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Carnival of Space 319
The Carnival of Space 319 is up at Dear Astronomer.TheSpacewriter investigates whether alien moons could offer habitable environments. Exomoons orbiting planets similar to Neptune, Saturn or Jupiter in...
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OECD Leading Index Points To Stabilizing Global Economic Growth
A leading indicator of the OECD economy, which is designed to anticipate turning points in economic activity relative to trend, increased 0.07 percent sequentially to 100.7 in September, continuing the...
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Thin, active invisibility cloak demonstrated for first time with antennas...
Researchers have demonstrated an effective invisibility cloak that is thin, scalable and adaptive to different types and sizes of objects.Professor George Eleftheriades and PhD student Michael...
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Sample Return from hypervelocity flyby's of Moons and Asteroids
Since the Apollo era, sample return missions have been primarily limited to asteroid sampling. More comprehensive sampling could yield critical information on the formation of the solar system and the...
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China will look to Thorium Molten Salt Reactors to for energy without water...
“The TMSR (thorium molten salt reactor) is getting $400 million in support from the Chinese government, because several regions of China face water shortages in large part because China’s many...
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World Energy Forecast to 2035 sees Renewables slowing the growth of coal, oil...
The International Energy Association published its World Energy Outlook 2013. They forecast world energy to 2035.Longterm solutions to global challenges remain scarce* Renewed focus on energy...
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United States could become number one producer of crude oil and natural gas...
The International Energy Agency was predicting that the US would become the top producer of crude oil and natural gas liquids with 11.6 million bpd in 2015. This would be up from 9.2 million bpd in...
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China's Family Planners probably reluctant to completely give up One Child...
China will be fine-tuning One child policy according to a spokesman for China's National Health and Family Planning Commission.Mao said a fine-tuning plan has been sent to the State Council and the...
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Bribes and hidden transaction make up at least 12% of China Economy and are...
China’s hidden household income totaled over 6.2 trillion yuan in 2011– accounting for 12 per cent of the country’s GDP– underlining the widespread impression corruption represents a “serious...
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Get Answers to questions about the Dwave Quantum Computer at the #quantumchat...
Join quantum computing experts from Lockheed Martin, the University of Southern California and D-Wave Systems as they “borrow” their companies’ Twitter accounts to discuss the latest in speedy qubits...
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NASA quantum computer experts available for interviews next week
As of Nov. 13, 2013, NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California’s Silicon Valley will begin facilitating news media interviews about its new quantum computing efforts.In a partnership...
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Canadian Province issues 2.5 billion in chinese yuan denominated bonds
Canada's western province of British Columbia said on November 5 it had completed the issuance of one-year offshore yuan-denominated bonds and raised 2.5 billion yuan.This is the first time a foreign...
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US Crude Oil Production just short of 8 million barrels per day
US crude oil production is at 7.981 million barrels per day. This is the most since 1989.12.8 million barrels per day of all oil liquids production10.64 million barrels per day of crude oil and natural...
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Large Graphene Crystals Grown for super fast electronics in relative near...
Texas researchers used surface oxygen to grow centimeter-size single graphene crystals on copper. The crystals were about 10,000 times as large as the largest crystals from only four years ago. Very...
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Koreans say graphene supercapacitors are ready for electric cars
Conventional batteries take so long to charge that they cannot efficiently store braking energy. But now graphene supercapacitors that store almost as much but charge in just 16 seconds could do the...
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IBM announces Watson Developers Cloud for a new era of cognitive Apps...
IBM today announced that, for the first time, it will make its IBM Watson technology available as a development platform in the cloud, to enable a worldwide community of software application providers...
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John Slough Personally Explains his Fusion Rocket and Fusion Energy Systems...
John Slough gives a presentation of his direct fusion drive rocket and his fusion energy system.* they create ionized gases in two regions* they create plasmoids (balls out of the ionized gases)* they...
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China officially easing the one child policy to add 1-2 million births per...
The Chinese government will ease its one-child family size restrictions and abolish re-education through labor camps, significantly curtailing two policies that for decades have defined the state’s...
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China will be attempting major reform of State Enterprises
On Friday, more details emerged on what exactly Beijing’s top leaders approved during their conference, and the pledged reforms are much meatier and potentially more powerful than anything previously...
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If $82 billion is a pilot program for Chinese factory automation and robots...
Zhejiang, one province in China, will pilot a novel solution to rising worker wages: investing $82 billion over five years to help local factories partially automate production processes. In Zhejiang...
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