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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston MA (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 A motif of Japanese basketweaving known as the kagome pattern has preoccupied physicists for decades. Kagome baskets are typically made from strips of bamboo woven into a highly symmetrical pattern of interlaced, corner-sharing triangles. If a metal or other conductive material could be made to resemble such a kagome pattern at the atomic scale, with individual atoms arranged in similar triangular patterns, it should in theory exhibit exotic electronic properties. ... read more |
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Trump prepares China trade sanctions, Beijing vows retaliationWashington (AFP) March 22, 2018 President Donald Trump is poised to unveil sanctions against China on Thursday for the "theft" of US intellectual property, fueling fears of a trade war as Beijing vowed to retaliate. ... more  
Pedestrian's death raises concerns over driverless carsParis (AFP) March 21, 2018 Self-driving cars were once the fixtures of futuristic cartoons and sci-fi films. ... more 
German prosecutors raid BMW in diesel emissions probeFrankfurt Am Main (AFP) March 20, 2018 Prosecutors in Germany have raided high-end carmaker BMW in a fraud probe relating to more than 11,000 vehicles they suspect were rigged to appear less polluting in regulators' tests. ... more  
Scientists separate atoms with smallest sieve everWashington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018 Scientists have found a way to turn 2D materials into a sieve capable of separating different atoms from each other. ... more |
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Lights out for world landmarks in nod to natureParis (AFP) March 22, 2018 World landmarks from the Eiffel Tower to the Empire State Building will go dark this weekend to support the fight against climate change and highlight the dangers mankind poses to nature. ... more  
Norway has concerns about Transocean rigWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 A safety regulator in Norway said Wednesday there were a number of emergency issues uncovered during an audit of a Transocean rig. ... more 
HRW: Political fractures an economic risk for oil-rich LibyaWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 Oil-rich Libya is risking economic opportunities with its fractured political landscape, Human Rights Watch said in calling for improvements. ... more 
Tighter markets, Iranian risk premium drives oil prices higherWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 Questions about what the U.S. president will do with oil-related sanctions on Iran and a drop in U.S. crude oil inventories sent oil prices higher on Wednesday. ... more 
Industry optimistic about Gulf of Mexico drilling auctionWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 The nature of an auction for oil and gas drillers interested in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico could open new doors for the offshore sector, a trade group said. ... more |
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 U.S. expresses clear opposition to Russian gas pipeline 
Russia considers gas field options for Chinese pipelineWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 Natural gas from basins in southeastern Siberia could start moving through a natural gas pipeline to China within the next five years, Gazprom said. ... more  |
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China, Philippines agree 'prudent' cooperation on joint sea explorationBeijing (AFP) March 21, 2018 China and the Philippines said Wednesday they will cautiously proceed with discussions on joint oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea, further reversing years of tensions over their competing claims to the region. ... more 
China takes minority stake in oil offshore United Arab EmiratesWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2018 A state-owned oil company in the United Arab Emirates continued to hand out stakes in offshore production areas, this time to Chinese partners. ... more 
China's CNPC seals $1.18 bn Abu Dhabi oil concession dealAbu Dhabi (AFP) March 21, 2018 Chinese oil giant CNPC has signed a deal worth $1.18 billion (950 million euros) for stakes in two Abu Dhabi oil and gas concessions, the Gulf emirate's state producer said Wednesday. ... more  
Graphene finds new application as non-toxic, anti-static hair dyeEvanston IL (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 It's an issue that has plagued the beauty industry for more than a century: Dying hair too often can irreparably damage your silky strands. Now a Northwestern University team has used material ... more 
Metal-organic frameworks cut energy consumption of petrochemicalsLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 In the chemical and the petrochemical industries, separating molecules in an energy-efficient way is one of the most important challenges. Overall, the separation processes account for around 40% of ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 22, 2018 
World landmarks from the Eiffel Tower to the Empire State Building will go dark this weekend to support the fight against climate change and highlight the dangers mankind poses to nature.
