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  Albany NY (SPX) May 18, 2018 The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and Normandeau Associates announced that the halfway point has been reached in a comprehensive three-year study of wildlife resources being conducted off the Atlantic Coast. The data is helping promote environmentally responsible development of the state's offshore wind resource while advancing New York's development of 2,400 megawatts of offshore wind and establishing the state as a global hub for offshore wind. Alicia Barton, ... read more |
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Making carbon nanotubes as usable as common plasticsEvanston IL (SPX) May 18, 2018 Northwestern University's Jiaxing Huang is ready to reignite carbon nanotube research. And he's doing so with a common chemical that was once used in household cleaners. By using an inexpensiv ... more  
Processes in the atomic microcosmos are revealedNuremberg, Germany (SPX) May 18, 2018 Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have successfully generated controlled electron pulses in the attosecond range. They used optical travelling waves that are form ... more  
Simple equation directs creation of clean-energy catalystsLincoln NB (SPX) May 15, 2018 New guidelines laid down by Nebraska and Chinese researchers could steer the design of less costly, more efficient catalysts geared toward revving up the production of hydrogen as a renewable fuel. ... more  
Your body is transparentized in a virtual environmentToyohashi, Japan (SPX) May 18, 2018 A Ph.D. candidate, Ryota Kondo, and Professor Michiteru Kitazaki at Toyohashi University of Technology, in cooperation with Professor Masahiko Inami at the University of Tokyo, Associate Professor M ... more |
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Mnuchin to lead US in trade talks with ChinaWashington (AFP) May 17, 2018 US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will lead trade talks with China due to take place on Thursday and Friday as the countries try to head off a trade war. ... more  
Evaluating active pressure management of induced earthquakesSan Francisco CA (SPX) May 18, 2018 Can altering the amount or rate of fluid injection and production in an oil and gas field or carbon storage site affect induced earthquakes in that field? A physics-based simulation presented at the ... more 
Iran says China group ready to replace Total on gas dealTehran (AFP) May 17, 2018 Chinese state-owned oil company CNPC will replace Total on a major gas field project in Iran if the French energy giant pulls out over renewed US sanctions against Tehran, Iran's oil minister has said. ... more 
Russia moves on counter-sanctions on the United StatesWashington DC (SPX) May 17, 2018 Legislation enacted Thursday in the Russian parliament is designed to protect the oil-rich economy from "unfriendly" U.S. actions, the entity announced. ... more 
Stars align for accelerating crude oil pricesWashington DC (UPI) May 17, 2018 A bullish report on U.S. crude oil inventories and lingering sentiments on geopolitical risks left Brent crude oil prices hovering near $80 per barrel Thursday. ... more |
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Split verdict on Iranian oil tanker disaster off ChinaBeijing (AFP) May 17, 2018 A multinational committee probing a collision between an Iranian oil tanker and a freighter off China has come to differing conclusions over the causes of the accident that led to one of the worst oil spills in decades, according to an investigation report seen by AFP. ... more  |
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U.S. ports may be limiting export potentialWashington DC (UPI) May 17, 2018 There may be limitations for U.S. crude oil exports to long-distant economies because of limited port access for large-scale carriers, the government said. ... more 
Tapping shale gas is in the national interest, British government saysWashington DC (UPI) May 17, 2018 The British economy could get a new lifeline by tapping into domestic resources of shale natural gas, the British secretary for energy said Thursday. ... more 
U.S. LNG export reshaping global markets, government findsWashington DC (UPI) May 17, 2018 Exports of liquefied natural gas from the United States are expected to break the isolation of the North American market, a government report read. ... more 
British Columbia stands firm in Trans Mountain fightWashington DC (SPX) May 17, 2018 The federal Canadian government is putting investor interests above provincial issues with its support for the Trans Mountain pipeline, British Columbia said. ... more  
Trump denies 'folding' over ZTE in China trade talksWashington (AFP) May 16, 2018 President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied caving to China over US sanctions on the telecoms equipment maker ZTE. ... more |
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 Lisbon (AFP) May 15, 2018 
Portugal's electricity company EDP on Tuesday rejected as too low a takeover bid by its current largest shareholder, Chinese energy behemoth Three Gorges.
Energias de Portugal (EDP), one of the country's largest businesses, said in a statement it would comment at a later date on the other terms of an offer put forward by the Chinese giant on Friday.
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 Columbia MO (SPX) May 17, 2018 
Among the chief complaints for smartphone, laptop and other battery-operated electronics users is that the battery life is too short and - in some cases - that the devices generate heat.
