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Commercially degradable commercial quality flip-flops. Credit: Stephen Mayfield, UC San Diego. As the most popular shoes in the world, flip-flops are responsible for a cumbersome percentage of plastic waste that ends up in landfills, on seawalls and in our oceans. Scientists at the University of California San Diego have spent …

“If we don’t have WeChat, we’re really going back 40 years,” she said, in comments translated from Mandarin Chinese. Tencent (TCEHY)The popular messaging app could now be banned in the US if the company does not agree to sell it, as required by an executive order issued Thursday. WeChat is …

LONDON – Barely six months after Britain broke away from the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is increasingly consumed by attempts to stop the burglary of restive parts of the United Kingdom. On Friday, Mr Johnson sent his popular Treasury chief, Rishi Sunak, to Scotland to curb nationalist sentiment …

Epic Games replaces ‘Fortnite’ police cars with civilian cars to protest police brutality. FOX Business’ Jackie DeAngelis and more. Epic Games, the developer behind the popular video game “Fortnite”, is worth $ 17.3 billion after its last round of funding. The California-based software developer and publisher, founded in 1991, announced …

You might not see it when you look at the night sky, but there’s a lot of junk around the world right now. Pieces of decomposed satellites, discarded rocket launchers, and other man-made debris circle our planet like a giant bubble of trash. Tracking the positions of these objects is …