LAPD Officers Recruited to Test Military-Grade Electric Motorcycles

Police officers never want to give away their position to perps on missions, making loud motorcycles the last thing they want to be riding around on. Luckily for LAPD officers, they get to be the…

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British Automaker Debuts the World’s Lightest Sports Car

Weight has a direct effect on a car’s performance — its acceleration, braking, fuel consumption and even its tire wear. Overall, a lighter weight has a multiplier effect on the performance of a car. Now,…

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Process This: These Tiny, Full PCs are the Size of a Debit Card

Raspberry Pi, a $35 Linux-based computer, and Hummingboard By SolidRun, are competing in the niche market of small and simple, single-serving computers. The Hummingboard is a little bit more expensive at $45 to $117, but…

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Syrian Mig-21 Fishbed Catches Fire in Midair

A video released from Daraa, in southwestern Syria, shows  a Syrian Arab Air Force Mig-21 Fishbed catching fire in midair as the result of a fuel leak. It is unclear as to whether the pilot…

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Keep Your Eye Out for a Hitchhiking Robot This Summer

There’s a hitchhiker hitting the road this summer that you won’t be able to pass up. His name is hitchBOT and, after drivers do a double take from seeing a robot on the side of…

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New German Grocery Store Doesn’t Package Any of Its Food … At All

Original Unverpackt, a new grocery store in Berlin, has eliminated food packaging altogether. The store will not sell anything that comes in a jar, container, bag, you name it, when it opens in August 2014.…

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Could Three “Great Walls” in Tornado Alley Eliminate Twisters?

Wan-Li Qang-Qeng or “10,000 Li Long Wall”, aka the Great Wall of China, was built as a fortification to protect the Chinese Empire from northern nomadic invaders. There is some disagreement on the length of…

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Freedom Industries Fined $11,000 for West Virginia Chemical Spill

In January, a storage tank with the chemical designation MCHM, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, belonging to Freedom Industries, spilled into the Elk River and left 300,000 people in West Virginia without drinking water for 10 days. Many people expected…

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Is Thorium the Safer, Cleaner, More Powerful Alternative to Fossil Fuels?

A Clean Source of Energy That Will Be Available Forever Thorium, discovered in 1828, is abundant in the earth and has been used since in industrial processes. Not only that, thorium just might underlie the…

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Certified Igus Cables Withstand Hurricanes and Cyclones to Meet the World’s Rising Demand for Oil

FPSO’s (Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels) are massive floating oil production facilities with extreme storage space, located miles offshore. These vessels are capable of producing millions of barrels of oil while floating in the…

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