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  Houston TX (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Rice University engineers have developed a composite binder made primarily of fly ash, a byproduct of coal-fired power plants, that can replace Portland cement in concrete. The material is cementless and environmentally friendly, according to Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari, who developed it with graduate student Sung Hoon Hwang. Fly ash binder does not require the high-temperature processing of Portland cement, yet tests showed it has the same compressive strength after seven da ... read more |
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Could this material enable autonomous vehicles to come to market sooner?Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 One of the leading challenges for autonomous vehicles is to ensure that they can detect and sense objects - even through dense fog. Compared to the current visible light-based cameras, infrared came ... more  
New material for splitting waterWashington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Solar energy is clean and abundant. But when the sun isn't shining, you must store the energy in batteries or through a process called photocatalysis - in which solar energy is used to make fuels. I ... more 
KYOCERA to participate in Japan's virtual power plant project to improve energy managementTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Kyocera has registered with the Sustainable open Innovation Initiative (SII) as a resource aggregator*1 for a new program to help control energy resources among Japanese consumers. This latest test ... more 
Futuristic data storageWashington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 The magnetisation of nanometric square material is not fixed. It moves around in a helical motion. This is caused by the electron whose degree of freedom, referred to as spin, which follows a preces ... more |
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White House: China has 'much more to lose' in trade disputeWashington (AFP) June 19, 2018 China has more to lose than the United States in the two nations' burgeoning trade dispute but Washington remains open to dialogue with its largest trading partner, a senior White House advisor said Tuesday. ... more 
US slaps anti-dumping duties on Chinese alloy aluminum sheetWashington (AFP) June 19, 2018 The United States on Tuesday said it was imposing steep import duties on Chinese imports of alloy aluminum sheet valued at nearly $1 billion which Washington says have been dumped on the US market. ... more 
European firms say China business 'more difficult'Beijing (AFP) June 20, 2018 European companies complain they still face a difficult business climate in China despite Beijing's pledges of openness, with about half saying it has become tougher in the past year, according to a survey released Wednesday. ... more  
U.S. economy less exposed to oil price shocksWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 The price of oil is vulnerable to spikes from geopolitical events, though the U.S. economy seems only modestly at risk, an economist at the Dallas Fed said. ... more 
South Sudan foes set to meet after two yearsAddis Ababa (AFP) June 20, 2018 The two figures at the centre of the civil war that has ravaged South Sudan are scheduled to meet on Wednesday for the first time in nearly two years. ... more |
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Wood Mac: Expect moderate action from OPECWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 Expect some sort of Goldilocks scenario from OPEC on future supplies, though talks under way in Vienna are increasingly contentious, a consultant group said. ... more  |
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Trump erases Obama-era offshore rulesWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 Executive action from the U.S. president eases offshore energy planning burdens, an industry group said, though critics said it was a war on oceans. ... more 
Oil prices volatile amid OPEC guessingWashington (UPI) Jun 20, 2018 Questions over what happens next with OPEC, and threats of violence in member-state Nigeria, left crude oil prices swinging wildly in early Wednesday trading. ... more 
Shell dumps interest in two Norwegian fieldsWashington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018 Supermajor Royal Dutch Shell said Wednesday it sold off its entire stake in two fields in production off the Norwegian coast for $556 million. ... more 
Noble Group shares soar after deal with key investorSingapore (AFP) June 20, 2018 Noble Group shares surged more than 50 percent Wednesday after the embattled commodities trader sealed a deal with a major investor, paving the way for a debt restructuring. ... more 
Venezuela sends 'coup plotters' to jailCaracas (AFP) June 20, 2018 Five members of Venezuela's armed forces and three civilians were imprisoned Wednesday, convicted of taking part in a 2015 coup plot against President Nicolas Maduro, a prisoners' rights group said. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2018 
Luxembourg needs to recover unpaid taxes from French energy company ENGIE because tax rulings gave it an unfair market advantage, the European Commission said.
Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner in charge of competition, said tax measures from Luxembourg reduced the tax bills for the French energy company for about a decade, giving it an unfair market advantage. Under state a ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
In seeking to achieve fusion energy, research on magnetic field confinement of high-temperature plasma is being conducted around the world. In a high-temperature plasma there is a temperature gradient. When the temperature gradient becomes steep, turbulence is generated.
Because the high-temperature regions and the low temperature areas are mixed due to the turbulence, the core temperature ... 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
Kyocera has registered with the Sustainable open Innovation Initiative (SII) as a resource aggregator*1 for a new program to help control energy resources among Japanese consumers. This latest test project runs until February 2019, plans to expand the coverage area to Tohoku and Hokkaido and is designed to test the flexible response to changing energy supply and demand.
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 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
Joint research efforts of a team of scientists at Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod (UNN) comprising chemists, physicists and engineers are currently focused on solving the problems of handling plutonium and minor actinides (MA) accumulated over many years.
To this end, they are studying composite ceramics-ceramics (Cer-Cer) and ceramics-metal (CerMet) materials on the basis of min ... 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 21, 2018 
Supermajor Royal Dutch Shell said Wednesday it sold off its entire stake in two fields in production off the Norwegian coast for $556 million.
Shell's subsidiary in Norway sold its entire 44.56 percent interest in the Draugen field and its 12 percent in the Gjøa to Norwegian energy company OKEA.
OKEA CEO Erik Haugane in a statement on the deal said the agreement with Shell was a ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
As humans continue to pump the atmosphere with carbon, it's crucial for scientists to understand how and where the planet absorbs and naturally emits carbon.
A recent study in the journal Nature Geosciences examined the global carbon cycle and suggests that existing studies may have misgauged how carbon is distributed around the world, particularly between the northern and southern hemisph ... 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 (UPI) Jun 19, 2018 
The Department of Defense announced it has awarded a contract to MACRO Industries for hardware in support of the V-22 aircraft.
The contract award, from Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division and announced on Monday, is valued at more than $20.4 million under the terms of a fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. The deal enables MACRO Industries to provide 20 ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
One of the leading challenges for autonomous vehicles is to ensure that they can detect and sense objects - even through dense fog. Compared to the current visible light-based cameras, infrared cameras can offer much better visibility through the fog, smoke or tiny particles that can scatter the visible light.
Within the air, infrared light - within a specific range called mid-wave infrare ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Tohoku University (Japan) have explained the puzzling phenomenon of particle-antiparticle annihilation in graphene, recognized by specialists as Auger recombination. Although persistently observed in experiments, it was for a long time thought to be prohibited by the fundamental physical laws of energy and momentum conservation. ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 
Spintronics is a field of physics that studies the spin of electrons, an intrinsic type of magnetism that many elementary particles have. The field of spintronics has given rise to technological concepts of "spintronic devices", which would run on electron spins, rather than their charge, used by traditional electronics.
In order to build programmable spintronic devices we first need to be ... 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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