ZS Pharma is executing a familiar biotech gambit. The Texas-based biotech raised $55 million from some top venture groups just a few weeks ago and now it's formally moving ahead with an $86 million IPO....
The craft of opposition research—finding information that might put an opponent in a negative light—has long been a staple of political campaigns. This year, independent groups are taking a leading role....
Cynthia Quarterman, a top U.S. safety regulator tasked with handling the U.S. government's response to a string of oil-train crashes in recent years, is stepping down....
The Los Angeles City Council has approved one of the nation's highest minimum wages for workers at the city's large hotels....
The U.S. government will pay the Navajo Nation $554 million to settle long-standing claims that it mismanaged funds and natural resources on the tribe's reservation for years....
Connecticut gubernatorial candidate Joe Visconti opposes the state's new gun restrictions, and he has an online commercial that shows him riding in a 1974 Pontiac convertible with rifles fixed to the rear fenders. ...
The U.S. and Arab allies launched a second major wave of airstrikes in Syria targeting mobile oil refineries controlled by Islamic State, the Pentagon said....
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Rocket Internet is bringing its planned initial public offering (IPO) forward by a week, citing "exceptional investor demand across all points of the price range" for its shares. ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Airline passengers will be able to use smartphones and tablet computers throughout their entire flight, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Friday, which could also pave the way for airlines to offer wireless communication services. ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc said the vast majority of Mac computer users are not at risk from the recently identified "Shellshock" computer bug, which security experts have warned affect operating systems, including Mac's OS X. ...
BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp INTC.O said it will pay as much as $1.5 billion for a 20 percent stake in two mobile chipmakers with ties to the Chinese government, in the hopes of catching up in a smartphone chip industry dominated by rival Qualcomm Inc QCOM.O. ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activist investor Starboard Value LP said on Friday it has acquired a significant stake in Yahoo Inc and urged the struggling Internet company to cut costs, monetize its Asian assets and seek a "strategic combination" with AOL Inc . ...
ROME (Reuters) - Renewed signs of foreign bid interest in Telecom Italia emerged on Friday just as its board met to discuss the company's options after hitting setbacks in its South American businesses. ...
That makes it the first Asian country to achieve the feat and the only country to do so on a first attempt ...
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Keys at your fingertips, but the technology isn't there yet. Credit: Rachmaninoff , CC BY-SA By Andrew Smith , The Open University How can we ensure that someone is who they say they are? How can be sure that the person in our system, both digitally speaking or physically in front of us, is who whom they claim to be? read more ...
Imagine being able to go from the hottest of hots to the coldest of colds, and endure both extreme droughts, where 97% of your body water is gone, and airless vacuums such as space. The African midge, Polypedilum vanderplanki , can do all that and an international team deciphered the genetic mechanism that makes it invulnerable to these harsh conditions. The midge is capable of anhydrobiosis,...
Privacy and accuracy standards were breached in a hidden camera expose....
It hasn't even aired, yet the crossover episode with The Simpsons is already causing controversy....
It is fitting that this Elmore Leonard adaptation belongs to the women in the cast....
Brody Dalle has further questioned the singers' motives and the effect of the clip on male and female viewers....
Kendrick Lamar ’s new single “i” has been played over 2 million times in less than 24 hours since its release on Soundcloud. ...
From 'hot baps' to 'erect biscuits', the Great British Bake Off 's innuendos are what makes the BBC's hit Wednesday night contest such enjoyable watching. ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - (The last paragraph in this September 19 story has been corrected to show separate case referring to heirs of Epstein painting owners, not Epstein himself) ...
FLORENCE Italy (Reuters) - If there is any mind an art restorer would die to get into, it would be that of Leonardo da Vinci, the master painter, architect, engineer and inventor whose genius epitomized the brilliance of the Renaissance. ...
ALCATRAZ (Reuters) - One of China's most famous dissidents has appropriated the United States' most famous former prison as a way to highlight the plight of activists held in detention. ...
One of the 20th century’s greatest collections of street photography – taken by an American nanny who died in obscurity – could be tied up in litigation for years after a previously unknown heir came forward to claim rights to her multimillion dollar legacy of more than 100,000 images. ...
Late Turner: Painting Set Free at Tate Britain focuses on the last 15 years of Turner's long, prolific and often controversial life. Turner turned 60 in 1835 and died in 1851. It is hard to accept now, when we are asked as viewers and critics to consider literally anything as art, that Turner's late paintings and watercolours were met with scornful abuse by critics, even by those such as John Ruskin...
US artist's 100ft mural to be unveiled this week ...