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Thousands Of Atoms Swap Spins With Partners In Quantum Square Dance Washington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 2007 
Physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have induced thousands of atoms trapped by laser beams to swap "spins" with partners simultaneously. The repeated exchanges, like a quantum version of swinging your partner in a square dance but lasting a total of just 10 milliseconds, might someday carry out logic operations in quantum computers, which ... read more
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Laser Sets Records In Power And Energy Efficiency
Evanston IL (SPX) Jul 27, 2007The rise in global terrorism in recent years has brought significant attention to the needs for more advanced sensors and defense technologies to protect civilians and soldiers. Next-generation laser-based defense systems are now being designed for this need, including the use of infrared countermeasures to protect aircraft from heat-seeking missiles and highly sensitive chemical detectors for r ... more MIT Researchers Work Toward Spark-Free, Fuel-Efficient Engines 
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 27, 2007In an advance that could help curb global demand for oil, MIT researchers have demonstrated how ordinary spark-ignition automobile engines can, under certain driving conditions, move into a spark-free operating mode that is more fuel-efficient and just as clean. The mode-switching capability could appear in production models within a few years, improving fuel economy by several miles per gallon ... more France-Libya Nuclear Deal A Dangerous Step Warn Many 
Paris (AFP) July 26, 2007French green groups Thursday attacked plans to build a French reactor in Libya for water desalination as a perilous masquerade that would encourage Moamer Kadhafi to get a nuclear bomb. Sortir du Nucleaire (Get Out of Nuclear) said the official reason for the reactor was a "deception" as the civilian and military uses of nuclear technology were "indissociable." "Delivering civilian nuclear ... more US Lawmakers Threatens To Block Indian Nuclear Deal 
Washington (AFP) July 25, 2007A bi-partisan group of lawmakers warned Wednesday that Congress could block a landmark US-India nuclear cooperation deal if it sidesteps safeguards to prevent military uses of the technology. The 23 legislators sent a letter to President George W. Bush saying the so-called "123" operating agreement, which reportedly allows India to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, could end up violating US law. ... more Australia Considers Selling Uranium To India 
Sydney (AFP) July 26, 2007Australia is considering selling uranium to India after New Delhi finalises a landmark civilian nuclear deal with the United States, the government said Thursday. Australia has the world's largest known reserves of uranium and has been under pressure sell the nuclear fuel to India since it agreed last year to supply rival Asian giant China. But Australia has a policy of refusing to export ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2007There's an old saying, "You can't see the forest for the trees." When it comes to global climate change, it's not hard to spot the "trees" -- they're in the news headlines nearly every day. To see the "forest," however--that is, to gain a more complete understanding of the climate variations we're seeing--scientists use satellite remote sensing. With these technologies, they can directly measure ... more Renewable Energy Wrecks Environment 
New York NY (SPX) Jul 25, 2007Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains that building enough wind farms, damming enough rivers, and growing enough biomass to meet global energy demands will wreck the environment. Ausubel has analyzed the amount of ener ... more Asian Land Grabs Highlight Class Friction And Bureaucratic Failures 
Trapeang Krasaing, Cambodia (AFP) July 24, 2007Monsoon rains have brought new misery to the residents of this resettlement site outside the Cambodian capital. Already uprooted from their homes, the hundreds of families living here now have to contend with near daily downpours that flood their shacks with putrid water. "Living here is a misery," said Chan Bory, one of the thousands who authorities in Phnom Penh pushed from their homes in a ci ... more US Lawmakers Question Secretive US-India Nuclear Pact 
Washington (AFP) July 25, 2007US lawmakers have warned President George W. Bush of "inconsistencies" amid reports Washington has agreed in principle to allow India to reprocess spent nuclear fuel under a landmark deal. The warning came after US and Indian officials finalized last week the implementing agreement for Washington to provide nuclear technology and fuel to India under a deal agreed upon by Bush and Indian Prime Mi ... more |
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Waco TX (SPX) Jul 26, 2007A Baylor University researcher has created the first experimental observation of molecular chaos, providing evidence that a widely accepted, yet unproven, assumption is indeed accurate. Molecular chaos is an assumption that the velocities of colliding particles are uncorrelated and independent of position. An example of molecular chaos is the air in any room. While the nitrogen and oxygen atoms ... more Japan's Quake-Hit Nuke Plant Says Nothing To Hide 
Tokyo (AFP) July 25, 2007The operator of Japan's largest nuclear plant, which was damaged in a powerful earthquake, said Wednesday it had nothing to hide as UN inspectors prepared to visit. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team is set to arrive in Japan in the next few weeks to look at the sprawling Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO). Asked to promise the co ... more French Firm Could Build Shield Over Main Chernobyl Reactor 
Kiev (RIA Novosti) Jul 26, 2007Ukraine could sign a contract with a French firm in September to build a giant protective shield over a damaged reactor in Chernobyl, the scene of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the emergencies minister said Wednesday. "The Assembly of Chernobyl Shelter Fund Donors made a decision in London July 17 to give its approval to the contract to build the shelter with the Novarka concern, with a pr ... more Russia Puts Off Bushehr NPP Launch Until Fall 2008 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 26, 2007The Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran cannot be completed by the fall of 2007 as suggested by Iranian authorities and will only be commissioned a year later, a Russian subcontractor said. Russia is building the $1-billion facility, Iran's first nuclear power plant, in the south of the country in accordance with a 1995 contract, and under UN supervision as Iran is under international scrutiny o ... more
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