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  Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2018 There was a time when people and goods were moved through the crowded city on the ground, restricted to the busy street surfaces by necessity and gravity. So, inspired visionaries considered new ways to get about town and dreamt of innovative flying machines that could safely transport passengers and ship cargo within the urban jungle by rising above the congestion below. No, we're not talking about the Wright Brothers in 1903. This is the new era in air transportation that NASA and a ... read more |
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Construction Begins on SuperCDMS Dark Matter ExperimentMenlo Park CA (SPX) May 08, 2018 The SuperCDMS SNOLAB project, a multi-institutional effort led by SLAC, is expanding the hunt for dark matter to particles with properties not accessible to any other experiment. The U.S. Depa ... more  
Germany's E.ON wants even bigger wind footprintWashington (UPI) May 7, 2018 German utility E.ON said it will build up its wind energy portfolio by taking over the domestic activities of wind-power company Vortex Energy. ... more  
Mining for gold with a computerCollege Station TX (SPX) May 04, 2018 Engineers from Texas A and M University and Virginia Tech report important new insights into nanoporous gold - a material with growing applications in several areas, including energy storage and bio ... more  
Microscopic roundabout directs light without a magnetWashington DC (UPI) May 04, 2018 Circulators direct light on optical chips, a process essential to communication technology. The component relies on a tiny magnet, but miniaturizing magnets is difficult. ... more |
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Flipkart board approves $15 bn deal with Walmart: reportMumbai (AFP) May 4, 2018 Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has agreed to sell 75 percent of the company to US retail behemoth Walmart for about $15 billion, a report said Friday, in what would be a blow to rival Amazon. ... more 
DARPA taps MIT for research on high-value moleculesWashington (UPI) May 3, 2018 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been awarded a contract by DARPA for high-value molecules research. ... more  
Smart microchip can self-start and operate when battery runs outSingapore (SPX) May 04, 2018 The Internet of Things (IoT), while still in its infancy, is shaping the future of many industries and will also impact our daily lives in significant ways. One of the key challenges of moving IoT d ... more  
China's trade surplus with US growsBeijing (AFP) May 8, 2018 China's surplus with the United States widened in April, underlining an imbalance between the economic titans as they struggle to reach an agreement on averting a potentially damaging trade war. ... more  
Foreign appetite for U.S. oil growing, IEA findsWashington (UPI) May 7, 2018 Most of the oil coming from U.S. shale basins will find its way out of the domestic market and into the Asian and European economies, analysis finds. ... more |
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 Putin: We survived the oil price collapse 
Oil prices down in Asia as focus turns to Trump, equities riseHong Kong (AFP) May 8, 2018 Oil prices slipped in Asia on Tuesday morning from three-and-a-half-year highs as investors cautiously await Donald Trump's Iran nuclear decision later in the day. ... more  |
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Iranian-led panel said human error led to sinking of oil tankerWashington (UPI) May 7, 2018 The Chinese vessel that hit an Iranian oil tanker in January failed to respond to concerns about its course, an Iranian-led investigation found. ... more 
Iranian sanctions uncertainty drives oil prices higherWashington (UPI) May 7, 2018 Uncertainty about the U.S. role in the nuclear agreement with Iran was the clear driver in pushing oil prices to fresh highs for the year on Monday. ... more 
Oil-frontier Gambia needs support, Europe saysWashington (UPI) May 7, 2018 To strengthen political progress, the government in Gambia, an emerging West African oil hotspot, needs international support, the European Commission said. ... more 
Aker BP envisions zero-emission production offshoreWashington (UPI) May 7, 2018 Working alongside Norwegian major Statoil, a northern North Sea field complex will be the first to produce oil and gas with zero emissions, Aker BP said. ... more  
Germany's Allianz to stop insuring coal businessesFrankfurt Am Main (AFP) May 4, 2018 German insurance giant Allianz said Friday it would stop insuring coal-fired power plants and mines extracting the fuel, adding that it aims to divest from the sector completely by 2040. ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the use of fossil fuels, coupled with returning the generated revenue to the public in one form or another, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. That's one of the conclusions of an extensive analysis of several versions of such proposals, carried out by researchers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laborat ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 07, 2018 
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created new superconductors made of layers of bismuth sulfide (BiS2) and a high entropy rare earth alloy oxyfluoride, containing five different rare earth (RE) elements at the same crystallographic site.
The new material retains superconducting properties over a wider range of lattice parameters than materials without high-entropy-alloy s ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 7, 2018 
German utility E.ON said it will build up its wind energy portfolio by taking over the domestic activities of wind-power company Vortex Energy.
