China Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province going through audit...
A court in Guangzhou ruled that the Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province -- China’s most populous -- must disclose the specifics of its own accounting data within 15 days.Across China an...
View ArticleTerrestrial Energy successfully closed its final seed round of financing
Terrestrial Energy (TIEs) has the objective of commercializing its proprietary Molten Salt Reactor technology in Canada by 2021. Molten Salt Reactor technology represents a revolution in nuclear...
View ArticleThe USA has the poorest people in the world
Nextbigfuture had pointed out that the bottom 720 million people in the world each have negative net worth.The US has 7.5% of the bottom decile, but has only 0.21% of the second decile and 0.16% of the...
View ArticleLooking at indebted Americans and negative net worth
One of the many analysis of wealth distribution is a study by the Congressional Research Service - An Analysis of the Distribution of Wealth Across Households, 1989-2010Political calculations has a...
View ArticleSynthesizing graphene without damaging its electric and mechanical properties...
Working with Sungkyungkwan University’s School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) has uncovered a new method of synthesising graphene...
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The Atlas humanoid robot, unveiled last year by Boston Dynamics, a company later acquired by Google, is a marvel. It can clamber over rubble and operate power tools. But these abilities don’t come...
View ArticleNigeria updating statistics from 1990 to 2010 will correct GDP statistics and...
Nigeria is to "rebase" its gross domestic product (GDP) on Sunday 6 April, which should push it above South Africa as the continent's biggest economy. The United Nations defines rebasing as the...
View ArticleLatest household credit and debt statistics for the USA
The New York Federal Reserve released its quarterly report on US household credit and debt for Q4 2013Delinquency rates improved for most loan types in 2013Q4. As of December 31, 7.1% of outstanding...
View ArticleCarnival of Space 348
The Carnival of Space 348 is up at AartscopeMeridiani Journal - The sea of Enceladus: Cassini confirms underground ocean on Saturn’s geyser moonResearchers have discovered a deep saltwater ocean on one...
View ArticleEnceladus is the most habitable place in the solar system after Earth
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is emerging as the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it. "It has liquid water, organic carbon, nitrogen [in the form of ammonia], and...
View ArticleUS, China, India and World GDP growth forecasts from CITI to 2018
The Citi "Global Economic Outlook and Strategy" report is out with forecasts out to 2018The economists expect the global economy to expand by 3.1% this year and by 3.4% in 2015US GDP Growth...
View ArticleBarrier Overcome to Growing Organs from Stem Cells by Proving Control of...
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have overcome one of the greatest challenges in biology and taken a major step toward being able to grow whole organs and tissues from stem...
View ArticleIn India Modi Campaigns on a platform of better Infrastructure and better...
India is holding voting for an election which will take 5 weeks to complete. Elections in India are held every 5 years. The ruling United Progressive Alliance, a coalition led by the Congress Party,...
View ArticleSeparatist Parti Québécois projected to lose. Quebec Liberals likely to win...
Threehundredeight.com project Philippe Couillard's Quebec Liberal Party is on track to win tonight's provincial election in Quebec and form a new government. Pauline Marois's Parti Québécois should...
View ArticleDonetsk shaping up to be the next stage of Russia's move into Ukraine
In Donetsk, a large industrial city in Ukraine's east, pro-Russian protesters stormed the regional legislature and, according to reports in Russian media, declared the city "Donetsk People’s Republic"...
View ArticleKickstarter project introduces the first $300 fully-assembled 3d printer
A Maryland startup company has officially unveiled a fully assembled 3d printer for less than $300. The kickstarter project has already garnered over $445,000 in its first day. The company, called M3D,...
View ArticleCarnival of Nuclear Bloggers #203
The Carnival of Nuclear Bloggers #203 is up at Thorium MSRForbes - Fossil Fuels Still Rule But Don’t Worry – We Have Plenty Of Uranium The 2014 Annual Report of the AAPG Energy Minerals Division...
View ArticleThinner wire substrate for higher current density next generation...
Superpower Inc (a subsidiary of Furukawa Electric Company) announcee the addition of a 30 micron substrate thickness option to our standard offerings of 50 and 100 micron substrate second-generation...
View ArticleSuccessful Development of a High-Temperature Superconducting Magnet for...
The Railway Technical Research Institute (hereinafter called "RTRI") and Furukawa Electric have been the first in the world to succeed at the development of a high-temperature superconducting magnet...
View ArticleMore Support for Room Temperature Superconductivity with measured reduction...
In 2011 Superconductors.ORG discovered that background thermal noise in a bulk material that contains a low-volume-fraction (VF) superconductor diminishes as it cools below Tc. Now, an examination of...
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