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BYD logs record EV sales in 2025

It sold 2.26m EVs vs Tesla's 1.22 by Sept end.

Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.
  • The virus mutant has spurred the world to record 13.5 million cases in the last week alone -- 64 percent...

    In the past seven days, 34 countries have recorded their highest number of weekly cases since the start of the pandemic, including 18 nations in Europe and seven in Africa

    While far more contagious than previous coronavirus variants, Omicron appears to cause less severe illness than its predecessors

  • The CES tech show in Las Vegas closed its 2022 edition on Friday, after pushing ahead with a significantly downsized...

    French startup Wisear is working on technology that detects the signals that zip between the brain and certain muscles, in order to use them to operate connected devices

    The Boston Dynamics robot dogs -- the ones compared to the killer four-legged bot in a dystopian "Black Mirror" episode -- are back and this time they are going to the metaverse

  • Omicron transmitted very efficiently between people due to a number of reason including make-up of the Covid-19 variant and increased...

    Omicron's mutations allow the virus to adhere to human cells more easily

    People can be reinfected either if they had a previous infection or if they've been vaccinated says WHO

  • Amid the growing push away from climate-warming energy sources like coal, stockpiling green energy is key, experts say.

    Amid the growing push away from climate-warming energy sources like coal, stockpiling green energy is key, experts say

    Bliek's "ocean battery" relies on massive flexible bladders on the seabed, which are filled up with seawater by the wind farm

  • Period cycles generally last about 28 days, but the precise amount varies from one woman to another, as well as...

    But the number of days of bleeding was not affected, according to the research carried out on nearly 4,000 individuals and published in "Obstetrics & Gynecology."

    The study can also help counter anti-vaccine misinformation on the topic, which is rampant on social media

  • The researchers found that 92 percent of 165 countries studied will experience extremely hot annual temperatures every two years.

    Current plans would see emissions increase 13.7 percent by 2030, according to the United Nations climate change body UNFCCC

    Ideally, when they should fall by roughly half to keep the Paris Agreement warming limit of 1.5C within reach

  • Just under 9.5 million new Covid-19 cases were reported to the WHO last week — a record, up 71 percent...

    Ninety-two of the WHO's 194 member states missed its vaccination target of 40 percent of the population by the end of 2021

    However, 36 of them had not even vaccinated 10 percent of the population, largely due to being unable to access doses

  • A top WHO official has sounded an ominous note of caution, that the soaring infection rates could have the opposite...

    Europe has recorded around 100 million Covid cases since the start of 2020, and more than 5 million new cases in the last week of 2021

    Britain on Tuesday faced warnings of an impending hospital crisis due to staff shortages caused by a wave of Omicron infections

  • The display of technology like the life-size model Dream Chaser ship at the CES tech show is a sharp signal...

    Companies have proposed a series of ideas which until recently sounded like long shots, such as asteroid mining

    They have also suggested less far-fetched biomedical applications or production of some types of technology

  • A team of developers from Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry Co said satellite that uses wood is cheaper than the...

    The development of the satellite is aimed at harnessing the the environmental friendliness and low cost of wood in space development.

    Its outside will be covered in wood and solar cells, and it will hold an electronic substrate inside.

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