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| May 27, 2014 |
 Russia's Weakened Hand Could Pay Off For Beijing In Major Gas Deal Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2014 - A major gas deal between Russia and China could finally be sealed this week when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits China on May 20-21 and meets with President Xi Jinping. In the lead up to Putin's arrival, the two sides have been working on putting the finishing touches on a 30-year contract for a gas deal a decade in the making, and Russian officials have suggested that the deal will be c ... more |  |
 A new concept to improve power production performance of wind turbines in a wind farm Beijing, China (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Wind energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources in the world today. Dr. Hui Hu and his group at Iowa State University studied the effects of the relative rotation directions of two tandem wind turbines on the power production performance, the flow characteristics in the turbine wake flows, and the resultant wind loads acting on the turbines. The experimental study was p ... more |  |
 A new way to make sheets of graphene Boston MA (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Graphene's promise as a material for new kinds of electronic devices, among other uses, has led researchers around the world to study the material in search of new applications. But one of the biggest limitations to wider use of the strong, lightweight, highly conductive material has been the hurdle of fabrication on an industrial scale. Initial work with the carbon material, which forms a ... more |  |
 From separation to transformation: Metal-organic framework shows new talent Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2014 - This gift from science just keeps on giving. Measurements taken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) show why a material already known to be good at separating components of natural gas also can do something trickier: help convert one chemical to another, a process called catalysis. The discovery is a rare example of a laboratory-made material easily performing a task tha ... more |  |
Flatland optics with graphene Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Researchers from CIC nanoGUNE, in collaboration with ICFO and Graphenea, introduce a platform technology based on optical antennas for trapping and controlling light with the one-atom-thick material graphene. The experiments show that the dramatically squeezed graphene-guided light can be focused and bent, following the fundamental principles of conventional optics. The work, published yes ... more |  |
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 EMCORE Introduces Internal Fiber Delay Line System for the Optiva Platform Albuquerque NM (SPX) May 27, 2014 - EMCORE has announced the introduction of the Optiva OTS-ODLS 18, 22 and 40 GHz Internal Fiber Delay Line Systems for delay times up to 40 microseconds. EMCORE's fiber optic delay lines provide bandwidth that is essentially independent of fiber length, losses or delays, and triple transit signals that are immeasurable. They are ideal for applications such as radar system testing, phased arr ... more |  |
Argonne scientists discover new magnetic phase in iron-based superconductors Argonne IL (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a previously unknown phase in a class of superconductors called iron arsenides. This sheds light on a debate over the interactions between atoms and electrons that are responsible for their unusual superconductivity. "This new magnetic phase, which has never been observed before, could have significan ... more |  |
 New sensor could light the way forward in low-cost medical imaging Guildford, UK (SPX) May 27, 2014 - New research published in Nature's Scientific Reports, identifies a new type of light sensor that could allow medical and security imaging, via low cost cameras. The team of researchers from the University of Surrey have developed a new 'multispectral' light sensor that detects the full spectrum of light, from ultra-violet (UV), to visible and near infrared light. Indeed, near infrared lig ... more |  |
Skyonic Secures funding to Develop SkyCycle Technology Austin TX (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Skyonic has announced that it has secured an additional $12.5 million in funding from existing investor ConocoPhillips and new investor Enbridge Canada's largest energy infrastructure company. The funding will provide for the continued development of Skyonic's SkyCycle technology toward commercialization and support Skyonic's international growth. While current industry estimates place the ... more |  |
Australia's Orica plans to ship toxic waste to France Sydney (AFP) May 27, 2014 - Australian chemicals firm Orica said Tuesday it has applied to ship a vast stockpile of toxic waste to France in a bid to end a long-running saga over how to dispose of it. The company has 15,000 tonnes of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) - a solvent manufacturing by-product and suspected human carcinogen - stored at Botany in Sydney's south and has been trying to get rid of it for years. Austr ... more |  |
