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Painting The Skies Green Over Santa RosaSanta Rosa CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2011 NASA and Centennial Challenge partner organization, the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency, or CAFE, Foundation of Santa Rosa, Calif., are encouraging aerospace enthusiasts to attend the Green Flight Centennial Challenge, set to be held at the Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1. Teams from across the United States will test electric, biofueled and hybrid-powered aircraft, vying to be the most fuel-efficient small aircraft in the world. They're competing for a competiti ... read more |
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  Scientists play ping-pong with single electrons Scientists at Cambridge University have shown an amazing degree of control over the most fundamental aspect of an electronic circuit, how electrons move from one place to another. Researchers ... more | .. |
  New hybrid carbon material discovered New hybrid carbon material, which combines both graphene and SWNTs, Graphene Nanoribbons encapsulated into Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes have been discovered by researchers from Aalto University (F ... more | .. |
  New metal hydride clusters provide insights into hydrogen storage A study published by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute (ASI) has shed first-ever light on a class of heterometallic molecular structures whose unique features point the way to brea ... 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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 Cloaking magnetic fields create the first antimagnet Spanish researchers have designed what they believe to be a new type of magnetic cloak, which shields objects from external magnetic fields, while at the same time preventing any magnetic internal f ... more | .. |
  OPEL Solar Trackers Are Selected by Conergy US OPEL Solar and OPEL Technologies has announced that Conergy U.S. selected OPEL to supply its TF-800 series of single axis trackers for multiple projects in Northern California. The first proje ... more | .. |
 Tecta Solar Installs PV System For Blackcomb Solar Tecta Solar recently completed the installation of a 160.8 kWp rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) system for Blackcomb Solar LLC in Worcester, Mass. The system is projected to generate 199 MWh of ... more | .. |
 Solar Frontier Surpasses 30MW of Projects in India Solar Frontier has announced that it has closed deals to supply CIS solar modules to projects in India under National Solar Mission and Gujarat State program, totaling more than 30MW to be installed ... 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
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 Silicon Energy PV Modules Receive ETL Certification Silicon Energy has announced that its Cascade PV Modules, manufactured in its new Minnesota plant, have been certified to Underwriters Laboratories UL 1703 standard by ETL certification testing labs ... more | .. |
 Cooper Crouse-Hinds Expands Extensive Line of Solar Combiner Solutions Certified to Meet UL1741 Cooper Crouse-Hinds continues to expand its offering of Solar Combiner Boxes which now meet UL1741 for use in grid-tied solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. The broad product offering of combiners ... more | .. |
 Libyan oil needs two years to recover Libya's oil industry, lynchpin of the North African country's economy, isn't expected to return to its pre-civil war production level of 1.6 million barrels per day for at least two years. ... more | .. |
Iraq eclipses 2010 oil income in eight months of 2011 Higher oil prices and rising exports in the first eight months of the year have meant Iraq has already eclipsed the total amount it earned from crude exports in 2010, figures published on Thursday showed. ... more |
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  France calls for mandatory international nuclear checks France on Thursday called for an international rapid reaction force to handle nuclear crises and for mandatory international inspections of civilian nuclear programs. ... more | .. |
Nigeria army gives oil rebels one week to seek amnesty Nigeria's security forces on Thursday gave rebels in the oil-rich Niger Delta region one week to seek amnesty, an offer that has previously curbed violence in the turbulent region. ... more | .. |
  Amid struggles, HP names Meg Whitman CEO Hewlett-Packard on Thursday named former eBay chief Meg Whitman its new president and chief executive officer, replacing Leo Apotheker at the helm of the world's biggest computer maker. ... more | .. |
Nippon Steel, Sumitomo Metal Industries to merge Japan's biggest steelmaker Nippon Steel and third-ranked rival Sumitomo Metal Industries on Thursday announced a merger that will create the world's second-largest steel firm. ... 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
Skyfall Mars helicopter fleet to scout future astronaut landing sites | .. |
Philippines seeks ASEAN help to blunt China The Philippines on Thursday sought backing from its Southeast Asian neighbours for its plan to blunt China's claims over disputed areas of the South China Sea and ease tensions. ... more | .. |
  China's major banks losing deposits: report Deposits are flowing out of China's major state-owned banks as high inflation and low interest rates prompt savers to seek better returns in the private lending market, state media said Thursday. ... more | .. |
China manufacturing contracts in September Manufacturing activity in China contracted for the third straight month in September, early data released Thursday showed, as turbulence in the United States and Europe hurt demand for exports. ... more | .. |
 Samsung starts new chip line to boost flash memory Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, said Thursday it has begun mass production at a new line to raise production of flash memory chips used in tablets and smartphones. ... more |
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  The brightest gamma ray on Earth makes for safer world The brightest gamma ray beam ever created - more than a thousand billion times more brilliant than the sun - has been produced in research led at the University of Strathclyde, and could open up new ... more | .. |
  Robots are coming to aircraft assembly Up to now, aircraft have been put together in huge assembly cells, but to build the necessary facilities is expensive and time-consuming. That is why Fraunhofer researchers have come up with a flexi ... more | .. |
  A big step towards the redefinition of the kelvin Metrologists are measurement artists who are very precise - in the case of the Boltzmann constant up to the sixth decimal place. Whoever is able to determine it very exactly will cause a small revol ... more | .. |
 Researchers make visible the structure of the smallest crystals A radical new way of making structures visible at the nano level has been developed at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). This new method makes it possible to determine with precision the ar ... 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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 Microwave ovens a key to energy production from wasted heat More than 60 percent of the energy produced by cars, machines, and industry around the world is lost as waste heat - an age-old problem - but researchers have found a new way to make "thermoelectric ... more | .. |
 Saltwater boosts microbial electrolysis cells to cleanly produce hydrogen A grain of salt or two may be all that microbial electrolysis cells need to produce hydrogen from wastewater or organic byproducts, without adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere or using grid elec ... more | .. |
 3D microscope opens eyes to prehistoric oceans and present-day resources A University of Alberta research team has turned their newly developed 3-D microscope technology on ancient sea creatures and hopes to expand its use. U of A engineering professor Dileepan Jos ... more | .. |
Gas drilling heightens east Med tension Tension in the eastern Mediterranean rose sharply this week when Greek Cypriots started drilling for natural gas off the divided island. ... more |
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Cyprus begins drilling despite controversy The Greek Cypriot government says it's going ahead with exploratory offshore oil drilling despite objections from Turkey, which calls the move provocative. ... more | .. |
 Nobel Laureate may have suppressed evidence on radiation effects in 1946 University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental toxicologist Edward Calabrese, whose career research shows that low doses of some chemicals and radiation are benign or even helpful, says he has un ... more | .. |
Obama, Noda vow to push economic growth US President Barack Obama held his first talks with Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Wednesday, and both leaders pledged to boost fragile global economic growth. ... more | .. |
Insurance market Lloyd's cuts European debt exposure The Lloyd's of London insurance market said Wednesday that it has slashed its exposure to European government debt and pulled cash out of some of the region's banks amid the deepening eurozone crisis. ... more |
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