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Video shows Spacex did soft land the Falcon 9 first stage last week
Following last week's successful launch of six ORBCOMM satellites, the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage reentered Earth’s atmosphere and soft landed in the Atlantic Ocean. This test confirms that the...
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Russia will be building 1200 MWe fast neutron reactors as the core of its...
Russia plans to start construction of three BN-1200 sodium-cooled fast neutron reactors before 2030. OKBM Afrikantov has said it envisages about 11 GWe (9 of the 1200 MW plants) of such plants by 2030,...
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Genetically Modified mosquito swarms will be used on a commercial scale to...
Genetically modified mosquitoes will be raised on a commercial scale for the first time, in a bid to stem outbreaks of dengue fever in Brazil. But it is unclear how well it will work.Next week biotech...
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Carbon Nanotubes May Protect Electrodes for commercial version of Focus...
While LPPFusion’s research team expects to eliminate the major sources of electrode erosion, enough to get rid of significant impurities in the plasma, some erosion will still exist. It won’t be enough...
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Elon Musk says 500 mile range electric car will soon be possible
Elon Musk explains why the Tesla Model S has twice the range of the Nissan Leaf and why Tesla will soon have electric cars with 500 mile rangeTesla Electric cars have the highest energy density battery...
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Lasers make fiber optic tubes out of thin air and can be used for...
Milchberg and his lab report using an “air waveguide” to enhance light signals collected from distant sources. These air waveguides could have many applications, including long-range laser...
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BRICS countries are building about 75% of the worlds new nuclear reactors and...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced plans to establish a BRICS "energy association" that will include a fuel reserve bank and an energy policy institute. BRICS is a grouping of major...
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Wheat disease Powdery Mildew was stopped with gene editing
Researchers have created wheat that is resistant to a common disease, using advanced gene editing methods.Advanced genome-editing techniques have been used to create a strain of wheat resistant to a...
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Carnival of Space 363
The Carnival of Space 363 is up at Chandra X-ray Space telescope blogio9 Space - The current generation of telescopes have found hundreds of exoplanets. The next generation will find thousands....
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Safety approval for first Japanese reactor restarts
Sendai nuclear power plant units 1 and 2 have draft approval to restart and generate electricity again. The final stages in Japan's new licensing regime could be completed in October.The draft approval...
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Cameco still on track for over 8000 tons of uranium production in 2018
A temporary halt to jet boring at Cameco's Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan has forced the company to revise its ore production target date (from late 2014 into early 2015). Cameco's...
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Carnival of Space 364
The Carnival of Space 364 is up at Photos to spaceUniverse Today - The winged Dream Chaser mini-shuttle under development by Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has successfully completed a series of risk...
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Home Depot to sell 3D printers
Home Depot has signed an agreement with 3D printer company MakerBot to sell its line of Replicator machines. The consumer-grade, desktop MakerBot Replicator 3D printers will initially be part of a...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 219
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 219 is up at Hiroshima SyndromeJim Conca at Forbes - Nuclear-Renewable Mix Is Just What The EPA OrderedThe not-for-profit Energy Northwest in WA State is exactly what the...
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Telsa Motors prepares factory for Model X SUV and better batteries for the...
Tesla Motors has a backlog of customers waiting for its Model S sedan. Tesla has ceased production at its assembly plant becauase they are retooling the car factory for the forthcoming launch of its...
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US provided $121 billion in mostly military aid to Israel and $25 billion to...
Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $121 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in...
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Israel plans a longer campaign to find and destroy Gaza tunnel network
Signaling an escalation of Israel's Gaza operation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis Monday to be ready for a "prolonged" war. After three weeks of bloodshed, both Israel and Hamas are...
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Turned off google video display ads
I generally do not have sound turned on but I was made aware of loud ads.Also, there was one complaint of malware.I have adjusted settings and contacted the ad network providers to try to prevent these...
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China real estate market correcting but not imploding
Wall Street Journal - Will China's property bubble trigger a financial crisis? Concern is high this year thanks to deteriorating sales figures and reports of large price cuts. But China really is...
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