Nikola fell as much as 21% on Monday after the company released a prospectus describing its intention to sell up to 23.9 million shares. In addition, existing shareholders seek to sell up to 53.4 million shares, according to the prospectus. Nikola said the proceeds from the sale would be used …
Read More »First coronavirus vaccines report promising signs of immunity
The first results of separate British and Chinese candidate coronavirus vaccines reported on Monday showed promising signs of immunity and no serious side effects. The first results of 1,077 volunteers in a study from the University of Oxford and 508 adults in the CanSino Biologics study conducted in Wuhan, China, …
Read More »Supreme Court Refuses To Accelerate Democrats’ Momentum Over Trump’s Financial Documents
However, formal Supreme Court judgments are generally not issued for 25 days, meaning Democrats won’t be able to return to court until early August. The Chamber asked the Supreme Court to issue the documentation immediately. On Monday, the court rejected the request. Judge Sonia Sotomayor indicated that she would have …
Read More »How COVID-19 could be crippled by an ancient blood thinner
Much of the effort to develop remedies and vaccines to combat COVID-19 has focused on the spike protein that the culprit virus, SARS-CoV-2, uses to invade healthy cells. Scientists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute believe they have found a way to block the ability of the spike protein to infect …
Read More »Hubble makes a discovery of ghostly arms
Hubble Space Telescope image of the impressive silver-blue spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 4848. Credit: ESA / Hubble and NASA, M. Gregg A notable feature of most spiral galaxies is the multitude of arched spiral arms that apparently rotate from the center of the galaxy. In this image, taken …
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