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Until the third hour of the testimony before the Federal Insolvency Court by Dr. Richard Sackler, a former president and co-chair of the board of directors of Purdue Pharma, the prescription opioid maker founded by members of the Sackler…

If you were hoping to buy a ticket to space on one of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space planes, you’ll probably wish you bought one seven years ago.On Thursday, Virgin Galactic announced that it was resuming sales of tickets on its…

Here’s what you need to know:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTpWYWIfP7YRichard Branson finally got his trip to space on Sunday.It has been a very long wait for Mr. Branson, the irreverent, 70-year-old British billionaire who leads a galaxy…

Still, the forces felt by the passengers on the way down will be greater than on the way up, reaching six times the force of gravity.Once the plane is back in the atmosphere, the tail booms rotate back down, and the plane will glide to a…

Richard Branson is scheduled to fly to suborbital space on Sunday, nine days before a similar trip by billionaire Jeff Bezos. These first flights for the space moguls will also take off without liability insurance, reports the DealBook…

Dr. Lewontin was amazed at the harmfulness of sexism, even among his allegedly high-minded colleagues. "When speaking in front of an academic audience about the biological determination of social status, I have repeatedly tried the…

Richard Branson, the British billionaire who founded a galaxy of Virgin companies, announced Thursday evening that he would be on the next test flight of the Virgin Galactic spaceplane.This flight is scheduled to take off from Spaceport…

Richard R. Ernst, a Swiss chemist who received the 1991 Nobel Prize for his work on refining nuclear magnetic resonance or NMR spectroscopy, the powerful chemical analysis method of MRT technology, died on June 4th in Winterthur in northern…

Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic (C), poses next to George T. Whitesides (R), CEO of Virgin Galactic Holdings, after ringing the first trading bell on the company's first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on October…

Richard H. Driehaus, an avid investor who built his elementary school coin collection into a fortune that he used to preserve history and classical architecture, died March 9 in a Chicago hospital. He was 78 years old.The cause was a brain…