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  Houston TX (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Controlled nuclear fusion has been a holy grail for physicists who seek an endless supply of clean energy. Scientists at Rice University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chile offered a glimpse into a possible new path toward that goal. Their report on quantum-controlled fusion puts forth the notion that rather than heating atoms to temperatures found inside the sun or smashing them in a collider, it might be possible to nudge them close enough to fuse by using ... read more |
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Shape-shifting molecular robots respond to DNA signalsSendai, Japan (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 A research group at Tohoku University and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed a molecular robot consisting of biomolecules, such as DNA and protein. The molecular robot ... more  
Quantum entanglement between a single photon and a trillion of atomsWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 New light is shed on the famous paradox of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen after 80 years. A group of researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw has created a multidimensional ... more  
Groundbreaking technology rewarms large-scale tissues preserved at low temperaturesMinneapolis MN (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 A research team, led by the University of Minnesota, has discovered a groundbreaking process to successfully rewarm large-scale animal heart valves and blood vessels preserved at very low temperatur ... more  
Most complex nanoparticle crystal ever made by designEvanston IL (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 The most complex crystal designed and built from nanoparticles has been reported by researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. The work demonstrates that some of nature's ... more |
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Tweaking electrolyte makes better lithium-metal batteriesRichland WA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Scientists have found adding a pinch of something new to a battery's electrolyte gives the energy storage devices more juice per charge than today's commonly used rechargeable batteries. New, ... more  
New research could trigger revolution in computer electronics manufacturingExeter UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 A pioneering new technique to produce cutting-edge, versatile microchips could revolutionize the speed, efficiency and capability of the next generation of computers. Researchers from the University ... more  
Plasmonic device offers broadband modulation to optical links at 100gbitLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Today's society is growing in population and productivity puts ever higher demands on the Internet, and without scientific developments to provide ways meeting our traffic needs, it will begin to cl ... more 
Portable nanofiber device offers precise, point-and-shoot capabilityBoston MA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 Harvard researchers have developed a lightweight, portable nanofiber fabrication device that could one day be used to dress wounds on a battlefield or dress shoppers in customizable fabrics. The res ... more  
Protectionism would be 'disaster' for autos: Renault-Nissan's GhosnWashington (AFP) March 2, 2017 Renault-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn warned Thursday that protectionist trade policies could spell "disaster" for an automotive sector that depends on open borders for a complex supply chain. ... more  
WTO faces first attack from US under TrumpGeneva (AFP) March 2, 2017 The World Trade Organization on Thursday became the target of a first concrete attack launched by US President Donald Trump's administration when Washington declared it was not bound by the body's rulings. ... more |
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Fairphone extends distribution network in EuropeBarcelona (AFP) March 2, 2017 Fairphone, a Dutch firm that makes ethical and environmentally friendly smartphones, said Thursday it is extending its distribution network in Europe. ... more 
China's new bank regulator vows real estate, shadow banking crackdownBeijing (AFP) March 2, 2017 /> The newly appointed head of China's banking watchdog said Thursday he would crackdown on real estate speculation and the country's shadow banking sector, promising an end to regulatory "chaos". ... more  
Iraqi Kurd forces halt pumping through key oil pipelineKirkuk, Iraq (AFP) March 2, 2017 Iraqi Kurdish forces deployed at a state-run oil company Thursday, temporarily halting pumping through a pipeline that is one of the country's two main avenues for crude exports, officials said. ... more 
Report: Paramilitary force occupies northern Iraqi oil officeKirkuk, Iraq (UPI) Mar 2, 2017 Iraqi media reported a Kurdish paramilitary force occupied the offices of a state oil company in Kirkuk in a show of force over the nation's oil reserves. ... more |
  Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017  Even with international praise for its renewable energy strategy, New Zealand's government said there is room for improvement.
An annual review of the New Zealand energy sector from the International Energy Agency described the country as a "success story" for its ability to advance on low-carbon options like hydro-electric power and geothermal energy, all without government subsidies. ... more Strasbourg, France (AFP) Feb 15, 2017EU parliament backs draft carbon trading reforms  Taipei (AFP) Feb 12, 2017Taiwan lantern makers go green for festival of lights  Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2017Republican ex-top diplomats propose a carbon tax |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 
Scientists led by a team at Caltech have developed a new method for potentially removing nearly all sulfur compounds from gas and diesel fuel. Sulfur compounds in fuels such as gasoline and diesel create air pollution when the fuel is burned.
