Tesla cars being shipped to Europe Tesla will shut down its Berlin gigafactory for about two weeks, from January 29 to February 11, due to a lack of components as a result of a Red Sea blockade, according to Reuters. The Red Sea is home to important shipping lanes, particularly between Asia and the Mediterranean […]
After overtaking Tesla in global EV sales in the last three months of 2023, BYD looks to continue its expansion. BYD’s first cargo ship has been delivered. The BYD Explorer No. 1 is the first Chinese-made ship designed to carry domestic EVs overseas. And it’s headed for Europe. First BYD ship sets sights on Europe […]
Ford is combining olive branches and twigs with recycled plastic in a pilot to make auto parts – and the results are looking promising. Pruning olive trees during harvests creates 7 million tons of waste annually, so Ford engineers in Cologne, Germany, launched a research project called COMPOlive to explore how olive branches and twigs […]
For years now, health experts have been warning that COVID-era politics and the spread of anti-vaxxer lies have brought us to the brink of public-health catastrophe—that a Great Collapse of Vaccination Rates is nigh. This hasn’t come to pass. In spite of deep concerns about a generation of young parents who might soon give up […]
Harbor Health, a Texas-based primary care clinic group that offers virtual and in-person care, announced it scored $95.5 million in funding, led by General Catalyst, with participation from Alta Partners and 8VC. The investment brings the company’s total raise to more than $128 million. The funds will be used to grow its services and expand […]
An antitrust lawsuit has been filed against Cigna-owned online pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts by several community, independent pharmacies. The suit alleges the company teamed with rival PBMs to fix pharmaceutical reimbursement rates and fees and collect a portion of the revenue. PBMs manage pharmacy benefits for healthcare plans, and can negotiate prescription prices to […]
A woman holds a smartphone with the USD Coin logo displayed on the screen. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a little more than a year after terminating a […]
The number of people facing possible starvation in the Gaza Strip in the coming weeks is the largest share of a population at risk of famine identified anywhere since a United Nations-affiliated panel created the current global food-insecurity assessment 20 years ago. After Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, Israel responded with air […]
By exploiting the technology used in Covid-19 vaccines, scientists have created an effective therapy for a rare disease, demonstrating the technology’s potential therapeutic use in humans. The research, published in journal Science Translational Medicine, found that messenger RNA (mRNA) could be used to correct a rare liver genetic disease known as argininosuccinic aciduria in a […]
What the research shows A research team analyzed records of nearly a million women in Sweden’s national medical registries from 2001 through 2017, comparing 86,551 women who had perinatal depression with 865,510 women who did not. The groups were matched by age and year they gave birth. In two studies, the team found that depression […]
