What are the 50 greatest inventions since the wheel? If you ballpark the wheel's innovation at 6,000 B.C., then what are the most significant discoveries that follow? A reasonable list should be agriculture-heavy, and in its "50 Greatest ...
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How many people does it take to change a light bulb at Heathrow Terminal 5? This question is no joke for bosses at Heathrow Airport after a story broke about abseilers being called in to change lamps. According to news site Exaron, many ...
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What four agriculture items would show up on a list of the 101 most important objects in American history? Probably not the four selected by Smithsonian from its “101 Objects That Made America.” But if you guessed cotton gin, ...
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About two years ago, I wrote a column on Apple’s new digital goddess Siri, the company’s digital assistant and go-to person for iPhone users. Folks could ask Siri a range of questions including street directions, the location of ...
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China's leading photovoltaic (PV) producer Hanergy has reiterated that thin-film technology, as opposed to crystalline silicon cells, is the future of solar energy application. Li Hejun, the company's chairman, said most clean energy ...
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All the controversy over the past few years regarding Whole Foods Market and its dubious position on genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) seems to have fizzled following the company's recent announcement that, by 2018, all GMOs sold in its ...
Mosquitoes are on the rise this summer, and several cases of West Nile virus infections from mosquitoes have been reported in Texas along with a few deaths. Other states have reported cases of West Nile virus infections as well. After ...
There is a lot of controversy in nutrition and it often seems like people can’t agree on anything. But there are a few exceptions to this. Here are the top 10 nutrition facts that everyone actually agrees on (well, almost ...
In January, when the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a meta-analysis of 100 studies that probed the relationship between body mass index and mortality — studies that found slightly overweight people have ...
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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has pointed to China’s high taxes on luxury goods for the elevated price tags on its cars in what is now the world’s largest automotive market. The luxury British car maker claims that despite the added ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently published its latest Solid State Lighting (SSL) Manufacturing R&D Roadmap for 2013. The Roadmap complements the SSL R&D Multi-Year Program Plan that guides the Core and Product Development R&D ...
Finger on the trigger, a hunter is shooting a wide-eyed badger frozen in a spotlight's glare; a few acres away, an activist is listening, moving toward the rifle's report; and on a nearby farm, a farmer is cursing, watching another cow ...
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Within a couple of years, researchers at the University of Southern California believe 3D printing techniques will be used to construct entire buildings in less than a day. As outrageous as it sounds, such machines can already extrude ...
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Chinese dairy firm Liaoning Huishan Dairy is seeking to raise $1bn through initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong to increase its herd and improve milk yields. The milk producer is firming up plans to launch pre-deal marketing work on ...
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The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday launched a review of whether the country uses optimally advancements in technology to protect its national security while preventing unauthorized disclosure and maintaining public ...