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Afghanistan quake deadliest in decades, killing over 2,200
Sudan rescuers pull 370 bodies from Darfur landslide Rain adds to misery of Afghan quake survivors Searchers retrieve bodies as Afghan quake toll expected to rise Days after quake, Afghan survivors still await aid Mexico tourist zone braces for Hurricane Lorena UN refugee chief urges Pakistan to pause Afghan expulsions after quake Sudan recovers 270 bodies after Darfur landslide: rebel group Thousands of Afghans expelled from Pakistan despite quake Homeless and fearful, Afghan quake survivors sleep in the open |
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  Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Feb 08, 2017 People with higher incomes and better education no longer dominate demand for the domestic solar market in Queensland with a new QUT study revealing the highest uptake in solar PV systems comes from families on medium to lower incomes. Over the past decade the profile of Queenslanders acquiring solar PV has changed significantly based on a study by QUT Dr Jeff Sommerfeld investigating the factors influencing solar PV uptake. Dr Sommerfeld, from QUT's Creative Industries Faculty School of Des ... read more |
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NREL research pinpoints promise of polycrystalline perovskitesA team of scientists from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) determined that surface recombination limits the performance of polycrystalline perovskite solar cells. ... more 
Material can turn sunlight, heat and movement into electricityMany forms of energy surround you: sunlight, the heat in your room and even your own movements. All that energy - normally wasted - can potentially help power your portable and wearable gadgets, fro ... more 
NRDC: States should lead low-carbon economyIt may be up to the governments of U.S. states to take the lead in the effort to advance a low-carbon economy, the Natural Resources Defense Council said. ... more 
Academics build ultimate solar-powered water purifierYou've seen Bear Grylls turn foul water into drinking water with little more than sunlight and plastic. Now, academics have added a third element - carbon-dipped paper - that may turn this survival ... more |
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Storing solar power increases energy consumption and emissionsHomes with solar panels do not require on-site storage to reap the biggest economic and environmental benefits of solar energy, according to research from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The U ... more 
Saudi Arabia takes low-carbon energy approachFrench energy company ENGIE said it was making progress on its efforts to advance its low carbon portfolio with a new contract in Saudi Arabia. ... more 
Eltek to provide solar energy for hospitals in Zimbabwe under UNDP programmeEltek has announced a contract with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide complete photovoltaic solar solutions for 104 hospitals in Zimbabwe. Eltek will provide full delivery ... more 
Renewables can't deliver Paris climate goals: studyExpansion of renewable energy cannot by itself stave off catastrophic climate change, scientists warned Monday. ... more  
Earth's orbital variations and sea ice synch glacial periodsEarth is currently in what climatologists call an interglacial period, a warm pulse between long, cold ice ages when glaciers dominate our planet's higher latitudes. For the past million years, thes ... more 
100 percent renewable energy sources require overcapacityGermany decided to go nuclear-free by 2022. A CO2-emission-free electricity supply system based on intermittent sources, such as wind and solar - or photovoltaic (PV) - power could replace nuclear p ... more |
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 New class of materials could revolutionize biomedical, alternative energy industries 
France issues first 'green bonds' with record 7 bln euro saleFrance has issued its first "green bonds" with a record seven billion euro ($7.5 billion) sale, paving the way for the establishment of a genuine market in renewable energy bonds. ... more 
Arctic melt ponds form when meltwater clogs ice poresWhen spring comes to the Arctic, the breakup of the cold winter ice sheets starts at the surface with the formation of melt ponds. These pools of melted snow and ice darken the surface of the ice, i ... more 
Capital One invests big in SolarReserve's Crescent Dunes solar energy projectLeading investors around the world are looking for innovative companies and technologies that are part of the clean energy revolution, recognizing the tremendous economic and job creation opportunit ... more
Xinhua: U.S. wasting opportunity in clean energyDecoupling the U.S. economy from the renewable energy sector might not work as designed, a column in China's official Xinhua News Agency read. ... more |
  
Scientists have long known of the potential of microalgae to aid in the production of biofuels and other valuable chemicals. However, the difficulty and significant cost of growing microalgae have in some ways stalled further development of this promising technology. Bendy Estime, a biomedical and chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate, has devoted his research to this area, and developed a new te ... more DuPont Industrial Biosciences to develop new high-efficiency biogas enzyme method Cathay Pacific to cut emissions with switch to biofuel Populus dataset holds promise for biofuels, materials, metabolites |
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It's a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with anxiety or conditions such as Asperger's, this can make social situations extremely stressful. But what if there was a more objective way to measure and understand our interactions?
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Institute o ... more 500 years of robots go on show in London Transparent gel-based robots can catch and release live fish New wave of robots set to deliver the goods |
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Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has secured a Pounds 27 million contract with East Anglia One Limited to supply and install the land cable connection for the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. Comprising of 102 turbines, the Pounds 2.5 billion wind farm will generate sufficient electricity to power 500,000 homes.
The contract involves the ... more Russia's nuclear giant pushes into wind energy The power of wind energy and how to use it Largest US offshore wind farm gets green light |
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Unlock them with an app, drop them off anywhere, and nip past lanes of stationary car traffic: the humble bicycle is seeing a revival in China as a new generation of start-ups help tackle urban congestion and pollution with fleets of brightly coloured two wheelers.
