The Daily Populous

“There is nothing like this,” said Omar Yaghi, who invented the technology underlying the harvester.

“It operates at ambient temperature with ambient sunlight, and with no additional energy input you can collect water in the desert.

This laboratory-to-desert journey allowed us to really turn water harvesting from an interesting phenomenon into a science.”. »

And this weekend, the nation’s largest physicians group could join in the chorus calling to expand access to birth control.

At the American Medical Association’s annual meeting in Chicago, delegates will vote on a resolution to encourage contraceptive makers to submit applications to the Food and Drug Administration to switch the status of their pills from prescription to over the counter.

Two companies are working to apply for OTC status for contraceptives, but nothing is likely to happen anytime soon. »

Leaving the G7 summit on Saturday, President Trump said that the U.S. might end all trade with America’s closest allies if those countries don’t submit to his demands over reduced trade barriers.

“We’re the piggy bank that everybody is robbing, and that ends,” added Trump, who also repeated his exaggerations of U.S. trade deficits by tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.

Regarding the elimination of tariffs, Trump confirmed that he had suggested totally free trade among the G7 during the summit, explaining that, “Ultimately, that’s what you want. »

Large firms will have to publish and justify their chief executives' salaries and reveal the gap to their average workers under proposed new laws.

UK listed companies with over 250 staff will have to annually disclose and explain the so-called "pay ratios" in their organisation.

The company's chairman and the head of the remuneration committee resigned after anger over their bonuses. »