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New artifacts point to origin of Shu culture

More than 500 cultural relics have been unearthed at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Guanghan, Sichuan province. Among the discoveries in the excavations, which started on Saturday and will continue till

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Analyst on U.S.-China meeting: At least we have some results

01:41 A face-to-face meeting is worth a thousand other forms of communication, said an expert of Chinese affairs on the China-U.S. high-level meeting."Even though there could be some a

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The lightning-fast Series A (that was 3 years in the making)

Christine Tao runs Sounding Board, a business founded in 2016 that offers executive coaching services to leaders at major companies like Kraft and Heinz. But not long ago, she was the one in need of a

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Finland suspends use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

FILE PHOTO: Syringes are loaded with the AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine. /VCG Finlandon Friday suspended the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine while it investigates two possible cases of b

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UK reports 5 cases of rare blood clots in 11 million AstraZeneca shots

FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares to administer a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a health care. /VCG Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) sa

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WHO statement on AstraZeneca shot expected 'very soon'

WHO said on Wednesday that it still recommends using the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 as the benefits outweigh its risks. /CFP A World Health Organization (WHO) advisory group statemen

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Second batch of China donated COVD-19 vaccines arrives in Pakistan

Pakistan on Wednesday received the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government with a handover ceremony held at Noor Khan Air Base near Pakistan's capital Islamabad.Speaking o

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France, Italy say EU agency's comments on AstraZeneca "encouraging"

VCG France and Italy said on Tuesday the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) comments on AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine are "encouraging", AFP reports.The two countries announced suspensions of

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Aiming to become the definitive source for location data, SafeGraph raises $45M

While there are plenty of companies selling data about physical locations, SafeGraph CEO Auren Hoffman said his startup is “one of the few companies to sell this data to data science teams.”For the mo

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Desktop Metal launches a health-focused business line

Mass manufacturing may be the future of 3D printing (one hopes), but health products are very much its present. From orthodontics to prosthesis, medical needs are right in the sweet spot for additive

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People face shaming for traveling during COVID-19 pandemic

03:19 A year after pandemic, many people are experiencing pandemic fatigue and have started to travel.While there are clear ways to minimize COVID risks whiletraveling,the U.S. Centers

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Blue Origin will upgrade New Shepard rocket with the ability to simulate lunar gravity

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will be providing NASA with a valuable scientific tool ahead of the U.S. space agency’s goal of returning to the Moon: The ability to run experiments in simulated l

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Ibex Medical Analytics raises $38M for its AI-powered cancer diagnostic platform

Israel-based Ibex Medical Analytics, which has an AI-driven imaging technology to detect cancer cells in biopsies more efficiently, has raised a $38 million Series B financing round led by Octopus Ven

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Chinese scientists use facial recognition AI to track monkeys

00:43 Facial recognition technology is now widely-adopted in our lives. It uses computer algorithms to pick out distinctive details on a person’s face and compare them

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COVID-19: Stem cell therapy

02:55 They’re often called the body's raw materials.Stem cells are increasingly being used in medical treatments.Could they also play a role in beating back COVID-19? Many medical rese

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Cameroon to receive more than 1 million vaccine doses: PM

Cameroon, one of the countries in Africa worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, is set to receive "very shortly" more than one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines. /VCG Cameroon, one of the cou

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U.S., EU to suspend tariffs to resolve Boeing-Airbus trade dispute

Boeing and Airbus square off at the 2013 Paris Air Show. /Getty Images The U.S. and the European union will suspend tariffs for four months tied to a long-running dispute over illegal subsidie