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  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Someday, the gasoline you buy might trace its heritage to carbon dioxide pulled straight out of the sky rather than from oil pumped out of the ground. By removing emitted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turning it into fresh fuels, engineers at a Canadian firm have demonstrated a scalable and cost-effective way to make deep cuts in the carbon footprint of transportation with minimal disruption to existing vehicles. Their work appears June 7 in the journal Joule. "The carbon dioxide generate ... read more |
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New model sheds light on key physics of magnetic islands that halt fusion reactionsPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Magnetic islands, bubble-like structures that form in fusion plasmas, can grow and disrupt the plasmas and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamak facilities that house fusion reactions. Recent research ... more  
'Carbon bubble' coming that could wipe trillions from the global economyCambridge UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Fossil fuel stocks have long been a safe financial bet. With the International Energy Agency projecting price rises until 2040, and governments prevaricating or rowing back on the Paris Agreement, i ... more  
Supramolecular complex formation: Anthracene macrocycle and C60 fullereneTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system and has a characteristic ring. Japanese researchers have now synthesized a molecular "nano-Saturn". As the scientists report in the journal An ... more  
Is there an end to the periodic tableEast Lansing MI (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 As the 150th anniversary of the formulation of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements looms, a Michigan State University professor probes the table's limits in a recent Nature Physics Perspective. ... more |
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Cooling by laser beamTrieste, Italy (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 A laser pulse that for a few picoseconds - i.e. one millionth of one millionth of a second- transforms a material into a high-temperature superconductor. Different experiments have unveiled this int ... more  
More oil found in Norwegian waters of the North SeaWashington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 A Norwegian government regulator said Friday it confirmed an oil discovery was made in untested waters in the central part of the North Sea. ... more 
Iranian oil production not impacted by sanctions yetWashington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 With sanctions pressures looming over Tehran, production from OPEC's third-largest producer, Iran, hasn't yet been impacted, a Platts survey found. ... more 
Brazilian oil good for deep-pocketed companiesWashington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 An auction for rights to tap into the oil basins off the coast of Brazil highlights the country's prospects for those with deep enough pockets, analysis found. ... more 
Oil prices slip on G7 trade concernsWashington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 Concerns about broad-based trade issues overshadowed potential supply-side deficits to push the price for crude oil lower early in the Friday session. ... more |
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Gazprom gets more permits for Nord Stream 2Washington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 Russian energy company Gazprom said it received the necessary permit to advance construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline through Swedish waters. ... more  |
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Banned weapons stoke deadly violence in NigeriaKano, Nigeria (AFP) June 9, 2018 A flood of illegal small arms has swamped Nigeria, bringing with it a surge of violence that has left hundreds dead. ... more 
Canadian producer Suncor offers climate assurancesWashington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 Canadian oil production from a facility in Alberta has the same greenhouse gas intensity as U.S. oil, the head of producer Suncor said. ... more 
Equinor boasts of environmental legacyWashington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2018 Norwegian energy company Equinor, after removing "oil" from its moniker, said Friday it was putting its stewardship on display on offshore sustainability. ... more  
French energy company ENGIE claims renewable edgeWashington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018 French energy company ENGIE said it solidified its position at the top of the renewable energy foodchain in the country by acquiring producer LANGA group. ... more  
Ukraine puts out forest fire around ChernobylKiev (AFP) June 7, 2018 A forest fire that had raged for three days in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, was put out Thursday and no increase in radiation in the air was detected, authorities said. ... more |
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 New York (AFP) June 2, 2018 
Citing national security concerns, US President Donald Trump's administration is working on a fresh plan to subsidize coal and nuclear plants, a move critics say is unnecessary and will drive up energy costs.
The new move comes months after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission terminated an earlier proposal to provide federal aid to the troubled sectors, claiming it was needed to streng ... more |
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 Ames IA (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Using the physics equivalent of the strobe photography that captures every twitch of a cheetah in full sprint, researchers have used ultrafast spectroscopy to visualize electrons interacting as a hidden state of matter in a superconductive alloy.
It takes intense, single-cycle pulses of photons - flashes - hitting the cooled alloy at terahertz speed - trillions of cycles per second - to sw ... more |
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 Tallinn (AFP) June 1, 2018 
A state-owned Estonian wind farm launched a cryptocurrency mine on Friday, hoping to cash-in on Mother Nature's unlimited supplies of power on a windswept Baltic Sea island, a company official said.
