks and other companies had failed to show that the threat from a chemical compound produced when roasting coffee was...
Forget oil and gold. Here’s why water has become one of the world’s most valuable investments.
Forget oil and gold. Here’s why water has become one of the world’s most valuable investments.
Chances of getting hit are less than one in a trillion, reports CNBC's Morgan Brennan, with a look at the growing threat of space junk landing on the planet.
*Buybacks apply to new diesel cars bought from April 1. FRANKFURT, March 29- Volkswagen will buy back new diesel cars if German cities ban them, it said on Thursday, seeking to reassure potential buyers and stem a plunge in sales of diesel vehicles. Europe's biggest automaker also said it would extend incentives for buyers of new diesel cars.
SAO PAULO, March 28- A Brazilian government-backed institute said on Wednesday that new testing confirmed elevated levels of heavy metals in waters near the world's largest alumina refinery, run by Norsk Hydro ASA, but the company for the first time questioned the validity of the scientific work. Marcelo Lima, a public health researcher at the Evandro Chagas...
