Oil refining helps China’s industrial earnings recover in May

China’s industrial gains recovered in May, signaling a shift in the fortunes of sectors such as oil refining following the devastation caused by the coronavirus blockade earlier in the year. Profits from large-scale industrial companies rose 6 percent yoy in May, after declining 4.3 percent in April, marking the first …

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The magnetic history of ice

The history of our planet has been written, among other things, in the periodic inversion of its magnetic poles. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science propose a new way to read this historical record: on ice. Their findings, which were recently reported in Letters of Earth and Planetary Science, …

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