Science & Technology

Self-driving cars could ease traffic, but increase sprawl
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Self-driving cars could ease traffic, but increase sprawl

October 17, 2017

Steven Senne/Associated Press file<br><br>An autonomous vehicle is driven by an engineer on a street in an industrial park in Boston. A new study inspired by Boston’s early experiments with self-driving…

Scientists witness huge cosmic crash, find origins of gold
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Scientists witness huge cosmic crash, find origins of gold

October 17, 2017

Vicky Kalogera, a gravitational-wave astrophysicist at Northwestern University who contributed to the historic detections of gravitational waves, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday during an announcement…

Durangoans turn their heads up to see solar eclipse
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Durangoans turn their heads up to see solar eclipse

August 21, 2017

A partial eclipse of the sun is seen from Durango on Monday morning.Jerry McBride/Durango Herald The path of totality passed through 14 states, entering near Lincoln City, Oregon, at 1:16…

Historic eclipse turns day into night across the U.S.
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Historic eclipse turns day into night across the U.S.

August 21, 2017

“It’s really, really, really, really awesome,” said 9-year-old Cami Smith as she watched the fully eclipsed sun from a gravel lane near her grandfather’s home at Beverly Beach, Oregon. The…

How much does giving up beef help the planet?
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How much does giving up beef help the planet?

July 24, 2017

A cow/calf pair in Rock County, Neb.Bill Wolf/Associated Press file Estimates vary, but something in the neighborhood of 30 percent of total greenhouse-gas emissions are pegged to food. If you’re…

Scientists baffled by strange sea creatures near Alaska
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Scientists baffled by strange sea creatures near Alaska

July 3, 2017

This Thursday, June 23, 2016, taken off the Oregon coast, shows a bucket full of pyrosomes. The tropical, filter-feeding spineless creatures usually found along the equator have been making their…

Apple can’t ignore Microsoft’s slick, new laptop
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Apple can’t ignore Microsoft’s slick, new laptop

May 4, 2017

The new Microsoft Surface laptop computer on display during the #MicrosoftEDU event in New York on May 2, 2017.Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg Microsoft, a company once derided for buggy software, unstable hardware…