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IAEA Boosts Nuclear Power Forecasts for Fifth Straight Year Amid Global Energy Shift
VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has raised its global nuclear power projections for the fifth…
MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake
Cambridge, Mass. — The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that…
Scientists trace origins of now extinct plant population from volcanically active Nishinoshima
Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have determined the genetic lineage of a now extinct plant…
New Study Reveals How Cells ‘Feel’ Their Way Through Tissue
ST. LOUIS — Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have uncovered how groups of normal cells can…
ISSCR Urges NIH to Reconsider Stance on Human Fetal Tissue Research
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), the world’s leading organization of stem cell scientists, has expressed…
Scientists in Saudi Arabia repurpose greenhouse gas into valuable chemical product
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST; Saudi Arabia) have unveiled a breakthrough system that…
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NASA, German Aerospace Center Partner for Research into Advanced Aircraft
NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have signed agreements to work together to reduce aircraft noise and advance research into rotorcraft, two projects that extend years of vital cooperation between the two agencies. The agreements were signed at the Paris Air Show during a bilateral meeting between Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator for NASA’s Aeronautics […]
GOD OF SMALL THINGS
KATYAYANI CHOWDHRY | On 3rd June, 2015, CERN (European Organisation For Nuclear Research) restarted its LHC (Large Hadron Collider), after a two-year hiatus of technical upgrades, to run non-stop for…
Team KAIST wins the DARPA Robotics Challenge 2015
DRC-HUBO finished all eight assignments in less than 45 minutes, taking first place among 24 international teams and claiming the USD 2 million prize offered by a US defense research…
NASA Selects Eight Projects for 2016 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge
NASA is working with eight U.S. universities on new technology projects for deep space exploration, including the agency’s journey to Mars, as part of the 2016 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge.…
