Why do women and obese passengers suffer the worst car-crash injuries?
Until recently, diversity was not a critical priority for highway safety engineers.
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Webb Telescope's Houston highlights
With NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's approximately nine-month stay in Texas coming to an end, now is a good time to reflect on the memories it made in the Lone Star State. NASA has created a timelapse video that chronicles ...
Space Exploration
Jan 10, 2018
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Image: What lurks below NASA's Chamber A?
Hidden beneath Chamber A at the Johnson Space Center is an area engineers used to test critical contamination control technology that has helped keep our James Webb Space Telescope clean during cryogenic testing.
Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2017
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Engineers warm NASA's Webb Telescope as end of cryogenic testing nears
The temperature of Chamber A at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has begun to rise, signaling the beginning of the end of James Webb Space Telescope's cryogenic testing.
Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2017
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Daimler to recall 3 million vehicles to ease diesel doubts
German automaker Daimler will voluntarily recall 3 million Mercedes-Benz brand cars with diesel engines in Europe to improve their emissions performance, the company said Tuesday, in the wake of widespread public debate over ...
Business
Jul 18, 2017
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Researchers find computer code that Volkswagen used to cheat emissions tests
An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanism that allowed Volkswagen to circumvent U.S. and European emission tests over at least six years before the Environmental Protection Agency put the company on ...
Security
May 22, 2017
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NASA simulates Orion spacecraft launch conditions for crew
In a lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, engineers simulated conditions that astronauts in space suits would experience when the Orion spacecraft is vibrating during launch atop the agency's powerful Space Launch ...
Space Exploration
Jan 25, 2017
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US gov't accuses Fiat Chrysler of cheating on emissions
The U.S. government accused Fiat Chrysler on Thursday of failing to disclose software in some of its pickups and SUVs with diesel engines that allows them to emit more pollution than allowed under the Clean Air Act.
Business
Jan 12, 2017
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Researchers find order in a process previously assumed to be random
Scientific discoveries often arise from noticing the unexpected. Such was the case when Stanford researchers, studying a tiny device that has become increasingly important in disease diagnostics and drug discovery, observed ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 11, 2016
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Engineers design a home urine test that could scan for diseases
There's a good reason your doctor asks for a urine sample at your annual checkup. A simple, color-changing paper test, dipped into the specimen, can measure levels of glucose, blood, protein and other chemicals, which in ...
Analytical Chemistry
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