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BP fined after it fails surprise spill-containment inspections
I'm sure you're stunned.
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Georgia Power makes a big bet on solar
There's good reason to do so: Georgia has experienced a number of problems with hot weather leading to decreased fossil energy output.
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Internet genius wants you to ride around in a series of 900-mph tubes
PayPal founder Elon Musk is getting sick of waiting around for someone to build a bullet train. So he’s come up with an idea he calls the Hyperloop, a sort of mega-fast Futurama people-tube situation that would get passengers from L.A. to San Francisco in 30 minutes. The Hyperloop would move people at speeds up to […]
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Climate change means you’re going to have to ski on snow made out of sewage
In the future, all the ski slopes will be doing what Arizona Snowbowl is doing this season: making snow out of sewage effluent.
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Drilling in the Arctic is a bad business decision
Even if your company is less inept than Shell, the cost of extraction and the risk of disaster are too high.
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One square inch of glass will make your data live forever
It’s nigh-indestructible.
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Soon we’ll be able to grow leather in a test tube
By the end of the year, scientists will have grown a piece of leather .787 inches by .787 inches in size, without killing an animal. That is the goal of a company called Modern Meadow, Fast Company reports, and its lab-grown leather could one day be even better than the dead-animal hides that we still […]
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We’ve got our red cup out, and we’re rattling it
There are only two days left to fund our Kickstarter project -- the documentary biography of an American icon. Help us out!
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Amtrak high-speed train will be slightly higher speed for a little bit tonight
Amtrak is testing a train in New Jersey that will travel at 165 miles per hour.
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The N.Y. Times tells us how much energy the cloud uses — but not why it matters
Pollution and waste are bad. But the New York Times' new series doesn't explain the context in which the internet's pollution and waste exist.
