Millions of people step aboard airplanes each day, complaining about the lack of legroom and overhead space but almost taking for granted that they can travel thousands of miles in just a few hours. Wednesday marks the 100th anniversary ...
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Young children are falling out of high chairs at alarming rates, according to a new safety study that found high chair accidents increased 22 percent between 2003 and 2010. U.S. emergency rooms now attend to an average of almost 9,500 ...
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Late this month, ESA's Mars Express will make the closest flyby yet of the Red Planet's largest moon Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface. The flyby on 29 December will be so close and fast that Mars Express will not be ...
The surface of Mars is full of activity, with dust storms, dust devils, and drifting dunes in constant motion. Scientists suspect that similarly rich activity may exist underneath the surface, even though it has never been seen. Now in a ...
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Nuinsco Resources Limited ("Nuinsco" or "the Company") (TSX:NWI) today reported results for six drill holes amounting to 501m, completed upon the CBay Minerals ("CBay") properties in the Chibougamau mining camp area of north-central Quebec ...
Gulfsands Petroleum plc ("Gulfsands", the "Group" or the "Company" - AIM: GPX), the oil and gas production, exploration and development company with activities in Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Colombia and the U.S.A. provides the following ...
Details of the new additions to Mitsubishi Australia’s showroom in 2014. Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (April) Due in April, the Outlander PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) is a pointer to Mitsubishi’s design and ...
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Ivanhoe Energy (TSX: IE; NASDAQ: IVAN) announced today that it has learned that the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) intends to develop a new long-term policy for reviewing shallow steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) applications in ...
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This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
Northern Sun Mining Corp. (TSX:NSC) (formerly Liberty Mines Inc.) has entered into a binding custom milling term sheet with Wallbridge Mining Company Limited (TSX:WM) to provide for the custom milling of ore from Wallbridge's Broken Hammer ...
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Conveyor systems are generally used in various businesses to safely transport substances from one place to some other, enhancing effectiveness and therefore reducing human job. There are a lot of distinct kinds of conveyors, each having a ...
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Rotary Lift says that with its Shockwave technology, the SPO12 lift can raise a 12,000-lb. vehicle in 19 seconds. Rotary Lift's patent-pending Shockwave technology is now available for the first time on a 12,000 lb. capacity lift, making ...
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CALGARY, Dec. 4, 2013 /CNW/ - Oryx Petroleum Corporation Limited ("Oryx Petroleum" or the "Corporation") today announces the successful discovery at Zey Gawra in the Hawler license area.. The ZEG-1 well was flow tested at an average rate of ...
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VANCOUVER, Nov. 29, 2013 /CNW/ - Endeavour Mining Corporation ("Endeavour" or the "Corporation") (TSX:EDV) (ASX:EVR) (OTCQX:EDVMF) announces the pouring of its first gold bar from the Carbon In Leach and Gravity gold circuits at the Agbaou ...
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From a molten blob of glass to a meticulously crafted masterpiece, the works of art at Wheatonarts round into shape a little bit at a time. A day after working to create some of the world's largest Christmas ornaments, Deborah Czeresko ...
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