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| July 08, 2014 |
 Muscle-powered bio-bots walk on command Champaign IL (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated a class of walking "bio-bots" powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical pulses, giving researchers unprecedented command over their function. The group published its work in the online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. "Biological actuation driven by cells is a fundamental n ... more |  |
 Superconducting-silicon qubits College Park MD (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Theorists propose a way to make superconducting quantum devices such as Josephson junctions and qubits, atom-by-atom, inside a silicon crystal. Such systems could combine the most promising aspects of silicon spin qubits with the flexibility of superconducting circuits. The researcher's results have now been published in Nature Communications (1). High quality silicon is one of the histori ... more |  |
 Ultra-cold atom transport made simple Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - New study provides proof of the validity of a filtering device for ultra-cold neutral atoms based on tunnelling. Techniques for controlling ultra-cold atoms travelling in ring traps currently represent an important research area in physics. A new study gives a proof of principle, confirmed by numerical simulations, of the applicability to ultra-cold atoms of a very efficient and robust transport ... more |  |
The quantum dance of oxygen Trieste, Italy (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Perhaps not everyone knows that oxygen has - quite unusually for such a simple molecule - magnetic properties. The phase diagram of solid oxygen at low temperatures and high pressures shows, however, several irregularities (for example, proper "information gaps" with regard to these magnetic properties) that are still poorly understood. A team of researchers from the International School f ... more |  |
 South America Opts for Green Energy Made by WELTEC Vechta, Germany (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Currently, the world is locked on to the FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Though they have already reached a high technical level as far as football is concerned, the South American countries still have development potential in the fields of biogas technology and renewable energies. In the interview, Aguinaldo Ramalho of the German biogas plant manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER talks about the potential, ex ... more |  |
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NIST test house exceeds goal; ends year with energy to spare Washington DC (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - The net-zero energy test house at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in suburban Washington, D.C., not only absorbed winter's best shot, it came out on top, reaching its one-year anniversary on July 1 with enough surplus energy to power an electric car for about 1,440 miles.* Despite five months of below-average temperatures and twice the normal amount of snowfall, N ... more |  |
China Might Be Winning The Race To Reduce Solar Costs Washington DC (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Many people, even fanatical advocates of solar power, are unaware quite how close we are to reaching a critical milestone in the industry. Within a fairly short space of time, solar generated electricity will be fully cost competitive with coal-powered electricity - at least if the governments of the world's two largest energy consuming nations have their way. Both the U.S. and China have ... more |  |
 Colorado State University to receive four really smart cars this summer Fort Collins CO (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Colorado State University is one of four universities nationwide that will receive four all-electric micro vehicles that will help drive sustainable transportation research projects on campus - through the Internet. CSU, University of Pittsburgh, University of Washington and the University Wisconsin were selected to receive the University Electric Vehicles - the Innova Dash - from Internet ... more |  |
 Insights from nature for more efficient water splitting Yokohama, Japan (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Water splitting is one of the critical reactions that sustain life on earth, and could be a key to the creation of future fuels. It is a key in the process of photosynthesis, through which plants produce glucose and oxygen from water and carbon dioxide, using sunlight as energy. However, there are still significant mysteries about the process. Nature's own water-splitting catalysts, which ... more |  |
 Turkey economy risks choppy waters under Erdogan presidency Ankara (AFP) July 06, 2014 - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears all but assured of winning upcoming Turkish presidential polls, but he could find himself in charge of a far more fragile economy than in the last decade of his rule. Analysts say the Turkish strongman is jeopardising the long-term health of the economy by picking a fight with the nominally independent central bank and pushing it towards a looser m ... more |  |
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 Russian accused of hacking US retailers held for trial Washington (AFP) July 07, 2014 - A Russian national accused of hacking into US retail computer systems was arrested and ordered to face criminal charges, officials said Monday. The Justice Department said an indictment was unsealed following the arrest of Roman Valerevich Seleznev, 30, of Moscow, who uses the moniker "Track2" in the hacker underground. Officials said Seleznev was formally charged in March 2011 but the c ... more |  |
China, Germany in auto, aircraft deals as Merkel visits Beijing (AFP) July 07, 2014 - China and Germany signed a series of trade and investment deals on Monday during a visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel, including agreements on two new Volkswagen factories and the sale of 123 Airbus helicopters. The two countries are both exporting giants - with Germany the EU's biggest economy and China the world's second-largest - and Merkel was looking to strengthen their economic relati ... more |  |
US to push China to break IT deadlock at Beijing talks Washington (AFP) July 07, 2014 - The United States wants China to break a logjam over a proposed WTO information technology pact in annual bilateral talks this week, the top US trade envoy said Monday. China should show "real leadership" by helping to advance negotiations on the expansion of the World Trade Organization's Information Technology Agreement, US Trade Representative Michael Froman said. Froman, who will joi ... more |  |
 Tablets to overtake PCs by 2015: survey Washington (AFP) July 07, 2014 - Tablet computers will outsell personal computers by 2015 globally in another sign of the shifting tech landscape, a survey showed Monday. A report by the research firm Gartner said that the shift comes despite a cooling of the tablet market in 2014 and some stability in PC sales, due to upgrades of aging devices. The research firm said it expects total PC sales this year of 308 million ... more |  |
Volkswagen to build two new plants in China Beijing (AFP) July 07, 2014 - German carmaker Volkswagen will build two new vehicle plants in China as it invests two billion euros ($2.7 billion) along with its partner, it announced Monday during a visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel. The agreement between the company and Chinese auto manufacturer FAW for the new factories in the world's biggest car market was signed in the presence of Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqia ... more |  |
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China president heading to South America for BRICS summit Beijing (AFP) July 07, 2014 - China's President Xi Jinping will visit South American nations including Brazil next week, where he will meet India's new prime minister for the first time before heading to Communist ally Cuba. Xi will co-chair the BRICS meeting of leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa which begins in Brazil on July 15, Chinese vice foreign minister Li Baodong told reporters. He will ... more |  |
Etiquette gets reboot for digital age Washington (AFP) July 05, 2014 - The digital age has created a host of new etiquette dilemmas. What should you do when your boss sends a Facebook friend request? Is it OK to take and share smartphone pictures at a friend's wedding? When should you take off Google Glass, rather than just turn it off? Etiquette mavens say the book on manners must be rewritten, literally, to take into account new technologies and social me ... more |  |
Switzerland gets the edge on EU with China trade deal Basel, Switzerland (AFP) July 06, 2014 - Switzerland has one-upped its European Union neighbours with a free trade deal with China that its politicians and business sector say is crucial to boosting ties with the world's second-largest economy. The free trade agreement (FTA), in force since Tuesday, is China's first with a mainland European country and was sealed in 2013 after two years of talks. "We look to the huge Chinese ma ... more |  |
Solar panels light the way from carbon dioxide to fuel Princeton NJ (SPX) Jul 05, 2014 - Research to curb global warming caused by rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, usually involves three areas: Developing alternative energy sources, capturing and storing greenhouse gases, and repurposing excess greenhouse gases. Drawing on two of these approaches, researchers in the laboratory of Andrew Bocarsly, a Princeton professor of chemistry, collabo ... more |  |
 The JBEI GT Collection: A New Resource for Advanced Biofuels Research Emeryville CA (SPX) Jul 05, 2014 - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have unveiled the first glycosyltransferase clone collection specifically targeted for the study of the biosynthesis of plant cell walls. The idea behind what is being called "the JBEI GT Collection" is to provide a functional genomic resource for researchers seeking to extract the sugars in plant biomass and s ... more |  |
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