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The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday announced that cocaine seizures throughout Fiscal Year 2025 represent the largest amount in the service’s history. They seized nearly 510,000 pounds of cocaine in the ...

Nissan reveals a bolt-on solar charging roof for its best-selling Sakura electric kei car. The solar roof can add up to 1,860 miles of free range per year in ideal conditions. Nissan says the 36 or so ...

BEIJING, Oct 20 (Reuters) - China's imports of Mongolian coal reached a record monthly high in September, customs data showed on Monday, as Beijing's efforts to tackle overcapacity pushed up domestic ...

We’ve reached the limit of a very successful way to make new elements in the lab. In new research, scientists unveil a new take on that technology and report its success. The heaviest elements could ...

Trending Netflix documentary "Unknown Number: The High School Catfish" is about a cyberstalking case in Beal City, Michigan. Two Beal City high schoolers received thousands of vulgar text messages ...

We promise we won't give you a pop (corn) quiz at the end When I was a little girl, I used to play counting games while I ate corn on the cob. First, I would count the number of bites it took me to ...

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...

Abstract: Source number estimation is a key challenge in multi-sensor array signal processing, focused on accurately determining the number of signal sources based on observed data. This problem is ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A record amount of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, and more is expected this month, according to a new report. The brown prickly algae is ...

Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas refining, and computer and phone screens. The 17 rare earth elements all have ...

Google has been paying Samsung tons of cash every month to pre-install the AI app Gemini on its smartphones, according to a report by Bloomberg. This information comes to us as part of a pre-existing ...