E.ON said it's targeting a takeover of the German activities of Vortex. E.ON takes 30 employees from the company, though non-German activities of Vortex are not part of the transaction.
Germany has one of the greener economies in Europe a ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) May 07, 2018 
The transition to a low-carbon energy society will require more renewable energy sources than previously thought if current levels of energy consumption per capita and lifestyles are to be maintained. This is one of the main conclusions of a study recently published in Nature Energy by Lewis King and Jeroen van den Bergh of the Institute of Science and Environmental Technology of the Universitat ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) May 03, 2018 
NASA and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have successfully demonstrated a new nuclear reactor power system that could enable long-duration crewed missions to the Moon, Mars and destinations beyond.
NASA announced the results of the demonstration, called the Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology (KRUSTY) experiment,during a news conference We ... more |
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) May 04, 2018  In an amazing achievement akin to adding solar panels to your body, a Northeast sea slug sucks raw materials from algae to provide its lifetime supply of solar-powered energy, according to a study by Rutgers University-New Brunswick and other scientists.
"It's a remarkable feat because it's highly unusual for an animal to behave like a plant and survive solely on photosynthesis," said Deba ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 7, 2018 
The Chinese vessel that hit an Iranian oil tanker in January failed to respond to concerns about its course, an Iranian-led investigation found.
The Iranian oil tanker Sanchi was carrying about 1 million barrels of a light form of crude oil called condensate from Iran to South Korea when it crashed into a Chinese freighter, the CF Crystal, on Jan. 6. Sanchi burned for more than a week b ... more |
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 Brunswick NJ (SPX) May 08, 2018 
Every 405,000 years, gravitational tugs from Jupiter and Venus slightly elongate Earth's orbit, an amazingly consistent pattern that has influenced our planet's climate for at least 215 million years and allows scientists to more precisely date geological events like the spread of dinosaurs, according to a Rutgers-led study.
"It's an astonishing result because this long cycle, which had be ... more |
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 Warsaw (AFP) May 6, 2018 
Two miners were killed and rescuers were struggling to locate three others after an earthquake hit a coal mine in the country's south, the mine's management company said Sunday.
The rescue workers managed to pull two miners up to the surface on Sunday but doctors there pronounced them dead, Daniel Ozon, the CEO of the Jastrzebie Coal Company (JSW) managing the mine, told reporters.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 07, 2018 
China is developing its first space rocket with a reusable first stage that could see its trial launch as early as 2020, SpaceNews reported, citing a senior Chinese rocket designer.
Long Lehao of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), revealed the new plans for the Long March 8 medium-lift launcher during a space industry conference in Harbin on April 24.
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 Washington (AFP) May 7, 2018 
A senior US lawmaker introduced legislation Monday to create a panel looking into military aviation mishaps, following a string of deadly incidents including one last week that killed nine airmen.
The US military has been beset by a series of air accidents and crashes in recent years, and the rise has been shown to correlate with budget cuts introduced in 2013.
The most recent incident o ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2018 
When faced with driving dilemmas, people show a high willingness to sacrifice themselves for others, make decisions based on the victim's age and swerve onto sidewalks to minimize the number of lives lost, reveals new research published in open-access journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. This is at odds with ethical guidelines in these circumstances, which often dictate that no life sho ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) May 01, 2018 
While defects in a diamond are mostly undesirable, certain defects are a quantum physicist's best friend, having the potential to store bits of information that could one day be used in a quantum computing system.
Applied physicists at Cornell University have demonstrated a technique for engineering some of the key optical properties of those defects, providing a new tool for exploring qua ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) May 04, 2018  The Internet of Things (IoT), while still in its infancy, is shaping the future of many industries and will also impact our daily lives in significant ways. One of the key challenges of moving IoT devices from concept to reality is to have long-lasting operation under tightly constrained energy sources, thus demanding extreme power efficiency. IoT devices - such as sensors - are often deployed o ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 3, 2018 
French railway unions used to be able to cripple the country by blocking the train network. But when workers walked off the job on Tuesday, new technology helped reduce the misery for commuters and companies.
In 1995, when drivers and other staff on the national network downed tools, commuters faced hellish traffic jams for nearly three weeks, while companies struggled with absent staff and ... more |
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 Lucknow, India (AFP) May 2, 2018 
Residents of Kanpur reacted with dismay Wednesday after the Indian city was found to have the worst air quality in a global World Health Organization survey that urged the nation to clean up its act.
Fourteen Indian cities, led by the northern metropolis known for its leather and shoe industries, feature in the 15 cities with the dirtiest air in the WHO's global list.
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