Materials
Energy and materials were developed together in early civilizations, beyond the use of fire for cooling and heating. In the courtyard of the stepped pyramid at Sakahra, built near Cairo, Egy...
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Religious materials are being returned to prison chapel libraries, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said Thursday, confirming plans to modify a program designed to remove religious books and videos that ...
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The latest figures suggest the manufacturing sector and the economy are rebounding.Demand for nondurables, such as food and chemicals, rose 1.6% in May vs. a flat reading in April, reported the U.S...
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The Energy Department has not done enough in Russia and in developing countries to secure radioactive material that could be used to make a so-called dirty bomb, congressional investigators said Tu...
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Chinese authorities destroyed 42 million pieces of pirated digital videodiscs, compact discs, computer software and illegal publications in the government's latest campaign to curtail rampant theft...
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Neither government nor industry has accurate information on the availability of minerals and other materials that may become critical for uses ranging from everyday household products to national d...
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The NFL has received and destroyed all materials it requested from the New England Patriots concerning videotaping of opponents' sidelines, and a league spokesman said the team was unlikely to face...
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A contract employee at a nuclear material cleanup site in Tennessee pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he stole classified information about enriching uranium to sell to foreign government...
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A popular romance novelist who's been criticized for allegedly lifting material has angered the biggest name in the genre: Nora Roberts.A romance novel Web site, http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks....
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One question facing baseball this season: Will cooler heads prevail? On opening day, the sport will doff the traditional wool cap in favor of a new polyester blend model designed to wick away sweat...
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Researchers have decoded genetic material from a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, an unprecedented step once thought impossible."The door just opens up to a whole avenue of research that invo...
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