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1. Universe Today - ExoMars Heads to the Red Planet in 2016The 2016 launch window for Mars missions is fast approaching along with opposition, and ESA is refining its target window for ExoMars. Mars...
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Yes Vermont Yankee - Pilgrim will close by 2019 (Updated)Entergy announced that Pilgrim will close by 2019. Entergy would like to close Pilgrim in 2017, but Pilgrim is obligated by its participation...
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Two radio jamming antidrone systems
Battelle’s revolutionary DroneDefenderTM, is a portable, accurate, rapid-to-use counter-weapon to stop suspicious or hostile drones in flight, providing critical security protection at home and...
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Real unmanned russian robotic tanks by 2017, AI, combat lasers, railguns and...
A Russian defense firm that produces the brand-new Armata T-14 tank also plans to build an army of new combat robots within the next two years. This would be a next step towards machines guided by...
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Antiaging protein GDF11 could be source of rejuvenation from young blood
Harvard stem cell biologist Amy Wagers, cardiologist Richard Lee of the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and their colleagues claim that a specific protein, GDF11, may explain...
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China's first two domestic air craft carriers will be deployed at the Sanya...
China plans to deploy its first two domestically built aircraft carriers to the southern island province of Hainan in anticipation of potential conflict over the disputed South China Sea, the...
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China surpassing Japan Navy as top Asia region Navy
China's new advanced destroyers and frigates have pushed the total count of surface combat ships over the number possessed by Japan, reports the Hangzhou-based Qianjiang Evening News.Japan currently...
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Memristors could challenge flash memory
The demise of flash memory at the hands of some new technological upstart has been predicted at least for the last decade. The latest pretender to the throne is the so-called memristor (also called...
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Cobalt atoms on graphene a powerful combo
Graphene doped with nitrogen and augmented with cobalt atoms has proven to be an effective, durable catalyst for the production of hydrogen from water, according to scientists at Rice University.The...
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Nanoscale Diamond ‘Racetrack’ Becomes Breakthrough Raman Laser
Diamonds are renowned for their exquisite beauty and unrivaled durability, but they also are highly prized by scientists and engineers for their exceptional optical and physical properties.In a...
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Big Stellerator Nuclear Fusion reactor being built in Germany
When completed, Wendelstein 7-X will be the world’s largest fusion device of the stellarator type. Its objective is to investigate the suitability of this type for a power plant. It will also test an...
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Pictures of Tri-alpha energy's nuclear fusion prototype in Time magazine and...
The Tri-alpha Energy nuclear fusion reactor prototype has been feature in recent Time magazine and New York Times artices.Tri Alpha’s reactor is very different from the towering tokamaks that dominate...
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China in discussions on $157 billion in high speed rail projects including UK...
From a standing start 12 years ago, the China has built 10,000 miles of high-speed track within its borders — longer than the rest of the world's network combined and enough to stretch from New York to...
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Amazon has free two hour delivery and paid one hour delivery in several markets
Amazon expanded its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, to two more markets: the San Francisco Bay Area and San Antonio, Texas. The company had clearly been ramping up operations in California, in...
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Guizhou radio telescope will have 2.5 times the area of Arecibo and...
Technicians have begun assembling the world's largest radio telescope, with a dish the size of 30 football grounds, deep in the mountains of southwest China's Guizhou Province. It will have three times...
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New state of matter discovered which could hold the key to high temperature...
A team of physicists led by Caltech's David Hsieh has discovered an unusual form of matter—not a conventional metal, insulator, or magnet, for example, but something entirely different. This phase,...
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Two halves of second UK aircraft carrier joined into a 38,500 ton superblock
The second Royal Navy flagship aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales , has passed a significant milestone after the two halves of the ship were joined together in a record feat of precision...
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U.S. warship sails within 12 miles of Chinese-built island in South China Sea
A U.S. naval destroyer sailed early Tuesday within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built by China in the South China Sea, a U.S. defense official said, in a direct challenge to China’s...
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China has large solar powered helium spy airship and satellites for tracking...
Earlier this month, China tested a new helium-filled airship that will soar to great height to offer the government new and broad surveillance capabilities. Called Yuanmeng, the ship is expected to...
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Purdue researchers observe phase transition thought impossible
An ultrapure material taken to pressures greater than that in the depths of the ocean and chilled to temperatures colder than outer space has revealed an unexpected phase transition that crosses two...
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