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A rare earthquake in South Korea was triggered by the country's first experimental geothermal power plant, a team of government-commissioned experts said Wednesday. The southeastern port city of Pohang was rattled by a 5.4-magnitude earthquake in No...
science / science - 5 years ago
BADGER POCKET, Washington (AP) — A sheriff's deputy was killed and a police officer was injured after an exchange of gunfire during an attempted traffic stop.
science / science - 5 years ago
Bolstered by the success of similar efforts in Australia and New Zealand, the White House sent envoys to European capitals with warnings that Huawei’s gear would open a backdoor for Chinese spies. The U.S. even threatened to cut off intelligence sha...
science / science - 5 years ago
The most valuable stock in Asia has added 3.2 percent in the past week, the best run-up prior to any release since its 2017 first-quarter update, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Chinese Internet giant, which is only just recovering from...
science / science - 5 years ago
The Singapore state investment company is considering selling around a 10 percent stake in A.S. Watson for about $3 billion, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Tencent may team up with some in...
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Armed gangs “recently” disrupted the 1.65 billion-rand Mtentu Bridge project in the Eastern Cape province, and a 2.4 billion-rand oil-storage investment project at Saldanha in the Western Cape was halted on March 13 after people demanding to be part...
science / science - 5 years ago
Tuesday's unanimous jury decision in San Francisco federal court, which came after five days of deliberation, was not a finding of Bayer's liability for the cancer of plaintiff Edwin Hardeman. Bayer, which denies allegations that glyphosate or Round...
science / science - 5 years ago
Situated on the southern tip of Norway, the restaurant looks like a large concrete tube partly submerged in the North Sea. It was designed by Norwegian architecture firm Snoehetta, which also created the Opera house in Oslo and the National Septembe...
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SINGAPORE/BAGHDAD/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least two tankers have ferried Iranian fuel oil to Asia in recent months despite U.S. sanctions against such shipments, according to a Reuters analysis of ship-tracking data and port information, as well as in...
science / science - 5 years ago
In New Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert, Exxon Mobil Corp is building a massive shale oil project that its executives boast will allow it to ride out the industry's notorious boom-and-bust cycles. The sprawling site reflects the massive commitment to the...
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This quirky correlation in Asia's fourth-largest economy, where air pollution outstrips industrialized peers, stems from an old belief attributed to coal miners, that the slippery pork oil helped cleanse dirt from their throats. For middle school st...
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FireEye, which designated the group as APT32 and dates its activities to 2014, said the attacks accelerated in early February. The hacking targeted companies in Southeast Asia and “the broader areas surrounding Vietnam,” said Nick Carr, a FireEye se...
science / science - 5 years ago
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has spotted something that hasn't been seen up close on an asteroid before: plumes of particles erupting into space. The mission's scientists shared pictures of the plumes as well as the unexpectedly rugged te...
science / science - 5 years ago
The Chinese music and entertainment company listed in December and shares started to take off in mid-January. Social entertainment, Tencent Music’s largest business which includes live streaming and online karaoke, experienced only a mild increase i...
science / science - 5 years ago
The International Space Station is like no other place on Earth, and not just because it's not actually on Earth at all. The orbiting laboratory is inhabited by crews of scientists that live there for months before being changed out for fresh fac...