University challenge 大学挑战 The returns on housing investment are not what they are cracked up to be 住房投资的回报并不是他们所吹嘘的那样 Brits, it is said, have a penchant for nostalgia. So take a trip down memory lane to the...
A previous attempt by a different group of engineers used pulsed electromagnets. This, though, required both high pressure, which is expensive to create, and the electromagnets themselves, which are costly to buy and costly to run. Dr Vetrovec intend...
Making oxygen 制造氧气 Magnetic moment 磁矩 A new approach may make oxygen-manufacturing much cheaper 一种新方法可能会使制造氧气成本更低 Oxygen is vital. Literally so for breathing, and thus for many hospital patients. And meta...
That has recently begun to change. Regulators relaxed controls over initial public offerings, paving the way for hundreds of new listings. The value of being a shell diminished. The delisting reform, introduced on the final day of 2020, attacks the p...
China's stockmarket 中国股市 Bring out your dead 清理尸骸 China wants to clear the dross from its stock exchanges 中国想要清除其证券交易所里的糟粕 Like many Chinese companies on the stockmarket, Gangtai Holding, a jewellery-to...
Police and protesters clashed in several Tunisian cities, as frustration over a poor economy boiled over. The unrest came amid a four-day national lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19. Some of those involved threw petrol bombs and looted shops. Mo...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. Despite the small crowds, limited in size because of COVID-19, the event marked a sea change in political tone. Mr Biden stre...
Connecting security and economic priorities, the Democrats hope, might also attract the support of Republican hawks such as Marco Rubio, who have taken the same intellectual path, thereby shoring up the centre. This is a worthwhile aim, sharpened by...
The complexity of the new footing with China that Mr Sullivan and other reformists envision underlies that uncertainty. While many in Congress, from both parties, hanker after the simplicity of an old-fashioned cold war, they want closer co-operation...
United States 美国版块 Lexington 莱克星顿专栏 Back to the future 回到未来 Joe Biden sets out to restore American leadership with an old team in a new world 乔拜登着手利用旧的团队恢复美国在新世界的领导地位 Not sin...
