Asthma sufferers and others with breathing problems are turning up at hospitals and doctors' waiting rooms, wheezing and hacking. Schoolchildren are being kept inside at recess. And people whose lungs are easily irritated ...
Environment
Nov 17, 2016
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The biggest U.S. manufacturer of solar panels is cutting a quarter of its jobs worldwide and will reduce production at its only North American plant.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 17, 2016
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Tesla Motors got approval from investors to combine with SolarCity Corp. in an effort to expand the market for solar power and give electric car owners new options for solar charging.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 17, 2016
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For the third time in its history, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is home to one of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers. The SciPhi-XVI supercomputer was just listed as a TOP500 Supercomputer Site on November ...
Hardware
Nov 17, 2016
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New research suggests that Lake Champlain may be more susceptible to damage from climate change than was previously understood—and that, therefore, the rules created by the EPA to protect the lake may be inadequate to prevent ...
Environment
Nov 17, 2016
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To spur significant innovation and growth in advanced manufacturing, as well as save over $100 billion annually, U.S. industry must rectify currently unmet needs for measurement science and "proof-of-concept" demonstrations ...
Engineering
Nov 17, 2016
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A new Rice University technique grabs images of chemical processes that happen faster than most laboratory cameras are able to capture them.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 17, 2016
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A Soyuz rocket carrying a veteran American astronaut, a French newcomer and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off for the International Space Station on Friday.
Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2016
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The long-running drought in much of the Northeastern United States is expected to persist through the winter.
Environment
Nov 17, 2016
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For decades, marine chemists have faced an elusive paradox. The surface waters of the world's oceans are supersaturated with the greenhouse gas methane, yet most species of microbes that can generate the gas can't survive ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2016
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