As Pope Francis Ails, Outlandish Rumors Run Wild

Often the talk of machinations involving the Holy Father has come from unorthodox sources. “He is really dead,” Fabrizio Corona, an Italian celebrity paparazzo involved with many of the country’s sordid scandals, said onstage outside a shopping mall in Italy’s northern Emilia-Romagna region. He offered no evidence for the claim, and he dismissed the material…

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Trump Fires Democrats on Federal Trade Commission

President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, a rejection of the corporate regulator’s traditional independence that may clear the way for the administration’s agenda. The White House told the Democrats, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, that the president was terminating their roles, according to statements from the…

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How 3D-printing ‘microfactories’ can transform plastic waste

A new era of 3D printing “microfactories” is helping to turn waste plastics into “highly competitive” products fit for use in the construction industry, according to Veena Sahajwalla, professor and founding director of UNSW Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) Centre. Speaking to CNBC’s Mandy Drury at Schneider Electric’s Sydney Innovation Summit on Monday in…

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