Russia tests ballistic missiles amid tensions with West
Russia's military conducted a series of intercontinental ballistic missile tests on Wednesday, the latest flexing of its muscles as tensions with the US spike over Syria. ... more
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Arizona aerospace company wins $19M Navy satellite contract
Qwaltec has won a five-year, $19 million contract with the U.S. Navy for Satellite Operations and Maintenance Services (SOMS) contract, which is located at the Navy Satellite Operations Center (NAVS ... more
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Largest carbon credit programme poised for quality label
Kids study in overheated slum as Philippines shuts schools
IncreasingAfrican tropical forest fires linked to climate change and deforestation
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Study suggests comet strike's link to age-old warming event
Scientists have found direct evidence that a comet struck the Earth more than 50 million years ago, coinciding with a warm period often compared with today's global warming, a report said Thursday. ... more
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Recharging on stable, amorphous silicon
Next-generation anodes for lithium ion batteries will probably no longer be made of graphite. Silicon, which is a related material, can provide a much higher capacity than graphite, but its crystall ... more
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Synchronizing optical clocks to one quadrillionth of a second
An international team of researchers, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, has advanced their work with synchronizing a remote optical c ... more
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Filming light and electrons coupled together as they travel under cover
In a breakthrough for future optical-electronic hybrid computers, scientists at EPFL have developed an ultrafast technique that can track light and electrons as they travel through a nanostructured ... more
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Atomic sandwiches could make computers 100X greener
Researchers have engineered a material that could lead to a new generation of computing devices, packing in more computing power while consuming a fraction of the energy that today's electronics req ... more
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