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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story March 4 about the timing of heat warnings, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of a government scientist. His name is spelled Ambarish Vaidyanathan, not Vaidsynathan.
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MADRID/LONDON/ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Private equity firm Carlyle Group is ahead of other contenders to buy a 30 percent stake in Spain's Cepsa for up to 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion), just four months after owner Mubadala shelved a listing of the ene...
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Rovio Entertainment Oyj is in talks with “several” investors to take a stake in its subsidiary Hatch -- a “Netflix for games” platform that Sprint will use to showcase what its high-speed 5G handsets can do when it opens its new network in May.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Salman met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Riyadh on Tuesday, footage on the Russian foreign ministry's official Youtube channel showed. Lavrov is on a tour of the Gulf, also expected to includ...
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The Vistula Spit is a heavily wooded sandbank 55 km (34 miles) long but less than 2 km wide which encloses a coastal lagoon. Currently, the only access to the lagoon from the Baltic Sea is a channel at the Russian end of the spit. Poland's ruling L...
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Previously known as Project 003, it uses Valkyrie tech and an in-house designed turbocharged hybrid V-6 powertrain.
science / science - 5 years ago
Image Courtesy of Pixabay Calling something energy catalysis (E-Cat), low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), or condensed matter nuclear science (CMNS) cannot hide the fact that the idea is simply the same cold fusion announced to...
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(Bloomberg) -- Huawei Technologies Co., no longer content with defending itself against U.S. accusations of espionage and bank fraud, is taking the initiative with a full-blown legal offensive.
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Oil fell towards $65 a barrel on Tuesday, pressured by the restart of Libya's biggest oilfield and on expectations for an increase in U.S. crude inventories. Some wells at Libya's El Sharara oilfield have restarted and the aim is to reach initial ou...
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A second person is in sustained remission from HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, after ceasing treatment and is likely cured, researchers said Tuesday in what was hailed as proof that the condition could one day be cured. Ten years after the first...
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Last month's visit by roaming polar bears that put a Russian village on lockdown may be just the beginning. For as Moscow steps up its activity in the warming Arctic, conflict with the rare species is likely to increase. More than 50 bears approach...
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“It’s just not worth the fight anymore,” Shimkus said in an interview when asked about his changing stance on climate change. Shimkus is among a number of Republicans who -- after years of sowing doubt about climate change or ignoring it altogether...
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Carmakers are dreaming up futuristic electric car engine sounds to ensure that pedestrians can hear vehicles that lack audible cues like high-revving, howling combustion engines, senior executives at the Geneva car show said. As BMW, Mercedes-Benz,...
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This is a re-post from TripleCrisis by Frank Ackerman.& Fifth in a series on climate policy; find Part 1& here, Part 2& here, Part 3& here, and Part 4& here. Climate change is at once a common problem that threatens us all, and a source of differenti...
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SEATTLE (AP) — A London man appears to be free of the AIDS virus after a stem cell transplant, the second success including the "Berlin patient," doctors reported.