May 17 2011

Recalculating…Don’t Trust Your GPS

Don't let your GPS lead you along. It might not know where you're going either.

Apr 28 2011

Tracking Tornadoes As They Travel

Tag: Natural Disasters,Safety,Tornadoes,Weather,WindChristina Reed @ 11:11 pm
Discovery Storm Chasers in action yesterday worked with emergency responders to help track the directions of the tornadoes as they swept across the the Midwestern United States.

Apr 21 2011

Human-Like Robot Built for Assembly Lines

Tag: Robotics,Robots,SafetyDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 12:23 pm
The Swiss firm, ABB, unveiled its robot, Frida, and offered a glimpse of the future of factory robots.

Apr 12 2011

Gagarin’s Glitch-Prone Historic Flight

Tag: History,History of Space,Rockets,Safety,SpaceflightDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 4:43 am
According to a veteran Soviet rocket scientist, Yuri Gagarin's glitch-prone flight could have turned deadly.

Apr 06 2011

Japan Plugs Radioactive Leak from Nuclear Plant

Plugging the water leak boosts efforts to contain the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Apr 03 2011

Southwest Cancels Flights After Emergency Landing

Tag: Air Travel,Aircraft,Aviation,Safety,TransportationDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 12:20 pm
The airline was inspecting its aircraft after a hold in a fuselage forced a plane to land.

Mar 31 2011

Top 5 Questions on Radiation Exposure

As workers try and contain radiation leaks from Japan's damaged nuclear plant, we ask the experts about the risks.

Mar 28 2011

Radiation From Japan Plant Seeping Into Pacific

Seawater north of the plant was found to have 1,150 times the legal limit of iodine.

Mar 25 2011

Reactor Breach Feared at Nuclear Power Plant

As workers continue efforts to control a steady radiation leak, the death toll from the disaster tops 10,000.

Mar 24 2011

Japan Nuclear Plant Workers Rushed to Hospital

Tag: Disasters and Accidents,Explosions,Government,Nuclear Science,Safety,TsunamiDiscovery News - Top Stories @ 3:13 pm
As fire and army crews race to prevent catastrophe, the disaster takes its toll on three workers.

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