To address that challenge, large-scale oil refinery processes remove the majority of sulfur from fuel down to a government-mandated level. The new te ... more Houston TX (SPX) Mar 03, 2017New path suggested for nuclear fusion  Vernon CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Romeo Power expands EV battery pack production in Southern California  Richland WA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Tweaking electrolyte makes better lithium-metal batteries |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2017 
The sight of propeller-like rotating blades positioned high up the pole of a tall horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) may be familiar to many. Often grouped in wind farms, HAWTs provide significant amounts of energy for local communities. One drawback to HAWTs is the large space they take up, needing to be placed far apart from each other. If placed too close together, the turbulence and wind ve ... more Newark DE (SPX) Feb 22, 2017US grid can handle more offshore wind power  Lansing, Mich. (UPI) Feb 16, 2017Michigan meets renewable energy targets  Stavanger, Norway (UPI) Feb 9, 2017British grid drawing power from new offshore wind farm |
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 Toronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 01, 2017 
SOVENTIX Canada Inc. has commenced the development of several solar projects with a capacity of up to 140 megawatts (MWp) in Alberta, Canada. The six projects with a potential nameplate capacity from 15 to 45 MWp are located near Calgary and Edmonton. Building on Soventix Canada's success in the Ontario, the current projects will further drive the expansion of SOVENTIX in the Canadian solar mark ... more Edmonton, Alberta (UPI) Feb 28, 2017Alberta puts more weight behind solar power  London, UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Lightsource Renewable Energy acquires residential portfolio  Zug, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 24, 2017meeco installed biggest solar energy plant in Zimbabwe |
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 Tehran (AFP) Feb 25, 2017 
Iran's nuclear chief said Saturday that the country had requested to buy 950 tonnes of uranium concentrate from Kazakhstan over the next three years to help develop its civil reactor programme.
The request has been made to the body that oversees the nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers in 2015.
Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, told the ISNA news ... more Pullman WA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Researchers find new clues for nuclear waste cleanup  Manchester UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Next generation of nuclear robots will go where none have gone before  Paris (AFP) March 1, 2017Areva narrows losses in 2016 |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Feb 28, 2017  Duke University researchers have developed tiny nanoparticles that help convert carbon dioxide into methane using only ultraviolet light as an energy source. Having found a catalyst that can do this important chemistry using ultraviolet light, the team now hopes to develop a version that would run on natural sunlight, a potential boon to alternative energy.
Chemists have long sought an eff ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 01, 2017Biofuel produced by microalgae  Durham, N.C. (UPI) Feb 23, 2017Scientists use nanoparticles, ultraviolet light to turn CO2 into fuel  Edmonton, Alberta (UPI) Feb 10, 2017Alberta backing bioenergy programs |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 
Thousands of ants converge to follow the most direct path from their colony to their food and back. A swarm of inexpensive, unmanned drones quickly map an offshore oil spill.
Each extremely complex task is accomplished by individuals following very simple rules. But to make the drones do it, a bit of nature's magic must be captured in a mathematical formula.
"Nature may not proactively us ... more Aberdeen, Scotland (UPI) Mar 2, 2017Design work completed for giant Israeli gas field, Leviathan  Paris (UPI) Mar 2, 2017French utility ENGIE posts loss, but keeps eye on low-carbon ball  Brasilia, Brazil (UPI) Mar 1, 2017Total teams up with Brazil's Petrobras |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 
Even Punxsutawaney Phil can't be blamed for being baffled this year and hightailing it back to his burrow. He predicted six more weeks of winter on Feb 2, but by then spring was already springing well ahead of historical norms in much of the USA.
While we've known for a over a decade now that climate change is variably advancing the onset of spring across the United States, a new set of ma ... more Mogadishu (AFP) Feb 28, 2017Somali president declares 'national disaster' over drought  Exeter, UK (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Warming ponds could accelerate climate change  Quixeramobim, Brazil (AFP) Feb 21, 2017Brazil's poorest region suffers worst drought in a century |
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 Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2017  China's world-leading coal consumption fell for the third straight year in 2016, government data showed Tuesday, as the planet's biggest carbon emitter struggles to break its addiction to the heavily polluting fuel.
