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• Sticky glue out-geckos the geckos
Aside from helping people walk up walls, the glue could be used in electrical components without the need for soldering, Wang and Dai said in a telephone interview. And because it is dry, it could be used at very low temperatures as in space, where ...
• Dow falls through 9,000 and picks up speed
Thursday’s sell-off was triggered when a major credit rating agency put General Motors Corp. and its finance affiliate under review to determine whether it should be downgraded. Stock in GM, one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones industrials ...
• An election has never been more critical
China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other illiberal states have concluded, each in its own way, that democratic principles and human rights need not be components of a stable, prosperous future. At recent meetings of the United Nations, emboldened ...
• How airlines have betrayed us
In part, it's because air carriers are making more promises than ever — especially to their valuable elite-level frequent fliers — and in part, it's because airlines can't control some of the basic components of their business. They're at the ...
• Snow spotted falling from the Martian sky
That combined with the ever-decreasing temperatures of winter will likely destroy the spacecrafts components. "Nobody anticipates that the vehicle will survive that harsh winter," Goldstein said. NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has discovered two minerals on ...