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Supercavitation projectiles potentially have 200,000 less drag than a regular...
Here is a summary of supercavitation an article from Caltech written in 2001.This relates to a recent report that chinese researchers have made progress overcoming a few of the problems for...
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DARPA aims to safely make engineered biological systems more robust and...
The development of increasingly sophisticated techniques and tools to sequence, synthesize and manipulate genetic material has led to the rapidly maturing discipline of synthetic biology. To date, work...
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DARPA 5 beyond GPS technologies for position, navigation and timing
As revolutionary as GPS has been, however, it has its limitations. GPS signals cannot be received underground or underwater and can be significantly degraded or unavailable during solar storms. More...
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Cruising at Mach 3 or a bit more with a supercativation submarine
What power is needed to get to mach 3 constant velocity for a supercativating submarine ? A Supercativating submarine could in theory achieve about 3600 miles per hour but powering the propulsion is a...
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New Cray GPU supercomputer will provide a petaflop of power in 4 Cabinets
[HPCWire] The new Cray CS-Storm, which offers up to 8 NVIDIA K40s per 2U server and a peak performance of 11 teraflops per Ivy Bridge-outfitted node, is set to push key applications that require more...
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US oil production again reaches a new post mid-1980s record
US total all liquids oil and crude oil daily production again reached new post mid-1980s peaks. Crude oil production was at 8.63 million barrels per day. It is about 320,000 barrels per day from...
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Undersea tunnels and high speed rail will bring people and freight to mostly...
Construction of an extraordinary underwater high-speed rail tunnel in China’s Bohai Strait is likely to start some time after 2016, Chinese media report.The proposed undersea link would stretch more...
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Google Lunar Xprize has big Milestones through October 2014 and for the grand...
To win the grand prize of the Google Lunar Xprize ($20 million), private teams (with no more than 10% in government funding) must:* Land a robot safely on the Moon* Move 500 meters on, above, or below...
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Neutral Particle Beam Magsails for fast interplanetary delivery of small cargos
At Centauri Dreams, James Benford looks more closely at particle beam driven magsails. He has found a problem for interstellar missions but promise for interplanetary missions and an interplanetary...
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IBM Watson Ushers in a New Era of Data-Driven Accelerated Science Discoveries...
IBM today announced significant advances in Watson's cognitive computing capabilities that are enabling researchers to accelerate the pace of scientific breakthroughs by discovering previously unknown...
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ARPA-E will provide $30 million for nuclear fusion research
ARPA-E is making up to $30 million in funding available (DE-FOA-0001184) for Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly (ALPHA)ALPHA seeks to support innovative R&D on low-cost tools to aid...
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Ukrainian president says 15000 russian soldiers have invaded
[Newsweek] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that Russian forces had been deployed in Ukrainian territory amid claims that around 15,000 Russian soldiers have been sent to the Donetsk...
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Google X reveals Project Wing its two year old drone package delivery program
[The Atlantic] For two years, Google has been working to build flying robot drone that can deliver products across a city in a minute or two. Project Wing is a secret drone program that’s been running...
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NASA research shows Hybrid-Electric Propulsion can Achieve 4 times Increase...
Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., are studying the concept of vertical takeoff and landing electric engine drones with models such as the unmanned aerial system GL-10 Greased...
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Nanoscale assembly line of biological molecules
ETH researchers have realised a long-held dream: inspired by an industrial assembly line, they have developed a nanoscale production line for the assembly of biological molecules.The creation of such...
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Soft long landing forecast for China's economy
[CNBC] Dan Steinbock, a research director of International Business at India China and America Institute (USA), visiting fellow at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China) and in the...
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India's 500 MW Fast Breeder Reactor should be commissioned in 2015 and other...
India's indigeneously built Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu is likely to be commissioned next year, Parliament was informed today. The 500 MW reactor which is part of the second stage...
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TVA within about 18 months of completing the Watts Bar 2 nuclear reactor
TVA officials say they are on pace to start operating the new Watts Bar reactor — the second at the power plant — in December 2015. That could make Watts Bar the nation's first new civilian nuclear...
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China's economy looking resilient during economic transition and should be...
Bloomberg Businessweek performed a review of the best available alternative numbers for China's economy. It reveals a story strikingly similar to that told by official statistics. Real estate is weak,...
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India's economy getting back on track with 5.7% GDP growth in first quarter
[Hindustan Times] The Indian economy expanded at its fastest pace in two-and-a-half years in the quarter ending June on the back of a turnaround in manufacturing as sentiment was boosted by the...
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