Canoo is being investigated by the SEC
Canoo, the Los Angeles-based electric vehicle startup that debuted on the Nasdaq public exchange earlier this year, is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, just months after its merger with special purpose acquisition co.....»»
Human cells: To splice or not to splice
Scientists investigated the efficiency of splicing across different human cell types. The results were surprising in that the splicing process appears to be quite inefficient, leaving most intronic sequences untouched as the transcripts are being syn.....»»
Human cells: To splice or not to splice. ..
Scientists investigated the efficiency of splicing across different human cell types. The results were surprising in that the splicing process appears to be quite inefficient, leaving most intronic sequences untouched as the transcripts are being syn.....»»
Department of Justice opens investigation into EV startup Lordstown Motors
Lordstown Motors continues to stumble. The beleaguered electric vehicle startup is now being investigated by the Department of Justice, in addition to an ongoing investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The investigation, first broke.....»»
Critical vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler service leaves PCs open to remote code execution
Microsoft fixed an RCE vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler service in its June Patch Tuesday security update, but now another 0-day flaw has surfaced that's currently being investigated by the company and is noted to be under active exploitati.....»»
Stock markets becoming increasingly networked due to high-frequency traders
During the last twenty years, the trading in stock markets has undergone significant changes. Researchers from the University of Turku and the University of Palermo have investigated the role of high-frequency traders in the markets......»»
US Has No Explanation for Unidentified Objects and Stops Short of Ruling Out Aliens
According to The New York Times, citing a highly anticipated UFO report released on Friday, "The government still has no explanation for nearly all of the scores of unidentified aerial phenomena reported over almost two decades and investigated by a.....»»
Amazon and Google are being investigated for failing to remove fake product reviews
British regulators are investigating whether Amazon and Google have broken consumer protection law by not doing enough to protect shoppers from fake product reviews......»»
Time-resolved photoemission electron microscopy to probe electron dynamics of solid-state film OLEDs
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are widely used in display technology and are also being investigated for lighting applications. A comprehensive understanding of these devices is therefore important if their properties are to be harnessed to th.....»»
Researchers use phylogenetics to untangle convergent adaptation in birds
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have shown that adaptation to similar environments hardly involves similar genomic positions when species are distantly related. The team investigated recurrent adaptations of wildlife birds' mitochondri.....»»
Historical climate effects of permafrost peatland surprise researchers
Peatlands are an important ecosystem that contribute to the regulation of the atmospheric carbon cycle. A multidisciplinary group of researchers, led by the University of Helsinki, investigated the climate response of a permafrost peatland located in.....»»
Study investigates the behavior of magnetar SGR J1745–2900
Using NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), Russian astronomers have investigated the behavior of a magnetar known as SGR J1745–2900 after its outburst in April 2013. Results of the study, published June 9 on arXiv.org, could be es.....»»
Over half of the world"s rivers cease to flow for at least one day a year on average
A new study led by researchers from McGill University and INRAE found that between 51-60% of the 64 million kilometres of rivers and streams on Earth that they investigated stop flowing periodically, or run dry for part of the year. It is the first-e.....»»
Apple confirms hiring of Ulrich Kranz, former CEO of EV company Canoo
Apple has hired the former co-founder and CEO of electric vehicle company Canoo to help with the development of the Apple Car, Bloomberg first reported, citing unnamed sources. Apple has confirmed to TechCrunch it has hired Kranz, but did not provide.....»»
Charge transport physics of a unique class of rigid-rod conjugated polymers
In a new report now published on Science Advances, Mingfei Xiao and a team of interdisciplinary and international scientists in the U.K., Saudi Arabia, Australia, India, China and Belgium, investigated the charge transport physics of a previously uni.....»»
Florida Health Department"s Actions Investigated as Fired Data Manager Now Granted "Whistleblower" Status
In March of 2020, Florida's governor was assuring the state that there was no evidence of Covid-19 in Florida, remembers the Washington Post. But there was — as far back as January. The Miami Herald reports that when questioned Florida's Depa.....»»
What would happen to the climate if we reforested the entire tropics?
What would happen if every single patch of farmland in the tropics, from Brazil through Congo, India and Indonesia, was abandoned overnight and left to turn back into forests? That's the question we investigated in our new research. Trees and forests.....»»
Study Reveals New Details On What Happened In the First Microsecond of Big Bang
Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma -- the first matter ever to be present -- during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Their findings provide a piece of the puzzle to the evolution o.....»»
Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang
Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma—the first matter ever to be present—during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Their findings provide a piece of the puzzle to the evolution of.....»»
Quantifying crop nitrogen use may result in huge difference in efficiency estimates
Assistant Prof. Quan Zhi and Prof. Fang Yunting from the Stable Isotope Ecology Research Group of the Institute of Applied Ecology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, cooperated with researchers at the University of Maryland, U.S., investigated three.....»»
Amazon investigated by German anti-trust watchdog
New German laws mean the regulator can take faster action to prohibit any anti-competitive behaviour......»»