Economic Indicators19 hours ago (Mar 22, 2020 09:40AM ET) (C) Reuters. FILE PHOTO: President Trump addresses the Trump administration?s daily coronavirus (COVID-19) briefing at the White House in Washington WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The coronavirus economic relief bill being finalized by the U.S. Congress will include a one-time $3,000 payment for […]
An Ancient Magma Flood Offers Clues About Global Warming
Roughly 60 million years ago, circulation changes deep within our planet generated a hot current of rock–the Iceland plume–causing it to rise from the heart of Earth’s mantle. When the mantle rock pierced the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, lava spurted across Scotland, Ireland and Greenland, scabbing into spectacular […]
DIY Rockets, Daredevils, and the Tragedy of Mad Mike Hughes
To minimize costs, Waldo had already rigged up a cockpit out of the wingtip tank from a Cold War-era Lockheed F-94 Starfighter, with air provided by a breathing bottle from a similar vintage Boeing B-50 Superfortress bomber. But the ballute alone would cost $300,000, and $2.8 million was budgeted for […]
U.S. Treasury panel wants Fed to expand purchases, revive crisis-era credit facility: sources
By Matt Scuffham, Jessica DiNapoli and Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Members of an influential financial markets advisory panel want the U.S. Federal Reserve to aggressively expand large-scale asset purchases and reinstate a 2009 crisis-era facility to support lending to consumers and small businesses, according to two people with knowledge […]
Car on a Trampoline: More Kicks With Kinetic Energy
Yes, the change in the y position is negative, since the object is moving down. All that’s left is the time. I looked at the part of the video with the dropped watermelons. Some of the shots are in slow motion, but some appear to be in regular time. I […]
Prime money-market funds could slow redemptions as they bleed assets
Economic Indicators16 hours ago (Mar 21, 2020 11:35AM ET) BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. prime money-market funds have lost more than 10% of their assets and the prospect of funds slowing customer redemptions is rising amid unprecedented market turmoil, top credit-rating agency Moody’s Corp said on Thursday. “The risk of funds […]
Data Reveals the True Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak
Something was wrong with Malaysia’s internet. It was March 13, and the more Simon Angus looked at the data, the more he suspected that the country might be in the midst of a coronavirus crisis. Angus is an academic at Monash University and the cofounder of Kaspr Datahaus, a Melbourne-based […]
Space Photos of the Week: Earth Looks Peaceful From Up Here
Last week we went into deep space to get some perspective on the vastness of the cosmos; this week we are going to linger close to home and admire the Earth. We’ll start with an iconic photograph known as The Pale Blue Dot. After Voyager 1 completed its mission and […]
Fallout from Australia’s Huge Wildfires Is Choking Rivers
This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Walking through the Bogandyera Nature Reserve, Luke Pearce, a fisheries manager for the Australian state of New South Wales, gestured down a steep hillside and described the scene three days after a wildfire roared […]
How Surveillance Could Save Lives Amid a Public Health Crisis
For each new transmission of coronavirus, imagine the “tick tick tick” of a stopwatch. At least 2 million adults in the US could require hospitalization over the course of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates; that’s more than double the nation’s supply of hospital beds. Curfews […]