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  Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 Experiments that measure the lifetime of neutrons reveal a perplexing and unresolved discrepancy. While this lifetime has been measured to a precision within 1 percent using different techniques, apparent conflicts in the measurements offer the exciting possibility of learning about as-yet undiscovered physics. Now, a team led by scientists in the Nuclear Science Division at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has enlisted powerful supercomputers to calc ... read more |
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Orange, tea tree and eucalyptus oils sweeten diesel fumesBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 QUT PhD researcher Ashrafur Rahman tested each of the waste oils for performance and emissions as a 10 per cent oil/90per cent diesel blend in a 6-cylinder, 5.9l diesel engine. "As only therap ... more 
Critical plant gene takes unexpected detour that could boost biofuel yieldsOak Ridge TN (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 For decades, biologists have believed a key enzyme in plants had one function--produce amino acids, which are vital to plant survival and also essential to human diets. But for Wellington Much ... more  
Wartsila leading along the path towards a 100% renewable energy futureHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 The technology group Wartsila is leading the way to the power industry's transformation towards a future that utilises 100 percent renewable energy. In announcing its vision for the energy market, W ... more  
A fast, low-voltage actuator for soft and wearable roboticsSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 In the world of robotics, soft robots are the new kids on the block. The unique capabilities of these automata are to bend, deform, stretch, twist or squeeze in all the ways that conventional rigid ... more |
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Physicists discover how to create the thinnest liquid films everBurlington VT (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 A team of physicists at the University of Vermont have discovered a fundamentally new way surfaces can get wet. Their study may allow scientists to create the thinnest films of liquid ever made - an ... more  
Nickel ferrite promotes capacity and cycle stability of lithium-sulfur batteryBeijing, China (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery can be put into practice, if 20% of theoretical energy densities (2600 Wh/kg or 2800 Wh/L) can be achieved. Investigators have the ambition to reach the energy density ... more 
Rutgers-led research could lead to more efficient electronicsNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 A Rutgers-led team of physicists has demonstrated a way to conduct electricity between transistors without energy loss, opening the door to low-power electronics and, potentially, quantum computing ... more  
Designer materials with completely random structures might enable quantum computingHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 Topological randomness may be the answer for lossless electronics and making the nuts and bolts of quantum computers. Complete randomness in the structures of superconductors and insulators could lo ... more 
Combining experts and automation in 3D printingPittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering have developed a novel approach to optimizing soft material 3-D printing. The researchers' Expert-Guided Optimization (EGO) method ... more |
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Research reveals how order first appears in liquid crystalsProvidence RI (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 Liquid crystals undergo a peculiar type of phase change. At a certain temperature, their cigar-shaped molecules go from a disordered jumble to a more orderly arrangement in which they all point more ... more  |
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Shell solicits Gulf of Mexico help from Subsea 7Washington (UPI) Jun 15, 2018 Offshore field services company Subsea 7 said Friday it won a contract from Shell to help advance a redesigned concept for the Vito field in the Gulf of Mexico. ... more 
Russian Central Bank leaves rates in placeWashington (UPI) Jun 15, 2018 The economic risk from the volatility in crude oil prices is only moderate, the Central Bank of Russia said Friday after leaving its key lending rate unchanged. ... more 
Trade tensions push the price of oil lowerWashington (UPI) Jun 15, 2018 Global trade tensions and signs of more oil supply coming in the second half of the year helped push crude oil prices lower in early Friday trading. ... more 
Libya strongman's jets strike rivals - targeting oil terminalsBenghazi, Libya (AFP) June 15, 2018 Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar's forces on Friday launched air strikes against a rival militia targeting key oil facilities in the east of the country, a spokesman for his group said. ... more 
Equinor seals the deal offshore BrazilWashington (UPI) Jun 15, 2018 Equity production from offshore Brazil more than doubles after the completion of an acquisition in the Campos oil basin, Norwegian company Equinor said. ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) June 13, 2018 
A consortium led by Hong Kong's CK Infrastructure Holdings made an unsolicited Aus$13 billion (US$9.8 billion) bid for gas pipeline company APA Wednesday, with the Australian firm agreeing to open its books.
APA's assets include gas transmission pipelines and storage, along with wind and solar farms across Australia. The firm's website said its 15,000 kilometres (9,300 miles) of gas pipeline ... more |
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 Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 
The future of chemistry is 'electrifying'. With the increasing availability of electrical energy from renewable sources, it will be possible in the future to drive many chemical processes using an electric current. This will facilitate the use of sustainable methods to manufacture products or fuels, replacing current processes which are based on fossil fuels.
