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 New York NY (SPX) Nov 06, 2012 For decades, "bigger is better" has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that carried 2,000 tons of cargo have been replaced by modern container ships that routinely move 150,000 tons. But now, new research shows, we are on the cusp of a radical shift from building big to building small - a change that has profound implications for both estab ... read more |
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  Temporary storage for electrons: Natural method of producing hydrogen Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) and the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) have found through spectroscopic investigations on a hydrogen-producing enzyme t ... more | |
  Enigmatic Nematics Physicists use hydrodynamics to understand the physical mechanism responsible for changes in the long-range order of groups of particles. Particularly, Aparna Baskaran of Brandeis University, Massac ... more | |
 ORNL Debuts Titan Supercomputer The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a new era of scientific supercomputing today with Titan, a system capable of churning through more than 20,000 trillion 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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  Low-resistance connections facilitate multi-walled carbon nanotubes for interconnects Using a new method for precisely controlling the deposition of carbon, researchers have demonstrated a technique for connecting multi-walled carbon nanotubes to the metallic pads of integrated circu ... more | |
  Off to the Future with a new Soccer Robot Computer scientists from the University of Bonn have developed a new robot whose source code and design plan is publicly accessible. It is intended to facilitate the entry into research on humanoids ... more | |
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 Oil prices higher after China data, before US vote Oil prices climbed slightly on Monday as traders reacted to a pick-up in China's services industry ahead of Beijing's leadership transition and the US presidential election. ... more | |
  S. Korea shuts nuclear reactors, warns of power shortages South Korea was forced to shut down two nuclear reactors Monday to replace components that had not been properly vetted, a minister said, warning of "unprecedented" power shortages to follow. ... more | |
  US car giants report record October in China Two US car makers said Monday that their sales in China hit record highs in October, as Japanese brands suffered in the Chinese market due to a political dispute between the Asian giants. ... more | |
  China files WTO complaint against EU over green energy: source China has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization against the European Union over renewable energy subsidies, a source close to the world trade body said Monday. ... more |
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 World record for the entanglement of twisted light quanta To this end, the researchers developed a new method for entangling single photons which gyrate in opposite directions. This result is a first step towards entangling and twisting even macroscopic, s ... more | |
 Russia and China to drive the world oil market The global oil market is moving east, says a recent report by The Wall Street Journal Europe. The oil that Russia exports to China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, the USA and ... more | |
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China says no ambition to build South Pacific military base
US, Japan, India, Australia pledge mineral cooperation on China jitters
US busts network that helped North Koreans obtain remote IT work | |
 Nuclear power or shale gas? Poland may have to choose soon Poland has set it sights on building its first nuclear power station and developing shale gas, but experts believe it may soon have to choose one or the other as investing in both could prove too costly. ... more | |
  Japan's electronics sector in race against time Japan's battered electronics giants are in a race against time, analysts say, as losses that threaten their very survival mount and as overseas rivals look like they are running away with the show. ... more | |
 Syria rebels seize oilfield, down warplane Rebels seized a major oilfield and shot down a warplane in eastern Syria Sunday, a watchdog said, notching up new battlefield successes even as the opposition met in Qatar under US pressure for a makeover. ... more | |
 Samsung muscle versus Apple's 'cool' Its products may not, as one British judge put it, be as "cool" as bitter rival Apple's, but Samsung Electronics is speeding away from the iconic iPhone maker in the race for the global smartphone market. ... more |
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