A “ghost ship” that recently washed up on a Florida Panhandle beach was traced to a Texas man who’ll likely lose much of his life savings after purchasing the vessel he had hoped to sail around the world. Francine Farrar couldn’t believe her eyes early on the evening of June 18 when a 45-foot sailboat […]
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The Country that Imports the Most Natural Gas in the World
The Largest Economy in the World by 2075
We recently compiled a list of the Top 30 Largest Economies in the World by 2075 and in this article we will look at the country that’s expected to be the largest in 2075. Emerging Markets Projected to Lead by 2075 According to research by Goldman Sachs, the global potential growth is expected to slow, largely […]
A fintech collapse is rippling through a small corner of the banking world
The unraveling of fintech upstart Synapse is rippling through a small corner of the banking world, leaving thousands of customers without access to their money and a mystery about millions of dollars that went missing. Four small US banks have some of the money. No one is sure where the rest went. The saga surrounding […]
The US housing market has entered bizarro world
The US housing market is twisting the most basic principle of economics: supply and demand.C.J. Burton/Getty Images The US housing market is distorting a core principal of economics: supply and demand. Home prices soared to record highs in May, even as existing home sales fell and supply of homes for sale jumped. “This one is […]
World War II POW’s remains return to Colorado home 82 years after Bataan Death March
A 25-year-old soldier from Colorado whose remains were identified 82 years after he died as a prisoner of war during World War II was honored Saturday in Pueblo in a ceremony attended by numerous family members and veterans. Technician Fifth Grade Clifford Harley Strickland of the U.S. Army Air Forces was among those captured in […]
Jamie Dimon says schools are making his job harder by not giving students the proper training to enter the working world
The leader of America’s biggest bank wants to see schools doing more to bring students up to pace with the working world, instead of leaving it to businesses to bridge the gap. Jamie Dimon has long been an advocate of getting younger people into well-paid positions, and believes schools should be monitored on whether their […]
Alarm and amusement at Biden’s performance as world reacts to debate
HONG KONG — The first presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump offered little reassurance for restive allies of the United States. The two candidates have distinctly different ideas about how to tackle the challenges of a world consumed by multiple wars, rising geopolitical tensions and doubts over America’s commitment to […]
Surprising asteroid sample reveals Bennu may have originated from an ocean world
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An early analysis of a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu suggests that the space rock had an unexpectedly water-rich past — and it may have even splintered off from an ancient ocean world. The NASA […]
Phosphate in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample suggests space rock Bennu hails from an ocean world
On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule to Earth containing pristine carbonaceous regolith collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. These samples were obtained after the probe took an impressive, seven-year roundtrip journey through the solar system and back. Since these space rock pieces arrived (approximately 120 grams of sample, to be precise) […]
‘Every coastline in the world is affected by this’
An Indigenous community in a Central American country is at risk of relocation, as rising sea levels threaten to flood their small island. What’s happening? The Indigenous Guna people live on the island of Gardi Sugdub, off Panama’s coast in the Caribbean Sea, and are the first of 63 local communities that have received recommendations […]