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China’s Wanxiang Gets Approval To Produce Karma Electric Cars
An employee works at a production line at a Wanxiang electric vehicle factory in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, January 22, 2014.
For Swimmers With Ice Water In Their Veins, An Event To Match
BURGHAUSEN, Germany — Burghausen Castle, perched on a hill high above this scenic Bavarian town, was still bathed in a white morning fog when
Launch Of Mini-Satellites Give Forecasters Eye Into Hurricanes
Eight small satellites, designed to improve hurricane forecasts by detecting the wind speeds within storms, blasted off on Thursday aboard an air-launched Pegasus rocket,
The Sub-Antarctic Islands Are Home To Strange ‘Megaherbs’
On New Zealand’s Campbell Island near Antarctica, some plants grow surprisingly large despite the inhospitable conditions. We may finally know how they do it
If We Made Contact With Aliens, How Would Religions React?
The discovery of life on another planet might seem incompatible with faith in a deity. Yet many theologians are already open to the existence
The New Suburbia: More Urban
Some suburbs around New York City are becoming decidedly less suburban, as new apartment buildings and condominium communities close to mass transit help expand
U.S. Housing Starts Tumble From Nine-Year High; Permits Suggest Strength
U.S. homebuilding fell more than expected in November, tumbling from a nine-year high as construction activity declined broadly, the latest sign of slower economic
‘Soup For Syria’: Chefs Share Recipes To Raise Funds For Refugees
A group of children at the Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Cookbook writer and photographer Barbara Massaad visited the camp and was
The ‘Miraculous’ Life Of Zuzana Ruzickova
Zuzana Ruzickova endured three concentration camps in World War Two, including Auschwitz, and was persecuted by the Communists in Czechoslovakia in the years that