The bundle of magnets at the heart of the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's (PPPL) National ...

Delta Air Lines is renaming its fare classes, including folding Basic Economy into a new "Delta Main" category. Delta Main will have three levels: Basic, Classic, and Extra, offering varying perks ...

But a new model is gaining traction: parametric insurance. Unlike traditional policies, parametric insurance offers rapid, transparent, predetermined payouts based on predefined triggers.

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Some have worked out, like snowboarding boots, while others were thankfully abandoned, like Vans’ short-lived Serio line of running shoes from the 1970s. The new Vans Super Lowpro is based on the ...

Weather Risk Management Services (WRMS), in association with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), has launched the parametric insurance pilot schemes in Iraq for protecting smallholder ...

Some businesses are choosing another option that promises to get them help faster: parametric policies. Allied Market Research forecasts that the global parametric insurance market, which totaled $18 ...

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The tangent is defined as the single point where a straight line meets a curved surface. The tangent can be determined with a collection of mathematical formulas but is most commonly determined by ...

The world's first public railway was the Stockton to Darlington line in England, which opened in 1825. It was just eight miles long when it opened to transport both passengers and freight.

Between 2000 and 2019, India experienced the third-highest number of natural disaster events globally. The future looks grim as the frequency and intensity of these disasters are projected to ...

The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert ...