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China defends rare earths policy
Jun 21, 2012 (UPI)
China issued its first white paper on the country's rare earth industry policies, saying it would introduce reforms. However, the government gave no indication ...
Sustainable denim manufacturing process creates 'green' jeans
Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)
Like sausage, making denim jeans isn't pretty. Some estimates suggest that producing one pair of jeans requires more than 2,500 gallons of water, nearly a pound...
GTRI researchers develop prototype automated pavement crack detection and sealing system
Jun 20, 2012 (SPX)
Sealing cracks in roadways ensures a road's structural integrity and extends the time between major repaving projects, but conventional manual crack sealing ope...
Malaysia rare earths plant gets go-ahead
Jun 20, 2012 (UPI)
A Malaysian parliamentary committee has approved a temporary operating license for mining giant Lynas Corp.'s controversial $220 million rare earth processing f...
Science world commemorates father of computer science
Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)
Scientists will gather from Bangalore to Texas on Saturday to honour British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer of the modern computer whose code-cracking is ...
China's Huawei takes rebranding bid to telecoms fair
Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)
China's Huawei Technologies is taking a campaign to transform itself into a global brand and leading smartphone maker to a major telecoms fair which opened in S...
Microsoft shows off Windows for smartphones
Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)
Microsoft on Wednesday ramped up its push to regain ground in the precious mobile computing market by giving developers a "sneak peek" at new Windows software f...
Ionic liquid improves speed and efficiency of hydrogen-producing catalyst
Jun 20, 2012 (SPX)
The design of a nature-inspired material that can make energy-storing hydrogen gas has gone holistic. Usually, tweaking the design of this particular catalyst -...
Engineers build smallest, fastest digital gigapixel camera
Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)
Engineers in the United States have built a prototype gigapixel camera the size of a bedside cabinet that can capture an image in a single snapshot with 1,000 t...
China says rare earths practices meet WTO rules
Jun 20, 2012 (AFP)
China said Wednesday its regulation of the rare earths industry was in line with global trade rules, as it faces international pressure over its control of the ...
Physicists use ultrafast lasers to create first tabletop X-ray device
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, paving the w...
All the colors of a high-energy rainbow, in a tightly focused beam
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
For the first time, researchers have produced a coherent, laser-like, directed beam of light that simultaneously streams ultraviolet light, X-rays, and all wave...
Instrument Integration Begins at Goddard on MMS Spacecraft
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
The decks have arrived. Engineers working on NASA'S Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission have started integrating instruments on the first of four instrument...
Lockheed Martin ATC Delivers Flight Hardware For Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
Engineers and scientists at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) have completed delivery of key hardware subsystems for NASA's Mag...
Malaysia panel OKs Australian rare-earths plant
Jun 19, 2012 (AFP)
A controversial rare-earths plant being built in Malaysia by an Australian miner is safe, a parliamentary panel ruled on Tuesday, but opponents vowed to continu...
Microsoft tablet computer a big bet on future: analysts
Jun 19, 2012 (AFP)
Microsoft's decision to make its own tablet computer is a sign of frustration with its longtime hardware partners and a big bet on the technology giant's future...
Boeing Completes CDR of MEXSAT Geomobile Satellite System
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing and its supplier partners have completed the Critical Design Review of the MEXSAT Geomobile Satellite Communications System with their customer, the Secr...
Panasonic's first Android-based 'toughpad' unveiled in Asia
Jun 19, 2012 (AFP)
Panasonic's first Android-based computer tablet designed for tough environments such as battlefields was unveiled Tuesday at a major regional telecom fair in Si...
Oracle to buy back $10 billion more in stock
Jun 18, 2012 (AFP)
Business software giant Oracle on Monday shook off rumors of a looming management shake-up and announced plans to buy back an additional $10 billion in stock. O...
US regains top spot for fastest supercomputer
Jun 18, 2012 (AFP)
An IBM supercomputer developed for US government nuclear simulations and to study climate change and the human genome has been recognized as the world's fastest...
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