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Economics & Business Mar 19, 2019

Researchers suggest tight oil prices might be based on futures contracts instead of day-to-day price fluctuations

A pair of researchers, one with the Institute of Management and Economics at Clausthal University of Technology, the other the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, has found evidence that suggests oil ...

Space Exploration Dec 13, 2018

Virgin Galactic tourism rocket ship reaches space in test

Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high above California's Mojave Desert on Thursday, reaching for the first time what the company considers the boundary of space.

Space Exploration Dec 12, 2018

Virgin Galactic aims to reach space soon with tourism rocket

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is gearing up to finally send its tourism rocket ship to the edge of space.

Optics & Photonics Sep 24, 2018

Smaller, faster and more efficient modulator sets to revolutionize optoelectronic industry

A research team comprising members from City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Harvard University and a renowned information technologies laboratory has successfully fabricated a tiny on-chip lithium niobate modulator, an ...

Business Apr 26, 2018

The disappearing jobs of yesterday

Ahead of May Day, AFP reporters, video and photo teams spoke to men and women around the globe whose jobs are becoming increasingly rare, particularly as technology transforms societies.

Space Exploration Apr 5, 2018

Virgin Galactic conducts first powered flight of new spaceship (Update)

Virgin Galactic's new spaceship climbed at supersonic speed over California's Mojave Desert on Thursday in the company's first powered flight since the fatal crash of its original rocketship in 2014.

Space Exploration Feb 1, 2018

Russia to start offering spacewalks for tourists

Russia is planning to send paying tourists on the International Space Station out on spacewalks for the first time, an official from the country's space industry said Thursday.

Energy & Green Tech Jan 22, 2018

Particle receivers to get first commercial trial—in Saudi Arabia

A new solar technology is twice as efficient, cutting the cost of solar thermal energy, by raising operating temperatures to 1,000°C, almost twice the 565°C molten salt temperature in current concentrated solar power (CSP) ...

Biotechnology Nov 30, 2017

Designer molecule points to treatment for diseases caused by DNA repeats

Using a molecule designed to overcome a roadblock formed by a common type of genetic flaw, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made progress towards novel molecular treatments for Friedreich's ataxia—a ...

Engineering May 19, 2017

New tech could prevent need to store non-working pacemakers inside the heart

Like conventional pacemakers, tiny new leadless pacemakers are designed to work for about 12 years.

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