Mining virtual currencies, like bitcoin, ethereum or ripple, requires powerful computers that are voracious users of electricity, making it uneconomical to mine without a cheap source of energy l ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 
Will you ever be able to charge your mobile device, car and even clothing with flexible solar cells? Researchers at Aalto University in Finland and Universite de Montreal are studying whether the now-experimental technology could someday be mass-produced and commercialized, and some of the issues that have to be resolved, including the environmental impact.
For the electronic cells to be v ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 
Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials (TISNCM), and the National University of Science and Technology MISIS have optimized the design of a nuclear battery generating power from the beta decay of nickel-63, a radioactive isotope.
Their new battery prototype packs about 3,300 milliw ... more |
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 Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jun 04, 2018 
There's a good chance you've touched something made out of the polyolefin polymer today. It's often used in polyethylene products like plastic bags or polypropylene products like diapers.
As useful as polyolefins are in society, they continue to multiply as trash in the environment. Scientists estimate plastic bags, for example, will take centuries to degrade.
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 Kano, Nigeria (AFP) June 9, 2018 
A flood of illegal small arms has swamped Nigeria, bringing with it a surge of violence that has left hundreds dead.
Boko Haram Islamists, whose insurgency has killed at least 20,000 in the northeast since 2009, have long been reputed to have received weapons smuggled from North Africa.
But a recent influx of small arms is also fuelling violence in other arenas, including clashes between ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 23, 2018 
NASA's new administrator, a former lawmaker nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the US space agency, admitted Wednesday he has changed his mind about climate change and now believes that humans are the main driver of greenhouse gas emissions.
"The National Climate Assessment that includes NASA and it includes the Department of Energy, and it includes NOAA (the National Oceanic and At ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) June 6, 2018 
Rescuers pulled 23 workers out of a mine in northeast China on Wednesday, hours after they were trapped underground by an explosion that killed 11 and left two others missing, state media reported.
Nine other workers were injured in Tuesday's blast at the iron ore mine owned by Huamei Group, a subsidiary of China National Coal Group Co, in Benxi, Liaoning province.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2018 
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed that one of its institutes Monday successfully tracked and received imaging data from the newly-launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-6.
The Aerospace Information Research Institute said the Miyun station of China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station received the first batch of observation data from the Gaofen-6 satellite. There was ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 06, 2018  Eielson U.S. Air Force Base in Alaska is set to receive a new F-35A Lightning II weather shelter in a new Defense Department deal.
The contract, from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and announced on Tuesday, is valued at more than $82.1 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract that enables Watterson Construction Company to construct a weather shelter for the advanced airc ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 
What's better than platinum? In hydrogen fuel cells, the answer is cofacial cobalt porphyrins. It's a mouthful to say, and if you're not a chemist, you've probably never heard of these compounds before. But these molecules - which are great at facilitating a chemical reaction that's needed to produce power from hydrogen and oxygen - could be the next big advance in alternative energy.
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 Kobe, Japan (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 
Succinate is widely used as a raw ingredient for petrochemicals, and there is high demand for a way of producing succinate that is renewable and environmentally benign. A Japanese researcher has discovered that succinate production levels increase when cyanobacteria is grown above the ideal temperature for cell growth. He used insights into the metabolic pathway engineering to achieve the world' ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 
Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures from different types of 2-D materials. 2-D materials are single atom layers that can be stacked together like "nano-interlocking building blocks."
Materials scientists and physicists are excited about the properties of 2-D materials and their potential applications. The researchers descri ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 28, 2018 
Dutch students due to compete in Elon Musk's high-speed 'Hyperloop' challenge this July subjected their motor module to near-vacuum conditions within ESA's technical heart.
The Delft Hyperloop team at Delft University of Technology is one of 20 finalists selected to compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition 3 on 22 July.
The team visited ESA's Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Neth ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) June 7, 2018 
Joining the government of President Emmanuel Macron in May last year, celebrity environmental activist Nicolas Hulot made clear he was unsure whether he would have much of an impact.
The star, France's best-known environmentalist as the face of the Ushuaia TV programme, had hesitated about joining the ministerial team, having refused similar offers from previous French leaders.
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