The bike-share concept has attracted huge venture capital as fledgling firms wrestle for market share. Such has been the success ... more Luxembourg prosecutes unknown person in VW scandal Chinese, Mexican automakers team up to make SUVsDieselgate drags on for VW and Bosch with new payouts |
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Superconductivity, where electrical currents course unhindered through a material, is one of modern physics' most intriguing scientific discoveries. It has many practical uses. Governments, industries, and health care and science centers all make use of superconductivity in applications extending from MRIs in hospitals to the cavities of particle accelerators, where scientists explore the fundam ... more Building a better microbial fuel cell - using paper How to recycle lithium batteries Researchers flip script for Li-Ion electrolytes to simulate better batteries |
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  Iran will receive the final part of a 149-tonne shipment of uranium from Russia as part of its nuclear deal with world powers, it was announced on Monday.
"The first shipment arrived on January 26 by plane and the last will arrive tomorrow, Tuesday," said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, according to Fars news agency.
Under the nuclear deal signed with world p ... more France's Areva picks up Japanese investors Three new uranium minerals from Utah Russia 'ready' to entirely fund Hungary nuclear plant |
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Without a significant effort to reduce greenhouse gases, including an accelerated deployment of technologies for capturing atmospheric carbon and storing it underground, and sustained growth in renewables such as wind and solar, the world could miss a key global temperature target set by the Paris Agreement and the long-term goal of net-zero climate pollution.
The finding, published in the ... more Electricity costs: A new way they'll surge in a warming worldClimate change may overload US electrical grid: study Nordic countries are bringing about an energy transition worth copying |
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Over the past three years, Honduras has lost a quarter of its pine forests to a plague of bark-munching beetles.
Now though, after a long campaign that saw soldiers wielding chainsaws to contain the bug invasion, a little green is growing back.
In mountains north of the capital that were stripped bare, trees replanted by students from the National University's forest sciences department ... more Amazon forest was transformed by ancient people: study Coastal wetlands excel at storing carbon Wetlands play vital role in carbon storage, study finds |
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Cosmologists trying to understand how to unite the two pillars of modern science - quantum physics and gravity - have found a new way to make robust predictions about the effect of quantum fluctuations on primordial density waves, ripples in the fabric of space and time.
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have revealed quantum imprints left on cosmological structures in the very ... more China to set up gravitational wave telescopes in Tibet MIT researchers reveal new technique for measuring gravity A population of neutron stars can generate gravitational waves continuously |
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Griffith's Professor Geoff Pryde, who led the project, says that such processes could be simulated using a "quantum hard drive", much smaller than the memory required for conventional simulations.
"Stephen Hawking once stated that the 21st century is the 'century of complexity', as many of today's most pressing problems, such as understanding climate change or designing transportation syst ... more First ever blueprint unveiled to construct a large scale quantum computer Germanium outperforms silicon in energy efficient transistors with n- und p- conduction Towards new IT devices with stable and transformable solitons |
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The Philippine environment minister's move to close some two dozen mines sparked concern Sunday among two of her colleagues, who said it could hit the economy and employment.
The mining industry - accused of illegal tree felling and polluting rivers - has also questioned the order of Environment Secretary Gina Lopez.
The Philippines is the world's top supplier of nickel ore and the mai ... morePhilippines closes 23 mines over damage to environment Coal ash selenium found in fish in NC lakes Hungary court orders retrial over 2010 toxic spill |
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  The mysterious case of a billionaire who went missing from Hong Kong last week, reportedly abducted by mainland security agents, has underscored the precarious lives of China's ultra rich.
Local media say financier Xiao Jianhua was last seen at his apartment in Hong Kong's Four Seasons hotel and is under investigation in connection with China's 2015 stocks crash.
There is no shortage of ... more Missing Chinese billionaire targeted over stocks crash: report 'Abduction' of China tycoon sparks fear in Hong KongHong Kong leadership favourite testifies in corruption trial |
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Few scenes capture the U.S. Navy's prowess as effectively as the rapid-fire takeoff and recovery of combat jets from the deck of an aircraft carrier. The ability to carry air power anywhere in the world, and both launch those aircraft to flight speed and bring them to a stop over extremely short distances, has been essential to carriers' decades-long dominance of naval warfare.
To help pro ... more U.S. Army orders counter-drone systems Unmanned Underwater Vehicle turns into Unmanned Aerial Vehicle DARPA demonstrates SideArm UAS capture system |
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A solar satellite with a deep space mission to capture the most spectacular images ever taken of the Sun will be cooled by technology pioneered by a North East England-based firm.
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter will use k-Core Annealed Pyrolytic Graphite technology (APG) designed and manufactured by Aavid Thermacore Europe Ltd. Aavid Thermacore's technology will keep instruments ... more Scientists discover helium chemistry New beam pattern yields more precise radar, ultrasound imaging Anatomy of a debris incident |
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Britain's Ministry of Defense has awarded MBDA and other industry partners a $36 million contract to produce a Laser Directed Energy Weapon demonstrator.
The contract, which aims to allow Britain's first laser weapon to enter service by the mid-2020s, will task contractors to assess the technology's capabilities. Project leaders hope to demonstrate the system in 2019.
"The U.K. h ... more U.S. Air Force issues RFP for aircraft laser weaponsNorthrop Grumman to develop next-gen fighter laser system UK to start laser gun program |
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Barely wider than a strand of human DNA, magnetic nanoparticles - such as those made from iron and platinum atoms - are promising materials for next-generation recording and storage devices like hard drives. Building these devices from nanoparticles should increase storage capacity and density, but understanding how magnetism works at the level of individual atoms is critical to getting the best ... more Scientists determine precise 3-D location 23,000 atoms in a nanoparticle 1,000 times more efficient nano-LED opens door to faster microchips Three magnetic states for each hole |
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