US turns up heat on Takata over air bag problem (Update)
U.S. safety regulators are ordering Japanese auto supplier Takata Corp. to provide more information about air bags that can explode and shoot shrapnel toward drivers and passengers.
U.S. safety regulators are ordering Japanese auto supplier Takata Corp. to provide more information about air bags that can explode and shoot shrapnel toward drivers and passengers.
Business
Oct 30, 2014
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Leading international donor organisations have pledged $3 billion to help save the shrinking Aral Sea—the worst man-made ecological catastrophe ever.
Environment
Oct 30, 2014
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A physics institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has received a $65 million donation—the largest single gift in the university's history.
Other
Oct 30, 2014
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Architecture imitates life, at least when it comes to those spiral ramps in multistory parking garages. Stacked and connecting parallel levels, the ramps are replications of helical structures found in a ubiquitous membrane ...
General Physics
Oct 30, 2014
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The Swedish co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was found guilty on Thursday in the largest hacking case in Denmark's history.
Internet
Oct 30, 2014
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NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured an image of the birth of the Eastern Pacific Ocean's twenty-first tropical depression, located far south of Acapulco, Mexico.
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2014
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General Atomics' DIII-D Tokamak has been a critical part of the nation's magnetic fusion energy research since it was built in the 1980s.
Plasma Physics
Oct 30, 2014
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Earth is known as the Blue Planet because of its oceans, which cover more than 70 percent of the planet's surface and are home to the world's greatest diversity of life. While water is essential for life on the planet, the ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2014
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A deadly disease that is wiping out salamanders in parts of Europe will inevitably reach the U.S. through the international wildlife trade unless steps are taken to halt its spread, says University of Maryland amphibian expert ...
Ecology
Oct 30, 2014
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Where do the tremendous amounts of material that are ejected to from huge volcanic calderas during super-eruptions actually originate?
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2014
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