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...A monthlong investigation by FLA revealed compensation issues, health and safety risks, and issues that have led to a "sense of unsa...

H.R. 2309 would change the laws that govern the operation of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Major provisions of the bill would: Pe...

U.S. scientists have developed a fuel cell capable of converting 13 percent of the energy found in sewage into electricity , a process that ...

Dan Lewis, author of the daily newsletter  Now I Know  (“Learn Something New Every Day, By Email”) joins us Wednesdays with surprising f...

The troubled San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California will remain shut down while investigators try to solve a mystery inside its mas...

Water, milk and other fluids can be purified of radioactive substances with absorbant nanoparticles, according to a new study. Arsenic, lead...

Australia's 55,000 cattle and sheep producers have pledged to consumers to all be farming sustainably by 2020. They aim to convince urba...

The nation's top mine safety regulator on Tuesday defended his agency in the wake of a government report that said the U.S. Mine Safety ...

The Portland Harbor is a toxic embarrassment. And there's plenty of blame to go around. For the past 12 years, some of the most powerful...

While we’ve looked at the development of solar cell technologies that employ nanoscale 3D structures to trap light and increase the amount...

Thermoelectric materials work by converting differences in temperature into electric voltage. If two parts of such a material experience sig...

With the cost of fuel hitting family budgets harder and harder, Ford of Europe has commenced production of its most fuel efficient (and low...

Supreme Court handed down a decision in FAA v Cooper yesterday.  Cooper did not declare his HIV positive status on his flight physical.  At ...

Just 44 percent of American teachers say they're satisfied with their jobs, the lowest number in two decades and an 18-point drop sin...

After a somewhat unsuccessful and rather expensive attempt at warming a greenhouse, electrical engineer Dr Craig Hollabaugh rigged up a syst...

Thanks to research currently being conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, our unwanted plastic bags...

Ships and aircraft were ordered to stay away because of the risk of explosion. The leak developed as workers tried to cap a well 150 miles e...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims that the Federal Reserve averted a second Great Depression by bailing out the big Wall Street b...

"The SCI hyMod five-door minicar concept is the brainchild of a Romanian team made up of an engineer, a designer, and an automotive jou...

Click to enlarge. Some highlights from the U.S.-China Business Council's recently released report " U.S. Exports to China: 2000-201...

With 7 billion people on the planet, things have already begun to feel a bit hot and crowded, particularly in swelling urban centers -- but ...

... Tuesday’s examination with an industrial endoscope detected radiation levels up to 10 times the fatal dose inside the chamber. Plant off...

The fine is viewed as a slap of a wrist in the context of a broader struggle by New York State officials to shut down the nuclear plant. Pl...

Written by   Philip Proefrock   on 27/03/12 While the headline may sound dire, it's not an indication that the US Army is giving up ...

The fact that most major manufacturers are now investing serious amounts of time and money in battery electric vehicle (BEV) development is ...

Newt Gingrich may  mock  algae as a source of clean fuel, but the U.S. Navy's got no problem with it. In fact, the Navy is extending - l...

On Wednesday (21st March 2012) one of the Wonthaggi wind turbine’s blades was reportedly hit by lightning, causing the blade to split down i...

The Organic Movement started out well. Get away from chemical foods (and body care products), and only deliver all natural chemical free foo...

A tremendous amount of water is used globally for agriculture. It’s estimated the world’s population by 2050 will be around 9 billion, and i...

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The group, Friends of the Earth, says Buffett told CNBC last month that the future of nuclear reactor construction is “dead” because of the ...

Excerpt- In the new study, Pajonk and his team irradiated normal non-stem cell cancer cells and placed them into mice. Through a unique imag...

@ZeroHedge...of New One Family Homes for Sale ( source ) which at 150,000 is the lowest print...  Ever . And no, "it can only go up fro...

The amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, poten...