2019 was a tough year for the aerospace industry — a year when a control system flaw caused the second catastrophic crash of a 737 MAX jet and sparked a worldwide grounding of Boeing's fastest-selling plane. Nine months after the Ethiopian Airlines crash, which killed 157 people, the 737 MAX is still grounded. Boeing's CEO and the head of its commercial airplanes unit have been replaced,...
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Since Julius Caesar ruled that New Year began on January 1 in 46BC, and urged subjects to commit to personal improvement, resolutions have been synonymous with the turning of the...
Sometimes it happens in middle school, sometimes in high school. The frogs are slimy and greenish-grey, and they stink because they're pickled in formaldehyde. One Florida high school recently tried to eliminate the gross-out factor by using fake, yet highly realistic,...
New UK research suggests that people who regularly sleep too little or too much are more likely to have pulmonary fibrosis, compared to those who sleep the recommended seven hours a night. The study, by researchers at the University of Manchester, looked at 500,074 participants taking part in the long-term UK Biobank study, which includes genomic data on more than half a million UK residents....
Chinese researcher He Jiankui, who stirred up a global controversy last year when he said his experiment produced twin baby girls with gene-edited traits, has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay a $430,000 fine, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported today. He tried to show that genes could be edited to reduce vulnerability to the HIV virus, but outside experts voiced...