The 11th edition of Earth Hour, an annual bid to raise awareness about climate change caused by burning fossil fuels, will see iconic structures cut the lights at a time when global temperatures are the hig ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Birds do it and so do doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called "tokamaks." But tokamak chirping - a rapidly changing frequency wave that can be far above what the human ear can detect - is hardly welcome to researchers who seek to bring the fusion that powers the sun and stars to Earth. Such chirping signals a loss of heat that can slow fusion reactions, a loss that has long puzzled scientists. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2018 
In a report on energy efficiency trends, British energy company BP said onshore wind could become the most economical source of electricity within 30 years.
A technology outlook for 2018 by the British supermajor finds coal is currently the largest source of global energy generation. There's enough on hand, the report read, to keep the grid satiated for more than a century based on curr ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Saft has installed two Li-ion energy storage systems to boost the operational efficiency of the existing solar PV plant at EXKAL's Marcilla manufacturing facility in Navarra, Northern Spain.
The Saft Intensium Mini E systems provide peak shaving to reduce peak demand charges from the site's electricity supplier as well as increasing self-consumption of solar power. The result is that EXKAL ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 16, 2018 
Framatome has performed a comprehensive modernization of the instrumentation and control (I&C) technology of the Borssele Dutch nuclear power plant, operated by EPZ (Elektriciteits-Productiemaatschappij Zuid-Nederland). The project started in 2014 and included the installation of a new reactor control and limitation system to monitor the operation of the plant and interfere in case of any deviat ... more |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated a new approach to making self-assembled biomaterials that relies on protein modifications and temperature. The hybrid approach allows researchers to control self-assembly more precisely, which may prove useful for a variety of biomedical applications from drug delivery to wound healing.
The research appears online on March 19 in N ... more |
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 Wink TX (SPX) Mar 22, 2018  Two giant sinkholes near Wink, Texas, may just be the tip of the iceberg, according to a new study that found alarming rates of new ground movement extending far beyond the infamous sinkholes.
That's the finding of a geophysical team from Southern Methodist University, Dallas that previously reported the rapid rate at which the sinkholes are expanding and new ones forming.
Now the te ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 19, 2018 
The extreme wet and dry periods Mongolia has experienced in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are rare but not unprecedented and future droughts may be no worse, according to an international research team that includes a University of Arizona scientist.
The research team developed a climate record stretching 2,060 years into Mongolia's past by using the natural archive of weather con ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2018 
Coal will no longer be used as an energy source for Michigan residents as more renewables come on stream in the decades ahead, a utility company said.
Public utility company Consumers Energy, which provides gas and electricity to about 60 percent of the state population, said it would no longer be using coal as a power source by 2040. By then, the company said it expects more than 40 pe ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 22, 2018 
The mission of Chang'e-4 lunar probe will proceed in two phases this year, and Chang'e-4 lunar probe will reach the far side of the Moon for the first time, said an official from China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).
"We plan to launch Chang'e-4 lunar probe in the second half of 2018. This will be the first time for a lunar probe to land on the far side of the Moon. Chang'e-4 lunar pro ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2018  Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $8.5 million under the terms of a modified contract to a previous issued order on a basic order agreement.
The agreement gives the Navy the authority to exercised additional mission ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) March 20, 2018 
Prosecutors in Germany have raided high-end carmaker BMW in a fraud probe relating to more than 11,000 vehicles they suspect were rigged to appear less polluting in regulators' tests.
"On suspicion of fraud in around 11,400 cases, prosecutors have opened an investigation against unidentified workers or managers at BMW and raided BMW headquarters in Munich and another site in Austria," the au ... more |
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 Evanston IL (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
It's an issue that has plagued the beauty industry for more than a century: Dying hair too often can irreparably damage your silky strands.
Now a Northwestern University team has used materials science to solve this age-old problem. The team has leveraged super material graphene to develop a new hair dye that is non-toxic, non-damaging and lasts through many washes without fading. Graphene ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 15, 2018  Intel Corp. said Thursday new computer chips designed to address vulnerabilities disclosed earlier this year would be shipped in the second half of 2018.
Chief executive Brian Krzanich said the new chips would guard against hardware flaws dubbed Meltdown and Spectre which could leave millions of computing device vulnerable to hackers.
Krzanich said the next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable ... 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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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
In a breakthrough that could lead to a new class of materials with functions found only in living systems, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have figured out a way to keep certain proteins active outside of the cell. The researchers used this technology to create mats that can soak up and trap chemical pollution.
Despite years of effort to stabilize proteins outside of ... more |
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