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| April 21, 2014 |
 Automakers in China eager to sell - and resell Beijing (AFP) April 21, 2014 - China's car market is just gearing up as the world's largest, yet automakers are already eyeing the next big thing - the market for reselling them. Their eagerness to attract buyers in the world's largest car market is on full display at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, which opened to the public on Monday with more than 1,000 vehicles on show. Motor enthusiasts crowde ... more |  |
 Global scientific team 'visualizes' a new crystallization process Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - Sometimes engineers invent something before they fully comprehend why it works. To understand the "why," they must often create new tools and techniques in a virtuous cycle that improves the original invention while also advancing basic scientific knowledge. Such was the case about two years ago, when Stanford engineers discovered how to make a more efficient type of thin, crystalline orga ... more |  |
 Berkeley Launches Building Energy Performance Research Project Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - FLEXLAB, the Facility for Low Energy experiments in Buildings, run by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD), has partnered with construction firm Webcor to test building energy performance. The testing will allow Webcor's engineers to predict and improve the energy performance for a new building constructed for biotech company, Genentech, ... more |  |
 Device turns flat surface into spherical antenna Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - By depositing an array of tiny, metallic, U-shaped structures onto a dielectric material, a team of researchers in China has created a new artificial surface that can bend and focus electromagnetic waves the same way an antenna does. This breakthrough, which the team is calling the first broadband transformation optics metasurface lens, may lead to the creation of new types of antennas tha ... more |  |
 Filling the gap between quantum and classical world Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - Quantum superposition is a fundamental and also intriguing property of the quantum world. Because of superposition, a quantum system can be in two different states simultaneously, like a cat that can be both "dead" and "alive" at the same time. However, this anti-intuitive phenomenon cannot be observed directly, because whenever a classical measuring tool touches a quantum system, it immed ... more |  |
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Thermoelectric generator on glass fabric for wearable electronic devices Seoul, Korea (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - Wearable computers or devices have been hailed as the next generation of mobile electronic gadgets, from smart watches to smart glasses to smart pacemakers. For electronics to be worn by a user, they must be light, flexible, and equipped with a power source, which could be a portable, long-lasting battery or no battery at all but a generator. How to supply power in a stable and reliable manner i ... more |  |
 Nano shake-up Newark DE (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - Significant advances have been made in chemotherapy over the past decade, but targeting drugs to cancer cells while avoiding healthy tissues continues to be a major challenge. Nanotechnology has unlocked new pathways for targeted drug delivery, including the use of nanocarriers, or capsules, that can transport cargoes of small-molecule therapeutics to specific locations in the body. ... more |  |
Repeated Self-Healing Now Possible in Composite Materials Urbana IL (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - Internal damage in fiber-reinforced composites, materials used in structures of modern airplanes and automobiles, is difficult to detect and nearly impossible to repair by conventional methods. A small, internal crack can quickly develop into irreversible damage from delamination, a process in which the layers separate. This remains one of the most significant factors limiting more widespread us ... more |  |
 Pakistan plans huge desert solar park to fight energy crisis Badaiwani Wala, Pakistan (AFP) April 20, 2014 - For years Pakistanis have sweated and cursed through summer power cuts, but now the government plans to harness the sun's ferocious heat to help tackle the country's chronic energy crisis. In a corner of the Cholistan desert in Punjab province, power transmission lines, water pipes and a pristine new road cross 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) of parched, sandy land. The provincial governme ... more |  |
China's love of luxury cars undimmed by domestic troubles Beijing (AFP) April 20, 2014 - China's desire for luxury cars remains undimmed by an economic slowdown and political austerity drive as the country's growing band of wealthy motorists set their sights on high-end wheels. In a lavish event off Tiananmen Square, ahead of the opening of the Beijing Auto Show on Sunday, bejewelled models dressed in haute-couture graced the unveiling of Rolls-Royce's Pinnacle Travel Phantom. ... more |  |
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China auto show opens amid environmental, growth concerns Beijing (AFP) April 20, 2014 - Leading automakers gathered in Beijing Sunday for China's biggest car show, expressing confidence in the world's largest car market even though lacklustre economic growth and environmental restrictions have generated uncertainty. Spectators and journalists crowded around displays at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, which features more than 1,100 vehicles and opens to the pub ... more |  |
 Chinese foreign minister starts Latin America tour Havana (AFP) April 21, 2014 - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Cuba Sunday, the first stop on a tour of four Latin America countries. The purpose of the stop in Havana was to pave the way later this year for a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. "We are going to be working on political preparations for... the upcoming visit of President Xi Jinping to this island," Wang said. China is Cuba's number two e ... more |  |
 Malaysia Airlines jet in emergency landing after tyre bursts Kuala Lumpur (AFP) April 21, 2014 - A Malaysia Airlines plane with 166 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Kuala Lumpur early Monday in another blow to the flag-carrier's safety image after the loss of flight MH370. Flight MH192, bound for Bangalore in India, turned back to Kuala Lumpur shortly after it was discovered that a tyre had burst on take-off, the airline said. "As safety is of utmost priority ... more |  |
Rapid solidification of undercooled ternary Co-Cu-Pb alloy profiled Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - Researchers at the Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, in Xi'an, China, are engaged in revealing the mysteries of solidification process and the development of new materials using self-designed experimental instrument which can simulate the space environment such as containerless state. Solidification mechanism is of great importance to better understand t ... more |  |
Information storage for the next generation of plastic computers Ames IA (SPX) Apr 22, 2014 - Inexpensive computers, cell phones and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be one step closer to reality, thanks to research published on April 16 in the journal Nature Communications. The paper describes a new proposal by University of Iowa researchers and their colleagues at New York University for overcoming a major obstacle to the development of such pl ... more |  |
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 Japan's digital eyes show your emotions for you Tokyo (AFP) April 21, 2014 - Can't be bothered to show anyone what you're thinking? Then a Japanese scientist has the answer - a pair of digital eyes that can express delight and anger, or even feign boredom. Building on a long line of slightly wacky and not-very-practical inventions for which Japan is famous, Hirotaka Osawa has unveiled the "AgencyGlass". "I wanted to build a system that is capable of carrying out ... more |  |
 Rethink education to fuel bioeconomy Washington DC (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - Microbes can be highly efficient, versatile and sophisticated manufacturing tools, and have the potential to form the basis of a vibrant economic sector. In order to take full advantage of the opportunity microbial-based industry can offer, though, educators need to rethink how future microbiologists are trained, according to a report by the American Academy of Microbiology. "Industrial mi ... more |  |
 Making dams safer for fish around the world Richland, WA (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - Think of the pressure change you feel when an elevator zips you up multiple floors in a tall building. Imagine how you'd feel if that elevator carried you all the way up to the top of Mt. Everest - in the blink of an eye. That's similar to what many fish experience when they travel through the turbulent waters near a dam. For some, the change in pressure is simply too big, too fast, and th ... more |  |
Combs of Light Accelerate Communication Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - Miniaturized optical frequency comb sources allow for transmission of data streams of several terabits per second over hundreds of kilometers - this has now been demonstrated by researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in a experiment presented in the journal "Nature Photonics". The results may contribute to accelerating ... more |  |
Relieving electric vehicle range anxiety with improved batteries Richland WA (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 - Electric vehicles could travel farther and more renewable energy could be stored with lithium-sulfur batteries that use a unique powdery nanomaterial. Researchers added the powder, a kind of nanomaterial called a metal organic framework, to the battery's cathode to capture problematic polysulfides that usually cause lithium-sulfur batteries to fail after a few charges. A paper describing t ... more |  |
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