Category : science

Warming Up Your Car in the Cold Just Harms the Engine

The long-held notion that you should let your car idle in the cold is only true for carbureted engines.

Dangerous cold to ring in 2019 in north-central US, Rockies after snow ends 2018

Another round of snow and treacherous travel is in store for the north-central United States and the Rockies in the final days of 2018 before the coldest air so far this winter plunges in.

These are the animals that went extinct in 2018

With the end of 2018 comes the near-certain reality that some critters, after millions of years of existence on Earth, are gone for good. There's little question that humanity's continued exploitation of wild animals and the depletion of t...

'Super Blood Wolf Moon?' Now We're Just Making Shit Up

I read the phrase “super blood wolf moon” for the first time today and wish I’d never logged on.

Toyota's Going in Big on Robots

Toyota’s got big plans for robots, Elon Musk’s Twitter feed might finally be reined in, and Palladium is “this year’s hottest metal.” All that and more on The Morning Shift for Friday, December 28th, 2018.

Your Dive Watch Operates Just Like a Submarine

Here's how it works.

6 Times the Moon Is Really Going to Mess With You in 2019

From supermoons to harvest moons and blood moons, the first half of 2019 is going to be a wild ride. Take note of these full moon dates, and prepare accordingly.

UK's Royal Mail sorry for D-Day landings stamp blunder

Britain's Royal Mail apologized on Friday after historians pointed out that a stamp design it planned to issue to commemorate the D-Day landings in France in fact showed U.S. troops going ashore thousands of miles away weeks earlier. The stamp, part...

35 photos capture extreme weather events that hammered the US in 2018

Bomb cyclones, major hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and major flooding produced some memorable and tragic photos in 2018.

Germany paves way for upgrading exhaust systems on older diesel cars

Germany on Friday cleared away legal hurdles for carmakers to upgrade exhaust emissions filtering systems on older diesel cars as a way to avoid vehicle bans, but failed to quell doubts among manufacturers and suppliers over the effectiveness of retr...

Record backing for climate petition against French govt

A petition launched by French environmental groups calling for legal action against the state for failing to act to curb climate change has received unprecedented public support after weeks of fuel-price protests. It also dwarfs the 1.17 million sup...

A Fleet of 'J-20s'?: China Wants to Take Old Air Force Planes and Make Them Stealthy

China is working on experimental technologies to make even its older aircraft appear stealthy to most radar systems.

The Air Force's 'Laser' Future: Firing Laser Weapons from F-35s, F-15s and C-130s?

That could be the plan.

Tough to stop Nord Stream 2 now it's being built - EU's Oettinger

U.S. President Donald Trump's criticism of the Russian-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline is no reason to stop the project and any attempt to do so would be difficult now that it is being built, European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said. Trump has at...

8 Bronchitis Symptoms Everyone Should Know

There’s the cough—and then some.

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