A new laser-beam shooting rifle has been invented that gives metal workers an incredible new tool. The video from TWI shows how the gun can provide flexibility in how to cut components before shipping them or long term storage.
Steve Birr With pipeline projects mired in environmental battles and oil prices trapped below $50 a barrel, Royal Dutch Shell announced Wednesday it is halting its oil sands project in Canada. Shell stopped development at its Carmon Creek facility in Alberta, a project that would produce 80,000 barrels of oil a day. The loss will…
By Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency has kicked off its week of field hearings on its Clean Power Plan. Thousands have signed up to speak, but others got notices from the EPA saying they would not get a time slot to testify before agency officials. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) seeks to cut…
By Blake Neff A group of researchers has issued a dramatic corrections to a paper that linked political conservatism with psychotic traits. The paper in question was “Correlation not Causation: The Relationship between Personality Traits and Political Ideologies,” authored by Brad Verhulst and Lindon Eaves of Virginia Commonwealth University along with Peter Hatemi of Penn State University. The paper investigated the…
Meet the Hovding helmet A pair of Swedish women have developed a remarkable invention that has netted them millions in venture capital… an invisible bike helmet. People who are tired of strapping ugly foam shells to their craniums, or who never wore a bike helmet anyway might want to watch this video for a revolutionary…
By Michael Bastasch The Obama administration gave Royal Dutch Shell conditional approval Monday to drill for oil in the Arctic sea. The move defies President Barack Obama’s environmentalist supporters, who are opposed to allowing oil companies to tap into polar reserves. Environmentalists have been heavily campaigning against Arctic drilling, but the Department of the Interior has opted…
by Andrew Follett NASA is sending the space probe New Horizons to an extremely unusual red object far beyond the orbit of Pluto. Dubbed 2014 MU69, the object has a diameter of about 30 miles and orbits the sun once every 293 years. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope discovered 2014 MU69 during a preliminary survey to find a suitable object for the…
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