Category: Reuters
Rinspeed MicroMAX offers flash-mob commuting future
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March 11 - With their new MicroMAX vehicle, Swiss motor manufacturer Rinspeed envisages a fleet of cloud-connected cars that can be communally shared. The company believes the box-shaped vehicle could revolutionise ...
GPS brings new clarity to city driving
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March 10 - Spanish researchers are developing a low cost Global Positioning System (GPS), designed to overcome the so-called "canyon effect" of inner-city driving. Tall buildings often render a GPS useless in the ci...
Israeli army branches out to deter mortar fire
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March 10 - Trees are often used as a screen to block out undesirable views, but in Israel they're about to be planted as a screen against rocket attacks on Israelis living close to the border with the Gaza Strip. Th...
Beluga caviar poised for a comeback – in Florida
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March 8 - Facing extinction in the wild, the highly-prized beluga sturgeon may be about to make a comeback from a new base in the United States. A Florida company is breeding the fish to produce sought-after beluga ...
Volvo takes safety to pedestrians with exterior airbags
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March 7 - Swedish car-maker Volvo has turned its attention to pedestrians by installing the first airbags for those outside the car. The new technology was first unveiled at last year's Geneva Motor Show but has bee...
Kenya to push for ivory trade crackdown at Bangkok CITES meeting
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March 5 - Kenya will be pushing for a crackdown on the illegal ivory trade in Asia at this week's Convention for the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES), in Bangkok, Thailand. Conservationists in Kenya...
Cancer detection as easy as popping a pill
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March 5 - Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have developed a device they say will revolutionize the way doctors screen for esophageal cancer. The pill-sized scanner uses lasers to generate a 3D...
Satellite data reveals extent of Andean glacier melt
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March 4 - New research shows that warming temperatures are melting Andean glaciers at unprecedented rates, raising fears of water shortages by the middle of the century. Using the latest satellite data, scientists s...
Croatian micro-car to electrify mass market
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March 4 - Croatian engineering company Dok-Ing has announced plans to start serial production of its electric three-seat microcar. The company believes urban commuters will find the vehicle ideal for low-cost, envir...
Manned mission to Mars? Hedgehogs may go first
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Feb. 27 - American entrepreneur Dennis Tito says he wants to launch a manned mission to Mars in January 2018, but researchers at NASA and Stanford University argue that it may be better to visit the mysterious Marti...
Danish device kills air pollution at its source
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Feb 26. - Scientists in Denmark have built a device designed to clean polluted air by accelerating natural atmospheric processes, helping to get rid of chemicals and smells. Jim Drury reports.
Kenyan farmers look to local plant for malaria protection
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Feb. 25 - Farmers in western Kenya are being encouraged to grow ocimum, a natural insect repellant which can be turned into jelly and candles to keep deadly malaria-carrying mosquitos at bay. Jim Drury reports.
Lao villagers rally for endangered Siamese crocodile
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Feb. 25 - There are high hopes for grassroots conservation efforts in Laos aimed at saving the now rare Siamese crocodile from extinction. The animal was once found throughout Southeast Asia and Indonesia but is now...
Market Pulse: Gold bugs to jitter bugs – $1500/oz looms
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Feb. 18 - Even gold bugs may be losing their confidence on prospects for the precious metal, with BofA Merrill Lynch metals strategist Michael Widmer predicting that a test of $1500/oz looms.
Factbox: Neigh end in sight to the horsemeat scandal
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Feb. 20 - As the horsemeat outrage continues apace, UK bookmaker Paddy Power is offering odds on where it will turn up next and what other animals may become embroiled in the scandal
Match fixing tarnishes the beautiful game
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Feb. 20 - Sportradar, which works with UEFA, has detected that up to one percent of soccer matches in Europe could be fixed. It also says illegal gambling could spread into other sports with costly consequences
Trading at Noon: ‘Office’ romance leads to a tie-up
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Feb 20 - Office Depot confirms a $1.2 bln deal to merge with OfficeMax.
Reuters Today: Even Soros wouldn’t sell sterling now, right?
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Feb. 20 - A big day for Sterling with Bank of England minutes and UK employment figures due, while EU talks to cap bankers' bonuses stall.