European oil companies, especially Swiss commodity traders, are exploiting weak African fuel standards by selling toxic diesel and gasoline across the continent, a campaign group said Thursday.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 15, 2016
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Wearable tech, which was seeing sizzling sales growth a year ago, is cooling this year amid consumer hesitation over new devices, a survey showed Thursday.
Business
Sep 15, 2016
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The man who created the TED conference is embroiled in a multimillion-dollar legal dispute over the sale of a TED spinoff.
Business
Sep 15, 2016
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Tunisian and British researchers have unearthed Stone Age tools showing humans lived in southern Tunisia nearly 100,000 years ago, they said Thursday.
Archaeology
Sep 15, 2016
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Supermassive black holes, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun, are found at the centers of galaxies. Many of these galactic behemoths are hidden within a thick doughnut-shape ring of dust and gas known as a ...
Astronomy
Sep 15, 2016
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new type of inverter device with greater efficiency in a smaller, lighter package – which should improve the fuel-efficiency and range of hybrid and electric ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 15, 2016
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China has launched its second space station in a sign of the growing sophistication of its military-backed program that intends to send a mission to Mars in the coming years.
Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2016
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Researchers at the Department of Micro- and Nanosystems at KTH have developed a new way to simultaneously shape and surface treat plastic components. The new method can reduce the manufacturing cost of medical devices, such ...
Materials Science
Sep 15, 2016
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Racial prejudice is a major issue in this November's presidential election. A new Tel Aviv University study published in the August 2016 issue of the Journal of School Psychology reports on a new system that creates sustainable ...
Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2016
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Pandora said it has revamped its $5 a month Internet radio service, giving listeners the ability to skip and replay more songs.
Business
Sep 15, 2016
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