California Court to Rule on Dex-Cool Settlement

" Millions of consumers could collect repair costs from General Motors for engine damage caused by the coolant Dex-Cool following a hearing in California scheduled for late August. Two class-action lawsuits are pending in California state court involving GM customers who...

Nigerian Physics Undergraduate Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, Builds Helicopter

"Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts. "It took me eight...

First Nigerian-Made Chopper takes flight, draws attention

A 24-year-old Nigerian physics undergraduate student, Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, of Kano's Bayero University, has successfully designed and flown what might in latter years be recognized as Nigeria's first Airborne...

Engineers Find Hole in Space Shuttle

"Oct. 6, 2006 — Engineers examining the Space Shuttle Atlantis after it landed have found something that stopped them in their tracks: a small hole in the radiator on one of the shuttle's payload bay doors. The...

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