European experts have pulled off a major advance that might one day help build new worlds in space after an astronaut in the International Space Station remotely guided a robot on Earth by feel.
Space Exploration
Sep 8, 2015
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Australia should consider leaving the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) if it cannot accept the regional body's firm stance on climate change, Kiribati President Anote Tong said Tuesday.
Environment
Sep 8, 2015
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Uber—the app-based car service—has raised $1.2 billion to keep expanding Uber China, a source close to the efforts said.
Business
Sep 8, 2015
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India is the world's leading milk producer, with many of its people relying on milk as a primary source of income. Indian dairies buy milk from local farmers at village collection centers, and then sell the milk or use it ...
Engineering
Sep 8, 2015
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The boiling of water is at the heart of many industrial processes, from the operation of electric power plants to chemical processing and desalination. But the details of what happens on a hot surface as water boils have ...
General Physics
Sep 8, 2015
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Disney has signed agreements with Amazon and Microsoft that will allow them to use its cloud-based digital movie service.
Business
Sep 8, 2015
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While people may have never heard of photonics before, they will surely have heard about the technology that relies on its existence, namely the internet, computers and smartphones.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 8, 2015
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In the latest issue of the journal Nature Chemistry researchers led by Dirk Trauner, Professor of Chemical Biology and Genetics at LMU Munich, describe the biomimetic synthesis of epicolactone, a compound which was first ...
Biochemistry
Sep 8, 2015
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Together with Royal Holloway, Oxford Instruments, Chalmers University of Technology and Linköping University, a team has shown it is possible to perform quantum Hall resistance measurements with parts-per-billion accuracy ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 8, 2015
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Using a new metric, 'GDP @Risk', the 'Catastronomics' techniques developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge reveal that major threats to the world's most important cities could reduce economic output by some ...
Economics & Business
Sep 8, 2015
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