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  Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2018 When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly killed. But in the name of science, Johns Hopkins researchers have put these unwanted bugs to work. In a crowded, windowless lab, scholars and students are coaxing the insects to share some crucial locomotion tips that could help future robotic vehicles traverse treacherous terrain. Picture the aftermath of an earthquake or the cluttered, unexplored surface ... read more |
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Boeing, Embraer near deal on commercial air business: sourceNew York (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 US aerospace giant Boeing and Brazil's Embraer are close to an agreement to combine their commercial air operations into a new company, a person familiar with the talks told AFP Tuesday. ... more  
Graphene on toast, anyone?Houston TX (SPX) Feb 14, 2018 Rice University scientists who introduced laser-induced graphene (LIG) have enhanced their technique to produce what may become a new class of edible electronics. The Rice lab of chemist James ... more  
Powerful LED-based train headlight optimized for energy savingsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2018 Researchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy required for headlights using conventional light sources. If operated 8 hours every day, the electricity sav ... more 
New turbulent transport modeling shows multiscale fluctuations in heated plasmaWashington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2018 Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility operated by General Atomics, used a "reduced physics" fluid model of plasma turbulence to explain unexpected ... more |
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Iraq seeks $88.2 bln for reconstruction: ministerKuwait City (AFP) Feb 12, 2018 Iraq needs $88.2 billion to rebuild after years of war against the Islamic State group, Planning Minister Salman al-Jumaili said Monday, as an international conference on the country's reconstruction opened in Kuwait. ... more 
OPEC: United States leads in new oil productionWashington (UPI) Feb 12, 2018 Economists at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said they expected more oil from non-member states, with the United States leading the pack. ... more 
Oil prices bounce back after rough week in equitiesWashington (UPI) Feb 12, 2018 Crude oil prices recovered lost ground in early Monday trading on expectations of strong global demand and a rebound in global stock markets. ... more 
SMU study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stopsDallas TX (SPX) Feb 14, 2018 Efforts to stop human-caused earthquakes by shutting down wastewater injection wells that serve adjacent oil and gas fields may oversimplify the challenge, according to a new study from seismologist ... more 
Canada's Suncor moves into Norwegian watersWashington (UPI) Feb 12, 2018 Independent Norwegian producer Faroe Petroleum said Monday it was bringing a regional subsidiary of Canada's Suncor into operations in the Norwegian Sea. ... more |
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Bodies from Sanchi oil tanker returning homeWashington (UPI) Feb 12, 2018 The bodies of the sailors on the Sanchi oil tanker, which sank after colliding with a Chinese freighter, are on their way to Iran, Iran's news agency reported. ... more  |
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Family of Iran environmentalist demand post-mortemTehran (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 The family of an environmentalist who died in an Iranian prison have called for a post-mortem, their lawyer said Tuesday, rejecting claims by officials that they had accepted the explanation of suicide. ... more 
Fiscal year 2019 budget said to bolster U.S. offshore strategy(UPI) Feb 13, 2018 The U.S. agency tasked with offshore energy said the 2019 budget plan helps ensure energy dominance, but its funding is only a small fraction of the outline. ... more 
Russia's Gazprom Neft makes new oil findWashington (UPI) Feb 12, 2018 Russian energy company Gazprom Neft said it made a new discovery in a territory north of Kazakhstan said to hold more than 80 million barrels of reserves. ... more 
Stalemate erupting offshore CyprusWashington (UPI) Feb 12, 2018 The Turkish government said its counterparts in Cyprus were over-reaching with their efforts to drill for oil and gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea. ... more 
Round-the-clock power from smart bowtiesThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 Most sunlight striking the Earth is absorbed by its surfaces, oceans and atmosphere. As a result of this warming, infrared radiation is emitted constantly all around us - estimated to be millions of ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 
Putting the Paris climate agreement into practice will trigger opposed reactions by investors on the one hand and fossil fuel owners on the other hand. It has been feared that the anticipation of strong CO2 reduction policies might - a 'green paradox' - drive up these emissions: before the regulations kick in, fossil fuel owners might accelerate their resource extraction to maximize profits.
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 Clemson SC (SPX) Feb 12, 2018  Researchers from Clemson's Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) are one step closer to wirelessly powering the world using triboelectricity - a green energy source.
In March 2017, a group of physicists at CNI invented the ultra-simple triboelectric nanogenerator, or U-TENG - a small device made simply of plastic and tape that generates electricity from motion and vibrations. When the two material ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 
The Irish government, despite what happens for Great Britain, is committed to the European Union's energy and renewable policies, the environment minister said.
