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New technology for recovering valuable minerals from waste rockWashington DC (SPX) Sep 20, 2011 Researchers report discovery of a completely new technology for more efficiently separating gold, silver, copper, and other valuable materials from rock and ore. Their report on the process, which uses nanoparticles to latch onto those materials and attach them to air bubbles in a flotation machine, appears in the ACS journal Langmuir. Robert Pelton and colleagues explain that companies use a technique termed froth flotation to process about 450 million tons of minerals each year. The ... read more |
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 Personalised 3D avatars for real life An avatar is really no more than a graphical representation, generally human, which is associated with a user for identification purposes. Avatars can be either photographs or art drawings, and cert ... more | .. |
 3D television without glasses When the boundaries merge between the action and the viewer, television becomes a special experience. Fraunhofer research scientists are optimizing the technologies that make it possible to watch TV ... more | .. |
  Walker's World: Into the euro abyss After two years without serious international coordination, the central banks of the developed world last week acted together in the face of the latest version of the euro crisis. ... 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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  Falklands looks to producing oil by 2016 Oil will start flowing from the Falkland Islands' offshore fields in 2016, one of the British prospecting companies active in the United Kingdom-ruled territory said. ... more | .. |
 Ukraine: Will pay Russian gas bill on time Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov says his country will pay its natural gas bills to Russia on time, thus avoiding a winter European supply shutdown. ... more | .. |
  India wants new tests before French reactors order India wants new test results in light of the Fukushima disaster before finalising a multi-billion-euro order for new reactors with French nuclear energy giant Areva, France's Energy Minister Eric Besson said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Italy's Finmeccanica says to cut 1,200 aviation jobs Italian defence industry group Finmeccanica said Monday it plans to cut 1,200 jobs from its Alenia Aeronautica aviation unit, or 10 percent of the division's workforce. ... more |
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One billion years of protein evolution reveals surprising design flexibility
MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
We tracked illegal fishing in marine protected areas - satellites and AI show most bans are respected, and could help enforce future ones | .. |
 Payout agreed over San Francisco oil spill The owners and operators of a cargo ship that struck San Francisco's Bay Bridge four years ago causing a huge oil spill are to pay $44.4 million in compensation, under a deal announced Monday. ... more | .. |
 Japan promises 'safer nuclear future' Japan's minister handling the Fukushima crisis told a gathering of the UN atomic agency Monday his country would have a "safer" future, after a massive anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo. ... more | .. |
 Turkey would consider US proposal for nuclear power plant Turkey's energy minister said Monday Ankara would consider a proposal from the United States to build a nuclear power plant in the country's north. ... more | .. |
 Nuclear pull-out to cost Germany 250 billion euros: study Germany's decision to switch from nuclear to renewable sources of energy will require investment of 250 billion euros ($340 billion) over the next decade, a new study found Monday. ... more |
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 Philippines to raise China sea dispute with Japan Philippine President Benigno Aquino will raise his country's territorial disputes with China over the resource-rich South China Sea when he visits Japan later this month, his spokesman said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Australia to probe Asia steel imports Australian authorities on Monday launched an inquiry into steel imports from China and four other Asian nations as domestic manufacturers suffer under the strong Aussie dollar. ... more | .. |
 Rosatom eyes Siemens cooperation despite nuclear exit Russian state nuclear company Rosatom will pursue cooperation with Germany's Siemens even though Siemens has decided to drop its nuclear energy projects, a Rosatom spokesman told AFP on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Thousands protest against nuclear power in Japan Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tokyo on Monday calling for an end to nuclear energy in Japan after the March 11 disaster that sparked the worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl. ... more |
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Mars glaciers are purer and more uniform than previously thought
Curiosity Rovers Boxwork Campaign Reaches New Heights on Mount Sharp
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 Asia short on pilots: Boeing Asia-Pacific's booming aviation sector is facing a serious pilot shortfall with some carriers forced to cut flights and ground new planes because of the gap, US aviation giant Boeing said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Air Force Academy Harnesses Ocean Wave Energy Air Force Academy aeronautics researchers have finished the largest test of their Ocean Wave Energy Converter to date at the Offshore Technology Research Center in College Station, Texas. The ... more | .. |
 Saving electricity while playing The federal government of Germany has decided to accelerate change in energy policy. But the transition will succeed only with the help of the consumers. They are called upon to use the energy from ... more | .. |
  Journey to the lower mantle and back The theory of plate tectonics is at the centre of our understanding of how the Earth works. It has been known for decades that new crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges and that this crust is subducte ... more |
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 Smartphone battery life could dramatically improve with new invention A new "subconscious mode" for smartphones and other WiFi-enabled mobile devices could extend battery life by as much as 54 percent for users on the busiest networks. University of Michigan com ... more | .. |
  Quantum behavior with a flash Just as a camera flash illuminates unseen objects hidden in darkness, a sequence of laser pulses can be used to study the elusive quantum behavior of a large "macroscopic" object. This method provid ... more | .. |
 Diamonds show depth extent of Earth's carbon cycle Scientists have speculated for some time that the Earth's carbon cycle extends deep into the planet's interior, but until now there has been no direct evidence. The mantle-Earth's thickest layer -is ... more | .. |
  Installed Cost of PV Systems Declined Significantly in 2010 and 2011 in US The installed cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the United States fell substantially in 2010 and into the first half of 2011, according to the latest edition of an annual PV cost trac ... more |
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BlackSky to supply satellite imagery and analytics for Latin American security operations
GovSat selects Thales Alenia Space to build secure satellite for military communications
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 An electronic bucket brigade could boost solar cell voltages If solar cells could generate higher voltages when sunlight falls on them, they'd produce more electrical power more efficiently. For over half a century scientists have known that ferroelectrics, m ... more | .. |
 Rice reinforces gas hydrate strategy Their critics weren't convinced the first time, but Rice University researchers didn't give up on the "ice that burns." A paper by a Rice team expands upon previous research to locate and quan ... more | .. |
 Carbon cycle reaches Earth's lower mantle The carbon cycle, upon which most living things depend, reaches much deeper into the Earth than generally supposed-all the way to the lower mantle, researchers report. The findings, which are ... more | .. |
 Sweden hit by 'substantial' oil spill: coast guard A recent oil spill near the Sweden's southwest coast is the worst in the area in years and the clean up will take weeks, the Swedish coast guard said Sunday. ... more |
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 China takes over as US solar power firms fail China's solar power firms are emerging as the industry's dominant force after the collapse of foreign competitors, but the new market leaders are already struggling with low prices and overcapacity. ... more | .. |
  S.Korea minister blames blackout on weather, reports A top South Korean official on Sunday blamed hot weather and inaccurate reports by public officials for the nation's worst-ever blackout and vowed to punish those responsible. ... more | .. |
German giant Siemens renounces nuclear activity: CEO German industrial giant Siemens is turning the page on nuclear energy in line with Berlin's decision to agree to an end to atomic power, the group's CEO Peter Loescher said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Austrians slam reported Czech nuclear plans Austrian politicians reacted angrily to reported plans by the Czech Republic to vastly increase its nuclear energy to account for 80 percent of its electricity production. ... more |
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