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  Raleigh NC (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 Yeasts are tiny fungi - but they play key roles in producing everything from beer and cheese to industrial chemicals and biofuels. And now scientists are proposing a new approach that could help these industries find new yeasts for use in their manufacturing processes. The strategy, which focuses on the relationships between yeasts and insect species, is laid out in a paper published March 21 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The paper reviews the available research t ... read more |
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Pipe-crawling robot will help decommission DOE nuclear facilityPittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plan ... more  
Quantum spin liquid prepared for the first timeHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 In 1987 Paul W. Anderson, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, proposed that high-temperature superconductivity, or loss of electrical resistance, is related to an exotic quantum state now known as quan ... more  
Mobile 'dual-comb' device significantly improves methane leak detectionWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 Accurately detecting, locating and quantifying leaks of methane, the main component of natural gas and a major fuel source worldwide, is critically important for both environmental and economic reas ... more  
NAREI Institute buildings in Guyana as of now powered by clean energyZug, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 Guyana is striving towards a sustainable energy future. The government of the South American Republic, represented by the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA), has been constantly issuing clean energy tenders ... more |
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Trump trade gambit tests 'friendship' with China's XiWashington (AFP) March 23, 2018 Donald Trump may have ripped China over trade Thursday, but the US president pulled his punches to preserve a "friendship" with Xi Jinping that, while it has borne some fruit, may be more imagined than real. ... more 
US and China: an uneasy economic partnershipWashington (AFP) March 22, 2018 China and the United States have been closely linked trading partners since the Asian giant joined the global system nearly 20 years ago. ... more  
Electric vehicle use in Norway acceleratingWashington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 The number of electric vehicles registered by Norwegian drivers has increased by more than 40 percent from the previous year, the government said. ... more 
China threatens US with tariffs, says 'not afraid of trade war'Beijing (AFP) March 23, 2018 China warned the United States on Friday that it was "not afraid of a trade war" as it threatened tariffs on $3 billion worth of US goods in retaliation over President Donald Trump's moves against Chinese imports. ... more 
China may target Trump-voting states in trade warBeijing (AFP) March 22, 2018 China could hit back hard at Donald Trump's new tariffs by targeting agricultural goods and other products from states that voted for the US president. ... more |
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Chrysaor picks up second North Sea oil and gas acquisitionWashington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 The fourth-largest oil and gas producer in the United Kingdom, Chrysaor, said it built up its North Sea portfolio with new acquisitions. ... more  |
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Greek company makes $1.6B investment in Israeli gasWashington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 Following its initial public offering on the London exchange, Greek energy company Energean said it was making a $1.6 billion investment in gas offshore Israel. ... more 
IEA: Fossil fuels clearly dominate energy landscapeWashington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 Though renewable forms of energy outpaced all others, fossil fuels accounted for more than 70 percent of the global demand growth last year, the IEA said. ... more 
Gulf of Mexico oil and gas auction draws modest interestWashington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 The largest auction for drilling off the U.S. coast brought in only modest interest as sector players remain cautious about market recovery, analysts said. ... more
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 |
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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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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 individua ... 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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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium deposits on pipe walls.
The CMU robot has demonstrated it can measure radiation levels more accurately from inside the pipe than is possible with external ... more |
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 Raleigh NC (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
Yeasts are tiny fungi - but they play key roles in producing everything from beer and cheese to industrial chemicals and biofuels. And now scientists are proposing a new approach that could help these industries find new yeasts for use in their manufacturing processes.
The strategy, which focuses on the relationships between yeasts and insect species, is laid out in a paper published March ... 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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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Mar 16, 2018 
Sometimes ice can be good, like when it is cooling down a beverage on a hot day or when athletes are gliding over it at the Winter Olympics, but when it forms inside an aircraft engine, the results can be damaging.
In January, NASA's Glenn Research Center began testing an aircraft engine in a high-altitude ice crystal environment, to explore a relatively new phenomenon called ice crystal i ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 22, 2018 
The number of electric vehicles registered by Norwegian drivers has increased by more than 40 percent from the previous year, the government said.
Statistics Norway, the government's record-keeping agency, reported there were 142,490 total electric cars registered in the country at the beginning of the year, up more than 40 percent from one year ago. Passenger vehicles made up 97 percen ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 
It is a long-cherished dream: Removing the inert greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and using it as a basic material for the chemical industry. This could address two major problems at once by containing climate change and at the same time reducing the dependence on oil.
Physico-chemists at the University of Bonn are in the process of making significant contributions to this ... 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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 Cotonou (AFP) March 22, 2018 
Benin's President Patrice Talon has asked local firm Petrolin and French giant Bollore to "withdraw" from a major rail infrastructure project to make way for China, in the latest development of the controversial scheme.
In an interview published on Thursday in the French magazine Challenges, Talon asked the two companies to "withdraw amicably from the project", which links Benin to Niger to ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
A new class of low-cost and sustainable hybrid materials could possibly displace activated carbon as the preferred choice for reducing wastewater and air pollution. The material, described in Frontiers in Chemistry, is synthesized inexpensively from solid wastes and a naturally abundant polymer - and can cut down pollutants in air and wastewater with more success than activated carbon, the curre ... more |
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