SpaceX announces design competition for Hyperloop
Billionaire Elon Musk wants to jump-start his Hyperloop high-speed transit system.
Billionaire Elon Musk wants to jump-start his Hyperloop high-speed transit system.
Engineering
Jun 15, 2015
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Los Angeles is suing to shut down a mobile phone application that arranges medical marijuana home deliveries.
Software
Dec 3, 2014
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Wobbegong (Orectolobus maculatus) and angel sharks (Squatina australis) have evolved unique electrosensory pores that aid attacks on unsuspecting prey from beneath, according to a recent study.
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2015
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A record-breaking heat wave stretching across the southern United States is expected to expand in the coming days and weeks, as scientists warn July will likely be the hottest month ever recorded.
Environment
Jul 21, 2023
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The public will once again get an up-close view of scientists uncovering the bones of saber-toothed cats, mastodons and mammoths in the heart of Los Angeles.
Archaeology
Jun 19, 2014
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An extensive CO2 monitoring network set up around the San Francisco Bay Area by an atmospheric chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, has recorded the first evidence that the adoption of electric vehicles is ...
Environment
Apr 4, 2024
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Skimming across the surface of the vast Pacific, Alain Thebault scans the horizon with his blue Breton eyes. He is feeling good. A record is there to be broken.
Energy & Green Tech
May 23, 2015
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Large-scale storage of low-pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid-scale energy applications offers several advantages over above-ground storage, says a recent ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 9, 2014
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A passenger aboard a plane at Los Angeles International Airport picked up a Wi-Fi hotspot named after a terrorist group, but authorities who held travelers for hours as they investigated say no crime was committed.
Telecom
Oct 27, 2014
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The plight of an entangled baby whale off Orange County, California, has sparked an urgent multi-agency rescue effort, highlighting again the perils that ocean debris poses to marine mammals and other wildlife.
Plants & Animals
Apr 26, 2021
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