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Exploring the Unbeaten Path The Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle program stands as one of the saddest episodes in aerospace history. After NASA began working on its space shuttle program in the early 1970s, the Soviet Union conceived of its own orbiter program, the eerily similar looking Buran shuttle. Ultimately, the vehicle made just one flight, an […]
Published time: 25 Jun, 2017 23:54 Thousands of protestors have formed a 90-kilometer human chain around the border triangle of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to demand the closure of the two reactors at Belgium’s Tihange and Doel nuclear power stations. The organizers said that 50,000 people from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands joined the […]
Lurking inside the ivy-covered gothic towers and brutalist concrete blocks on college campuses are moldy ceilings, failing plumbing and antique boilers whose replacement parts are available only on eBay. Lurking inside the ivy-covered gothic towers and brutalist concrete blocks on college campuses are moldy ceilings, failing plumbing and antique boilers whose replacement parts are available only on eBay. Still reeling from state funding […]
– What’s 220 pounds to General Motors’ new 6.6-liter Duramax diesel V-8 engine? Not much, based on the minuscule differences between the performances of the 2017 GMC Sierra 2500HD tested here and a slightly smaller, extended-cab Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD with the same engine we tested earlier this year. This 8000-pound GMC—a high-zoot, crew-cab Denali model—is […]
Biometrics are becoming our next de facto security measure, and they’re supposed to be a vast improvement on easily-forgotten and hackable passwords. Yet a point-and-shoot camera, laser printer and contact lens is all it took for German hacking group Chaos Computer Club to crack the Samsung Galaxy S8‘s iris scanner. “By far [the] most expensive […]
– Assuming a six-year product cycle, the current, third-generation Santa Fe has entered the twilight of life, so Hyundai made some changes for the 2017 model year to keep things fresh. In addition to a more sophisticated look, Hyundai added a new top-level trim called Ultimate and upped its tech game. With the smaller, five-passenger […]
– The 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan sports fresher, roomier digs with the latest technology, but that’s not enough to rush the current Tig off to the used-car lot. Instead, Volkswagen is extending its life as the Tiguan Limited. – Despite a now decade-old design and tweener dimensions that slot it between subcompact and compact crossovers, the Tiguan saw record U.S. sales in […]
–Overview: Audi’s S6 is the hotter, more powerful version of the brand’s everyday A6 sedan. It has been around in its current incarnation since the 2012 model year, having benefited from only a single update last year that brought a bump in horsepower and mild cosmetic tweaks. Every S6 comes standard with Quattro, Audi’s all-wheel-drive […]
Last week, Intel announced the first super-fast Optane drive headed to market, the data-center focused DC P4800X SSD. While the consumer versions of the SSDs won’t be available until later this year, the chip maker has something to tide us over — Intel Optane Memory. These little M.2 form factor drives promise to kick your […]
Enlarge (credit: NIH) Approximately ten thousand times each day, the DNA in our cells receives some damage, but most of that damage is repaired by our cells’ built-in DNA repair systems. The efficiency of these DNA repair systems decline with age, however, and that’s thought to lead to age-related health problems and cancer. A recent paper published in Science […]
