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| January 20, 2014 |
 Germany eyes swift cuts in renewable energy subsidies Berlin (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Germany's new energy minister has outlined cuts in subsidies to producers of renewable energy as the country wrestles with soaring costs from its nuclear power exit, according to a document obtained by AFP Sunday. Opposition MPs and the solar energy sector have already criticised the reforms due to be discussed by conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's new "grand coalition" cabinet with the ... more |  |
 UAE's Etihad demonstrates flight with biofuel mix Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Etihad Airways said Sunday it has flown a Boeing 777 plane on a 45-minute demonstration flight powered in part by biofuel developed in collaboration with French firm Total. The Abu Dhabi-based carrier has teamed up with Total, US-manufacturer Boeing, local refiner Takreer, and Masdar research institute in an initiative "to support a sustainable aviation biofuel industry in the United Arab Em ... more |  |
 Ladies And Gentlemen, Boot Your Robots! Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 20, 2014 - Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., was the place to be late last month for an unusual two-day competition: the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. But if you went expecting high-octane cars zooming around the track at blazing speed, you might have been disappointed. The 16 robots participating in the challenge moved more like the tortoise than the hare, as they performed such tasks as opening ... more |  |
 Molecular nano-spies to make light work of disease detection London, UK (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - A world of cloak-and-dagger pharmaceuticals has come a step closer with the development of stealth compounds programmed to spring into action when they receive the signal. Researchers at the University of Nottingham's School of Pharmacy have designed and tested large molecular complexes that will reveal their true identity only when they've reached their intended target, like disguised sab ... more |  |
 What makes superalloys super - hierarchical microstructure of a superalloy Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Researchers have observed for the first time in detail how a hierarchical microstructure develops during heat treatment of a superalloy Materials in high-performance turbines have to withstand not only powerful mechanical forces, they also have to maintain their chemical and mechanical properties almost up to their melting points. For this reason, turbine manufacturers have employed specia ... more |  |
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 Hugging hemes help electrons hop Richland WA (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Researchers simulating how certain bacteria run electrical current through tiny molecular wires have discovered a secret Nature uses for electron travel. The results are key to understanding how the bacteria do chemistry in the ground, and will help researchers use them in microbial fuel cells, batteries, or for turning waste into electricity. Within the bacteria's protein-based wire, mole ... more |  |
 Global warming's biggest offenders Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - When it comes to global warming, there are seven big contributors: the United States, China, Russia, Brazil, India, Germany and the United Kingdom. A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals that these countries were collectively responsible for more than 60 per cent of pre-2005 global warming. Uniquely, it also assigns a temperature change value to each country that reflect ... more |  |
EU could cut emissions by 40 percent at moderate cost Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - This is a key finding from an international multi-model analysis by the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF28) and comes at a crucial time, as the European Commission is set to announce next week its plans whether to scale up its efforts on emissions reduction in the next decade. However, beyond 2040, according to the scientists the costs risk to rise substantially. Technological innovation woul ... more |  |
CCNY Team Models Sudden Thickening of Complex Fluids New York NY (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - A new model by a team of researchers with The City College of New York's Benjamin Levich Institute may shed new understanding on the phenomenon known as discontinuous shear thickening (DST), in which the resistance to stirring takes a sudden jump. Easily observed in a 'kitchen experiment' by mixing together equal amounts of cornstarch and water, DST occurs because concentrated suspensions of har ... more |  |
From Crime Fighting to Methane Lakes: Designing Robots for Earth and Space Cleveland OH (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - In a remote corner of the Cleveland Police Museum, a famous robot languished gathering dust. In its glory days, this robot was part of the fight in the 1970s against Mafia domination in Cleveland. As the bombing capital of the country at the time, the robot known as Leroy was a crime-fighting superstar, taking dozens of unexploded bombs away from neighborhood targets and depositing them in ... more |  |
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 Novel technology reveals aerodynamics of birds flying in a V-formation London, UK (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Researchers using custom-built GPS and accelerometer loggers, developed with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (EPSRC), and attached to free-flying birds on migration, have gained ground-breaking insights into the mysteries of bird flight formation. The research, led by the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, proves for the first time that bir ... more |  |
BYU's smart object recognition algorithm doesn't need humans Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - If we've learned anything from post-apocalyptic movies it's that computers eventually become self-aware and try to eliminate humans. BYU engineer Dah-Jye Lee isn't interested in that development, but he has managed to eliminate the need for humans in the field of object recognition. Lee has created an algorithm that can accurately identify objects in images or video sequences without human calib ... more |  |
Silver Nanowire Sensors Hold Promise for Prosthetics, Robotics Raleigh NC (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - North Carolina State University researchers have used silver nanowires to develop wearable, multifunctional sensors that could be used in biomedical, military or athletic applications, including new prosthetics, robotic systems and flexible touch panels. The sensors can measure strain, pressure, human touch and bioelectronic signals such as electrocardiograms. "The technology is based on e ... more |  |
Layered security: Carbon nanotubes promise improved flame-resistant coating Washington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces the flammability of foam commonly used in upholstered furniture and other soft furnishings. The flammability of the nanotube-coated polyurethane foam was ... more |  |
 20 million people fall victim to S. Korea data leak Seoul (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators said Sunday, one of the country's biggest ever breaches. Many major firms in the South have seen customers' data leaked in recent years, either by hacking attacks or their own employees. In the latest case, an employee from personal credit ratings firm Korea Credit Bureau ... more |  |
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 Thousands of Hong Kong domestic helpers rally for 'tortured' maid Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Thousands of domestic helpers took to the streets of Hong Kong Sunday to demand justice for an Indonesian maid allegedly tortured by her employers, the second such rally in a week. Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, 22, was reportedly left unable to walk following eight months of abuse in the southern Chinese city and was admitted to an Indonesian hospital in critical condition last week after returni ... more |  |
 Vietnam anti-China activists mark Paracels defeat Hanoi (AFP) Jan 19, 2014 - Activists chanted anti-China slogans and laid flowers Sunday at a protest in Hanoi marking the 40th anniversary of the Chinese invasion of contested islands in the South China Sea. In 1974, as US troops withdrew from Vietnam, China invaded the Paracel Islands, which were held by the US-backed South Vietnamese regime. More than 70 Vietnamese soldiers died during the invasion and China has ... more |  |
Hyundai starts work on world's biggest container ships Seoul (AFP) Jan 20, 2014 - South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries said Monday it had started construction on a Chinese order for the world's largest container ships. China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) awarded the contract for the five vessels - each with a capacity of 18,400 TEU (20-foot equivalent unit) container boxes - to Hyundai in May. The size broke the previous record of the 18,000 TEU conta ... more |  |
Net neutrality case; win, loss or much ado about nothing? Washington DC (UPI) Jan 19, 2014 - The hot topic on the Internet last week - and no doubt this week and beyond - was a U.S. appellate court's overturning of the "net neutrality" concept under which the Internet has operated. The federal court ruled the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's ability to regulate Internet service providers did not have the same legal basis that gives it the right to regulate "common car ... more |  |
 Peugeot 'approves' capital hikes by French state, Chinese partner Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2014 - The board of struggling French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen has in principle approved capital boosts by the French state and its Chinese partner Dongfeng, two sources close to the matter told AFP Sunday. They will inject a total three billion euros ($4 billion) into the company under terms yet to be defined, one of the sources said after a meeting by the board. Europe's second-largest ca ... more |  |
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