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By Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knoell Institute May 5, 2023Microbes are Nature’s greatest chemists, and by studying the genomes of ancient bacteria, it may be possible to discover new uses for very old molecules. Credit: Werner Siemens Foundation, Felix WeyIn a highly transdisciplinary study, scientists are rebuilding microbial natural products up to 100,000 years old using dental calculus of humans and Neanderthals.Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and…

Last Updated: May 02, 2023, 12:47 ISTPorsche 911 ST Spy Shots (Photo: Motor1.com)Porsche 911 ST is expected to be the last variation of the "992.1" generation before the facelifted model debuts next year with the "992.2" internal codenamePorsche is likely to expand its portfolio by introducing a new 911 variant on June 8. This date is significant for the German carmaker as it marks the 75th anniversary of when the first vehicle to bear the Porsche name was registered in 1948. The date is also close to the famous 24 Hours…

A US appeals court on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit filed by states against Meta's Facebook that alleged the company had broken antitrust law. Dozens of states led by New York asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year to reinstate the lawsuit, which US District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia rejected, saying they had waited too long to file. Both the Federal Trade Commission and the states had asked the court in 2020 to order Facebook to sell Instagram, which it bought…

Yuga Labs Inc. helped popularize nonfungible tokens with its Bored Ape Yacht Club collection, first introduced two years ago. The cartoon illustrations of slack-jawed primates, decorated with various accessories and expressions, sold for millions of dollars at the peak of the NFT frenzy last year. Now the bloom is firmly off the NFT rose, as it is with most things linked to cryptocurrencies these days. But for Daniel Alegre, the former Activision Blizzard Inc. executive who joined Yuga as chief executive officer last…

A US appeals court on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit filed by states against Meta's Facebook that alleged the company had broken antitrust law.Dozens of states led by New York asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year to reinstate the lawsuit, which US District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia rejected, saying they had waited too long to file.Both the Federal Trade Commission and the states had asked the court in 2020 to order Facebook to sell Instagram, which it bought for…

WASHINGTON—An appeals court said it wouldn’t revive a major antitrust case against Meta Platforms Inc., handing a defeat to dozens of state attorneys general who sought to undo the Facebook parent’s acquisition of messaging platform WhatsApp and photo-sharing app Instagram. In a 3-0 decision on Thursday, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a June 2021 ruling that dismissed the case. WASHINGTON—An appeals court said it wouldn’t revive a major…

For almost two decades after it opened in 1913, Michigan’s Central Station was a major stop on the nation’s interurban rail network. Then the private car took over the US, and Detroit declined. By the 1970’s, white residents were fleeing to the suburbs, auto jobs were leaving the state and the country, and local corruption soared.  At the turn of the century, the train depot and the 18-story office towers behind it had been abandoned for 30 years, the faded exterior looming over Detroit’s Corktown and Mexicantown…

Predictably, it was harder than Whitener thought. It took him two years to persuade AT&T, which hadn’t made a tube since 1988 but still owned Western Electric, to license the brand and sell him its tube-manufacturing equipment. He set up shop in Western Electric’s former tube factory in Kansas City, Missouri, where the mothballed machines were stored.After a fortuitous meeting with retired AT&T employees on a visit to Bell Labs, Whitener combed the northeast tracking down veterans of the storied facility,…

Global auto makers facing stalling sales in China and elsewhere are fixing their sights on India, a market that executives say has become too big to neglect despite historical challenges.  For years, Nissan “kept India on the backstage ready for growth,” Nissan Chief Operating Officer Ashwani Gupta said in an interview. “Now the market is growing.” After passenger-vehicle sales increased by 24% last year, India is on a par with Japan as the No. 3 country in terms of vehicle sales…

INSHEIM, Germany—Near the Rhine river in this part of western Germany, little indicates that beneath the picturesque villages, vineyards and rolling hills there lies enough lithium to make millions of batteries for electric vehicles. Vulcan Energy Resources Ltd. , an Australian-German mining company, recently began extracting lithium from a mix of scalding water, minerals and metals almost 2 miles underground. The same hot brine has for years powered a geothermal electricity station, which…