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UC Riverside physicists discover new way to produce antimatter-containing atomRiverside CA (SPX) Jul 12, 2011 Physicists at the University of California, Riverside report that they have discovered a new way to create positronium, an exotic and short-lived atom that could help answer what happened to antimatter in the universe, why nature favored matter over antimatter at the universe's creation. Positronium is made up of an electron and its antimatter twin, the positron. It has applications in developing more accurate Positron Emission Tomography or PET scans and in fundamental physics research. Rec ... read more |
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  NIST prototype optics table on a chip places microwave photon in 2 colors at once Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a tunable superconducting circuit on a chip that can place a single microwave photon (particle of light) in two ... more | .. |
  Device captures ambient electromagnetic energy to drive small electronic devices Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. By scaveng ... more | .. |
 Geothermal industry to get boost from Reno research An ambitious University of Nevada, Reno project to understand and characterize geothermal potential at nearly 500 sites throughout the Great Basin is yielding a bounty of information for the geother ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 Light propagation controlled in photonic chips marks major breakthrough in telecommunications field Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have built optical nanostructures that enable them to engineer the index of refraction and fully control light dispersion. They have shown that it is possi ... more | .. |
 Serbia wants U.N. to honor Tesla birthday Serbia says it will ask the United Nations to declare the birth date of scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla International Science Day. ... more | .. |
  Walker's World: Double dips and worse China, the locomotive that has been driving the world economy, is slowing. And since the rest of the world is in no shape to compensate, a second recession or a very prolonged slowdown is starting to look inevitable. ... more | .. |
  Big solar panel factory launched in Italy One of the biggest solar panel factories in Europe has been launched in Italy as a U.N. report says photovoltaic modules have become more price-competitive. ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
NASA teams with India to launch Earth-tracking satellite
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 Timing of US military exercises 'inappropriate': China China's top military officer on Monday called the timing of American naval exercises in the sensitive South China Sea "inappropriate", after holding talks with his US counterpart in Beijing. ... more | .. |
China's top general criticises US exercises China's top military officer said Monday the timing of US naval exercises in the South China Sea was "inappropriate," after talks with his American counterpart aimed at cooling the territorial dispute. ... more | .. |
  Three die in China coal mine rescue Three rescuers died as they tried to help workers trapped in a colliery in eastern China, local authorities said Monday, as 21 people remained stuck in another mine in the same region. ... more | .. |
  Japan says reactor 'stress tests' in two phases Japan said on Monday that its nuclear reactor "stress tests" will be carried out in two stages, prioritising dozens that are now idled, but gave no timeline for when the assessments will start. ... more |
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  BRICS vow to improve access to low-cost medicine The BRICS group of emerging countries on Monday vowed to improve access to low-cost and high-quality medicine - and called on developed nations to shoulder responsibility in helping the poor. ... more | .. |
Japan still needs nuclear power: Tokyo governor Tokyo's outspoken Governor Shintaro Ishihara says Japan still needs atomic power, despite what he expects will be "some hysterical reaction" to the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
21 trapped in China iron ore mine: report Twenty-one workers are trapped underground after a flood in an iron ore mine in eastern China, state media said Monday, in the latest accident to hit the notoriously dangerous industry. ... more | .. |
China revises down Q1 current account surplus China's current account surplus plunged 21 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, revised government figures showed Monday - a much larger fall than previously announced. ... more |
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SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with International Space Station
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  Industry unhappy with Australia's pollution tax Airlines, miners and industry launched a furious attack on Australia's bold new tax on carbon emissions Monday, as Prime Minister Julia Gillard began selling the levy to sceptical voters. ... more | .. |
  Belgium's highways shine into space - but for how long? When Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne feels homesick when in space, all he needs to do, provided it's night, is look down for the bright spot for even nowadays, Belgium keeps its highways switched on. ... more | .. |
  Hot springs microbe yields heat-tolerant enzyme Bioprospectors from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found a microbe in a Nevada hot spring that happily eats plant material - cellulose ... more | .. |
 Microalgae could be next big cash crop for Texas energy farmers Just as corn and peanuts stunned the world decades ago with their then-newly discovered multi-beneficial uses and applications, Texas AgriLife Research scientists in Corpus Christi think microalgae ... more |
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 Tecta Solar Expands East Coast Presence Fueling Growth through New Hires and Service Expansions Tecta Solar, a division of Tecta America Corp., has opened a new office just outside of Philadelphia, in Fort Washington, Pa. to provide its expanding team a sustainable, local office for its solar ... more | .. |
 Pyron Solar Achieves Milestone For Its Floating CPV Power Production System At Prototype Test Site The world's first full-scale installation for Pyron Solar's unique concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar energy system has achieved a milestone with performance results from a prototype test site th ... more | .. |
 U of T researchers build an antenna for light University of Toronto researchers have derived inspiration from the photosynthetic apparatus in plants to engineer a new generation of nanomaterials that control and direct the energy absorbed from ... more | .. |
 NIST mechanical micro-drum cooled to quantum ground state Showcasing new tools for widespread development of quantum circuits made of mechanical parts, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a flexible, ... more |
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Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
Navy F-35 jet crashes in California
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 Global investments in green energy up nearly a third to $211 billion Wind farms in China and small-scale solar panels on rooftops in Europe were largely responsible for last year's 32% rise in green energy investments worldwide according to the latest annual report o ... more | .. |
 Centrosolar America Receives Intertek Certification Of Centropack Pre-Packaged PV Kit Centrosolar reports that their CentroPack line of pre-packaged solar installation kits is now approved and listed by Intertek as a complete system. Intertek provides electrical safety testing and gl ... more | .. |
 Australia PM warns polluters' days over Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard came out fighting over her contentious pollution tax Saturday, warning the "freedom to pollute our skies" was over, ending 20 years of denial and delay. ... more | .. |
China's trade surplus widens to $22.27 billion China's politically sensitive trade surplus expanded to $22.27 billion in June, rising sharply from the previous month as the value of exports hit a record high, government data showed Sunday. ... more |
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 Mullen flies to China as US plans naval exercise The top US military officer left for China Friday in a trip designed to bolster a fledgling security dialogue with Beijing, even as a US naval exercise in the South China Sea threatens to upstage his visit. ... more | .. |
 'Trash gas' powers garbage trucks A growing number of trash trucks are being powered by fuel recovered from the very garbage they haul to landfills, U.S. industry experts said. ... more | .. |
Two rescued after week trapped in China mine Two workers were rescued Sunday after being trapped for more than a week deep underground in a southern China mine collapse in which eight people died and 12 were still missing, state media reported. ... more | .. |
Police break up anti-China rally in Vietnam Vietnamese police forcibly dispersed an anti-China rally on Sunday and arrested at least 10 people, including journalists, after a series of protests over tensions in the South China Sea. ... more |
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