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...motion submarine deaths are perversely compelling because they happen in shallow water within reach of rescuers. Men who have been trapped in stricken submarines say the crew of the Kursk would have suffered from cold as temperatures fell to 41[degrees]F and from severe headaches as levels of carbon dioxide rose in the smothering atmosphere. They would have suffered too from fear and hopelessness as rescuers repeatedly tried, and failed, to save them. "Those guys can hear the minisubs," said a U.S. Navy officer. "Listening to that for any length of time as you're slowly suffocating would drive...
Cars and trucks are a major source of global warming, as each gallon of gasoline pumps more than 25 lbs. of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But because of a loophole in the 1975 fuel-economy law, today's trucks are allowed to meet a laxer standard on miles per gallon than cars: 20.7 vs. 27.5 on average. The difference mattered less two decades ago, when light trucks--including sport utes, minivans and pickups--represented less than a fifth of new-car sales. Now they account for nearly half. "The industry was claiming it didn't have the technology...
...does one extract venom from a tiny, delicate and perhaps deadly spider? In a word: carefully. Kristensen and his wife Anita start by tranquilizing the specimen with a gentle breeze of carbon-dioxide gas from a cylinder behind the milking desk. Once the spider is groggy, the milker, peering through a low-power stereoscopic microscope, gently picks it up with metal tweezers that are connected to an electrical supply. When a mild shock is administered through the tweezers, the spider promptly spews up pretty much everything liquid inside it--including digestive enzymes. That was a problem early on, until Chuck...
What has given an old technology a new boost is lightweight materials like foamed carbon fibers, similar to those used in the Brietling Orbiter 3, the balloon that Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones used in last year's record-setting flight around the world. Piccard is the grandson of Auguste Piccard, the famed physicist and part-time aviator who in 1932 became the first man to reach the stratosphere in a balloon. In 1988 an engineer named Klaus Hagenlocher began poring through the Zeppelin archives and persuaded the company's CEO, Friedrichshafen Mayor Bernd Wiedmann, to resurrect the airship...
...course, if you're undecided about whether to buy an SUV or a minivan - and aren't thinking about such factors as the impact of SUVs on America's burgeoning output of carbon gases - the auto industry may, on the basis of their findings, be able to design a personality test to help you make up your mind. And TIME.com wants to help. We suggest it include the following questions...