NEW YORK – Earlier hopes that China had beaten deflation took a hit this week. China’s consumer prices rose just 0.5% year-on-year in July, down […]
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Trump-class battleship designed for a bygone era of warfare
The Trump-class battleship risks becoming more of a prestige project than a practical answer to the US Navy’s longstanding challenges in fleet modernization, emerging technologies […]
Plastic-Eating Bacteria Just Got A Powerful Upgrade
NUS researchers have cracked two of the biggest obstacles in engineering microbes for industry: speed and reliability — using a bacteria-killing virus as their secret […]
Your Medicine Cabinet Is Polluting The Ocean
Over-the-counter medication makes up the majority of pharmaceutical pollution in Hong Kong rivers, and may persist in rivers long enough to spread into coastal waters.
Detroit knows China’s eating its EV lunch but can’t change course
One of the things that surprised this tourist in Oslo last February was the vast number of electric vehicles. EVs were everywhere. Every taxi I […]
Trump fires on multiple fronts to break China’s minerals monopoly
The Trump administration has launched a series of measures to ensure that US defense contractors source critical minerals domestically or from allied nations, building a […]