The S&P 500 index of big American companies hit a record high, climbing at one point by 0.8%; it closed the day up by 0.6%.

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Paramount acquired Warner Bros in a $111bn merger after months of legal disputes and a frantic bidding war following ...

What makes neutrinos so elusive is that they are electrically neutral (hence the “neutr-”) and physically diminutive (hence ...

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The central government’s latest five-year plan, released earlier this year, includes neuro-tech as one of the industries of ...

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Paramount acquired Warner Bros in a $111bn merger after months of legal disputes and a frantic bidding war following ...

The Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Belgian-American scientist, Francis Halzen, for his work on neutrinos, or “ghost ...

A young woman working in a Siberian research lab supposedly breaks a test tube containing a lethal plague pathogen. She is ...

Turkey and Pakistan agreed to a “rapid deployment” of military forces in Saudi Arabia. The three countries signed a defence ...

It is an astounding result for the scion of a right-wing dynasty whose patriarch, Jair, an ex-president, is under house ...