Coal consumption fell by 4.7 percent year-on-year in 2016, and the share of coal in the country's energy mix slipped to 62.0 percent, down 2.0 percent year-on-year, the National ... more Beijing (AFP) Feb 18, 2017China halts N. Korea coal imports after missile test  Brussels (AFP) Feb 9, 2017EU must shut coal plants by 2030 to meet climate pledge: study  Canberra, Australia (UPI) Feb 7, 2017Do more to advance CCS, BHP Billiton says |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 03, 2017 
China will launch a space station core module in 2018 as the first step in completing the country's first space outpost, according to a senior engineer with China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) on Thursday.
The core module of the space station, named "Tianhe-1" according to previous reports, will be launched on board a new-generation Long March-5 heavyweight carrier rocket, ... more Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2017Thinking Big: China Hopes to Conduct 2nd Mission to Mars by 2030  Beijing (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2017China to Conduct Test Flight of CZ-8 Carrier Rocket by 2018  Beijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2017China to launch first high-throughput communications satellite in April |
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 Brasilia, Brazil (UPI) Feb 23, 2017  The Brazilian air force has started flight testing the aerial refueling capabilities of Embraer's KC-390 airlifter.
The first in-flight refueling mission of the future Brazilian air force aircraft occurred earlier this month, and military and company personnel are working on another test campaign with F-5M fighters again acting as the fuel receiver aircraft, the air force said.
T ... more Stockholm, Sweden (UPI) Feb 22, 2017Hungary gets more flight time on leased Gripen fighters  Washington (UPI) Feb 24, 2017Sikorsky, Polish affiliate prepare for M28 demonstration  London (UPI) Feb 28, 2017Charles Woodburn to take over as BAE Systems CEO |
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 Washington (AFP) March 2, 2017 
Renault-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn warned Thursday that protectionist trade policies could spell "disaster" for an automotive sector that depends on open borders for a complex supply chain.
Ghosn, speaking at a forum on the future of mobility, said automakers depend on parts and technologies that move freely around the world.
While he did not specifically mention President Donald Trump, t ... more Redmond WA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Kymeta aimes to deliver terabyte connectivity to the car of the future  San Francisco (AFP) Feb 23, 2017Tesla slips back into red but revenue grows  Hanover NH (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Roads are driving rapid evolutionary change in our environment |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 
Iron particles generated by cities and industry are being dissolved by man-made air pollution and washed into the sea - potentially increasing the amount of greenhouse gases that the world's oceans can absorb, a new study suggests.
Scientists have long believed that acids formed from human-generated pollution and natural emissions dissolve iron in airborne particles - increasing the amount ... more Sendai, Japan (SPX) Mar 03, 2017'Super-deep' diamonds may hold new information about Earth's interior  Mumbai, India (SPX) Feb 28, 2017Three layers of graphene reveals a new kind of magnet  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Graphene from soybeans |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 
A pioneering new technique to produce cutting-edge, versatile microchips could revolutionize the speed, efficiency and capability of the next generation of computers. Researchers from the University of Exeter have developed an innovative new method to engineer computer chips more easily and cheaper than conventional methods.
The discovery could revolutionise the production of optoelectroni ... more Manchester, England (UPI) Mar 1, 2017Super-fast computer made from DNA 'grows as it computes'  Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2017Chinese tech giant eyes global market with custom chip  Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Artificial synapse for neural networks |
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 Singapore (UPI) Jan 25, 2017 
Researchers are trying to distill smart transit philosophy into a machine-learning algorithm. Scientists hope their smart transit model will reveal a recipe for a smarter city, organized in way that relieves the congestion common on the mass transit systems of major cities.
"Singapore needs an efficient transport system to support people's activities given the existing and planned infra ... more Budapest (AFP) Jan 19, 2017Hungary orders fraud probe into Budapest metro project  San Francisco (AFP) Jan 18, 2017'Hyperloop' rail study for Slovakia-Czech connection Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 7, 2017Cities vie to hop on super-speedy hyperloop rail |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) March 1, 2017 
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An Israeli court ruled Wednesday that a tanker of liquefied ammonia in the port city of Haifa must be emptied of its toxic content within 30 days.
The container, which can hold 12,000 tonnes of the corrosive liquid, made headlines last year when Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon's Shiite militia Hezbollah, said it would go off like "a nuclear bomb" if hit by his group's missiles.
N ... more Stockholm (UPI) Feb 24, 2017Study finds high levels of toxic chemicals in house cats Manila (AFP) Feb 23, 2017Ex-yoga missionary unleashes rage on Philippine miners  Hanoi (AFP) Feb 22, 2017Vietnam to punish officials over mass fish deaths |
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