Despite an ever-rising number of pedestrian and bicyclist deaths on U.S. roads each year, there's no widespread public pressure to improve road safety—a situation influenced by how news articles about auto-pedestrian/bicyclist ...
Social Sciences
Jan 29, 2020
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Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft will return to Earth on Sunday, six days early, after a clock problem prevented a rendezvous with the International Space Station, NASA and the aerospace giant confirmed Saturday.
Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2019
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According to Craig Martin, deciphering Earth's geologic past is like an ant climbing over a car crash. "You've got to work out how the car crash happened, how fast the cars were going, at what angle they impacted," explains ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2019
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There might be life on the Moon after all: thousands of virtually indestructible creatures that can withstand extreme radiation, sizzling heat, the coldest temperatures of the universe, and decades without food.
Space Exploration
Aug 7, 2019
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A collision between an experimental self-driving shuttle and a semi in downtown Las Vegas was probably the truck driver's fault, but the shuttle operator didn't have quick access to a controller that could have honked the ...
Automotive
Jul 11, 2019
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Cars built in the last decade have been shown to be safer than older models, including in the most common types of crashes—frontal collisions. However, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia's ...
Automotive
Jul 10, 2019
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US regulators said Wednesday Boeing must address a new "potential risk" in the Boeing 737 MAX, further clouding the timeframe for resuming service on the planes after two deadly crashes.
Other
Jun 27, 2019
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SpaceIL, the Israeli company that attempted but failed to put an unmanned craft on the moon earlier this year, says it will not try a second moonshot.
Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2019
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Airline union leaders and a famed former airline pilot said Wednesday that Boeing made mistakes while developing the 737 Max, and the biggest was not telling anybody about new flight-control software so that pilots could ...
Other
Jun 19, 2019
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The president of the pilots' union at American Airlines says Boeing made mistakes in its design of the 737 Max and not telling pilots about new flight-control software on the plane.
Other
Jun 19, 2019
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