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China J31 stealth fighter (a knockoff of the US F35), has to overcome engine...
The J-31 fighter jet had poor performance in air demonstrations at the 2014 Airshow China in Zhuhai. This has prompted officials from the state-run Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) to...
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Thorcon Plan - Scaling factory mass production nuclear power to really...
The developing world will be going from almost no power to some kind of power. If we do not have something cheaper than coal then they will use coal because they do not have money for anything else.We...
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Common units and understanding energy and the global scale of energy
Dr. Ripudaman Malhotra, co-author of A Cubic Mile of Oil, discusses the moral imperative for increasing total global energy supply equivalent to several cubic miles of oil. He shows what it would take...
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US Army seaks to Unleash brainpower for cognitive dominance using virtual...
"Human performance will be as important, if not more important, than technology in 2030," predicted a high-level Army intelligence expert.The reason is that "we've seen an erosion in our technological...
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Ultrathin coating can defeat ultrahigh frequency microwave radar for more...
A group of scientists from China may have created a stealth material that could make future fighter jets very difficult to detect by some of today’s most cutting-edge anti-stealth radar.The researchers...
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Could the USA double energy efficiency by 2030
Assuming the US Congress ever became capable of passing legislation again, how much more energy-efficient could the United States actually get?By some accounts, the United States could stand to get...
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Experimental drug targeting Alzheimer's disease shows anti-aging effects in...
Salk Institute researchers have found that an experimental drug candidate aimed at combating Alzheimer’s disease has a host of unexpected anti-aging effects in animals.The Salk team expanded upon their...
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China's two child policy should add 17 million babies from now to 2020 and a...
China expects the new two child policy will result in an extra 17 million babies born within the next five years – more than three million more each year than at present. In some of those years, there...
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TensorFlow - Google’s latest machine learning system, is open sourced for...
Google is announcing TensorFlow, its open source platform for machine learning, giving anyone a computer and internet connection (and casual background in deep learning algorithms) access to one of the...
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Google planning a ‘watershed’ quantum computing announcement for December 8
According to Steve Jurvetson, venture capitalist and board member at pioneer quantum computing company D-WAVE, Google has what may be a “watershed” quantum computing announcement scheduled for early...
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Manipulating domain walls in magnetic nanowire with sound could enable high...
A team from the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds may have found the answer to faster computing: sound. The research – published in Applied Physics Letters – has shown that certain types of sound...
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USC and Sangamo researchers advance genome editing of blood stem cells
In an upcoming study in Nature Biotechnology, co-first authors Colin M. Exline, PhD, from USC and Jianbin Wang, PhD, from Sangamo BioSciences describe a new, more efficient way to edit genes in...
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Gene drive can propel genes throughout populations combined with CRISPR...
For the foreseeable future, CRISPR’s greatest impact will lie in its ability to help scientists rapidly rewrite the genomes of animal and plant species. In laboratories, agricultural companies have...
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A Quantitative Criterion for Defining Planets
Since the late 1980s, scientists have discovered nearly 5,000 planetary bodies orbiting stars other than the sun. But astronomers are still working on what exactly we should call them.Today at an...
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Telsa Motors could get to millions of cars per year by 2025
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced his intentions to produce millions of cars by 2025. Production on that scale would make Tesla about the size BMW.More assembly plants will be needed once Tesla reaches...
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China's 'Alpine' high-speed train service starts tomorrow
CRRC Corporation says its CRH2G high-speed train, which has been developed specifically for high-altitude operation, has been approved by China's National Railway Administration enabling the fleet to...
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Microwave and ultrasound technology might be able to "hear" tumors growing
A new technology has promise to safely find buried plastic explosives and maybe even spot fast-growing tumors. The technique involves the clever interplay of microwaves and ultrasound to develop a...
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Extending the resolution limits of atomic force microscopy
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is used widely to study surfaces with a resolution on the nanometer scale – vastly inferior to atomic resolution offered by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). In 1982,...
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New way to measure crop yields from space
A Stanford-led team has used satellites to measure a special light emitted by plants to estimate crop yields with more accuracy than ever before. This advance will help scientists study how crops...
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Ultracold Quantum Crystal packed with 5 times more molecules
Physicists at JILA have made their "quantum crystal" of ultracold molecules more valuable than ever by packing about five times more molecules into it. The denser crystal will help scientists unlock...
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