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Russian Arctic resourcesMoscow, Russia (Voice of Russia) Aug 30, 2012 The Arctic Region is often referred to as the "resource depository" of the future. Deemed as a strategically important region, the Arctic boasts a variety of natural riches, including minerals, oil and gas, forests, and biological and recreational resources. At present, plans for the exploration of the Arctic focus on the production of oil and gas as the region is deemed to become one of the major resource supply bases in the near future. A large number of Russian and foreign experts underscore th ... read more |
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  Synchronized lasers measure how light changes matter Light changes matter in ways that shape our world. Photons trigger changes in proteins in the eye to enable vision; sunlight splits water into hydrogen and oxygen and creates chemicals through photo ... more | .. |
  Magnetic Vortex Reveals Key to Spintronic Speed Limit The evolution of digital electronics is a story of miniaturization - each generation of circuitry requires less space and energy to perform the same tasks. But even as high-speed processors move int ... more | .. |
  Breakthrough in nanotechnology material science A University of Central Florida assistant professor has developed a new material using nanotechnology, which could help keep pilots and sensitive equipment safe from destructive lasers. UCF Assistan ... 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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  Drexel-Penn Partnership to Develop More Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Panels Solar panels, like those commonly perched atop house roofs or in sun-drenched fields, quietly harvesting the sun's radiant energy, are one of the standard-bearers of the green energy movement. But c ... more | .. |
 Nano machine shop shapes nanowires, ultrathin films A new "nano machine shop" that shapes nanowires and ultrathin films could represent a future manufacturing method for tiny structures with potentially revolutionary properties. The structures might ... more | .. |
 Russian scientists one step from creating AI? Russian scientists have created a computer analogue of a human mind, the possibilities of which lag behind that of a human brain only by 0.8%. At an international contest of similar computer program ... more | .. |
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Glacier retreat could drive a surge in volcanic eruptions worldwide
UK thermal satellite firm wins ESA contract to deliver real time climate and security insights
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  No end for Brazil federal workers' strike Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's political standing is coming under threat from an unlikely quarter - more than 400,000 federal workers on a war path to push their pay claims. ... more | .. |
  Boeing Celebrates Delivery of First Aeroloft Installed on a BBJ 747-8 Boeing has celebrated the delivery of the first Aeroloft installed on a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) 747-8. The Aeroloft, designed and built by Greenpoint Technologies of Kirkland, Wash., provides 393 ... more | .. |
 CNOOC adds offshore oil blocks State-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp. is offering 26 offshore blocks, 22 of which are in the South China Sea, for joint development with foreign companies. ... more | .. |
  Japan starts up first offshore wind farm Japan's first offshore floating wind farm began trial operations Wednesday off the coast of the western prefecture of Nagasaki, officials said. ... more |
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 Sea row set aside as China, ASEAN seek trade boost China and Southeast Asian nations pledged Wednesday to strive for closer economic ties, setting aside regional tensions over a territorial row in the resource-rich South China Sea. ... more | .. |
 Germany's Merkel due in China for eurozone talks German leader Angela Merkel was due to hold top-level talks Thursday on her second visit to China this year, with Europe's debt crisis taking centre stage as it begins to drag on the two global powers. ... more | .. |
  China coal mine blast traps 50 underground: Xinhua A gas explosion at a coal mine in southwest China has trapped 50 miners underground, state media said Wednesday, in the latest disaster to hit the country's troubled mining industry. ... more | .. |
 Threat forces Air China flight back to Beijing An Air China plane bound for New York was forced to return to Beijing on Wednesday after receiving a "threatening message" but nothing unusual was found, the airline and state media said. ... more |
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China prepares for Mars sample return with HKU astrobiologist on mission team
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 Oil prices drop as G7 call offsets hurricane impact Global oil prices sank Wednesday as a call by the Group of Seven nations for oil producers to increase output offset Gulf Coast supply disruptions due to Hurricane Isaac, analysts said. ... more | .. |
  China's Dongfeng sees profits slide in first half Chinese carmaker Dongfeng Motor Group on Wednesday said its net profit in the first half of 2012 slipped 8.36 percent on the back of falling commercial vehicle sales and stiffer competition. ... more | .. |
 Modern lives in US are multi-screen: Google Google on Wednesday released research showing that lives in the United States have gone multi-screen, with people bouncing between smartphones, tablets, computers and televisions. ... more | .. |
 Yoko Ono leads stars against 'fracking' John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and their son Sean Lennon on Wednesday launched "Artists Against Fracking" to oppose the technique for natural gas extraction in an important New York state water region. ... more |
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  Japan toilet maker unveils 'poop-powered' motorbike Japan's best-known toilet maker on Wednesday unveiled a "poop-powered" motorcycle that can travel as far as 300 kilometres (180 miles) on a tank filled with animal waste. ... more | .. |
 New wave of technologies possible after ground-breaking analysis tool developed A revolutionary tool created by scientists at the University of Sheffield has enabled researchers to analyse nanometer-sized devices without destroying them for the first time, opening the door to a ... more | .. |
 Merging the biological and the electronic Harvard scientists have, for the first, time created a type of "cyborg" tissue by embedding a three-dimensional network of functional, bio-compatible nanoscale wires into engineered human tissues. A ... more | .. |
 Researchers develop method to grow artificial tissues with embedded nanoscale sensors A multi-institutional research team has developed a method for embedding networks of biocompatible nanoscale wires within engineered tissues. These networks-which mark the first time that electronic ... more |
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PLD Space selected as leading contender for ESA sovereign launch initiative
UK opens competitive bid for GBP 75 million orbital cleanup mission
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 Microwave ovens may help produce lower cost solar energy technology The same type of microwave oven technology that most people use to heat up leftover food has found an important application in the solar energy industry, providing a new way to make thin-film photov ... more | .. |
 IBN Develops Superior Fuel Cell Material Using a mixture of gold, copper and platinum nanoparticles, IBN researchers have developed a more powerful and longer lasting fuel cell material. This breakthrough was published recently in leading ... more | .. |
 Addressing the need for microscopic speed Researchers at the University of Leicester have developed a new form of digital microscope which can create an image 100 times faster than regular equipment - without losing image quality. The team ... more | .. |
 Electronic Nose Prototype Developed Research by Nosang Myung, a professor at the University of California, Riverside, Bourns College of Engineering, has enabled a Riverside company to develop an "electronic nose" prototype that can de ... more |
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 Mexico OKs non-hydraulic oil extraction Mexico is giving the go-ahead to U.S. Chimera Energy Corp. to deploy its new non-hydraulic shale oil extraction technology in its Chicontepec Basin. ... more | .. |
 Tenn. coal plant to get $1B upgrade A coal-burning power plant 30 miles from Nashville will get $1 billion in pollution controls meant to reduce emissions by as much as 95 percent, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Samsung vows 'all measures' to keep products in US South Korea's Samsung Electronics vowed on Tuesday to take "all necessary measures" to keep its products on US store shelves, in response to Apple's request for a ban on sales of some smartphones. ... more | .. |
 China coal mine accident kills six: report Six miners have died in a coal mine accident in northwest China's restive Xinjiang region, according to the country's official Xinhua news agency. ... more |
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