Volkswagen will spend about $10.2 billion to settle an emissions cheating scandal in the U.S. that has turned into one of the largest cases of corporate deception in the nation's history.
Business
Jun 23, 2016
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From their enclosures at zoos in New York and Rhode Island, the New England cottontail offers a cute distraction for visitors.
Ecology
Jun 23, 2016
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Twilio shares nearly doubled in their first day of trading Thursday, after the technology company raised $150 million in its initial public offering.
Business
Jun 23, 2016
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Millions of people will likely be in harm's way as a new hurricane season unfolds in the United States. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts up to eight hurricanes in the 2016 season, and as many as ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2016
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It gets mighty crowded around your DNA, but don't worry: According to Rice University researchers, your proteins are nimble enough to find what they need.
Biochemistry
Jun 23, 2016
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In the last few years, several groups have announced that their facial recognition systems have achieved near-perfect accuracy rates, performing better than humans at picking the same face out of the crowd.
Computer Sciences
Jun 23, 2016
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When Brian Cresto and his fellow firefighters fly toward a wildfire at just a few hundred feet off the ground, he's scouting for the best spot for them to land when they parachute down.
Engineering
Jun 23, 2016
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A team of researchers at Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Merck & Co. has developed a cost-effective and complementary approach to a fundamental chemical reaction known as a C-N bond coupling, ...
Materials Science
Jun 23, 2016
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The discovery power of the gene chip is coming to nanotechnology. A Northwestern University research team is developing a tool to rapidly test millions and perhaps even billions or more different nanoparticles at one time ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 23, 2016
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When dormant volcanoes are about to erupt, they show some predictive characteristics—seismic activity beneath the volcano starts to increase, gas escapes through the vent, or the surrounding ground starts to deform. However, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2016
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