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On April 23rd, 2013 US Patent 8425663 for Polarex, an extractive separations technology was approved.

The controversial Route 29 Western Bypass is back up for debate - this time at a VDOT-sponsored public comment session.

To the average investor, there are plenty of gauges shareholders can use to monitor publicly traded companies.

The Pentagon 's annual report to Congress shows a decline of $4.5 billion, or just over 1 percent, in the projected development and acquisition cost of the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jet program, sources familiar with the data said on Thursday.

SAE Foundation announced today that it will honor Mary T. Barra with its Industry Leadership Award at the 2013 SAE Foundation Celebration Dinner.

A pilot quota system that allows companies operating in China to freely transfer some of their yuan profits offshore has gathered some traction in recent months and bankers expect more firms to seek approvals to participate.

Public backlash against deadly overseas drone strikes may undermine promising uses of such technology for anything from disaster response to mail delivery, a top U.S. industry group said as it launched a lobbying effort to "demystify" unmanned planes.

The US Navy's MQ-4C Triton aircraft, powered by a Rolls-Royce AE 3007 engine, successfully completed its first flight on May 22, 2013.

Dr Napthine met with Ford representatives yesterday and was told there was nothing either the Victorian or federal governments could do to change their decision, he said.

A group of investment firms including Citadel Securities LLC sued the Chicago Board Options Exchange Inc and four other exchanges on Wednesday for improper charges on millions of options trades over a seven-year period.

An unmanned jet built for the U.S. Navy's high-altitude maritime surveillance missions made its first flight on Wednesday, officials said.

UPDATE: Virginia Church of God released a statement Wednesday afternoon regarding the fatal shooting in Crozet Tuesday.

Pesticide makers have taken to framing themselves as stewards of the bees as backlash over their products' links to mass bee deaths grows.

My first motorcycle was a Honda 305 Scrambler off-road dirt bike. Now I have a Harley Dyna Glide custom.

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It was surely one of those moments where NASA could hardly wait to tear off the shrink wrap.

The Health and Safety Executive said the death of experienced maintenance engineer Gary Whiting, 51, was an ''entirely preventable tragedy''. BAE Systems Ltd of Farnborough Aerospace Centre, Farnborough, was fined A 250,000 and ordered to pay A 97,153 costs after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, at ... (more)

Covidien plc announced Tuesday that its bronchoscopy system, used to detect lung cancer, has been included in the new American College of Chest Physicians guidelines.

According to weekend newspaper reports, Sir Roger Carr -- currently chairman of Centrica -- is being lined up as the next chairman of BAE Systems plc .

Gentex Corp. announced today that Steve Dykman, its longtime chief financial officer and vice president of finance, left the company as of Friday, May 17.