Can car crashes become thing of past?
Automakers are imagining a world where nobody dies in car accidents and they say it is closer than most people think.
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Experts to study food safety of oilfield wastewater
More farmers in drought-stricken California are using oilfield wastewater to irrigate, and a new panel on Tuesday began taking one of the state's deepest looks yet at the safety of using the chemical-laced water on food crops.
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Ancient giraffe relative had thick legs, curly horns
An ancient relative of the giraffe was a huge, heavy animal with thick legs, a flat face and massive, curly horns flaring out from its skull, said a study Wednesday.
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Research finds reason advertising boosts stock prices for some companies and not others
By 2017, total advertising spending is expected to approach $136 billion, placing more pressure on management to demonstrate its impact on sales and stock prices. It's the age-old question of advertising effectiveness.
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Teaching social justice to privileged students necessary for change
Social justice educational initiatives often focus on giving a voice to students of color and low-income students, but Katy Swalwell, an assistant professor of education at Iowa State University, says such efforts alone may ...
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A century after Endurance Shackleton diagnosed with 'hole in the heart'
On the 100th anniversary of the Endurance expedition to Antarctica led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, doctors writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine believe the inspirational explorer may have had the congenital ...
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In California tests, self-driving cars still need human help
Futuristic self-driving cars traveling along California roads have needed plenty of old-fashioned human intervention to stay safe.
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