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CUNY Energy Institute Battery System Could Reduce Buildings' Electric BillsNew York, NY (SPX) May 09, 2012 The CUNY Energy Institute, which has been developing innovative low-cost batteries that are safe, non-toxic, and reliable with fast discharge rates and high energy densities, announced that it has built an operating prototype zinc anode battery system. The Institute said large-scale commercialization of the battery would start later this year. Zinc anode batteries offer an environmentally friendlier and less costly alternative to nickel cadmium batteries. In the longer term, they also could replac ... read more |
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  Quantum dots brighten the future of lighting With the age of the incandescent light bulb fading rapidly, the holy grail of the lighting industry is to develop a highly efficient form of solid-state lighting that produces high quality white lig ... more | .. |
  Fast, low-power, all-optical switch An optical switch developed at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) spurs the prospective integration of photonics and electronics. What, isn't electronics good enough? Well, nothing travels faster tha ... more | .. |
 Power generation technology based on piezoelectric nanocomposite materials developed by KAIST The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, has developed new forms of low cost, large-area nanogenerator technology using the piezoelectric c ... 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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  New technique uses electrons to map nanoparticle atomic structures With dimensions measuring billionths of a meter, nanoparticles are way too small to see with the naked eye. Yet it is becoming possible for today's scientists not only to see them, but also to look ... more | .. |
  Game-powered machine learning opens door to Google for music Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the ans ... more | .. |
  Life-size, 3D hologram-like telepods may revolutionize videoconferencing A Queen's University researcher has created a Star Trek-like human-scale 3D videoconferencing pod that allows people in different locations to video conference as if they are standing in front of ea ... more | .. |
  China's coal miners still at risk Mining accidents in China have called into question the safety of the country's mining sector. ... more |
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Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
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 EU mulls punishing Argentina over YPF Argentine government officials are beginning to count the cost of seizing Spanish-owned YPF with more backlash from Europe still to come. ... more | .. |
 3-D pod like something from Star Trek A Canadian scientist says he has created a Star Trek-like 3-D pod to allow people in different locations to talk as if they are standing in front of each other. ... more | .. |
  Google self-driving car gets green light in Nevada The state of Nevada has issued a license plate giving Google's self-driving car the green light to travel along public roads. ... more | .. |
US probing cyber attacks on gas pipelines A series of cyber attacks has been targeting US natural gas pipeline operators, officials acknowledged Tuesday, raising concerns among security experts about vulnerabilities in key infrastructure. ... more |
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  US to push China 'hard' for procurement access The United States will push China hard to open up restricted access to its vast state-controlled procurement market, the Treasury's top international official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
India tells US that Iran an important oil source India said Tuesday it shared the United States' goal of preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon, but insisted the Islamic republic remained an "important source of oil". ... more | .. |
 Fewer toxic toys and textiles in EU stores Europe last year saw its first drop in the number of toxic toys and skin-irritating textiles stacked on its supermarket shelves, more than half of them made in China, the EU said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
China to launch first deep-water oil rig China will this week launch its first home-grown deep-water drilling rig located in the South China Sea, some 300 kilometres (200 miles) southeast of Hong Kong, state media reported Tuesday. ... more |
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Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats
Astronauts from US, India, Poland, Hungary on SpaceX capsule return to Earth
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Philippine firm 'in talks' with China on gas field A Philippine company said Tuesday it had held talks with a Chinese energy giant about jointly developing a potentially lucrative gas field in the hotly disputed South China Sea. ... more | .. |
  Toshiba's profit drops by nearly half to $921 mn Japan's Toshiba said Tuesday that its full-year net profit fell by almost half to $921 million, hit by a strong yen, weak digital product sales, and last year's natural disasters in Japan and Thailand. ... more | .. |
China prepared for escalation of Philippine standoff Chinese vice foreign minister Fu Ying said Beijing was ready for "any escalation" of a tense maritime standoff with the Philippines over a disputed shoal. ... more | .. |
  Twitter challenges US subpoena seeking user data Twitter is challenging a court order to turn over to law enforcement data on one of its users involved in Occupy Wall Street in a case described by a civil liberties group as a major test of online freedom of speech. ... more |
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 Robot reveals the inner workings of brain cells Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even a profile of which genes are turned o ... more | .. |
 Colors burst into contemporary architecture White stopped being the official colour of architecture a while ago. New buildings have now been transformed and fragmented and they display movement and innovation thanks to the versatility of colo ... more | .. |
 Light touch keeps a grip on delicate nanoparticles Using a refined technique for trapping and manipulating nanoparticles, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have extended the trapped particles' useful life more ... more | .. |
 Analyzing energy potential from minor discrete sources Sensors, radio transmitters and GPS modules all feature low power consumption. All it takes is a few milliwatts to run them. Energy from the environment - from sources such as light or vibrations - ... more |
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Trump gives Russia 50 days to make Ukraine deal
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  Atomic-scale visualization of electron pairing in iron superconductors By measuring how strongly electrons are bound together to form Cooper pairs in an iron-based superconductor, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Corne ... more | .. |
 Flying 3D eye-bots They can be deployed as additional surveillance resources during major events, or as high-resolution 3D street imaging systems. Intelligent swarms of aerial drones are a universally useful tool for ... more | .. |
 Fabrication method can affect the use of block copolymer thin films A new study by a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) indicates that thin polymer films can have different properties depending on the method by w ... more | .. |
 Revolutionary technology enables objects to know how they are being touched A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips and a chair that adjusts room lighting based on r ... more |
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 Next-Generation Nanoelectronics: A Decade of Progress, Coming Advances Traditional silicon-based integrated circuits are found in many applications, from large data servers to cars to cell phones. Their widespread integration is due in part to the semiconductor industr ... more | .. |
 Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover Challenged to design a background for a small rover controlled from space, students in Germany have delivered a futuristic cityscape. The cool space art will be seen by astronauts in orbit via the r ... more | .. |
 Czechs mull moratorium on shale gas exploration The Czech Republic's environment ministry said Monday it was planning to impose a moratorium on shale gas exploration that would ban new research projects for up to two years. ... more | .. |
  Italy relives militancy fears with nuclear boss shooting A gunman shot and wounded the head of an Italian nuclear energy company on Monday in an incident reminiscent of militant attacks in the 1970s, with police saying anarchists could be responsible. ... more |
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