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Automotive/Transportation
Honda Recalls 145,573 Vehicles Due to Fire-Prone Defect
TOKYO, April 4 (Kyodo) — Honda Motor Co. told the transport ministry Thursday it is recalling 145,573 of its Vamos, Vamos Hobio and Z passenger cars due to an engine parts defect which could cause fire. Subject to the recall are vehicles of those three models produced between October 1998 and August 2010. The recall […]
The Earth is Eating People
I’m not sure if it was the first photos of the “freak geological incident” to surface, or news of the golfer who plummeted deep into an 18-foot cavern that has made it impossible for me to make it through a full night without living through vivid nightmares in which a sinkhole opens up beneath me […]
Experimental Oddity, or Teleportation?
Xavier Vlad, who heads up the Center for Advanced Material Irradiation, describes an experimental oddity: one test sample vanished from the vacuum chamber at the end of an ion beam line and appeared in a separate chamber in a different area of the lab. Dare we call it teleportation? Xavier Vlad is a professor of […]
Utility: Most of Oil Spilled in Lansing Cleaned Up
A utility has cleaned up most of the about 300 to 500 gallons of hydraulic fluid that spilled from a Lansing power plant and left a sheen on the Grand River, officials said. Lansing Board of Water and Light’s General Manager Peter Lark expects oil-absorbent booms — inflated buoys with pads to absorb the fluid […]
Too Strict Regulations Could Doom U.S. Rare Earths Mining
Rare Earths Should Come from U.S. Not China: NCPA Study With economic and military demand likely to grow in the next few years, the United States must reform its mine permit process and safety regulations to get to the vast underground store of rare earths materials that could drive growth, add jobs and bring revenues […]
Tesla Unveils Financing Program
Electric car maker Tesla Motors says it has joined with two banks to finance a 10 percent down payment on its new Model S sedan. The company also will give buyers the option to sell the car back to Tesla after three years at a value guaranteed by the automaker. The financing program makes buying […]
Light Tsunami in a Superconductor
In their latest experiment, Prof. Andrea Cavalleri from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at the Hamburg-based Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and Dr. Michael Gensch from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) investigated together with other colleagues from the HZDR, the United Kingdom, and Japan if and how superconductivity can […]
The Evolution of M2M: The Other Mobile Marketplace
Amidst the much-discussed love affair between consumers and their mobile devices, another relationship is blooming in the mobile sector. Device manufacturers from nearly every industry vertical (transportation, energy, health, payments, etc.) are increasingly offering devices and products equipped with mobile connectivity, transforming “dumb” devices into “smart” ones. Providing connectivity for these devices currently amounts to […]
Trial Over Gulf Oil Spill Resumes with Halliburton
A Halliburton employee who worked on a failed cement job linked to a 2010 deadly oil rig explosion in the Gulf is testifying in a trial to determine what caused the blowout. Jesse Gagliano began testifying Tuesday about his work for BP’s cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon. Gagliano invoked his Fifth Amendment right against […]