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The long-term lessons America learns from the coronavirus pandemic will spell life or death.
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Can biomaterials help finally thrust perovskite solar cells to mainstream adoption?
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Apple has temporarily cut off business with a Taiwanese supplier after finding it asked student employees to work late nights or overtime hours in violation of the iPhone maker’s
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Toilet paper is back on store shelves. But you may not recognize some of the brands. Demand for toilet paper has been so high during the pandemic that in order to keep their shelves stocked, retailers are buying up foreign toilet paper brands, mostly from Mexico. Major chains, across the country, including CVS, Piggly Wiggly, …
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Boeing has found manufacturing defects on some of its 787 long-range airliners in areas where parts of the fuselage are joined together, the latest setback for the aircraft maker whose 737 Max is still grounded after two deadly crashes. The company said Friday that eight planes must be inspected and repaired before they are allowed …
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Texas officials are ready to give Tesla millions of dollars in tax breaks to build its next factory in the Austin area. Commissioners in Travis County voted Tuesday to give Elon Musk’s electric-car maker at least $14.7 million in property tax rebates if it spends at least $1.1 billion on the proposed plant near the …
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US lawmakers and policymakers should be wary of China’s moves to target vulnerable US assets and expand its market share in the wake of the global economic crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus, according to a study prepared for a US trade group and released on Tuesday. The Horizon Advisory report for the Alliance for …
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A Minneapolis manufacturing company whose plant was set on fire by rioters plans to leave the city, saying that city officials afforded them no assistance in handling the destruction. “They don’t care about my business,” 7-Sigma Inc.’s president and owner, Kris Wyrobek, told The Star Tribune about Minneapolis public officials. “They didn’t protect our people. We …
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Colombian seamstress Nazly Penagos got an unusual offer from her boss: Come live inside the Bogota factory to reduce the chance of getting sick with the novel coronavirus. The owner of the Hechizoo factory, which normally employs 70 to produce high-end upholstery, has installed bathrooms, a kitchen and beds to house eight of the 17 …
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It took only two days for a reopened Ford assembly plant to grind to a halt over the coronavirus. Thousands of workers at Ford’s facility in Chicago were forced to leave the site Tuesday on just the second day of operations after two workers tested positive for COVID-19 — and a second company factory in …
The long-term lessons America learns from the coronavirus pandemic will spell life or death.
