A microbe factory could more than halve a mission’s payload weight.We’ve all had trouble squeezing our luggage down to the allowed weight for a flight. But for a trip to Mars that problem is magnified. The NASA rule-of-thumb is that for every kilogram to be launched into space, you need 99 kilograms of fuel and rocket to get it there. […]
View gallery.When the market gets a little sketchy, investors might tend to prefer the “blue chip” companies vs. the smaller companies due to the perceived safety in the bigger names.To isolate those bigger names, the most common method is by searching for companies with the largest market capitalization.Market cap is defined as the total dollar market value of all of […]
By Profit Scanner for InvestorPlace MediaHealthcare has been far and away the best sector of 2015 so far — and biotech stocks are no exception.The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index (ETF) (IBB) is up 9.4% in just the year-to-date; that’s about twice the return of the Nasdaq as a whole, and four-and-a-half times more than the S&P 500. And analysts at […]
View gallery.Biotech is big, and the industry has been big for quite some time.As a matter of fact, biotechnology has been the second-best performing industry over the last two years.Biotech stocks obviously come in all different shapes and sizes. Some investors like the small-caps, others prefer the middle of the road mid-caps.However, at the end of the day, the big […]
Biotech is big, and the industry has been big for quite some time.As a matter of fact, biotechnology has been the second-best performing industry over the last two years.Biotech stocks obviously come in all different shapes and sizes. Some investors like the small-caps, others prefer the middle of the road mid-caps.However, at the end of the day, the big biotechs […]
