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Identifying higher potential states and cities in India
McKinsey finds that eight high-performing states in India will account for some 52 percent of India’s incremental GDP growth from 2012 to 2025. Along with four very high-performing city-states, these...
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GDP by Province in China
Here is an update on the GDP nominal and purchasing power parity (PPP) for the different provinces within China. The figures are for 2013 and have the PPP adjustment from April 2014 by the IMF and...
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Russia approves construction of 150 Megawatt MBIR fast reactor
Russia has given the financial and regulatory go ahead to build the multi-purpose fast neutron reactor (MBIR) The total, fully equipped cost is estimated to be $1 billion. Of that, the Russian budget...
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Giant Plasmene Nanosheets, Nanoribbons, and Origami could lead to new optical...
ACS Nano - Giant Plasmene Nanosheets, Nanoribbons, and OrigamiMonash University researchers have developed Plasmene— in analogy to graphene—as free-standing, one-particle-thick, superlattice sheets of...
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Google Deepmind team working on Neural Turing Machine
Arxiv - Google Deepmind researchers have extended the capabilities of neural networks by coupling them to external memory resources, which they can interact with by attentional processes. The combined...
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Small, safer pressurized water thorium nuclear reactor design
A team at the University of Cambridge and Georgia Institute of Technology are exploring whether the element thorium could help to meet the new design's fuel needs. As well as being three to four times...
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China fielding its submarines with nuclear missiles
China is expected to pass a military milestone this year when it sets a different type of sub to sea—a “boomer,” carrying fully armed nuclear missiles for the first time—says the U.S. Office of Naval...
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Network of defibrillator drones could boost heart attack survival from 8% to 80%
Graduate student Alec Momont of TU Delft has designed an unmanned, autonomously navigating mini aeroplane that can quickly deliver a defibrillator to where it is needed. A network of such drones could...
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Roger Shawyer still believes Emdrive will Scale to hundreds of Newtons per...
Roger Shawyer made a presentation of the controversial EMdrive. At the IAC 2014 conference in Toronto, Roger Shawyer stated that 8 sets of test data have now verified EmDrive theory. These data sets...
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Uranium from seawater using metal organic frameworks
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are many times lighter than proteins, while still capable of achieving similar local structure. A protein that absorbs one uranium atom extracts less than one-tenth of...
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HP 3D Printer will be ten faster, cheaper with 5 micron precision
Hewlett-Packard finally is making a big bet on 3D printing. Although HP is targeting a crowded market, the company’s inkjet technology — announced today — looks so revolutionary to analyst Terry...
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China will become a nuclear triad power this year
A nuclear triad refers to a nuclear arsenal which consists of three components, traditionally strategic bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles...
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Another candidate for inexpensive cancer detection blood tests
A Hong Kong scientist who invented a simple blood test to show pregnant women if their babies have Down syndrome is now testing a similar technology for cancer.Yuk Ming “Dennis” Lo says screening for...
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Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2 crashed
SpaceShipTwo's pilot ejected as disaster struck and suffered moderate to severe injuries, it has been revealed. His co-pilot was killed in the crash.Virgin Galactic's spacecraft SpaceShipTwo has...
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Russian Progress on Laser Ablation Rockets
A number of systems have been proposed that can produce laser propulsion. One of the most promising near term possibilities involves a process called laser ablation, in which a pulsed laser beam...
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FISO Presentation - Status of the VASIMR solar electric propulsion system
Without funding support, the FISO telecon colloquia is an extracurricular activity. The telecon became less a working group tag-up and more, as it is exclusively now, an opportunity for a wide...
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A model to unlock the money of wealthy people to get more disease cures...
There are over 100,000 people in the world worth more than £20 million($30 million). According to medical statistics, between three and five people in every 100,000 get neuroendocrine cancer every...
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Progress towards a medical device to help the paralyzed speak and...
Researchers have eavesdropped on the internal monologue in our brains for the first time. The achievement is a step towards helping people who cannot physically speak communicate with the outside...
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Carnival of Space 378
The Carnival of Space 378 is up at Is Universe.Double Disc Found Feeding Each Other In Binary Star SystemThis artist’s impression shows the dust and gas around the double star system GG Tauri-A....
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 233
1. Atomic Insights - Neural network analysis "unequivocally" reveals threshold dose response in atomic bomb victimsRadiation doses below about 100 - 200 mSv suppress cancer.That bold, conventional...
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