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Duke researchers have developed a gel-based cartilage substitute to relieve achy knees that’s even stronger and more durable than the real thing. Clinical trials to start next year.
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Lab-Made Cartilage Gel Outperforms the Real Thing
It can be pressed and pulled with more force than natural cartilage, and it's three times more resistant to wear and tear.
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Defense Supplier Settles Over Fake Test Claims
The parts are used on everything from the AH-64 Apache and V22 Osprey to the UH-60 Black Hawk.
August 12, 2022
Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong gets out of a car at the Seoul High Court in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 22, 2019. South Korea's president will pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong with a year left on his sentence for bribing a president as part of a massive corruption scandal that toppled her government, the justice minister announced Friday, Aug. 12. 2022.
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Samsung's Lee, Other Corporate Giants to Get Pardoned
Samsung's leader was convicted for bribing a former president in a corruption scandal that toppled a previous South Korean government.
August 12, 2022
The Machine Common Sense robot walks across slippery leaf-covered steps using only proprioceptive feedback and no vision system to help it maneuver.
Manufacturing
Machines Are Learning Common Sense
It's an effort to prepare robots for real-world scenarios.
August 11, 2022
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How Top Automakers Made Out in Major EV Order
One company just placed a massive order worth $1.2 billion.
August 11, 2022
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Bezos, Gates Hunting for Buried Treasure to Power EVs
Melting ice is revealing land that had been buried for centuries.
August 11, 2022
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Vehicles move down Altamont Pass Road with wind turbines in the background in Livermore, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Congress is poised to pass a transformative climate change bill on Friday, Aug. 12. The crux of the long-delayed bill is to use incentives to accelerate the expansion of clean energy such as wind and solar power, speeding the transition away from the oil, coal and gas that largely cause climate change.
Energy
Climate Bill Pushes American Energy to Go Green
The crux of the bill is to use incentives to spur investors to accelerate the expansion of clean energy.
August 12, 2022
A man wearing a face mask walks past a billboard advertising Chinese technology firm Huawei at the PT Expo in Beijing, Oct. 14, 2020. Chinese tech giant Huawei said Friday, Aug. 12, 2022 its revenue fell in the first half of 2022 but new ventures in autos and other industries helped to offset a decline in smartphone sales under U.S. sanctions.
Consumer
China's Huawei Says Sales Down
But new ventures in autos and other industries helped to offset a decline in smartphone sales under U.S. sanctions.
August 12, 2022
Milwaukee Tool plant, West Bend, Wis.
Manufacturing
Milwaukee Tool Opens New Wisconsin Plant
The facility will manufacture hand tools for the electrical, power utility, plumbing and mechanical trades.
August 12, 2022
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GM Offering Not-So-Optional OnStar Subscription
OnStar will be available in select vehicles for three years.
August 12, 2022
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation has opened a query into seat belt pretensioners on certain 2020-2022 Kia/Hyundai vehicles, saying that they may rupture or explode.
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Kia/Hyundai Seat Belt Pretensioners Under Investigation
They may rupture or explode.
August 12, 2022
One of Pacific Gas & Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif., is viewed Nov. 3, 2008. The California Energy Commission is holding a three-hour workshop focused on the state's power needs in the climate change era and what role the power plant might have in maintaining reliable electricity.
Energy
California Officials Ponder Nuclear Future
Nuke or no nuke?
August 12, 2022
A motorist fills up the tank on a sedan, Saratoga, Wyo., July 22, 2022.
Manufacturing
Amid Mixed Inflation Signs, Where Are Prices Going?
Has the worst bout of inflation in four decades peaked?
August 12, 2022
Lina Khan, then-nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 21, 2021.
Consumer
FTC Looks to Corral Tech Firms' Data Collection
How data is being used and protected has led to growing public concern and officials' outrage.
August 12, 2022
A person picks through trash for reusable items as a fire rages at the Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi, April 27, 2022. Landfills are releasing far more planet-warming methane into the atmosphere from the decomposition of waste than previously thought, a study suggests. Smoke hung over New Delhi for days after the massive landfill caught fire as the country was sweltering in an extreme heat wave.
Energy
Satellite Data Finds Landfills are Methane 'Super Emitters'
New study aimed at helping local governments carry out targeted efforts to limit global warming by pinpointing specific sites of major concern.
August 12, 2022
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Automotive
Oregon Crime Ring Moved $22M in Catalytic Converters
The crime ring spanned Oregon counties and Washington state, Nevada, California, Texas and New York.
August 12, 2022
Packages riding on a belt are scanned to be loaded onto delivery trucks at the Amazon Fulfillment center in Robbinsville Township, N.J., on Aug. 1, 2017.
Manufacturing
OSHA Investigates Deaths of Amazon Workers
All three workers died within the past month and were employed at company facilities in New Jersey.
August 12, 2022
PetroChina, China Life and China Petroleum & Chemical, widely known as Sinopec, said the shares affected were American depositary shares, or ADSs, that represent shares traded in Hong Kong.
Manufacturing
Three Chinese Corporate Giants Leaving NY Stock Exchange
Two of the three are PetroChina Ltd. and Sinopec.
August 12, 2022
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J&J Vaccine Factory Forced to Trash More Doses
About 135 million more doses will have to be destroyed due to quality problems at the troubled plant.
August 12, 2022
In this April 15, 2011 file photo, a bottle of Johnson's baby powder is displayed in San Francisco. Johnson & Johnson is pulling its iconic, talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder from shelves worldwide next year in favor of a product based on cornstarch. The health care giant’s announcement Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, comes two years after it ended talc-based powder sales in the U.S. and Canada, where demand has dwindled amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it had caused cancer.
Manufacturing
J&J to End Sales of Baby Powder with Talc Globally Next Year
The company has faced thousands of lawsuits alleging its talcum powder caused users to develop cancer.
August 12, 2022