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May 24, 2015

Star power: Troubled ITER nuclear fusion project looks for new path
Saint-Paul-Les-Durance, France (AFP) May 22, 2015
In 1985, then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president Ronald Reagan launched one of the unlikeliest ideas of the Cold War. Under it, the Soviet Union would team up with United States and other rivals of the day to develop nuclear fusion: the same limitless energy source that powers the Sun. Today, 30 years on, their dream is still a long and agonising way from reality. Launched in 2006 after years of wrangling, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project is s ... read more

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Pacific-Atlantic railroad will respect environment: Chinese premier Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has said that the Beijing-funded project to build a vast railroad between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, across Peru, would respect the region's environment including the Amazon basin. ... more		Researchers measure thermoelectric behavior by Tinkertoy materials Sandia National Laboratories researchers have made the first measurements of thermoelectric behavior by a nanoporous metal-organic framework (MOF), a development that could lead to an entirely new c ... more		New tech advance could fundamentally change wireless communications Radio systems, such as mobile phones and wireless internet connections, have become an integral part of modern life. However, today's devices use twice as much of the radio spectrum as is necessar ... more
				Robotic sonar system inspired by bats Engineers at Virginia Tech have taken the first steps toward building a novel dynamic sonar system inspired by horseshoe bats that could be more efficient and take up less space than current man-mad ... more		Offshore wind turbine construction could be putting seals' hearing at risk Noise from pile driving during offshore wind turbine construction could be damaging the hearing of harbour seals around the UK, according to ecologists who attached GPS data loggers to 24 harbor sea ... more

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Tiny grains of lithium dramatically improve performance of fusion plasma Scientists from General Atomics and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have discovered a phenomenon that helps them to improve fusion plasmas, a finding ... more		New class of swelling magnets have the potential to energize the world A new class of magnets that expand their volume when placed in a magnetic field and generate negligible amounts of wasteful heat during energy harvesting, has been discovered by researchers at Templ ... more		GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time Galileo daughter mission named Celeste to strengthen navigation resilience How quantum computers can be validated when solving unsolvable problems		EOLOS floating buoy scoops innovation award EOLOS LiDAR has won the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Innovators Award at the InnovEIT conference being held in Budapest in recognition of the product's potential to have a s ... more
				Taking control of light emission Researchers have found a way to couple the properties of different two-dimensional materials to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves. They say this has the potential to lead to ... more		Scripps reports results at first all pencil-beam proton center in US The nation's first and only proton therapy center to treat patients exclusively with pencil-beam scanning is reporting exceptional results in delivering cancer treatment since opening for patient ca ... more

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Toward 'green' paper-thin, flexible electronics The rapid evolution of gadgets has brought us an impressive array of "smart" products from phones to tablets, and now watches and glasses. But they still haven't broken free from their rigid form. ... more		Amazing microdroplet structures may lead to new technologies Unexpected shapes of mesoscale atoms - structures built of microdroplets encapsulated within microdroplets - have been created at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science ... more		Orbit Over Obsolescence: How Satellite Constellations Are Replacing Cell Towers One Layer at a Time What 3I/ATLAS tells us about other solar systems JUNO begins decade-long mission to probe neutrino mysteries		Calgary to lead CREATE student training program in carbon capture A new federal grant for the University of Calgary will provide a comprehensive training opportunity for students working on cheaper, more efficient means of capturing greenhouse gas emissions - that ... more
Defects can 'Hulk-up' materials In the story of the Marvel Universe superhero known as the Hulk, exposure to gamma radiation transforms scientist Bruce Banner into a far more powerful version of himself. In a study at Berkeley Lab ... more		American energy use up slightly, carbon emissions almost unchanged Americans' energy use continued to grow slowly in 2014, fueled by increases in the use of natural gas, wind and solar, according to the most recent energy flow charts released by Lawrence Livermore ... more		Iris scanner can ID a person from 40 feet away Big Brother is growing up. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently demonstrated an iris scanner capable of identifying a person at a distance of 40 feet. ... more		China-backed infrastructure bank operational by end-2015 The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will be operational by the end of this year, prospective founding members said Friday after a three-day meeting in Singapore to discuss policies. ... more

	Taiwan lowers growth forecast in face of rival China Taiwan lowered its growth forecast Friday blaming increased competition from China in the tech industry, as the island's stagnant economy stokes public frustration. ... more		Goldin stocks mixed after Hong Kong collapse Two Hong Kong-listed divisions of property, finance and wine trading conglomerate Goldin were mixed on Friday, a day after plunging more than 40 percent, while analysts said city regulators' oversight had been called into question. ... more

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China says rare earths export quota scrapped after WTO ruling

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Canada and SKorea build partnerships between nuclear companies

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juwi enters Turkish renewable energy market

Upgrades to Plant Farley enhance production of low-cost, clean electricity

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