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| October 25, 2013 |
 British nuclear deal opens new fronts for China atom firms Beijing (AFP) Oct 25, 2013 - Two Chinese firms' role in building Britain's first new atomic power station for a generation will give them new-found credibility as they seek a bigger share of the trillion-dollar global civil nuclear market, analysts say. The $26 billion deal to build Hinkley Point C, a two-reactor, 3.2 gigawatt station in southwestern England, was unveiled earlier this week and is led by French energy gi ... more |  |
 Greenland awards first big mining exploitation license Copenhagen (AFP) Oct 24, 2013 - Greenland awarded Thursday its first big mining exploitation license, approving an iron extraction project by British company London Mining, and lifted a ban on exploiting uranium. "This is indeed a historic moment for Greenland," Greenland's Industry and Minerals Minister Jens-Erik Kirkegaard said of the license. Kirkegaard called it "the largest commercial project to date in Greenland ... more |  |
 Futuristic copper foam batteries get more bang for the buck Long Beach CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - People use their GPS apps, cameras, and mobile internet to navigate strange cities in search of good coffee, record "selfie" commentary while they wait in line, and upload their videos directly to social media sites while they sip their latte. But no amount of high-tech savvy can save a well-loved device from dying when its battery is drained. Smartphones suffer from the same basic ailment ... more |  |
 NIST measures laser power with portable scale Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a novel method for measuring laser power by reflecting the light off a mirrored scale, which behaves as a force detector. Although it may sound odd, the technique is promising as a simpler, faster, less costly and more portable alternative to conventional methods of calibrating high-power lasers used ... more |  |
 Business, labor urge German politicos to unite on energy transition Berlin (UPI) Oct 25, 2013 - A coalition of business groups and unions this week jointly warned German political leaders must unite to keep the country's energy transition plans alive. Negotiations between Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats to form a "grand coalition" government began Wednesday in Berlin, and business and union leaders used the occasion to warn they must ... more |  |
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Falklands oil prospecting firms near merger Stanley, Falkland Islands (UPI) Oct 24, 2013 - Two of the companies drilling for oil in the Falkland Islands' South Atlantic waters are merging and further corporate patch-ups may not be far behind, industry analysts said. After several fits and starts, and investor jitters over the prospecting firms' lackluster performance in the early phase of Falklands oil quest, the British Overseas Territory's oil economy is stabilizing, analys ... more |  |
Team uses forest waste to develop cheaper, greener supercapacitors Champaign IL (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - Researchers report that wood-biochar supercapacitors can produce as much power as today's activated-carbon supercapacitors at a fraction of the cost - and with environmentally friendly byproducts. The report appears in the journal Electrochimica Acta. "Supercapacitors are power devices very similar to our batteries," said study leader Junhua Jiang, a senior research engineer at the I ... more |  |
 US unveils bionic man with 'Russian intellect' Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 25, 2013 - The world's first ever walking and talking bionic man has been unveiled in Washington. The robot owes its communicative skills to Artificial Intellect designed by a Russian company. (VIDEO) A team of engineers have designed the world's first "bionic man," a walking, talking robot made up of 28 mechanical body parts from 17 international manufacturers. Dubbed Frank - short for Frankenstein ... more |  |
CU-Boulder researchers develop 4-D printing technology for composite materials Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have successfully added a fourth dimension to their printing technology, opening up exciting possibilities for the creation and use of adaptive, composite materials in manufacturing, packaging and biomedical applications. A team led by H. Jerry Qi, associate professor of mechanical engineering at CU-Boulder, and his collaborator Martin L. D ... more |  |
Copper Shock: An Atomic-scale Stress Test Menlo Park CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - Scientists used the powerful X-ray laser at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to create movies detailing trillionths-of-a-second changes in the arrangement of copper atoms after an extreme shock. Movies like these will help researchers create new kinds of materials and test the strength of existing ones. This work, published Oct. 11 in Science, pinpointed ... more |  |
