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Will the 700 year Age of the Gun give way to drones or something else ?
Noah Smith at Quartz makes that the following points* there has been 700 years where the gun has dominated the battlefield* infrantrymen displaced the archer* archers required people with more...
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China reveals more details of its urbanization plan and Hukou reform
China is targeting having 60 percent of the population in urban areas by 2020, according to the plan. That compares with 53.7 percent in 2013 and about 50 percent in 2010. The U.S. proportion was 82...
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China expands yuan trading range to 2% and plans to float deposit interest...
Starting Monday, the yuan will be able to trade as much as 2% on either side of what is known as the parity rate, a daily peg for trading of the yuan against the U.S. dollar that is set by the central...
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MIT researchers have discovered proteins involved in cancer metastasis
About 90 percent of cancer deaths are caused by tumors that have spread from their original locations. This process, known as metastasis, requires cancer cells to break loose from their neighbors and...
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Nanobionic plants with nanomaterial enhancement
A team of MIT researchers wants to make plants even more useful by augmenting them with nanomaterials that could enhance their energy production and give them completely new functions, such as...
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Superconducting Breakthrough Critical Current Density ten times higher - High...
MagLab researchers have invented a groundbreaking new way to process Bi-2212 — one that makes it far more useful for building high-powered magnets including very high-field NMR magnets, a Muon...
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Researchers announced that Big Bang Gravity Waves may have been detected and...
Caltech has the BICEP telescope (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization). BICEP2 is an experiment designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to...
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More delays to EUV lithography and 450 mm wafers put Moore's law at risk
Moore's law is in trouble.EUV lithography has been delayedEUV lithography is needed to make 450 mm wafer economical.For decades, semiconductor engineers have come to broad agreement about which...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 200
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 200 is up at Atomic Power ReviewAtomic Insights - Doses of radiation that are lower than about 700 mGy/yr (The same dose can be expressed as 700 mSv/yr, 70 rad/yr, or 70...
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Direct drive nuclear fusion propulsion
We covered Princeton Satellite Systems nuclear fusion space propulsion work last year. Here is some new work and designs.A paper explores the use of a rocket engine based on nuclear fusion to...
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Two Sendai nuclear reactors placed on priority screening list for reactor...
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) placed two reactors operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co on a list for priority screening at a meeting of officials reviewing restart applications.Kyushu...
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Room Temperature graphene light detector could enable contacts for seeing...
The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens.Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared detectors...
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A Simple Explanation for Malaysia Air flight was electrical fire and crew was...
Wired has a simple explanation for flight MH370There has been a lot of speculation about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Terrorism, hijacking, meteors. I cannot believe the analysis on CNN; it’s almost...
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Nextbigfuture is still optimistic about faster computers in the future
I think computers will still get a lot better, but the next few years could go off the rails temporarily if what the industry was counting on doing does not happen. The other options may not be ready...
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Distinguishing Classical and Quantum Models for the D-Wave Device
There is more research into the Dwave Systems quantum annealing adiabatic system (503 qubit version). Researchers from UCL (University College of London) and USC (University of Southern California)...
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Microbes and Metabolites sequenced for Venter's Anti-aging company Human...
Craig Venter’s new company wants to improve human longevity by creating the world’s largest, most comprehensive database of genetic and physiological information. Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) is a...
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China pledges that 60 percent of cities will meet national air quality...
China pledged on Sunday that it will make sure that 60 percent of its cities meet national pollution standards by 2020, with pressure growing to make cities liveable as hundreds of millions of migrants...
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DARPA VTOL X-Plane Program Plans to Make Helicopter like Vehicles that are a...
DARPA has picked four companies to design new aircraft to revolutionize vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight capabilities.For generations, new designs for vertical takeoff and landing aircraft...
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Inflation adjusted historical trillionaires and multi-trillion dollar...
Apple is currently the most valuable publicly traded company at about $474 billion. Exxon and Google follow at about $405 billion.Apple had reached a peak of about $625 billion two years ago. Apple...
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China targets new molten salt thorium nuclear reactors by 2024 with war-like...
The deadline to develop a new design for thorium nuclear power plants has been brought forward by 15 years as the central government tries to reduce the nation's reliance on smog-producing coal-fired...
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