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This Building's Windows Keep Exploding
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Dodge Uses Special Edition Muscle Cars to Usher in EVs
Gas-powered muscle is going out in style.
August 19, 2022
The logo for General Motors appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, April 23, 2018. General Motors will reinstate quarterly dividend payments that were suspended during the pandemic that shut down its factories. The automaker said Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, that the dividend of 9 cents per share will be paid on Sept. 15 to shareholders of record on Aug. 31.
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GM Reinstates Dividend Suspended in Pandemic
GM canceled its quarterly dividend in April 2020 as COVID-19 spread unchecked in the U.S. and manufacturing in the U.S. screeched to a near halt.
August 19, 2022
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3M Could Face 'Bankruptcy' Over Defective Earplugs
The company dismissed what it called "unsupported and clearly flawed speculation."
August 18, 2022
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Lowe’s to Give Out $55M in Bonuses
In an effort to keep talent and combat the impact of inflation.
August 18, 2022
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Miller Partners on 'Dive Bar' Flavored Ice Cream
With hints of peanuts, tobacco smoke and beer.
August 17, 2022
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Court Sides with Mfg Worker Who Called in Sick via Facebook
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SpaceX Awarding $25,000 for Hacking Starlink
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Fisker Weighs U.S. Manufacturing After Regulatory Change
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Another Round of Peloton Layoffs, Price Changes
August 15, 2022
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August 4, 2022
A man walks along the lower than normal bank of the Jialing River in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after the driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers shrunk to barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.
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China's Drought Disrupts Industry
Reservoirs that supply hydropower fell to half their normal levels.
August 19, 2022
Northrop Grumman's G/ATOR multifunction sensor successfully detected and tracked multiple cruise missile threats simultaneously during a recent live-fire test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
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Northrop G/ATOR Demos Advanced Fire Control Radar
The tests were part of the U.S. Marine Corps' mid-tier acquisition rapid prototyping effort.
August 19, 2022
20 tons of Ohara E6 borosilicate glass being loaded onto the mold of one of the GMT’s mirrors.
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How to Build a Mirror for One of the World's Biggest Telescopes?
The question is how to build something substantially bigger than the current generation.
August 19, 2022
A BNSF Railway train in Seattle, July 27, 2015.
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Rail Union Says Plan for Contract Deal Doesn't Address Concerns
It doesn't do enough to address concerns about working conditions.
August 19, 2022
Cargo vessels are anchored offshore near oil platforms, before heading into the Los Angeles-Long Beach port on Oct. 5, 2021. The first official federal calculations of the new spending package that President Biden signed show it will slice America's carbon pollution by more than 1 billion tons by the end of the decade. The new law’s provisions that call for oil and gas leasing on federal land and water “may lead to some increase” in carbon pollution, the federal analysis said.
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Study: New Climate Law to Slice Carbon Pollution 40%
It will trim America’s emissions of heat-trapping gases by about 1.1 billion tons.
August 19, 2022
A line of Holstein dairy cows feed through a fence at a dairy farm outside Jerome, Idaho. The University of Idaho wants to build the nation's largest research dairy and experimental farm in south-central Idaho. In a presentation to Gov. Brad Little and other members of the Idaho Land Board on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, University President Scott Green and school officials said the proposed Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, or CAFE, will help support growth of the dairy and other industries.
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University Envisions Largest Research Dairy in U.S.
It would also be an experimental farm.
August 19, 2022
The sun sets at Chalmette refinery in Chalmette, La., located just over the Mississippi River levee May 3, 2020. While the Inflation Reduction Act concentrates on clean energy incentives that could drastically reduce overall U.S. emissions, it also buoys oil and gas interests by mandating leasing of vast areas of public lands and off the nation’s coasts.
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U.S. Oil & Gas Unlikely Beneficiary in Climate Bill
The bill bypasses concerns about emissions and guarantees new drilling opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
August 19, 2022
A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., on Dec. 10, 2020. On Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, the FDA issued a first-of-a-kind warning to the maker of nicotine gummies, saying the illegal candies pose a growing risk to teenagers and younger children.
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FDA Targets Illegal Nicotine Gummies in New Warning Letter
The fruit-flavored gummies from a Florida manufacturer could cause nicotine poisoning or even death.
August 19, 2022
Four residential skyscrapers tower over the skyline south of Central Park in the Manhattan borough of New York City on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. From left, Central Park Tower, One57, Steinway Tower and the MoMA Expansion Tower. One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline. It's not the tallest, but it is the skinniest — the world's skinniest, in fact. The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the title of “most slender skyscraper in the world” thanks to its logic-defying ratio of width to height: 23 1/2-to-1.
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A Look at the World's Skinniest Skyscraper
The building is the second-tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere.
August 18, 2022
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Father Invents Balance Treatment Device for Daughter
GyroStim is a computer-controlled, automated, multi-axis rotational chair.
August 18, 2022
In this photo taken from video footage released by Roscosmos Space Agency, Roscosmos' cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev are seen during their spacewalk on the International Space Station (ISS), Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022.
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Bad Battery Cuts Spacewalk Short
The spacewalker had to rush back inside.
August 18, 2022
(from right) NTU Assoc Prof Aravind Dasari, NTU PhD graduate Dr Sheik Anees and PhD student Dean Seah. Assoc Prof Aravind is holding a coated piece of laminated timber while Dr Anees and Mr Seah are holding non-coated timber.
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Scientists Invent Invisible Coating that Makes Wood 'Fireproof'
The coating becomes a char that expands to more than 30 times its original thickness.
August 18, 2022
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Cargo Ship Breakdown Blocks River Traffic
Authorities said the problem did not appear to stem from low water levels.
August 18, 2022
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Ponsse Debuts Electric Forest Machine Concept
The PONSSE EV1 concept has been developed for forwarders with a 15-ton load-carrying capacity.
August 17, 2022