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BELLA Laser Achieves World Record Power at One Pulse Per SecondBerkeley CA (SPX) Jul 31, 2012 On the night of July 20, 2012, the laser system of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA), which is nearing completion at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), delivered a petawatt of power in a pulse just 40 femtoseconds long at a pulse rate of one hertz - one pulse every second. A petawatt is 1015 watts, a quadrillion watts, and a femtosecond is 10-15 second, a quadrillionth of a second. No other laser system has achieved this peak power at thi ... read more |
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  Higgs excitations Phase transitions between different states of matter can be associated with a specific type of excitation called the "Higgs excitation". This phenomenon has now been ob-served in a two-dimensional q ... more | .. |
 Quantifying the Environmental Impact of Structural Materials with B-PATH A new software tool from scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will help architects, engineers, and urban planners better assess and manage the environmental impacts ... more | .. |
 Speed and power of X-ray laser helps unlock molecular mysteries By outrunning a laser's path of destruction, an international research team has created 3D images of fragile but biologically important molecules inside protein nanocrystals. Using the Linac Coheren ... 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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  The first robot that mimics the water striders' jumping abilities The first bio-inspired microrobot capable of not just walking on water like the water strider - but continuously jumping up and down like a real water strider - now is a reality. Scientists re ... more | .. |
  German National Academy of Sciences issues a critical statement on the use of bioenergy In a statement on the chances and limits of using bioenergy, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has come to the conclusion that in quantitative terms, bioenergy plays a minor role in ... more | .. |
  China Olympics Traffic Measures Cut Carbon Emissions A new NASA-funded study of the impacts of China's traffic restrictions for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing shows how widespread changes in transportation patterns could greatly reduce the threat ... more | .. |
  New method to encourage virtual power plants for efficient renewable energy production Researchers from the University of Southampton have devised a novel method for forming virtual power plants to provide renewable energy production in the UK. In the last decade, small and distribute ... more |
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Beijing decries 'discriminatory' ban on Chinese purchases of US farmland
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  Darker wings for monarch butterflies mean better flight For monarch butterflies, redder wings are correlated with better flight performance, according to research published July 25 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Previous work has shown that m ... more | .. |
  Walker's World: The euro at bay -- again You know a crisis is about to burst open when U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner flies in unexpectedly to meet German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi. ... more | .. |
  China denies EU solar dumping A Chinese government official has denounced a complaint filed with the European Commission by European solar panel makers, led by Germany's SolarWorld, seeking import tariffs on Chinese-made solar products. ... more | .. |
 US challenges EU with rival airline tax talks The United States will this week host a meeting of some 16 nations opposed to a controversial EU carbon tax on airlines, aiming to draw up an alternative plan, a US official said Monday. ... more |
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 HSBC profits slide after scandals Europe's biggest bank by assets, HSBC, posted on Monday a drop in half-year profits after taking a $2.0 billion-hit to cover costs from a US money-laundering scandal and mis-selling claims in Britain. ... more | .. |
 Japan factory output in unexpected fall for June Japan's factory output turned down unexpectedly last month, official data showed Monday, stoking concerns that turmoil overseas is damaging a recovery in the world's third-largest economy. ... more | .. |
 Blockbuster Apple-Samsung trial packs US court Jury selection began Monday in the blockbuster Apple-Samsung trial, a high stakes legal contest over infringement of patents for hot-selling smartphones and tablet computers. ... more | .. |
  EnBW says won't sue Germany over nuclear exit German power group EnBW said Monday it will not join other utility companies in filing a complaint with Germany's top court over compensation for Berlin's decision to abandon nuclear power. ... more |
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PLD Space selected as leading contender for ESA sovereign launch initiative
UK thermal satellite firm wins ESA contract to deliver real time climate and security insights
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  Twitter clocks half-billion users: monitor Over 500 million people are on micro-blogging site Twitter and Americans and Brazilians are the most connected, according to a study by social media monitor Semiocast released Monday. ... more | .. |
 Automatic shutdown at S. Korea nuclear reactor A South Korean nuclear reactor went into automatic shutdown on Monday apparently after a malfunction, plant operators said, while ruling out a possible radiation leak. ... more | .. |
 China's cabinet calls for innovation, investment China's cabinet called Monday for stepped up innovation and an increased role for private investment in state-dominated industries, warning the country's economy was under intensifying pressure. ... more | .. |
  A new era in modern analytical chemistry with Nano-FTIR Researchers from the nanoscience research center NanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain), the university of Munich (LMU, Germany) and Neaspec GmbH (Martinsried, Germany) present a new instrumental developme ... more |
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  World's smallest semiconductor laser created by University of Texas scientists Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed the world's smallest semiconductor laser, a breakthrough for emerging photonic t ... more | .. |
 Entropy can lead to order, paving the route to nanostructures Researchers trying to herd tiny particles into useful ordered formations have found an unlikely ally: entropy, a tendency generally described as "disorder." Computer simulations by University of Mic ... more | .. |
 Switching the state of matter Sixty years after the transistor began a technological revolution that transformed nearly every aspect of our daily lives, a new transistor brings innovations that may help to do so again. Developed ... more | .. |
 NIST measurement advance could speed innovation in solar devices A new versatile measurement system devised by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) accurately and quickly measures the electric power output of solar energy devic ... more |
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BlackSky expands Gen-3 access to bolster Ukraine-focused intelligence operations
Maxar secures $205 million in multi-year deals to boost space capabilities across MEA
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 Photovoltaics from any semiconductor A technology that would enable low-cost, high efficiency solar cells to be made from virtually any semiconductor material has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s ... more | .. |
  Hunter-gatherers, Westerners use same amount of energy, contrary to theory Modern lifestyles are generally quite different from those of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, a fact that some claim as the cause of the current rise in global obesity, but new results published in t ... more | .. |
 Anti-nuclear protesters surround Japan parliament Thousands of demonstrators holding aloft candles and lights formed a human chain around Japan's parliament on Sunday in a new protest against nuclear power after last year's Fukushima atomic crisis. ... more | .. |
 US regulators claim insider trading in Nexen deal US regulators have secured a court order to freeze assets of traders accused of seeking more than $13 million through illegal trades ahead of China-based CNOOC's public bid for Canadian oil firm Nexen Inc. ... more |
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  Driven by China sales, luxury goods buck economic slowdown Fuelled by surging demand in China, luxury goods makers are bucking the global economic slowdown and reaping huge profits on sales of high-end handbags, expensive jewellery and posh perfumes. ... more | .. |
 China's advantages counteract rising pay: analysts Rapid wage increases are threatening China's competitiveness, but improved productivity and other advantages mean it will continue to attract investors, analysts say. ... more | .. |
 BHP warns of spending cuts as China cools Mining giant BHP Billiton warned Saturday that it needed to reduce its cost base and slash non-essential spending as China cooled faster than expected, "significantly" impacting profitability. ... more | .. |
 Pipeline grid to bypass Hormuz vulnerable The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have developed a pipeline network across the Arabian Peninsula to bypass the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key oil artery that Iran threatens to close. But this could still be vulnerable to sabotage. ... more |
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