Новости за 21.12.2024

John Carey, PNAS

Lithium-ion batteries are a remarkable technological success story. With improving performance and plunging costs over the last decade, they have...

Any current or former employee or contractor of a vehicle manufacturer, part supplier or dealership may be a whistleblower, NHTSA said.

BERLIN, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- German automotive giant Volkswagen and employee representatives concluded their five-day intense talks over the company's far-reaching cost-cutting plans on Friday. Both parties announced they have reached an agreement, with involuntary layoffs and plant closures being ruled out.

The government expects the new tax rebate programme that lets people deduct up to 50,000 baht in personal income tax for goods purchases to help stimulate spending, generating around 70 billion baht in economic circulation.

Authorities are treating the incident as terrorism

Space2Sea Antarctica: A student journalist's expedition to bottom of the world begins

Portions of Northern Florida and southern Georgia may see temperatures dip into the low thirties over the weekend.

Mitch Leslie, Science

Among mammals, whales are the longevity champs. Members of several species have lived past age 100, and one bowhead whale reached its 211th birthday. But estimates of...

Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News

Keith Poulsen's jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the...

Christina Larson, AP

Sloths weren't always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their

Ethan Siegel, Big Think

If you examine the Universe extremely closely, by probing the fundamental entities with it on the smallest possible scales, you'll discover that reality is...

Noa Leach, Science Focus

The key to a good neighbourhood is the people in it: it's made better by the (annoyingly cheery) do-gooder who brings in your parcels, or worse by the grouchy...

Paul M. Sutter, Universe Today

Meet the brown dwarf: bigger than a planet, and smaller than a star. A category of its own, it's one of the strangest objects in the universe.

Elham Shabahat, Hakai Magazine

When Arvid Pardo, a Maltese diplomat, took the floor at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 1967 and began

Matthew L. Wald, Breakthrough Institute

There is good news for everyone concerned about the spent nuclear fuel stranded at scores of sites around the United States: another country, with a...

Vaclav Smil, Wired

Let me start with the following principle: "Energy is the only universal currency: One of its many forms must be transformed to get anything done." Economies are...

The House voted on the third version of a spending bill to keep the government open at 5 p.m. Friday, with the shutdown deadline just hours away. The new proposal is reported to include government funding through March as well as disaster relief and farm assistance after days of turmoil on Capitol Hill. “We will...

I’m in way over my head here.

The man charged with gunning down United Healthcare’s CEO outside a Manhattan hotel is now in a federal jail after being returned to New York City in dramatic fashion. Luigi Mangione appeared in Manhattan federal court Thursday to face charges that could bring the death penalty. The 26-year-old Ivy League graduate must still answer to a state murder indictment. Prosecutors say the two cases will proceed on parallel tracks, with the state charges expected to go to trial first. Mangione is being held... Читать дальше...

Nuna Baby Essentials is recalling more than 600,000 of its Rava line of car seats over a harness defect that could cause the restraint system to fail in a crash.

The driver involved in the ramming has been taken into custody, with officials calling the incident an attack.

PHNX Suns: Bradley Beal on DFS and sports bettors: “I feel for you, nobody likes to lose money. But we don’t control it and we damn sure don’t care about that. But I get it, I got a football fantasy team, I’m yelling at all my guys every week who I feel like don’t go out and perform for me”
Source: Bluesky

Police in Magdeburg said the suspect arrested following the attack at a Christmas market was a Saudi Arabian citizen who worked as a doctor with a legal right to live in the country