In Professor Dowell’s Head, a 1925 science fiction novel by Alexander Belyayev that was a must read when I was a kid, a dying scientist bequeaths his body to a colleague who then revives just the heart and the head. In this form, Professor Dowell lives on but hates it. The life of British physicist Stephen Hawking, who died on ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE’s deal to take a controlling stake in the Bombardier Inc. C Series jetliner programme could be finalised by the time of the Farnborough Air Show this summer, according to people familiar with the matter. Antitrust approval for the plan, which the planemakers had been seeking by the end of the year, is likely to come earlier than ...

Bloomberg The collapse of Toys ‘R’ Us Inc. is yet another blow for landlords, who now will have gaping holes of suburban retail space up for grabs. And few tenants would want them. The debt-laden toy chain, with more than 700 stores across the US, became one of the largest victims of the retail decline when it announced that it ...