09/12/2015

Severe smog hovers over Beijing on Day 2 of red alert

Beijing residents stayed indoors, schools were closed and limits on cars, factories and construction sites kept pollution from spiking even higher on Wednesday, the second of three days of restrictions triggered by the city's ...

Toyota starts sales of 4th generation Prius hybrid

Toyota said Wednesday it expects annual sales of its newly-released fourth generation Prius hybrid to reach as many as 350,000 vehicles despite a big drop in oil prices making traditional gasoline cars cheap to run.

Australia's Atlassian a welcome Nasdaq 'unicorn'

An Australian start-up founded with credit card debt and a "Don't #@!% the customer" motto is set to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange in a rare example of the entrepreneurial spirit the government is trying to nurture.

Increasing aridity reduces microbial diversity

A new study drawn from more than 80 dryland sites across the world indicates that increasing aridity reduces abundance and diversity of microbial communities which carry out for most of ecosystem services such as primary ...

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