The Royal Society has teamed up with Professor Brian Cox to launch the next instalment of Brian Cox School Experiment videos. As well as helping teachers bring exciting, creative, practical science to the classroom, the latest films will equip students with skills and information on emerging jobs and industries being reshaped by scientific advances. Aimed at students aged 11-14, the resources span topics at the forefront of global scientific research, including genome editing for sustain.
reviewing the charges and considering all of his legal options. as the scandal unfolds in more details come through, there is reaction in the cryptocurrency industry. in the last day, the last 2a hours, binance, the world s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges fighting against a crisis of confidence in its chief executive revealing 1.a $1.14 executive revealing 1.a $1.1a billion of net withdrawals took place just yesterday as users continue to remove their assets from the marketplace because of course they are concerned about the outlook. this is the knock on effect of the ftx case and the impact across the industry. we will keep an eye on that as well. the pharma giant pfizer says the us government has agreed to buy 3.7 million courses of its anti viral covid treament paxlovid for $2 billion.
commie. we think of the business side the best way to do this is to leverage the tax system to have a lower tax rate for those who achieve lower carbon stop we want to see government support for businesses particular small businesses particular small businesses to invest in energy efficiency measures. it is clear the uk needs to develop its own mystic anti sources particularly nuclear, we would see government action on that immediately. see government action on that immediately- see government action on that immediatel . ., ,, . immediately. thank you so much for bein: immediately. thank you so much for being with immediately. thank you so much for being with us. let s stay with the uk economy. prime minister liz truss is a self professed fan of margaret thatcher, but on wednesday there was another echo of the 1980s she will be less keen on. the pound slumped to levels not seen since mrs thatcher s time in office, hitting a 37 year lowjust above 1.14 to the us dollar. since the b
h pedram javaheri has more. we know the drought situation has been dire, about 42% are under extreme drought situation. and certainly doesn t help when you look at the incoming heatwave in place where over 7 million californians are under a heat advisory where temperatures across the central valley will get up to 103 here. and we re talking about 20 degrees above average. so again, sacramento, 101 on tuesday that would best the all-time record. same story wednesday before we see cooler temperatures come in. records across sacramento have been standing since the 1950s. of course it has been very dry. long beach, only 1.14 inches of rainfall has come down, 8 inches is what is normal this time of year and only 14% of what is normal as well. so again the heat not going to help the situation. 7 77 along the coast, 93 across
drought. so the situation is certainly as bad as it gets when it comes to leading its way to an explosive fire weather situation. here s what it looks like. when it comes to spot fires, we have seen multiple reports of spot fires, the hill tops and it will pick up the embers and deposit them downstreams and this is how you get fires to expand and spread quickly in a matter of a few hours and unfortunately that is what is happening here on the southern tier of orange county. so, mandatory evacuations and the coverage of the particular fire, approaching 200 acres at this hour and of course, we talk about the drought situation, look how dry it has been in 2022 alone across areas such as long beach. not too far from the north, and closest reliable rain gauge. only 1.14 inches of rainfall has come down across the area so far in the first five plus months of the year, about eight inches is