Now, a group of physicists led by Deepak K. Singh, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Missouri, has developed a device material that can address both issues. The team has app ... more |
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 Albany NY (SPX) May 18, 2018 
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and Normandeau Associates announced that the halfway point has been reached in a comprehensive three-year study of wildlife resources being conducted off the Atlantic Coast. The data is helping promote environmentally responsible development of the state's offshore wind resource while advancing New York's development of 2,400 ... more |
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 Champaign IL (SPX) May 17, 2018 
Scientists are one step closer to building a carbon-recycling system that can harvest solar energy to efficiently convert CO2 and water into liquid fuels. By optimizing many parts of the system, the researchers say, they can now drive two-electron chemical reactions, a substantial advance over one-electron reactions, which are energy inefficient.
The research, reported in the journal Natur ... more |
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 Toronto, Canada (SPX) May 18, 2018 
Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has signed or renewed co-operation agreements with counterparts from five countries: Belgium, France, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The NWMO is committed to international knowledge sharing, and these agreements join accords already in place with nuclear waste organizations in Finland, South Korea and Japan.
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 Hamburg, Germany (SPX) May 17, 2018 
At DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III, a team led by Swedish researchers has produced the strongest bio-material that has ever been made. The artifical, but bio-degradable cellulose fibres are stronger than steel and even than dragline spider silk, which is usually considered the strongest bio-based material.
The team headed by Daniel Soderberg from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology i ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 17, 2018 
A multinational committee probing a collision between an Iranian oil tanker and a freighter off China has come to differing conclusions over the causes of the accident that led to one of the worst oil spills in decades, according to an investigation report seen by AFP.
The Panama-registered Sanchi, carrying 111,000 tonnes of light crude oil, collided with the Hong Kong-registered CF Crystal ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 15, 2018 
You may not notice water in the ground under your feet, but it plays an important role in keeping you alive. Plants draw water from soil into their roots and use it to grow. If there's not enough, the resulting drought may have impacts that spread across local water supplies, regional agriculture and even international food prices.
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mis ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 10, 2018 
Stakeholders are called to submit information that could support the design and operation of small-scale coal plants of the future, the U.S. government said.
The objective of the request is to solicit stakeholder input on ways to develop small-scale plants that would use coal, but with lower emissions.
These plants of the future are envisioned to be modular for lower cost, designed u ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 18, 2018 
Russian scientific organizations are ready to assist China and its partners in creating an international rehabilitation center for cosmonauts, as well as other infrastructure needed for developing space medicine and biology, a spokesman for the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Science told Sputnik.
"The IMBP [Institute of Biomedical Problems] is ready along with t ... more |
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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 n ... more |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) May 15, 2018 
Connected cruise control uses vehicle-to-vehicle communication to let automated vehicles respond to multiple cars at a time in an effort to save energy and improve safety.
University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated its effectiveness on public roads, even when just one automated vehicle is moving among human-driven cars.
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication, or V2V, refers to th ... more |
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 Evanston IL (SPX) May 18, 2018 
Northwestern University's Jiaxing Huang is ready to reignite carbon nanotube research. And he's doing so with a common chemical that was once used in household cleaners.
By using an inexpensive, already mass produced, simple solvent called cresol, Huang has discovered a way to make disperse carbon nanotubes at unprecedentedly high concentrations without the need for additives or harsh chem ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 15, 2018 
Wireless microsensors have enabled new ways to monitor our environment by allowing users to measure spaces previously off limits to research, such as toxic areas, vehicle components, or remote areas in the human body.
Researchers, however, have been stymied by limited improvements in the quality of data and sensitivity of these devices stemming from challenges associated with the environme ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) May 8, 2018 
China and the United States swapped accusations in an "extraordinary" exchange at the World Trade Organization on Tuesday ahead of fresh talks between the top two economies on averting a trade war.
"What I would say about this meeting today is that it was extraordinary in its intensity," WTO spokesman Keith Rockwell told reporters after a meeting of the body's General Council.
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 Tampa (AFP) May 17, 2018 
Highways are being paved, oil is being drilled and entire cities are sprouting up inside many of the world's nature preserves, imperiling the very creatures they are meant to protect, researchers said Thursday.
The vast harm being wreaked by people inside protected areas that are home to endangered animals like the eastern black rhinoceros, Sumatran tiger and spectacled hare-wallaby was deta ... more |
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