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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 193
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 193 is up at he Hiroshima SyndromeHiroshima Syndrome summarized all the issues around the Fukukshim unit 4 spent fuel poolsAs said earlier, the typical worst-case...
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More details about Skyscraper water spraying to mitigate air pollution
Nextbigfuture covered the concept of spraying water from skyscrapers to reduce air pollution in cities in China.Spraying water from skyscrapers could help to reduce the concentration of PM2.5 pollution...
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For Tax Avoidance China has a lot of hidden consumption which would mean the...
Data released this week showed that the mainland economy grew 7.7 per cent last year, suggesting that the imbalance is worsening, with consumption unchanged at just under 50 per cent of gross domestic...
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Google Acquires Artificial-Intelligence Company DeepMind
Google has acquired artificial-intelligence company DeepMind Technologies Ltd. The tech website Recode reported that Google paid $400 million for the startup based in London. DeepMind describes itself...
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Carnival of Space 338
The Carnival of Space 338 is up at Urban AstronomerUniverse Today - Herschel Discovers Water Vapor Spewing from CeresThe Herschel space observatory has discovered water vapor around Ceres, and the...
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China is expanding rain from cloud seeding from 55 billion tons per year to...
China is now the most trigger-happy cloud-seeder in the world. In 2011, China spent $150 million on a single regional artificial rain program; it’s unclear how much other local governments spend. The...
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Going Beyond the Carnot Limit with a quantum Otto engine
Researchers have shown that the effi ciency at maximum power of a quantum Otto engine can be dramatically enhanced by coupling it to a squeezed thermal reservoir. While standard heat engines interact...
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First pre-birth genetic modification could be approved soon in the UK to...
Forbes reports that at some point between now and July, 2014, the UK parliament is likely to vote on whether a new form of in vitro fertilization (IVF)—involving DNA from three parents—becomes legally...
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China, South Korea, United States and Europe making big bets on mass produced...
China has started mass production of graphene films used in production of cell phone and computer touch screens as a new production line began operation. The production line is in a graphene industrial...
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Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Nuclear Aneutronic Fusion 2014 Project Report
In 2014, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) will carry out our first crowdfunding campaign this spring. Given adequate funding and supplier timeliness, LPP will start experiments in May with the...
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Russia Is Losing Sources of Economic Growth and like Brazil and India has...
Anders Aslund of the Peterson Institute for International Economics has written about the problems that Russia has generating economic growthThe annual Gaidar Forum, held last week in Moscow, is a good...
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JILA strontium next generation atomic clock is 50% more precise than old...
The JILA strontium lattice clock is about 50 percent more precise than the record holder of the past few years, NIST’s quantum logic clock. Precision refers to how closely the clock approaches the true...
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China's State Enterprises have a long way to go to follow the Commercial...
This is an analysis from Ryan Rutkowski of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.Singapore's Temasek was committed to selling underperforming state-owned assets, and even investing in...
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Combat Lasers will be tested at sea this yaer and Railguns in 2016 for Future...
Military.com reports that the US Navy is in the early phases of starting research to determine what kind of hull, ship defenses, propulsion technology and weapons systems will be engineered for a new...
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Roads and Highways will help lift Africa out of Poverty
The Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa plan is to expand the existing, 10,000 kilometre-long network of major roads to between 60,000 and 100,000 km – either by upgrading existing poor...
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Controversial Blacklight Power reportedly did their demonstation but their...
E-catworld reports one of their commenters stopped by (Blacklight Power) BLP around midday today the 28th. The demo was going on, my contact said it was going well. No press vehicles in parking lot,...
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Panasonic plans to make 1000 exoskeleton suits in 2015 that look like the...
Yahoo Japan via Japancrush reports that the first affordable, mass-produced robotic exoskeleton will be on sale next year from Panasonic. For 500,000 yen, or slightly under $5,000, this full-body power...
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Simple acid bath can turn blood cells into the best kind of stem cell which...
Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now be made quickly just by dipping blood cells into acid. Stem cell technology cheaper, faster and safer.Stem cells can transform into any tissue and are...
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Finding the locations of water on the moon in 2018
The Resource Prospector is a mission to prospect for lunar volatiles at one of the two lunar poles, as well as demonstrate In-Situ Resource Utilization on the Moon. Resource Prospector consists of a...
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South Korea will start building to APR1400 reactors this year and China is...
Two new reactors have been approved to start construction in South Korea this year. Nuclear will continue its strong growth in the country, albeit under a less ambitious energy policy.They plan to...
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