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 Vietnam jails two over anti-China riots Hanoi (AFP) May 26, 2014 - A Vietnamese court has sentenced two men to jail for taking part in deadly rioting sparked by anger over China's placement of an oil rig in contested waters, state media said on Monday. The men were convicted on Sunday in the southern province of Binh Duong, where much of the destruction and looting was concentrated, in public outdoor trials attended by thousands, the Thanh Nien newspaper sa ... more |  |
Rio Tinto seals deal on US$20 bn mine in Guinea Sydney (AFP) May 27, 2014 - Global mining giant Rio Tinto Tuesday said it has formalised an agreement with Guinea's government to develop the world's biggest untapped iron-ore deposit after years of wrangling over the US$20 billion deal. The penning of an investment framework for the Simandou project with its partners, Chinese state-run aluminium group Chalco and the International Finance Corporation, a division of the ... more |  |
Sony to sell PlayStation in newly opened China market Shanghai (AFP) May 26, 2014 - Sony will bring its PlayStation consoles to China through two joint ventures, the Japanese gaming giant and its Chinese partner both said Monday, as they seek to tap a newly opened market. China in January formally authorised the domestic sale of game consoles made in its first free trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai, opening up a market with an estimated 500 million players to foreign companies i ... more |  |
 Niger, Areva in hard-won uranium deal Niamey (AFP) May 26, 2014 - The government of Niger and French nuclear energy group Areva announced on Monday that they had signed a deal to renew a decades-old agreement for the operation of two uranium mines. Under the deal, negotiated for 18 months, Areva agreed that a 2006 mining law sharply increasing taxes on mineral extracted would apply to the Somair and Cominak operations in the north of the country which it p ... more |  |
Dutch arrest six Greenpeace activists over oil drill demos The Hague (AFP) May 27, 2014 - Dutch police on Tuesday arrested six activists as Greenpeace staged two protests in northern Europe including chaining a Russian contracted oil rig to a dock, to highlight oil drilling in the eco-sensitive Arctic oceans. "Police have arrested six of our activists. They are still in custody but we don't know what the charges are," said Faiza Oulahsen, who coordinated the protest in the northw ... more |  |
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 Malaysia releases satellite data on MH370 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) May 27, 2014 - Malaysia on Tuesday released raw satellite data used to determine that missing Flight MH370 went down in the southern Indian Ocean, information demanded by passengers' relatives who are frustrated over the failure to find any wreckage. The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) said it had worked with Inmarsat to provide 47 pages of data communication logs recorded by the British satellite opera ... more |  |
Asian-led consortiums win Australian casino bids Brisbane, Australia (AFP) May 27, 2014 - A Hong Kong billionaire and a Chinese-Australian investment consortium won bids Tuesday to build multi-billion-dollar mega-casinos in Queensland after other contenders were ruled out by the state government. Tony Fung's Aus$8.15 billion (US$7.53 billion) Aquis project near Cairns and ASF Consortium's Aus$7.5 billion Broadwater Marine Project on the Gold Coast will receive gaming licences if ... more |  |
Japan to create underground ice wall at crippled nuclear plant Tokyo (AFP) May 26, 2014 - Japan's nuclear regulator on Monday approved a plan to freeze the soil under the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to try to slow the build-up of radioactive water, officials said. The Nuclear Regulation Authority examined plans by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) to construct an underground ice wall at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant starting in June, regulatory officials said. The wa ... more |  |
S. Korea's top mobile chat app, online portal to merge Seoul (AFP) May 26, 2014 - South Korea's top messaging service provider, Kakao Corp., and its second largest Internet portal, Daum, announced a merger Monday to create one of the country's largest IT companies worth around $3 billion. Daum Communications, the operator of portal Daum.net, said the merger with Kakao, which runs the hugely popular mobile chat app Kakao Talk, would be completed in October through share sw ... more |  |
Veolia eyes decommissioning Germany's nuclear plants Frankfurt (AFP) May 26, 2014 - French group Veolia Environnement is hoping to move into the market for decommissioning nuclear power plants in Germany, one of its top executives said in a magazine interview on Monday. "We're in talks with possible partners," the head of Veolia Environnement's German operations Etienne Petit told the weekly WirtschaftsWoche. "There's very big potential in Germany. It's a market which ... more |  |
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