To the editor: It’s easy to say, “Build more affordable housing.” Doing it is another matter entirely. (“Lack of housing is pushing more seniors onto the streets. That’s on all of us,” editorial, June 24) For-profit developers generally aren’t interested. There’s no profit to be had, except in the form of a density bonus for […]
When it comes to tax policy, Donald Trump already had a problem. His 2017 tax giveaways to the wealthy and big corporations were, by practically every measure, an expensive and unpopular failure. It’s against this backdrop that the Republican and his allies not only want to extend the tax breaks that didn’t work — adding […]
Leading athletes and climate scientists have warned that extreme heat will make it “impossible” to hold the Olympics during the summer months amid fears of dangerous conditions at this year’s Paris Games. A group of Olympians collaborated with climate scientists and heat physiologists from the University of Portsmouth to assess the threat warming temperatures could […]
Far from Parisian bistros serving up Burgundy snails, one Japanese man has figured out how to farm the slimy species — a feat that has long eluded the French. Toshihide Takase, 76, says he is “the only person in the world” breeding this specific delicacy after four decades of trial and error to find the […]
Water frost has been spotted at the equator of Mars for the first time. In this region of the Red Planet, equivalent to its tropics, it was previously believed that it would be impossible for frost to exist. The discovery could be crucial to modeling where water exists on Mars and how it is exchanged […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge on Friday threw out murder charges against a father and a stepmother, saying there was no new evidence they killed their 5-year-old child in 1989. Circuit Judge Roger Young ruled the original detective in the case changed his interpretations of the evidence and with more than 20 […]
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: While Nvidia (NVDA) has grabbed the headlines this year — most recently when its market cap topped $3 trillion — the AI halo effect has boosted an unlikely industry. Utilities are typically known […]
A man has died after falling from a 1,981 foot (604-meter-high) cliff in Norway that featured in a “Mission Impossible” film. Preikestolen, known in English as “Pulpit Rock” is a cliff in southwestern Norway overlooking the Lysefjord. It is one of Norway’s most famous mountain hikes and sees more than 300,000 visitors a year, according to […]
By Faith Hung, Max A. Cherney and Ben Blanchard HSINCHU/TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC, whose major clients include Nvidia and Apple, said on Tuesday it had held talks with some customers about moving its chip plants off the island as tensions mounted with China but such a move would be impossible. Tensions between […]
By Faith Hung, Max A. Cherney and Ben Blanchard HSINCHU/TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC, whose major clients include Nvidia and Apple, said on Tuesday it had held talks with some customers about moving its chip plants off the island as tensions mounted with China but such a move would be impossible. Tensions between […]
HSINCHU, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC has held talks with its customers about whether to move its fabrication plants off the island amid increased tensions with China, although such a move would be impossible, a senior executive said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters after the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Hsinchu, where TSMC is […]
Scientists have squished two layers of ultracold magnetic atoms to within 50 nanometers of each other — 10 times closer than in previous experiments — revealing bizarre quantum effects not seen before. The extreme proximity of these atoms will allow researchers to study quantum interactions at this length scale for the first time and could […]