New safeguards agreed for world’s most trafficked mammal
By Matt McGrath for the BBC. A little known species driven to the edge of extinction by poaching has gained extra protection at the Cites…
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Primates, Including Humans, Are the Most Violent Animals
By Christopher Wanjek for LiveScience. Why do humans kill each other? It’s a question that has been posed for millennia. At least part of the answer…
Our corner of the Milky Way may be bigger than previously thought
By Eva Botkin-Kowacki for the Christian Science Monitor. Some galaxies are near perfect spirals, with two or four arms starting at the center of the…
UN Space Mission To Send Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser To Low Earth Orbit In 2021
By: Rhodi Lee for Tech Times. The United Nations will launch its first ever mission to space five years from now. The intergovernmental organization has announced that…
Scientists fix fractures with 3-D printed synthetic bone
By Reuters for Fox News. LONDON – Scientists in the United States have successfully treated broken spines and skulls in animals using 3-D printed synthetic…
Black Moon 2016: Second new moon in a month rising Friday, sparking doomsday theories
By: Leada Gore for AL.com. Get ready to celebrate the end of September with a lunar event that hasn’t occurred since March 2014 – a Black Moon….
SpaceX’s Mars Colony Plan: By the Numbers
By: Mike Wall for Space.com. On Tuesday (Sept. 27), SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company’s plans for colonizing Mars. SpaceX aims to help…
Rosetta and Its Kin: A History of Comet and Asteroid Missions
By: Elizabeth Howell for Space.com As the Rosetta spacecraft closes out its historic mission with a descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko tomorrow morning (Sept….
U.S. Durable-Goods Orders Flat in August
By: JOSH MITCHELL and ERIC MORATH for the Wall Street Journal. WASHINGTON—U.S. factories posted flat orders of big-ticket goods in August, but underlying figures suggest businesses are…
Uber launches global assault on takeaway meals market
By: Eric Auchard for Reuters. Uber Technologies [UBER.UL] is making an aggressive drive into takeaway meal deliveries, with the U.S. firm gearing up with a big…
U.S. Accuses Tech Firm Palantir of Bias Against Asian Engineers
By: KATIE BENNER for The New York Times. SAN FRANCISCO — The United States Department of Labor sued Palantir Technologies, a prominent data analytics start-up, claiming systemic…
OPEC Talks May Not Produce a Freeze, but Perhaps a Thaw
By: JENNY W. HSU in Hong Kong, SUMMER SAID in Dubai and GEORGI KANTCHEV in Algiers for the Wall Street Journal. The much-hyped unofficial OPEC talks under way…
BA and Qatar Airways sign deal
By TTG Media. A joint business agreement will come into effect on October 30 that will see the two airlines code-sharing on all non-stop flights…
Rio Olympics Gives Nike a Sales Boost
By: John Kell for Fortune. Results easily topped Wall Street’s expectations. The Rio Summer Olympics helped give Nike the golden performance it needed. Heading into Tuesday’s earnings…
Tyson Foods Voluntarily Recalls 5 lb. Bags of Chicken Nuggets Sold at Costco Stores
Tyson Press Release September 27, 2016 – Springdale, Ark. – Tyson Foods, Inc. announced today a voluntary recall of 5-pound bags of Tyson® Fully Cooked…
Deutsche Bank Concerns Push Credit-Swap Trades to Six-Month High
By: Katie Linsell for Bloomberg. Trading of protection on Deutsche Bank AG debt surged to a six-month high after a potential $14 billion U.S. fine stoked concerns about…
By Taking Back Money, Wells Fargo’s Board Seems to Recall Its Role
By: GRETCHEN MORGENSON for The New York Times. As John G. Stumpf, the chief executive of Wells Fargo, prepares to face a congressional tribunal on Thursday for…
SABMiller Shareholders Approve Anheuser-Busch InBev Takeover
By Reuters. Paving the way for one of the biggest mergers in history. SABMiller shareholders backed the brewer’s $100-billion-plus takeover by rival Anheuser-Busch InBev by…
Odell Beckham Jr. got beat by Josh Norman, at least between the ears
By: Ian O’Connor for ESPN. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Odell Beckham Jr. had a scarlet welt growing between his right eye and ear, the apparent result…
Dolphins finish off Browns in OT on Jay Ajayi TD
By: Marc Sessler for the NFL.COM. After Cleveland kicker Cody Parkey missed a would-be, game-winning field goal at the end of regulation, the Miami Dolphins (1-2)…