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...Activist investors want to split the group’s pharmaceuticals business from its crop science unit to optimise its valuation....
...If you test all Americans aged 50 and above it costs $100bn a year,” he says. “Such a policy would lead people to go through a lot more testing....
...American Express Global Business Travel has therefore chosen an awkward time to announce a listing....
...Or, in layman’s terms, a strong American economy. On the face of it, however, it’s hardly the apocalypse. The Nasdaq closed Friday at 15,592 — just 7 per cent off its all-time high last November....
...By capturing “Project Castle” (as insiders at Evergrande and Oaktree call it), the American fund has scuppered a plan to restructure around $20bn of the developer’s offshore debts....
...Blue Origin had led a coalition of companies, dubbed the National Team, in bidding for the contract, which aims to send Americans back to the lunar surface as soon as 2024....
...The proceeds will go towards Blue Origin’s charity foundation, Club for the Future, which supports education programmes in the Stem subjects: science, technology, engineering and mathematics....
...Screening mammograms is known to be imperfect, failing to detect about one in five breast cancers, according to the American Cancer Society....
...The modern homeschool movement emerged in the 1970s, promoted by the likes of John Holt, an American teacher and education writer....
...This shift threatens entrepreneurship in many areas, from life sciences and artificial intelligence to quantum computing. The battles between Sonos and both Google and Amazon are a case in point....
...Today, Apple has intensified the competition to collect healthcare data from users, launching a new research app that it claims will “advance science” by harvesting information from its massive base of iPhone...
...Boston-based investment manager RA Capital Management and Polaris Partners, health and technology investors, with participation from funds and accounts advised by T Rowe Price, Roche Venture Fund and the American...
...Referring to a challenge laid down by Mike Pence, the vice-president, for Nasa to take Americans back to the moon by 2024, Mr Bezos said: “We can help meet that timeline — because we started three years...
...raised $1bn in a round led by private equity firm Silver Lake, hopes that the insights it gains from the 1,000 annual outpatients it hopes to treat at OneFifteen will transform the care of the more than 2m Americans...
...The leading countries in AI include the seemingly pacific Canadians, the warlike Americans and Israelis, and the control-freak Chinese. All have technical intelligence expertise....
...The company is in the Oscars race next week with 13th, Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed documentary about the mass incarceration of African-Americans: the film had a limited theatrical release last autumn to ensure...
...The prospect that Toshiba will withdraw from the nuclear power business after its embarrassing and expensive experience with the American company Westinghouse poses a serious problem for the UK’s plans to...
...The only panellist without a tie, Mr Cohen spoke in his down-home Long Island accent of the two women who sparked his interest in trading: his grandmother, and an “African-American lady who used to take...
...Anyway, said Liam Condon, Bayer’s head of crop science, the combined company could always sell off some small units to address antitrust concerns....
...The writer is a science commentator...
...Another study in the American Journal of Public Heath last year suggests that heart rates slowed when walking from a vacant lot to a greened lot. More trees, healthier hearts....
...The same applies to medical science....
...(LAT, FT) Food for thought Hip hop’s trusted engineer He’s a science whizz, a Star Trek Nerd and he’s in demand in Silicon Valley for his engineering expertise....
...Shortly after Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve 1968, Pan American Airways announced plans for commercial flights to the moon....
...According to a Gallup poll in March, 24 per cent of Americans said they worried a “great deal” about climate change and 25 per cent said they worried about it a “fair amount”....
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