"Ireland is now a world leader in integrating renewables onto the electricity grid," Irish Environment Minister Denis Naughten said in comments emailed Wednesday from a renewable energy conference in Dublin. "Whatever the final ... more |
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 Golden CO (SPX) Feb 08, 2018  Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) created an environmentally stable, high-efficiency perovskite solar cell, bringing the emerging technology a step closer to commercial deployment.
Over the past decade, perovskites have rapidly evolved into a promising technology, now with the ability to convert about 23 percent of sunlight into elec ... more |
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 Istanbul (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 
The Turkish consortium that was to build Turkey's first nuclear power plant in a joint venture with the Russian atomic energy agency has pulled out of the ambitious project, reports said on Tuesday.
The Cengiz-Kolin-Kalyon (CKK) consortium - made out of three major privately-owned Turkish industrial conglomerates - has left the project due to a failure to agree commercial terms, the state ... more |
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 Kaunas, Lithuania (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
Researchers of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania are working on improving the efficiency of microbial fuel cells (MFC) by using modified graphite felt. Primary results show that the new MFC can generate 20 percent higher voltage than usual cells.
Over the past 20 years, nearly three-fourths of human-caused emissions came from the burning of fossil fuels. Increasing pollution ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 9, 2018 
Scientists have identified elevated levels of harmful metals in indigenous people living near oil spills.
The findings - published this week in the journal Environmental Health - are only the latest to highlight the significant environmental hazards faced by already vulnerable communities.
The study was carried out by a team of researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Globa ... more |
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 Cape Town (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 
South Africa on Tuesday declared a "national disaster" over a drought that has ravaged parts of the country and threatened to leave homes in Cape Town without running water.
The government said it had elevated the drought to a "national disaster" after reassessing its "magnitude and severity".
Cape Town is in the grip of a three-year-long drought as sparse winter rains have failed to bri ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 4, 2018 
Embattled Indian miner Adani's plans for a massive coal project in Australia has been dealt another blow after the government confirmed Sunday it would not fund a rail link to the facility.
The development of the controversial US$16 billion Carmichael mine near the Great Barrier Reef is set to be one of the world's largest. But it has been delayed by several years amid regulatory and legal h ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2018 
Chinese taikonauts have "maintained an indomitable spirit while carrying out space exploration," said Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Wednesday.
Zhang made the remarks at a seminar while listening to reports delivered by Chinese taikonauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Yang and Deng Qingming about their work over the years.
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 13, 2018  Boeing has been awarded a contract for mission computing upgrades in support of four Japanese E-767 aircraft and associated ground systems.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $60.9 million under a hybrid fixed-price-incentive-firm, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost-plus-incentive-fee contract.
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 San Francisco (AFP) Feb 9, 2018  Waymo and Uber announced an agreement Friday in the blockbuster federal lawsuit over allegedly stolen trade secrets from the former Google self-driving car project.
The surprise agreement ends a trial between the two Silicon Valley rivals competing in a race to develop autonomous cars, after four days of testimony before a federal judge in San Francisco.
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
Nanographenes are attracting wide interest from many researchers as a powerful candidate for the next generation of carbon materials due to their unique electric properties. Scientists at Nagoya University have now developed a fast way to form nanographenes in a controlled fashion. This simple and powerful method for nanographene synthesis could help generate a range of novel optoelectronic mate ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 
In a paper published last week in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the Department of Physics and the Department of Electronics Engineering at the UAB, and from the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University (USA), studied the heating of small current lines placed on top of a silicon substrate, simulating the behavior of current transistors.
This work shows how thes ... more |
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 Mumbai (AFP) Jan 21, 2018 
A new underground metro is expected to ease the burden on Mumbai's notoriously congested roads and railways, but not everybody in India's sprawling financial capital is happy about the multi-billion-dollar project.
Announced in 2014 with much fanfare, the Metro 3 line has been hailed by backers as essential to help solve the city's traffic woes and finally provide a link to its airports.
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Feb 13, 2018  "Car nation" Germany has surprised neighbours with a radical proposal to reduce road traffic by making public transport free, as Berlin scrambles to meet EU air pollution targets and avoid big fines.
The move comes just over two years after Volkswagen's devastating "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal unleashed a wave of anger at the auto industry, a keystone of German prosperity.
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