Demand grows due to battle against effects of higher levels of air pollution China's dependency on imported natural gas is expected to surge almost 19 percent this year as the nation's battle against air pollution drives up demand for the ...
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Professor Deborah Gordon recently sent hundreds of ants to the orbiting International Space Station. By studying how the ants adjust their behavior to cope with near-zero gravity conditions, scientists could improve the algorithms ...
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Metso has received significant orders for its Neles and Jamesbury valves from Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara), a joint venture between Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) and The Dow Chemical Company. The valves will be delivered ...
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Remember the children's game "warmer/colder," where one person uses those words to guide the other person to a hidden toy or treat? Well, it turns out that chimpanzees can play, too. Researchers at Georgia State University's Language ...
China is targeting to raise its synthetic coal-to-gas output to 50 billion cubic meters by 2020, accounting for over 12% of domestic supply, an official with the National Energy Administration said Wednesday. But actual output may fall ...
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Scientists have developed an acoustic lens that produces pressure pulses that are so intense they're called "sound bullets." Although they are too high-pitched to be audible to the human ear, the sound bullets could have a variety of uses ...
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Vishay Sprague TM3 devices are optimized for input capacitor filters on DC / DC converters, hot plugging surges on battery chargers, low-drop-out devices, and capacitor chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. ...
Field networking, such as EtherCAT, POWERLINK, CANopen, and MECHATROLINK, are growing in popularity, replacing traditional motion control communications such as ±10 V, or pulse trains. In the diagram below, the left side represents ...
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China's annual crude oil and natural gas output will more than double the current amount by 2030, the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) forecast on Wednesday. Peng Qiming, head of the ministry's geological survey department, said at a ...
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Rai Saheb Rekhchand Mohota Spinning & Weaving Mills Ltd swung to profit in the quarter and half-year ended September 2013 on back of robust yarn demand from China and better sales realizations with sharp depreciation in rupee against US ...
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Geologic time is shorthand for slow-paced. But new measurements from steep mountaintops in New Zealand show that rock can transform into soil more than twice as fast as previously believed possible. The findings were published Jan. 16 in ...
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This week a new study published in Nature and co-authored by Drs. Chris Moore and Daniel Obrist of Nevada's Desert Research Institute establishes, for the first time, a link between Arctic sea ice dynamics and the region's changing ...
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After two years of difficult and meticulous work examining, refurbishing, and testing the aging workhorse watt balance called NIST-3, PML researchers have used the instrument to obtain their latest measured value of the Planck constant ...
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China's history making moon robots – the Chang'e-3 lander and Yutu rover – have just awoken from the forced slumber of survival during their first, long frigid lunar night and have now resumed full operations – marking a ...
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Bolefloor has introduced Curv8, modular natural curved-length flooring for the DIY channel. Bolefloor's new Nature's Fit technology has preserved the eight forms most true to the way they grew in nature. These eight patterns are derived ...
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