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Rear view of couple traveling through car.Maskot | Maskot | Getty ImagesA recall on your vehicle can derail your travel plans, depending on the issue at hand. It's an issue plenty of drivers have to consider this fall. Subaru, Volkswagen, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and Honda Motor are among the vehicle manufacturers that have issued recall notices with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in November — collectively affecting more than 2.3 million vehicles.Among those, Toyota recalled nearly 1.9…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Scientists say they have revealed a host of strategies that can facilitate the flow of information among global virtual teams (GVTs) of different cultural, linguistic, and geographic backgrounds. In a study published in the International Journal of Cross Cultural Management the scientists identify…

Adoption of wireless charging has been fairly slow, but it could pick up if it worked over longer distances. Now, engineers at Aalto University have developed a new system that can allow more efficient wireless power transmission over longer distances.Currently, wireless charging requires that a device be left on a pad or dock, which isn’t much better than wired charging. The ultimate end goal for wireless charging would be where we no longer even have to think about charging our devices – they’d just top up wirelessly…

Reassembled partial skeleton Ambulator keanei (SAMA P54742) with silhouette demonstrating advanced adaptations for quadrupedal, graviportal walking. Credit: Jacob Van Zoelen (Flinders University)A new genus of diprotodontid has been identified through the use of 3D scanning technology.Paleontologists from Flinders University, utilizing advanced 3D scans and other cutting-edge technology, have provided a new perspective on the fragmentary remains of a 3.5 million-year-old marsupial from Central Australia, now identified as…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In 1914, two beads were found under the great ziggurat of Aššur in Iraq, in a foundation deposit dating from around 1800-1750 BC. Their material has now been identified as amber using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR). The beads represent some of the earliest amber specimens in southwest Asia and also some of the most distant discoveries from the find areas in the Baltic region.…

Emae Island in Central Vanuatu. Credit: Aymeric Hermann Polynesian peoples are renowned for their advanced sailing technology and for reaching the most remote islands on the planet centuries before the Europeans reached the Americas. Through swift eastward migrations that are now well covered by archaeological research, Polynesian societies settled virtually every island from Samoa and Tonga to Rapa Nui/Easter Island in the…

A recent parliamentary inquiry into passenger rail drew 1700 submissions, suggesting growing support for the return of long-distance trains in Aotearoa. The government has committed the country to decarbonization targets that require significant cuts to transport-related emissions. But decarbonizing long-distance travel is not part of the plan—the national rail operator KiwiRail…

The Voyager 1 space probe launched from Earth in September 1977, and is now around 23.5 billion kilometers (or 14.6 billion miles) away from home – and counting. But despite that mind-blowing distance, NASA scientists just carried out a repair job on the craft.Since May, Voyager 1 has been sending back garbled information from its attitude articulation and control system (AACS), which is the part of the probe that ensures that its antenna is pointed towards Earth.Although the rest of the probe continued to behave…

The composition of our gut microbiome is known to influence many elements of the human body, and new lines of research are uncovering some fascinating insights around how this extends to athletic performance. The latest findings in this space suggest that more stable communities of gut bacteria can boost performance among endurance runners, and suggest that diet may play a pivotal role.Previous research has demonstrated that exercise can directly influence the makeup of our gut bacteria, and more recently, studies have…

INDIAN RAILWAYS UPDATE: Thousands of passengers struggled to get to their workplaces on time as local train services in Mumbai were running late by 10 to 15 minutes due to heavy rain on Tuesday morning. Mumbai has been witnessing heavy rain since last couple of days. Despite heavy rainfall in Mumbai, Western Railway's local train services are running normally over Mumbai Suburban section – Churchgate to Dahanu Road.#MumbaiRain pic.twitter.com/GUczRiAtqH — Western Railway (@WesternRly) July 5, 2022 The India…