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Argentina and Russia starting up nuclear reactors in 2014 and Russia has $100...
1. Argentina's newest nuclear power reactor, Atucha 2, is expected to reach criticality and be connected to the grid within sixty days. It is a 745 MWe pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) with...
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Cornell Researchers estimate 100 million planets able to support complex life...
There are some 100 million other places in the Milky Way galaxy that could support complex life, report a group of university astronomers in the journal Challenges. They have developed a new...
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Graphene Nanoplatelets double the tensile strength of epoxy composites
Haydale, a developer of a unique plasma functionalization process for nanomaterials, has announced the publication of research showing its functionalized graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) significantly...
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Elon Musk and Tesla may do something fairly controversial with their electric...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in expressing surprise other automakers haven't made big commitments to electric cars, said Tuesday he's thinking of doing something "fairly controversial" regarding the company's...
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Foreground cosmic dust negates the BiCEP2 gravitational wave result and...
When a team of cosmologists announced at a press conference in March that they had detected gravitational waves generated in the first instants after the Big Bang, the origins of the Universe were once...
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Nissan To Launch Plug-In Hybrids by 2016 and all major carmakers are focused...
Plug-in hybrids will clearly be all the rage among carmakers for the next couple of years. While the number of high-volume battery-electric vehicles today can be counted on one hand--BMW i3, Nissan...
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Exosuit dives to 300 meters and is basically a wearable submarine
The Exosuit, a next-generation atmospheric diving system that will allow divers to explore marine environments at a depth of 1,000 feet, is going on public display for the first time from February 27...
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Ukraine vs Russia is a battle of top ten arms exporters and will determine...
Russia was the 2nd largest arms exporter for the period 2008-2012, accounting for 26% of world deliveries and Ukraine was the 9th largest exporter with 2% of world deliveries.Pro-russian forces with...
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Graphics related possible paths to Radical Life Extension
A series of infographics has been released this month by the design firm Art Lebedev. They lay out the possible end of death or at least radically longer lives along seven broad lines of research.Again...
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Extreme Regenerative Medicine
A recent infographic looking at radical life extension mentioned head/body transplants.Nextbigfuture has looked at that in detail.Surgical Neurological International - HEAVEN: The head anastomosis...
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Liver cancer vaccine effective in mice
Tweaking a protein expressed by most liver cancer cells has enabled scientists to make a vaccine that is exceedingly (90%) effective at preventing the disease in mice.Alpha-Fetoprotein, or AFP –...
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Drugs reveals cancer tumors to the immune system and drastically increases...
The drug nivolumab stops tumors from camouflaging themselves from the immune system appears to significantly boost survival rates in people with a form of lung cancer that is almost incurable unless...
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Softbank $2000 Companion robot for 2015 will test many social issues such as...
Japanese firm Softbank has unveiled a robot called Pepper, which it says can read human emotions.It uses an "emotional engine" and a cloud-based artificial intelligence system that allows it to analyse...
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Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography hopes for hitting 10 nanometer node in 2016...
The latest extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems are making about 28 wafers per hour or 100 wafers per day with a 40 W light source in pilot tests. The progress is significant but falls far...
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China and Russia plan a nuclear energy future - Six new nuclear reactors per...
The Chinese government has said many times since the end of 2013 that it will build more nuclear power plants in the coastal areas of eastern China without compromising the region's safety.On May 16,...
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DARPA has demonstrated Gekko-like wall crawling
DARPA’s Z-Man program has demonstrated the first known human climbing of a glass wall using climbing devices inspired by geckos. The historic ascent involved a 218-pound climber ascending and...
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Efficient room temperature polariton laser could advance intrachip and...
University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a new, practical and potentially more efficient way to make a coherent laser-like beam using polaritons. This is the first room-temperature...
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There is no evidence for poverty or middle income traps and development...
Country income classifications, with their division intolow ( less than $1,036), middle ($1,036–$12,625), and high ( over $12,625) are arbitrary. $1.25 and $2 poverty lines are also arbitrary.1. There...
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Please take the time to upvote a Reddit article promoting LPP Fusion
Upvote a trending Futurology reddit posting that is promoting the Indiegogo campaign for LPP Fusion. They pointed out that the glass covered solar roadway does not make sense and has raised almost...
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Google internet satellites, balloons and drones will make help those in the...
Google plans to launch 180 satellites could provide significant competition in the developing world and rural areas. Google also still plans to deploy stratospheric balloons and long duration drones to...
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