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Volkswagen and Sonae are testing a smart glove that gives workers a bionic assist in picking up heavy objects.
Temperatures in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin are soaring more than 20 degrees above average.
The method could be used in the real world to provide a safe, rapid and highly accurate method of drug testing.
In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria "raged like a buzz saw," hitting highly populated areas, Vox reports.
A team of scientists found an association between tiny particulate matter and kidney disease in two different data sets.
German firms may have technology even more sophisticated than Tesla's current version of Autopilot.
Evacuation modeling, a somewhat obscure field of research, plays a significant role in preparing for natural disasters.
WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency has for years accepted payments for criticizing studies that raised concerns about the safety of his clients' products, according to a review of financial records and his published work by The Associated Press. Michael L. Dourson's nomination as...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Employing an array of giant telescopes positioned in the New Mexico desert, astronomers have started a massive surveying project aimed at producing the most detailed view ever made of such a large portion of space using radio waves emitted from throughout the Milky Way and beyond. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory announced the...
SEATTLE— The mass of warm water known as "the blob" that heated up the North Pacific Ocean has dissipated, but scientists are still seeing the lingering effects of those unusually warm sea surface temperatures on Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead. Federal research surveys this summer caught among the lowest numbers of juvenile coho and Chinook salmon in...
Idaho hopes to establish the first International Dark Sky Reserve in the United States.
NBC News Meteorologist Al Roker stops by Post 9 to discuss recent extreme weather events and climate change.
New research shows that sitting for too long can play a direct role in an early death, Newsweek reports.
Letting Cassini burn up in Saturn's atmosphere was the best way to end the mission.
A debate on Capitol Hill about biomass energy goes to the heart of evolving arguments about carbon neutrality in the climate-change era.
Since 2004, the spacecraft Cassini has been exploring Saturn's system. On Friday it will plunge into the planet and burn up.
Since 2004, the spacecraft Cassini has been exploring Saturn's system. On Friday it will plunge into the planet and burn up.
Diarmuid O'Connell is the latest in a string of higher-level Tesla employees leaving the company.
Ten spaceports are quietly driving the commercial space industry, and the FAA says half-dozen other locations "are knocking on the door."
