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Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere at 100 grams per second
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet...
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Portable multi megavolt particle accelerators for medical and material imaging
Conventional particle accelerators are typically big machines that occupy a lot of space. Even at more modest energies, such as that used for cancer therapy and medical imaging, accelerators need large...
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Antiproton attraction measured to be similar to protons
Researchers revealed evidence this week that the attractive force between antiprotons is similar to that between protons -- and measured it.Specifically, the team measured two important parameters: the...
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Israel is asking for F-15 fighters and V22 tiltrotors
Israel has shown renewed interest in acquiring Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor transport aircraft and additional Boeing F-15 multirole fighters, according to information obtained by IHS Jane's .The...
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Nanographene charge trapping memory could make higer density flash memory
Researchers developed a method for fabricating nanographene with a density estimated at more than a trillion (10^12) nanographene islands per square centimeter. Their strategy uses a technique called...
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New Charge Density wave found in superconductors
A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory combined powerful magnetic pulses with some of the brightest X-rays on the planet to discover a surprising...
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Gene-edited immune cells treat 1-year-old's 'incurable' leukemia
A new treatment that uses ‘molecular scissors’ to edit genes and create designer immune cells programmed to hunt out and kill drug resistant leukaemia has been used at Great Ormond Street Hospital...
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Solar wind would take 7.2 billion years to erode the Martian Atmosphere
Solar wind is eroding the Mars atmosphere at about 100 grams per second. Adam Crowl has calculated it would take 7.2 billion years to remove the thin Martian atmosphere at that rate.@nextbigfuture...
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Superconducting at -70 degrees celsius seems to be accepted by mainstream...
The world of superconductivity is in uproar. Last year, Mikhail Eremets and a couple of pals from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, made the extraordinary claim that they had...
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In 2015 US denies oil market access to its ally Canada but grants access to Iran
The US administration rejected the Keystone Pipeline which hinders the closest ally of the USA, Canada, from getting its oil to markets While the US administration previously made a deal to get Iranian...
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Russia faces dropping currency reserves, high inflation and food shortages
Russia's international reserves, liquid foreign assets managed by the Central Bank of Russia, fell by $5.4 billion to $369.2 billion in the week of Oct. 23-30, Tass, a state-owned news agency, reported...
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China 2020 targets double 2010 per capita GDP, and average $300 billion per...
Chinese premier Li Keqiang said the country needed annual growth of at least 6.53 per cent in the next five years to meet the government's goal of establishing a "moderately prosperous society". China...
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US nuclear power will still increase slightly by 2020 in spite of some closures
Despite the scheduled closure of more than 2,000 megawatts (MW) of nuclear generating capacity by 2019, scheduled additions of more than 5,000 MW of capacity between 2016 and 2020 could result in a net...
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US nuclear plants 20 year operating extensions will benefit clean energy and...
Dominion Resources Inc. will ask federal regulators for permission run the Surry nuclear power plant in Virginia until it's 80 years old. Extending by 20 years would keep US nuclear plants running into...
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Eye drops for dissolving cataracts works in dogs and in the lab on human tissue
A chemical that could potentially be used in eye drops to reverse cataracts, the leading cause of blindness, has been identified by a team of scientists from UC San Francisco (UCSF), the University of...
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Self driving cars must be completely self driving because people will not...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (indirectly) made a striking admission yesterday: the autonomous driving features his company recently launched are too dangerous. On an earnings call with investors, Musk said that...
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Advances using quantum entanglement advances to global quantum internet
Arxiv - Teleportation of entanglement over 143 km (8 pages)As a direct consequence of the no-cloning theorem, the deterministic amplification as in classical communication is impossible for quantum...
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Skreemr hypersonic passenger plane design would use electromagnetic launch
A mach 10 hypersonic Skreemr airplane design is the brainchild of Charles Bombardier. Bombardier's latest design describes a passenger aircraft that can travel at 10 times the speed of sound, or just...
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China and USA will test how much big infrastructure and engineering matter
Bill Gates has gone to China to develop his Travelling Wave Reactor, which promises to run for 50 years without refueling and consume its own waste. After several years of effort, Gates had given up on...
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Microtethered Drone never needs to land
The Persistent Aerial Reconnaissance and Communications (PARC) system is designed to provide long term persistent stare capabilities and enable reliable long distance communications. PARC uses CyPhy...
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