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China nearing the world average in corruption where Italy and Kuwait are at...
China has made modest improvements in perceived corruption and has moved up to a corruptipon level of 40 on the Transparency.org index. 0 is the most corrupt and 100 is the least corrupt. 43 was the...
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In North Korea there can be only one
The once-powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been executed for treason after being branded "despicable human scum", according to the state news agency.Jang Song-thaek was a mentor to...
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Ukraine, EU agreed on next steps for speedy signing of Association Agreement
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych intends to sign a deal on closer European Union ties, the bloc's top diplomat has said, after weeks of mass protests that have rattled the Eastern European...
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DOE funding half of the NuScale 45 MWe small modular reactor
the Energy Department announced an award to NuScale Power LLC to support a new project to design, certify and help commercialize innovative small modular reactors (SMRs) in the United States. Through a...
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Senior Fusion researchers give major endorsement to Lawrenceville Plasma...
In a major endorsement of the fusion energy research and development program of start-up Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP), a committee of senior fusion researchers, led by a former head of the US...
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Five-Fold Lifespan Extension in C. Elegans by Combining Syngistic Gene...
New research in simple animals suggests that combining mutants can lead to radical lifespan extension. Scientists at the Buck Institute combined mutations in two pathways well-known for lifespan...
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World oil update and North Dakota hits another record
IEA monthly oil report is up.The estimate of global oil demand for 2013 has been revised up by 130 kb/d, to 91.2 mb/d, on stronger-than-expected 3Q13 OECD demand growth of 320 kb/d. Global demand is...
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Saturn Rings appear to have been caught birthing a new moon
A new moon might have just popped out of Saturn's rings. Images from a NASA spacecraft show a disturbance along the rings' edge that is probably being caused by an unseen object stirring up the icy...
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China ready to land robot rover on Moon and will be first of a new wave of...
China is set to land a robotic rover on the surface of the Moon, a major step in the Asian superpower's ambitious programme of space exploration.On Saturday afternoon (GMT), a landing module will...
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American Physical Society recommends licensing nuclear reactors for 80 year...
The American physical society sees no technical reasons not to extend nuclear reactors to 80 years of operation and recommends doing so in a 28 page report. Renewing Licensesfor the Nation’s Nuclear...
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Elon Musk Provides More Details of his thinking on Mars Colonization
Dr. Crystal Dilworth has a fireside chat with space entrepreneur Elon Musk and inventor and computational neuroscientist Philip Low to discover how they are changing the world and why. Special thank...
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Tesla Motors' $40,000 mass market electric car set to debut in early 2015
Tesla Motors plans to unveil an electric car in early 2015 that could sell in the $40,000 range, a mainstream offering that will be key to the automaker’s future.The car likely will go on sale in 2016...
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Alberta is most economically free province or state in North America
Economic freedom has been shown in numerous peer-reviewed studies to promote prosperity and other positive outcomes. It is a necessary condition for democratic development.The classic definition of...
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Less than one in 200 Canadians go to the US for healthcare and Canadian...
A healthcare study surveyed America’s 20 “best” hospitals — as identified by U.S. News & World Report— on the assumption that if Canadians were going to travel for health care, they would be more...
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Canada spends about the same as the US for government but has universal...
Canada got a hold of its government spending problems during the 1990s.The charts below show that Canada has federal government spending at about 14% of GDP and the US is at 24% of GDP.Canada's debt to...
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Bose Einstein Condensate in a polymer at room temperature has potential for...
Researchers at IBM’s Binnig and Rohrer Nano Center have demonstrated a complex quantum mechanical phenomenon known as Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), using a luminescent polymer (plastic) similar to...
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Google Buys Boston Dynamics, Creator Of Big Dog and other Military Robots
Google announced that they’ve acquired Boston Dynamics, creators of quad- and bi-pedal robots like Big Dog and PETMAN. This is Google’s eighth robotics acquisition.Andy Rubin, stepped down as head of...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 187
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 187 is up at ANS Nuclear Cafe.Read more »
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Briefly Profitable Litecoin mining via Amazon Cloud Services and clever coding
Litecoin is an alternative to Bitcoin (BTC) that is designed to reduce the comparative advantage of using custom ASICs (or GPUs) for mining it relative to using a conventional CPU. Its future is even...
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One new physics theory suggests no Big Bang and another suggests that the...
1. There is a theory called "rainbow gravity,". It posits that gravity's effects on spacetime are felt differently by different wavelengths of light.Rainbow gravity was first proposed 10 years ago as a...
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