However, exactly how these ele ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 15, 2018 
VTT Research Centre of Technology (VTT) has explored the potential and economic benefits of new wind power technology. The technology would greatly increase the benefits of wind energy and enable the competitive utilisation of wind power in Finland.
Heavy investments are being made in wind power, which highlights the importance of this new and competitive technology. Wind power accounts fo ... more |
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 Batangas, Philippine (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) formally unveiled its new manufacturing plant in Batangas, Philippines this 2018. Atop its roof, a solar power system designed and installed by Solenergy Systems Inc. is running at 4.77MW peak energy generation. This self-consumption rooftop solar PV system is the largest in South-East Asia, and one of the largest in the world.
The system is composed of 17 ... more |
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 Sofia (AFP) June 7, 2018 
Bulgaria's parliament opened the way Thursday to revive a long-delayed project to build a new nuclear power plant by tasking the energy minister to hold talks with potential strategic investors.
The decision was backed by 172 MPs from all parties in the 240-seat chamber, with only 14 voting against.
It will allow Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova to enter into negotiations with possible ... more |
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 Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
QUT PhD researcher Ashrafur Rahman tested each of the waste oils for performance and emissions as a 10 per cent oil/90per cent diesel blend in a 6-cylinder, 5.9l diesel engine.
"As only therapeutic grade oil can be used, there is a substantial volume of low-value waste oil that currently is stored, awaiting a use," Mr Rahman said.
"Our tests found essential oil blends produced almost ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 15, 2018 
Russia could be collaborating with Seoul on the construction of a natural gas pipeline through North Korean territory, a Gazprom official said Friday.
South Korean officials hinted earlier this year that a thaw in tensions on the Korean Peninsula could open the door to the construction of a Russian gas pipeline through countries divided by the 38th Parallel.
Vitaly Markelov, the ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) June 13, 2018 
The South African government said Wednesday that the national state of disaster it declared in March over a drought that ravaged parts of the country had lapsed after significant rainfall.
The three-year drought hit Cape Town particularly hard, threatening to leave residents of the country's second largest city without drinking water.
The government said it had conducted assessments whic ... 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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 London (AFP) June 14, 2018 
British police confirmed Thursday they had arrested a man under the Official Secrets Act amid reports of a feared Chinese plot against F-35B stealth fighter jets.
Bryn Jones, 73, a former Rolls-Royce chief combustion technologist, was arrested after the security services received intelligence that classified information may have been passed to Beijing, The Sun newspaper reported.
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 Berlin (AFP) June 13, 2018 
Auto giant Volkswagen said Wednesday it would pay a one billion euro ($1.2 billion) fine imposed by German prosecutors for diesel emissions cheating.
"The Braunschweig public prosecutor issues an administrative order against Volkswagen AG in the context of the diesel crisis and imposes a fine of EUR1 billion on Volkswagen AG", the company said in a statement.
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 Green Bank WV (SPX) Jun 13, 2018 
For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the exact source of a peculiar type of faint microwave light emanating from a number of regions across the Milky Way. Known as anomalous microwave emission (AME), this light comes from energy released by rapidly spinning nanoparticles - bits of matter so small that they defy detection by ordinary microscopes. (The period on an average printed page is ap ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Topological randomness may be the answer for lossless electronics and making the nuts and bolts of quantum computers. Complete randomness in the structures of superconductors and insulators could lower the requirements of pristine crystalline ordering - and make them more accessible to industry.
Designing quantum materials with exotic and unprecedented electrical properties has the field o ... more |
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 Chicago (AFP) June 14, 2018 
Elon Musk's The Boring Company has been tapped to build a high-speed underground transportation system for Chicago - the first US city to bank on the entrepreneur's futuristic concept for mass transit.
The project, announced Thursday, would employ underground tunnels and autonomous electric vehicles called "skates." They would reach speeds as high as 150 miles per hour (240 kilometers per h ... more |
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 Leeds UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Water samples from UK rivers contained significantly higher concentrations of microplastics downstream from wastewater treatment plants, according to one of the first studies to determine potential sources of microplastics pollution.
Scientists from the University of Leeds measured microplastics concentrations up and downstream of six wastewater treatment plants and found that all of the p ... more |
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