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Asian investors look for novel ways to join SpaceX’s US IPO excitement

Investors across Asia have been largely shut out of the world’s largest-ever initial public offering, which has forced them to find creative ways to make bets on SpaceX’s US$75 billion global spectacle. With no direct access to the IPO…

OLD science fiction had a simple trick

When something had to sound impossibly advanced, writers added the word ‘quantum’ to it. Quantum engine. Quantum lock. Quantum field. Nobody knew exactly what it meant, but everyone understood that the future had arrived. Artificial…

President Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn

President Trump is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season.

Musk should go more boldly with fantastical SpaceX projections

Financial history offers examples of now-giant companies that formerly lowballed their own prospects

The quantum computing revolution is closer than you think

Companies are betting on big implications for pharmaceuticals, financial services and crypto. But sceptics worry about hype

UP study finds disturbed habitats may harbor more mosquito viruses

MANILA, Philippines — The viruses carried by mosquitoes may be influenced by how people reshape the landscape around them, according to a new study by researchers from the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Science’s National…

Discovering Chhyadi Ghyang, the village above the clouds

Chhyadi Ghang To visit Chhyadi Ghyang, Helambu’s emerging tourist destination, we set out from Boudha in Kathmandu, heading towards Helambu via Melamchi. This was not merely a journey; it was a search for nature’s unparalleled beauty and…

Targeting diabetes drugs at Māori and Pasifika is needs-based, specialist says

Cardiac scientists say they are being prevented by Health NZ over an objection to changes in the way diabetes treatments are funded.

DICT, telcos deploy free Wi-Fi and emergency connectivity in earthquake-hit Mindanao areas

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), together with major telecommunications providers, has deployed free internet access and emergency communications services in areas affected by the recent earthquake in…

Rocket Lab and these four stocks are joining the Nasdaq 100, with SpaceX waiting in the wings

The Nasdaq 100 could imminently include SpaceX, but first it’s getting a shakeup that will usher in another space-technology company and four flashy AI plays.

Scientists use rice's hidden weakness to create self-changing material

US entrepreneur Elon Musk is world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX IPO venture — agency

The company offered 555,555,555 stocks at a price of $135 per share