The Hague (AFP) Oct 15, 2024
Shares in Dutch tech giant ASML which supplies chip-making machines to the semiconductor industry took a tumble Tuesday after announcing a 2025 guidance cut and a disappointing slump in sales bookings.
ASML's share price dove by 15.64 percent to 668.10 euros on the blue-chip Amsterdam stock exchange's AEX index at closing, after the company released figures showing far lower order inflows
Beijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2024
At least seven people were killed and four others suffered injuries after a gas poisoning incident at a biotechnology firm in eastern China, state media reported on Sunday.
The incident took place Saturday afternoon at the Weifang Jinshi company in Shandong province, the Xinhua news agency quoted emergency officials as saying.
Rescue workers had been deployed to aid the survivors and inv
Rome (AFP) Oct 14, 2024
Rome aims to resolve its longstanding waste management issues within three years by spending around a billion euros ($1.1 billion) to build a trash incinerator, city authorities said on Monday.
For years, the Italian capital has struggled to deal with its some 1,600,000 tonnes (1,800,000 tons) of rubbish a year, with overflowing landfills forcing the city council to send trash to be disposed
Copenhagen (AFP) Oct 14, 2024
Pollution, habitat degradation, climate change and over-use of freshwater resources are putting a strain on Europe, with only a third of its surface water in good health, the European Environment Agency warned on Tuesday.
"The health of Europe's waters is not good. Our waters face an unprecedented set of challenges that threatens Europe's water security," EEA executive director Leena Yla-Mon
Paris (AFP) Oct 15, 2024
Chinese electric car maker Xpeng is looking into opening its own factories in Europe after the EU increased tariffs, and it even hopes to sell flying vehicles in the bloc one day, the company's founder told AFP.
Xpeng founder and chief executive He Xiaopeng told AFP in an interview on the sidelines of the Paris auto show that European companies "don't need to worry" about Chinese competitors
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2024
The Iowa Supreme Court is weighing a decision that could uphold a pipeline company's eminent domain right to survey property without landowner permission.
The state's high court held a hearing last week over the appeal of a district court decision. A landowner brought the appeal to the supreme court after the lower court ruled in favor of Summit Carbon Solutions in a lawsuit against him
Paris (AFP) Oct 15, 2024
European scientists have teamed up with two startups in a pioneering experiment to tackle one of the major problems facing sea life - the depletion of oxygen in the ocean, causing the disappearance of fish and marine biodiversity.
Ocean deoxygenation is one of the issues on the agenda at the UN COP summit on biodiversity, opening on October 21 in Columbia.
Researchers from Stockholm Uni
Paris (AFP) Oct 14, 2024
The hosts of the coming UN climate summit said Monday that a hard-fought finance pact for poorer countries must include "hundreds of billions" of dollars from wealthy governments.
Nearly 200 countries are supposed to agree at COP29 how much money should flow every year from rich nations to poorer ones to help them prepare for climate change.
But little progress has been achieved so far i
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 16, 2024
A research collaboration between the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), NTT Corporation, Tohoku University, and the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System at Nagoya University has successfully developed a superconducting flux qubit that operates without requiring an external magnetic field. This breakthrough was accomplished using a ferromagnetic
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 16, 2024
Researchers from UCLA's Institute for Carbon Management have introduced a method designed to nearly eliminate carbon dioxide emissions in cement production, which currently contributes about 8% of global CO2 emissions.
A recent study published in *Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering* by the American Chemical Society outlines the process, which can be integrated into current cement manufa
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 16, 2024
Physicists have long understood that protons and neutrons, which make up atomic nuclei, are composed of quarks bound by gluons. However, reproducing the properties of atomic nuclei using only these subatomic components has been a challenge. Now, researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, working with the international nCTEQ collaboration, have
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2024
Active electronics - components that can control electrical signals - usually contain semiconductor devices that receive, store, and process information. These components, which must be made in a clean room, require advanced fabrication technology that is not widely available outside a few specialized manufacturing centers.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the lack of widespread semiconductor
Former One Direction star Liam Payne has tragically died aged 31 after reports the hitmaker fell from the third floor of a hotel in the Palermo area of Buenos Aires
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US gymnast Jordan Chiles has filed an appeal in the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland to overturn a decision that stripped her of her Olympic bronze medal in the women's floor event at the Paris Games.
Britain's Got Talent host Ant McPartlin takes a swipe at judge Bruno Tonioli after social media star and boxer KSI took to the stage as he made his debut appearance as a judge
The parents of a two-year-old boy, Ivan Omhonria, who was shot and killed and his younger brother, Eromonsele, who was shot in the eye by men of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Wednesday demanded N2bn compensation from the agency. Ivan was killed by operatives of the NDLEA in Delta State by a stray
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