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 Atomically Thin Device Promises New Class of Electronics Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - As electronics approach the atomic scale, researchers are increasingly successful at developing atomically thin, virtually two-dimensional materials that could usher in the next generation of computing. Integrating these materials to create necessary circuits, however, has remained a challenge. Northwestern University researchers have now taken a significant step toward fabricating complex ... more |  |
Weatherizing Homes to Uniform Standard Can Achieve $33 Billion in Annual Energy Savings Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - With winter around the corner some homeowners may be thinking about plugging all the leaks in their home to make them less drafty. Imagine if every homeowner in the country did that-how much energy could be saved? Using physics-based modeling of the U.S. housing stock, researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found in a new study that upgrading airtightness to a unif ... more |  |
Quantum conductors benefit from growth on smooth foundations Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - Imagine if the "information superhighway" had HOV lanes so that data could be stored, processed and disseminated many times faster than possible with today's electronics. Researchers in the United States and China have teamed to develop such a speedway for future devices, an exotic type of electrical conductor called a topological insulator (TI). In a new paper in the journal AIP Advances, ... more |  |
Crystal mysteries spiral deeper New York NY (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - New York University chemists have discovered crystal growth complexities, which at first glance appeared to confound 50 years of theory and deepened the mystery of how organic crystals form. But, appearances can be deceiving. Their findings, which appear in the latest edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have a range of implications - from the production of pharmace ... more |  |
 Scientists unveil energy-generating window Paris (AFP) Oct 24, 2013 - Scientists in China said Thursday they had designed a "smart" window that can both save and generate energy, and may ultimately reduce heating and cooling costs for buildings. While allowing us to feel close to the outside world, windows cause heat to escape from buildings in winter and let the Sun's unwanted rays enter in summer. This has sparked a quest for "smart" windows that can ada ... more |  |
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 Twitter seeks up to $1.61 bn in IPO New York City (AFP) Oct 24, 2013 - Twitter raised the value of its initial public offering Thursday to as much as $1.61 billion as the popular messaging service moved a step closer to Wall Street. The IPO suggests a market value for the social network of between $9.3 billion and $11.1 billion - a conservative amount compared to estimates by some analysts in recent weeks. In a regulatory filing, Twitter boosted the IPO am ... more |  |
Gore urges US to stop Keystone 'atrocity' Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2013 - Former US vice president Al Gore on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, likening the carbon-intense project to drug addiction. Gore, who has championed action against climate change since his razor-thin loss for the White House in 2000, praised Obama's general views on climate change but said his fellow Democrat faced a key test on the pro ... more |  |
Suez Environnement sees skies clearing for waste disposal Paris (AFP) Oct 24, 2013 - French utilities group Suez Environnement reported a 5.0-percent rise in underlying profit for the first nine months of the year on Thursday, but international sales fell on completion of a huge desalination project in Australia. The group said that the waste management business in Europe rallied in the third quarter, and that its overall activity had "steadily improved" since the beginning ... more |  |
Icahn boosts Apple stake, presses share buyback New York City (AFP) Oct 24, 2013 - Activist investor Carl Icahn disclosed Thursday he has raised his stake in Apple, and urged an "immediate" buyback of shares to boost the stock price of the US tech giant. Icahn, in a letter to Apple chief executive Tim Cook, said he now has some $2.5 billion worth of Apple stock and "we currently intend to buy more." Based on Apple's current value, Icahn's stake of 4.73 million shares i ... more |  |
US firms lukewarm on doing business in China: lobby Beijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2013 - Less than 30 percent of the members of a US business lobby in China say investment conditions are improving in the world's second-largest economy, a survey showed Thursday. Chinese authorities and state-run media have repeatedly targeted foreign firms in recent months, in sectors ranging from pharmaceuticals and baby formula to smartphones and coffee. The survey by the American Chamber ... more |  |
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