The greatest idea of Stephen Hawking's scientific career truly revolutionized how we think about black holes. They're not completely black, after all, and it was indeed Hawking who first understood and predicted the radiation that they should emit: Hawking radiation. He derived the result in 1974, and it's one of the most profound links ever…
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Topline The Secret Service told reporters Friday it recovered $286 million in Covid-19 relief loans meant for small businesses that were stolen by fraudsters, according to multiple outlets , adding to the total of billions of dollars in pandemic relief funds that investigators say were fraudulently obtained. Key Facts The Secret Service said Friday fraudsters…
A new Forbes analysis of 157 crypto exchanges finds that 51% of the daily bitcoin trading volume being reported is likely bogus. W ithin the emerging and turbulent market for cryptocurrencies, where there are no fewer than 10,000 tokens, bitcoin, is the great granddaddy, the blue-chip, representing 40% of the $1 trillion in crypto assets…
Clean energy advocates are gaga over California’s new electric vehicle mandates because the size of California’s vehicle market suggests to them that the rest of the nation will have to follow suit, if only because auto manufacturers don’t want to have to segregate markets. The target of 35% of new vehicle sales as zero emission…
In the 1940s and 50s, Fisk University was vibrant and boasted one of the most impressive faculties in the nation, including writer and poet Langston Hughes , author and composer James Weldon Johnson , sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson , poets Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullin , and painter Aaron Douglas . The Nashville-based university was…
Topline The White House caused a stir on Twitter Thursday afternoon by calling out several Republican lawmakers who criticized President Joe Biden's move to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt for many borrowers, pointing out that some of the critics’ businesses had more than $1 million in federal loans forgiven as part of…
Updated Aug 25, 2022, 06:24pm EDT Topline The California Air Resources Board approved a highly anticipated measure Thursday that will ban the sale of new gasoline-only cars in the nation’s most populous state by 2035, marking what's widely considered the most stringent regulation ever enacted on gas cars as part of a nationwide shift toward…
Updated Aug 25, 2022, 02:58pm EDT Topline President Joe Biden’s historic plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student loans for millions of borrowers quickly drew criticism for potentially threatening to tack on to inflation that’s already reached a decades-long peak, but new analysis concludes his plan likely won’t hike up prices—and could actually help…
Topline The U.S. economy shrank for a second quarter in a row this year, a second estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis confirmed Thursday—once again signaling the start of a technical recession even as economists predict signs of a slowdown will only grow in the coming quarters, likely prompting the government to officially declare…
Updated Aug 24, 2022, 08:41am EDT Topline Global crude oil prices surged past $100 per barrel on Wednesday for the first time in more than three weeks following a warning by Saudi Arabia that oil-producing nations may have to cut output to deal with the recent drop in prices, amid fears of a global recession.…