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Escape Dynamics is putting together breakthroughs to enable single stage to...
Escape Dynamics is an advanced technology company focused on research of the next generation highly efficient aerospace vehicles powered with renewable electromagnetic energy. They recently presented...
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Help us Google you are only hope. Comcast says no promise prices “will go...
Arstechnica report that when Comcast announced its proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable, it said the merger would bring significant cost savings and efficiencies that would "ultimately benefit...
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Broad Group CEO Zhang Adamant that 200 story Skycity skyscraper will be built...
Zhang Yue is worth an estimated 1.1 billion yuan ($180 million) and has grandiose aspirations, the biggest of them to build an 838 metre tall tower he calls "Sky City" by the year's end.It is designed...
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Escape Dynamics and Microwave Power Beaming for Spacecraft Launching
There was a CNET article from 2010 on Escape Dynamics and their microwave power beaming approach to launching spacecraft single stage to orbitAccording to Kevin Parkin, who is an Escape Dynamics...
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Comcast fears Apple, Google, Amazon, Hulu and Netflix
MAshable points out that buried in page three of the "Public Benefits Summary" provided by Comcast to defend its bid for Time Warner Cable is a bullet point that illuminates the motives behind the deal...
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Gene identified which accounts for 0.5% of total variation in intelligence...
For the first time, scientists at King’s College London have identified a gene linking the thickness of the grey matter in the brain to intelligence. The study is published today in Molecular...
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Other intelligence and educational attainment related genes and the...
1. A study that is sensitive to rare variants which are implicated in schizophrenia risk has been completed. These rare variants add to the heritability already associated with common variants,...
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Iceland first nation with whole genome sequence
Researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of 2,500 people from Iceland. They have genotyped about 120,000 Icelanders with an Illumina chip. They can impute whole genome sequence down to variants...
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IBM Chip will help enable Internet speeds at 200 - 400 Gigabits per second...
IBM announced that it has achieved a new technological advancement that will help improve Internet speeds to 200 - 400 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) at extremely low power.The speed boost is based on a...
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BBC describes a rural pseudo-boarding school in China and Chinese citizens...
Providing an education for children in sparsely-populated rural areas is one of China's major challenges. While the economic and social development of these rural regions has been remarkable, China's...
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UAE, China build for larger energy future while US, UK, France tweak and...
Despite a still recovering economy, the US Energy Information Administration still forecasts a 28% increase in the demand for electricity through 2040. China already has 30% more electricity production...
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New Scientist Reviews and Puts China's Space Program in Perspective
China's lunar robotic rover was dismissed as a tragic "me too" exercise by a country lagging decades behind the world's leading space powers.This common reaction missed the point. Jade Rabbit's...
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Justifying and discussing optimism and pessmism about China
As often arises whenever Nextbigfuture has an article about China, there are various points brought out:1. Too many articles about China2. Too much optimism about China's prospects - some were too...
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Genome editing for curing sickle-cell anemia, HIV, and cystic fibrosis and...
Technology review reports on genome surgeryCRISPR is a new technology that could allow researchers to perform microsurgery on genes, precisely and easily changing a DNA sequence at exact locations on a...
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DNA Sequencing of IVF Embryos
Researchers are testing whether high-throughput DNA sequencing can help screen out abnormal embryos during in vitro fertilization. In a trial, researchers will use DNA sequencing to count the number of...
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Apple may look to acquire or partner with Elon Musk and Tesla
Adrian Perica is a very busy man. Over the past 18 months, the mergers and acquisitions chief at Apple has been scouring the globe looking for deals, snatching up everything from search engines and...
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India projected to get back above 5% in GDP growth while trying to control...
India forecast a faster acceleration in economic growth than analysts had estimated, a prediction facing risks from interest-rate increases to quell inflation and expenditure curbs by the...
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High dielectric constant enables Superconducting Meissner Transition at 77...
Superconductors.ORG reports high Tc has been advanced to 77 Celsius (170F, 350K) with the discovery of the compound Tl7Sn2Ba2MnCu10O20+. This exceedingly high transition temperature (Tc) was achieved...
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GE Could be selling magnetic refrigerators by 2020 that are 20-30% more...
GE researchers describe how they built their breakthrough magnetic refrigeration system. The technology, which is projected to be 20 percent more efficient than current refrigeration systems, could be...
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Underground coal gasification must also have carbon capture and storage
Trials of UCG (Underground Coal Gasification) under way globally from China to Queensland, and South Africa to Canada, the stakes are high. Not least for the atmosphere. Without a way to capture all...
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