Using one of the world's premier telescopes, University of Minnesota astrophysicists Evan Skillman and Kristen McQuinn have discovered a priceless relic of the Big Bang in the Milky Way's back yard. They are part of an international team ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
How would you advise a $100-billion venture capital fund to spend its money on preventing dangerous levels of global warming over the next 100 years? Climate experts recently chose distributed renewable energy, energy efficiency, and ...
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Advanced Accelerator Applications ("AAA" or "the Company"), a fast growing international specialist in Molecular Nuclear Medicine (MNM), announced today that it had successfully completed a capital increase of €41 million. This ...
More than 99.9% of the mass of any atom is concentrated into a quadrillionth of its volume, the part occupied by the nucleus. Unimaginably small, dense and energetic, atomic nuclei are governed by laws quite distinct from those that ...
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Government incentives for a pair of proposed nuclear reactors could cost U.K. taxpayers as much as £17.62 billion, thus exceeding the reactors' projected cost. The EC figure is a preliminary estimate included in an initial report to ...
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In the past half century, power plants in the United States have made considerable strides in water use, but there is still a long way to go, according to new figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). More than 70 ...
The 2013 edition was the most successful in the show's 38 year history with more than 18,000 visitors. Middle East Electricity 2014 aims to be even bigger and better. Compare thousands of suppliers, products and services under one ...
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The US has temporarily lifted sanctions on 14 major Iranian petrochemical companies, following the implementation of the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) on January 20. Iran and the P5+1 consisting of US, Russia, UK, France and China Plus ...
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Diamonds may be a girl's best friend,but they could also one day help us understand how the brain processes information,thanks to a new sensing technique developed at MIT. A team in MIT's Quantum Engineering Group has developed a new ...
The exploration of shale gas is a revolution, and is changing global energy picture, chief economist of the International Energy Agency Fatih Birol said in a recent interview with Xinhua. Birol said several major changes were seen in ...
Japan's direct-burning crude oil demand for power generation has picked up since late December as a cold spell across the country has increased appetite for loadings into March in the absence of nuclear output, industry and trading sources ...
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DNV GL has released a position paper on the future alternative fuel mix for global shipping. While LNG is expected to be an early success, the picture becomes more diversified with time, as more than 20 per cent of shipping could adopt ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a bold initiative this week calling on tech giants and Western powers to band together to protect the world from cyber-attacks, vowing to relax export restrictions normally placed on ...
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Photo: Scott Stephenson King Under The Mountain: In the PandaX experiment, a vat of liquid xenon is stored beneath hundreds of meters of rock. With luck, the isolation will keep things quiet enough to sense signs of dark matter. In the ...
Tags: WIMPs, PandaX, Dark-Matter, LUX
China is expected to continue increasing energy efficiency this year, resulting in muted growth in oil and coal consumption, according to new projections unveiled by the National Energy Administration on Friday. Total energy consumption ...
Tags: NEA, Five-Year Plan, coal-to-gas production, FYP