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April 22, 2016

VW to offer buyback, payout to owners of polluting cars
San Francisco (AFP) April 21, 2016
Volkswagen reached an agreement Thursday with US regulators to offer US owners of some 480,000 illegally polluting diesel cars options of "substantial compensation" and to fix the cars, or to buy them back. With the German automaker facing a court deadline for solutions to the emissions scandal, San Francisco district court judge Charles Breyer said the agreement in principle would give owners of its 2.0 liter diesel cars choices for compensation which also included cancelling the contracts for thos ... read more

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Human 2 Mars Conference May 17-19 2016 - Washington DC

A laser for your eyes A team of the Lomonosov Moscow State University scientists and the Belarusian National Technical University has created a unique laser, which is a compact light source with wavelengths harmless to t ... more		Fossil fuels could be phased out worldwide in a decade The worldwide reliance on burning fossil fuels to create energy could be phased out in a decade, according to an article published by a major energy think tank in the UK. Professor Benjamin Sovacool ... more		Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon Rice researchers turn wasted data center heat into clean power		Using methane rather than flaring it Methane is an abundant and inexpensive gas. Although it would be a suitable energy source and base material for the chemical industry, huge quantities of it are simply burnt off around the world - a ... more
				Global leaders agree to set price on carbon pollution Six world leaders and the heads of powerful multilateral organizations agreed Thursday to push for broader implementation of carbon pricing schemes to accelerate the fight against global warming. ... more		Generation of tailored magnetic materials Every day, new technologies require more precision in the intrinsic properties of the materials used. To meet increasingly specific requirements, physicists are interested in a generation of artific ... more

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Directed Energy And Next Generation Munitions - 20-22 June - Washington DC

Military Network Modernization 2016 - Washington DC - April 25-27

Space Tech Expo - Design - Build - Test - Pasadena CA - May 24-26, 2016

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Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace

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Belgium rejects German call for nuclear plants closure		Japanese nuclear regulator deems 40-Year-Old Takahama reactors safe		Safety checks at German nuclear power plants were faked		Lessons of Chernobyl disaster, 30 years on		Yahoo logs loss as it courts potential buyers

German power supplier RWE warns of 'horror scenario' for sector

Automaker Mitsubishi admits falsifying fuel-efficiency tests

Intel gambit aims for position in post-PC world

Physicist analyzes first electron neutrino data from NOvA Experiment

Major advance in synthetic biochemistry holds promise for biofuels

Robots could get 'touchy' with self-powered smart skin

Physicists gain new view of superconductor

Simulating CO2 saturation in rocks offers clues to carbon capture, storage

Autonomous vehicles face test limits tto prove safety

Russian scientists develop long-range secure quantum comms system

Progress of simulating dynamics in heterogeneous materials

Detection of atomic scale structure of Cooper-pairs in a high-TC superconductor

Riddle of missing zinc oxide and solar cells solved.

PolyU develops solar cells with highest power conversion efficiency

Making and saving money with solar

Experts examine new debris for MH370 clues

Researchers discover liquid spiral vortex

Chinese scientists succeed in micro-g 3D printing test

Recyclable, sugar-derived foam as renewable alternative to polyurethanes

Creation of Jupiter interior, a step towards room temp superconductivity

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