Image copyright Climeworks Image caption Direct air capture takes CO2 straight out of the atmosphere “This is the future of aviation,” Oskar Meijerink tells me in a café in Rotterdam airport. His company, in partnership with the airport’s owners, is planning the world’s first commercial production of jet fuel made, in part, from carbon dioxide […]
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What did you learn from the bankruptcy of Regus’s American operations? We had opened up too many spaces at the top of the market, coming up to 2000. That was the underlying problem. But once you’ve made that mistake, you never make that mistake again. We are super cautious. You have to plan your business
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Washington’s Juan Soto delivered a bases-loaded single against Josh Hader that scored three runs with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, and the Nationals rallied to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 in the NL wild-card game Tuesday night. After Hader loaded the bases by hitting one batter, walking another and allowing a
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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee raised a combined $125 million in the last three months, Republican Party officials said on Tuesday, setting a presidential fund-raising record. The huge infusion of money confirms that the president is building an enormous war chest heading into the 2020 election while the Democrats
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionCould virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans? Virtual reality could be used to help military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who have struggled with mainstream treatment. It involves patients walking on a treadmill in front of a screen which projects images depicting the type of
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Image caption Jo Lloyd was named the winner of the £15,000 2019 prize Welsh writer Jo Lloyd has been named as the winner of the 2019 BBC Short Story Award. Her piece The Invisible was described by judges as a “timeless” and “deeply tender” story influenced by Brexit, social division and folklore. She was awarded
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Image copyright Getty Images Travellers are beginning to turn their backs on air travel over concern for the environment, according to a survey by Swiss bank UBS. The Swedish concept of “flygskam” or “flight shame” appears to be spreading. One in five of the people surveyed had cut the number of flights they took over
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Jonquel Jones scored 32 points and grabbed 18 rebounds, and the Connecticut Sun took advantage of Elena Delle Donne’s early injury exit to beat the Washington Mystics 99-87 in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals on Tuesday night and even the series. Alyssa Thomas added 21 points and 12 rebounds, and Courtney Williams had 22
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has come under increasing pressure in its investigation of the former deputy F.B.I. director Andrew G. McCabe, as a federal judge threatened to release internal department records unless prosecutors decide whether to move forward with or abandon the politically charged case. Judge Reggie B. Walton of Federal District Court for
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Alberto Salazar was so excited about a performance-enhancing supplement he was trying out on his runners, he sent an email to none other than Lance Armstrong. “Lance, call me asap!” Salazar wrote to the world’s most famous cyclist, who himself was only months away from being banned for life for doping. “We have tested it,
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