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Los Alamos achieves world-record pulsed magnetic fieldLos Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 24, 2011 Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a new world record for the strongest magnetic field produced by a nondestructive magnet. The scientists achieved a field of 92.5 tesla on Thursday, August 18, taking back a record that had been held by a team of German scientists and then, the following day, surpassed their achievement with a whopping 97.4-tesla field. For perspective, Earth's magnetic field is 0.0004 tesla ... read more |
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  Etch-a-sketch with superconductors Reporting in Nature Materials this week, researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have discovered a technique to 'draw' superco ... more | .. |
 Controlling magnetism with electric fields An international team of researchers from France and Germany has developed a new material which is the first to react magnetically to electrical fields at room temperature. Previously this was only ... more | .. |
  Human gait could soon power portable electronics If the vision of Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor comes to fruition, one day soon your cellphone - or just about any other portable electronic device - could be powered by simply taking a walk. ... 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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 Antennas in your clothes? New design could pave the way The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine. To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers are finding ways to incorporate ra ... more | .. |
 New theory may shed light on dynamics of large-polymer liquids A new physics-based theory could give researchers a deeper understanding of the unusual, slow dynamics of liquids composed of large polymers. This advance provides a better picture of how polymer mo ... more | .. |
  Moody's cuts Japan debt rating Major ratings agency Moody's Investors Service downgraded Japan's sovereign debt rating by one notch Wednesday, putting fresh pressure on the country's political leaders to repair its finances. ... more | .. |
 Upbeat prospects fro diesel in U.S. The word "diesel" conjures up images of soot-covered semis and rattling school buses belching down the road but while these vehicles are the main consumers of diesel, they don't present the modern picture of the fuel in regards to passenger cars. ... more |
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First wildfire images reveal FireSat's unmatched detection capabilities
MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
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  India outsourcers predict 18% growth India's flagship outsourcing sector is still expected to post 16 to 18 percent export revenue growth, despite fears of a fresh slump in its key US and European markets, an industry body said. ... more | .. |
  Hydrogen cars fill up at sewage plant A Southern California sewage treatment plant has been turned into a filling station for hydrogen-powered cars, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Brazil's Embraer spreads wings in China Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer is expanding operations in China, one of the fastest growing aviation markets where the company is already active delivering orders secured earlier. ... more | .. |
 Adani's grip on Australian coal for power As part of its $10.4 billion investment in Australia's coal exports to India, Indian energy giant Adani Enterprises Ltd. aims to control each stage, from mine to port, The Australian newspaper reports. ... more |
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China urges protection of its assets in Libya China Tuesday urged Libya to protect its assets and expressed hopes its billions of dollars of investment with the oil-rich country would continue after rebels overran the capital Tripoli. ... more | .. |
Philippines vows to defend South China Sea claims Philippine President Benigno Aquino vowed on Tuesday a stronger military defence of his country's South China Sea claims as the navy's newest warship sailed into Manila Bay from the United States. ... more | .. |
 Is oil pricing itself out of the market? University of Alberta researcher Andrew Leach likes the way Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal thinks. A new paper by Leach, an associate professor in the Alberta School of Business, and fellow Univers ... more | .. |
  New Government Incentive Delivers Massive Upside to China Solar Market The Chinese government's new feed-in-tariff (FIT) incentive program is expected to give a major boost to the country's solar industry, potentially increasing installations by a combined 1.5 gigawatt ... more |
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China Focus: Chinese scientist details first planned Mars sample-return mission Tianwen 3
NASA says it will lose about 20 percent of its workforce
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 National Solar Power announces world's largest solar farm finalists National Solar Power announced the names of seven communities in the southeast U.S. that are in serious contention to be the one chosen by the company as the site for the construction and operation ... more | .. |
 BrightSource Energy Launches SolarPLUS BrightSource Energy has launched a new solar thermal power plant solution for utilities. Called SolarPLUS, the offering combines BrightSource's high-efficiency LPT power tower solar thermal technolo ... more | .. |
 Walker's World: The new economy The surprise is that rational people in business and the markets have been so surprised by the double-dip recession. A renewal of the financial crisis was a pretty logical development once the fiscal ammunition ran out. ... more | .. |
 Expert: Greece in better pipeline position Greece's move to privatize its incumbent natural gas distributor could help it gain leverage in still-fluid southern energy corridor plans, a U.S. expert says. ... more |
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Eight still held after Vietnam protest: media Eight anti-China demonstrators who defied government orders to end an unprecedented series of rallies remain in custody for investigation, an official Vietnamese police newspaper reported on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Commentary: New world disorder From a record-breaking drought that has devastated much of the U.S. South and keeps getting worse, to the U.S. economy and what Time magazine's cover story calls "The Decline and Fall of Europe (and maybe the West)"; civil wars in Libya and Syria; renewed terrorism in Iraq and endless fighting in Afghanistan, the good news was hard to detect. ... more | .. |
  Ford, Toyota to join hands on hybrid trucks Ford and Toyota announced Monday plans to jointly develop a new hybrid system for light trucks and sport utility vehicles. ... more | .. |
  GE uranium enrichment plans raise fears: report US conglomerate General Electric is seeking permission to build a $1 billion plant for uranium enrichment by laser, a process which has raised proliferation fears, The New York Times said Sunday. ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
BlackSky to supply satellite imagery and analytics for Latin American security operations
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Australian manufacturing 'crisis' as BlueScope axes jobs Australia's BlueScope Steel said Monday it will close a blast furnace, abandon its export business and axe 1,000 jobs as unions warned the manufacturing sector was facing its worst crisis in decades. ... more | .. |
 Sabotage causes Nigeria oil spills, production halt: Shell Sabotage has led to six oil spills from one Shell pipeline in Nigeria since the start of the month, the company said on Monday, while damage to another line has caused a temporary production halt. ... more | .. |
Dozens more arrested in US over pipeline protest Fresh arrests Sunday marked a second day of protests at the White House by environmental activists who said they were staging a two-week sit-in in a bid to halt a proposed oil pipeline. ... more | .. |
  Iraqis face new kind of power problem Iraqis are used to severe electricity shortages, but residents of the central holy city of Karbala have a new kind of power problem: an electricity tower in the middle of a street. ... more |
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 Biden hails US ties with resource-rich Mongolia Joe Biden on Monday hailed the United States' growing ties with Mongolia on a rare visit by an American leader to the Asian nation, which is opening up its vast coal reserves to foreign investors. ... more | .. |
Nuclear talks, energy to top Kim, Medvedev summit North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il meets Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Siberia this week for rare talks expected to focus on energy cooperation, Pyongyang's nuclear programme and hunger in the isolated Communist state. ... more | .. |
  Water Week starts with calls for better urban water World Water Week opened in Stockholm on Monday with calls for greater, more resilient water management in cities to ensure better food and water security in a rapidly urbanising world. ... more | .. |
  Suicides stalk Japan disaster zone When Japanese farmer Hisashi Tarukawa watched the local nuclear plant blow up on television, he uttered a sentence that will forever chill his family: "Oh, no. It's over." ... more |
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