Hong Kong (AFP) March 21, 2021 After successfully muzzling Hong Kong’s democracy protests and opposition, Beijing’s loyalists are now taking aim at the arts as they seek to impose mainland-style orthodoxy on culture and purge the city of dissent. Newly built on Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, M+ Museum aims to rival Western contemporary heavyweights like London’s Tate Modern and New York’s MoMA. The 60,000 square-metrehttp://dlvr.it/Rw4FL0 Continue reading Patriot games: Hong Kong arts scene shudders as loyalists circle

Half of consumers who originally planned to return to their pre-pandemic in-store shopping routines once coronavirus is under control now plan to stick with online shopping. That shift in preferences means that e-commerce merchants must keep up with trending ways to market, sell, and prevent fraud. Let’s look at a few of the most important developments and see where they’re going.http://dlvr.it/RvyxGC Continue reading Advance Strategies to Eliminate E-Commerce Chargebacks

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 17, 2021 Farms surrounded by a greater diversity of insect populations benefit from more stable, reliable pollination services, according to a new study. In a first-of-its-kind study, published Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists measured insect diversity and pollination rates, over a period of several years, on farms across the globe. At hundreds of fahttp://dlvr.it/RvxFKC Continue reading Insect diversity boosts longterm stability of crop pollination services

Madrid (AFP) March 18, 2021 High among the treetops the sound of a chainsaw rings out and a huge branch comes crashing down as Madrid’s forestry engineers move from tree to tree, repairing the damage from the record snowfall seen in January. It has been over two months since Storm Filomena hit the Spanish capital, blanketing the city in the heaviest snowfall in 50 years. … Continue reading For Madrid’s trees, record snowfall leaves deep wounds

Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 18, 2021 Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is emitted during plant photosynthesis. SIF results from vegetation chlorophyll giving off red and infrared light wavelengths when excited by solar radiation. Measuring SIF is important because it is closely related to the terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP), which calculates the total amount of carbon dioxide fixed through photosynthesis inhttp://dlvr.it/RvsPRy Continue reading New Chinese satellite measures solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

A new social media platform called Swell is based on voice messaging. According its developers, Swell is the first social platform to focus exclusively on asynchronous audio conversations, where audio clips up to five minutes in length can be posted to the site. Any Swell member can host a conversation and has control over who may participate in it, as well as make posts.http://dlvr.it/Rvqs6P Continue reading New Social Platform Seeks to Swell Ranks With Talk in Displaced Time

Paris (AFP) March 15, 2021 Danone said Monday it had dismissed its chairman after months of complaints from foreign shareholders about the French food and drinks giant’s underperforming share price. Activist investors took aim at Emmanuel Faber, who became Danone’s boss in 2017, and his management team, demanding his departure and a revamp at the top as the company struggles to plot a post-Covid recovery … Continue reading Danone sacks chairman after investor onslaught

Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Mar 17, 2021 Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it’s actually the result of normal geological processes. During fieldwork at the Archean Maniitsoq structure in Greenland, an international team of scientists led by the University of Waterloo’s Chris Yakymchuk found the features of this region are inconsistenthttp://dlvr.it/RvnFq6 Continue reading The world’s oldest crater from a meteorite isn’t an impact crater after all

Today, more than 60 percent of consumers start their online shopping searches on Amazon. That trend is unlikely to change, as consumers have grown accustomed to the new normal of digital purchasing. As we look ahead into 2021 and beyond, here is what will take place in the Amazon e-commerce ecosystem that every brand needs to know.http://dlvr.it/RvlQY3 Continue reading 2021 Will Bring Big Changes to Amazon and Its Sellers

New York (AFP) March 15, 2021 American pharmaceutical companies Gilead and Merck announced Monday they have partnered to develop a new HIV therapy that could see daily medications replaced by a treatment that can be taken at longer intervals. The companies aim to combine two of their existing medications to “provide new, meaningful treatment options for people living with HIV,” the virus that causes AIDS, … Continue reading Gilead, Merck team up to develop long-acting HIV drug