“DO YOU have a radiation meter?” asks Emilkhan Osekeeva, a family doctor, as she walks up a dirt lane called Engels Street. “The woman here died of stomach cancer,” she says, nodding at a mud-brick home on the right. “Her youngest son died of leukaemia before his 30th birthday. On the left, the mother also died of stomach cancer. Up there the woman died of uterine cancer.” Dr Osekeeva’s 38 years p
Solar Impulse, the aeroplane that is powered only by the sun, has landed in Hawaii after making a historic 7,200km flight across the Pacific from Japan. Pilot Andre Borschberg brought the vehicle gently down on to the runway of Kalaeloa Airport at 05:55 local time (15:55 GMT; 16:55 BST). The distance covered and the time spent in the air - 118 hours - are records for manned, solar-powered flight.
Tesla isn't a car company. It's a battery company that happens to make electric cars. Tesla is admired for building the cars of the future. But it's not really a car company. It's a battery company that happens to make electric cars. At least, that's the trajectory suggested by the news that Tesla will soon sell mega-batteries for homes and electric utility companies. CEO Elon Musk mentioned the p
The Central Japan Railway company reports that its magnetic levitation bullet train topped 366 miles per hour on Thursday during a test run along a length of test track in the Yamanashi prefecture. This was enough to break its own 12-year-old, 361 mph world record set back in 2003. The train reportedly carried 29 engineers during its run. Unfortunately, the record is only expected to last until ne
San Francisco introduces free, solar-powered electric vehicle charging In a demonstration project, San Francisco unveiled three installations of an off-the-grid solar-powered charging station, allowing electric vehicle owners to pull up and charge for free. Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, We
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