291 articles from WEDNESDAY 11.11.2020

BlackRock CEO backs mandatory climate reporting, urges U.S. action

Larry Fink, chief executive of the world's largest asset manager BlackRock, said on Tuesday he backed the UK's recent move to make the reporting of corporate risk related to climate change mandatory, and urged the United States to follow suit. "We welcome the UK Chancellor's announcement yesterday (of) mandatory TCFD reporting," Fink told the Green Horizon Summit in London, referring to the...

Coronavirus live news: countries scramble to secure vaccine doses as US sees record hospitalisations

UK reports highest deaths since May; Brazil cases pass 5.7m; US sees record hospitalisationsGovernments scramble to secure vaccine dosesPfizer and BioNTech vaccine poses huge global logistics challengeSix key questions about Pfizer/BioNtech vaccineJair Bolsonaro claims ‘victory’ after Chinese vaccine trial suspendedDenmark’s mass mink cull illegal, PM admits 1.39am GMT Work to distribute the...

First murder hornet nest found to have 200 queens capable of spawning new nests

Washington state scientists found inside the basketball-sized nest about 500 live specimens in various stages of developmentWhen scientists in Washington state destroyed the first nest of so-called murder hornets found in the US, they discovered about 500 live specimens in various stages of development, officials said Tuesday.Among them were nearly 200 queens that had the potential to start their...

Weighing space dust with radar

It is thought that over 1,000 kilograms of so-called interplanetary dust falls to Earth every day. This dust is essentially an untold number of small faint meteors, discarded remnants of asteroids and comets that pass by the Earth. Two ways to study faint meteors are radar and optical observations, each with advantages and limitations. Astronomers have combined specific observations with both...

Stratolaunch teams up with Calspan and makes progress on hypersonic flight plan

Stratolaunch, the aerospace company founded by the late Seattle tech titan Paul Allen, is gearing up on several fronts for tests of its hypersonic launch platform — a year and a half after its mammoth airplane first flew. Allen created the company in Seattle back in 2011 to launch rockets from the world’s biggest aircraft, but after the Microsoft co-founder’s death in 2018, the company was...

Destruction of murder hornets nest doesn't end threat

When scientists in Washington state destroyed the first nest of so-called murder hornets found in the U.S., they discovered about 500 live specimens in various stages of development, officials said Tuesday. Among them were nearly 200 queens that had the potential to start their own nests, said Sven-Erik Spichiger, an entomologist leading the fight to kill the hornets. Asian giant hornets, an...