The timeline for the initial public offering of billionaire investor Bill Ackman’s new investment fund Pershing Square USA appeared to get a bit hazier on Friday, according to the New York Stock Exchange — though the fund claimed it was still moving ahead with the offering. Source link
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Intense wildfires in western Canada have sent huge plumes of smoke sweeping across North America in recent days — pollution that has been captured in images by NASA satellites, aircraft and ground-based observatories. An animation NASA released Friday showed smoke blanketing British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories in Canada, and drifting over
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: SpaceX We’ll all have to wait a bit longer to see the first-ever private spacewalk. SpaceX is now targeting mid- to late August for the launch of Polaris Dawn, a mission funded by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman.
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The NASA Perseverance rover may have found a pivotal clue that’s central to its mission on Mars: geological evidence that could suggest life existed on the red planet billions of years ago. The robotic explorer came
PERTH AMBOY, N.J. (AP) — The federal government is giving more than a half-billion dollars to coastal communities to help them use nature-based preventative measures to address climate-related flooding and other disasters. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Friday announced it is allocating $575 million to 19 resiliency projects in several states, with a
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows the moon Ariel orbiting the ice giant Uranus. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)/NASA Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, could be hiding in a
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Helioviewer.org On Tuesday (July 23), Europe’s Solar Orbiter (SolO) spacecraft witnessed an extremely powerful X14 class solar flare erupt from the far side of the sun. Although it was not the most powerful flare ever recorded, which
Shares of DexCom Inc. tumbled more than 40% on Friday and were headed for their worst percentage drop on record, a day after the maker of diabetes-management equipment shocked investors with a cut to its sales forecast that heightened concerns about growing global competition and the company’s prospects overall. Source link
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) -Winds and lightning strikes have sparked and fanned wildfires across the Pacific Northwest this week, including the largest fire in the United States, which was rapidly expanding near the Oregon-Idaho border on Friday. The Durkee Fire near Huntington, Oregon, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Boise, Idaho, has scorched 600
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The rally for commodities this year has nearly fizzled out, with a slowdown in China’s economy fueling worries about demand for oil, copper, and other commodities — putting traders on alert over a potential repeat of China’s 2015 stock market crash and global slump in commodities. Source link
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