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  Bangkok (AFP) Feb 12, 2025 Twice a day, sirens sound at Cambodia's Chip Mong Insee cement kiln, warning limestone will soon be blasted from the karst mountain that overlooks the sprawling industrial site. White smoke billows from its silver chimney, visible only at night against the dark sky, and dust coats much of the surrounding area, where residents complain of persistent respiratory illnesses that arrived along with the kiln. The plant might seem an unlikely poster child for the fight against plastic pollution, but ce ... read more |
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Cook Islands signs deal for closer ties with China; in talks on deep-sea mining accessWellington (AFP) Feb 16, 2025 The Cook Islands says it has signed a deal to expand relations with China, stressing that the accord does not impinge on ties with former colonial power New Zealand. ... more  
China's Xi meets business leaders including Alibaba's Jack MaBeijing (AFP) Feb 17, 2025 Chinese President Xi Jinping held a meeting Monday with top private business leaders including Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, state media footage showed. ... more  
Greetings from the Fourth DimensionParis, France (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 In April 1982, Professor Dan Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology made a groundbreaking discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic c ... more  
MIT engineers develop a fully 3D-printed electrospray engineBoston MA (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 But 3D printing the electrospray engine components is only half the battle. The researchers also conducted chemical experiments to ensure the printing materials were compatible with the conductive l ... more |
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Mining giant BHP says demand strong as China recoversSydney (AFP) Feb 17, 2025 Australian mining giant BHP reported strong demand for its output Tuesday despite global trade and economic uncertainties, citing early signs of a recovery in China. ... more |
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Kazakhstan inks first deal to supply uranium to SwitzerlandAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Feb 17, 2025 Switzerland struck a deal with Kazakhstan to buy uranium directly from the world's largest producer for the first time as Bern seeks to relaunch its nuclear power industry, Kazakhstan's national uranium mining firm said on Monday. ... more  
Chinese minister meets Myanmar scam centre workersMae Sot, Thailand (AFP) Feb 17, 2025 A Chinese government minister met more than 1,000 alleged scam centre workers on the Thailand-Myanmar border on Monday, Thai media said, as the three countries vowed to crack down on the illicit compounds. ... more  
Baghdad hopes to resume Kurdish oil exports within week: ministerBaghdad (AFP) Feb 17, 2025 Iraq's oil minister said Monday that crude exports from the autonomous Kurdistan region to Turkey should resume within a week, ending two years of wrangling. ... more  
China's Tencent says trialling own AI reasoning model alongside DeepSeekBeijing (AFP) Feb 17, 2025 Chinese technology giant Tencent on Monday said it had started trialling its own artificial intelligence reasoning model after integrating DeepSeek into some of its products, saying the move would make responses "more 'human'". ... more |
Online shopping giants bet on AI to curb clothes returnsParis (AFP) Feb 17, 2025 From sizing advice via selfies to robot stock-takers, online shopping behemoths have increasingly turned to artificial intelligence in a bid to stem the flow of bad-for-business clothes returns. ... more  Available on Amazon Books |
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OpenAI board rejects Elon Musk-led buyout offerSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 15, 2025 OpenAI's board chairman on Friday said it has unanimously rejected an Elon Musk-led offer to buy the hot artificial intelligence company for $97.4 billion. ... more 
Croatia arrests at least 10 for dumping hazardous wasteZagreb (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 Croatia arrested 10 people suspected of illegally disposing at least 35,000 tonnes of hazardous waste from local sources and other European Union countries, the authorities said on Friday. ... more 
Tunisian startup takes on e-waste challengeTunis (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 Engineer turned social entrepreneur Sabri Cheriha hunches over a washing machine at a small depot in a suburb of Tunisia's capital, the unassuming home of a startup he launched to tackle the country's mounting electronic waste problem. ... more 
French mineral water companies face new investigationsParis (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 A French magistrate has opened a fraud inquiry into mineral water giants Nestle and Sources Alma over suspicions of illegal processing of water, a source close to the investigation said Thursday. ... more |
'Terrified' families seek justice in Italy 'forever chemicals' trialVicenza, Italy (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 Managers of a chemical plant accused of knowingly contaminating the water of hundreds of thousands of people are on trial in Italy, in one of Europe's biggest environmental disaster lawsuits. ... more 
Quantum State of Ejected Electrons Measured for the First TimeBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 For the first time, scientists have successfully measured the quantum state of electrons released from atoms following exposure to high-energy light pulses. This breakthrough, achieved through a nov ... more 
Sliding into novel materials: A new frontier in material scienceParis, France (SPX) Feb 06, 2025 Can copper be turned into gold? While ancient alchemists pursued this elusive goal, modern science knows such a transformation requires nuclear reactions. However, some materials, like graphite and ... more 
SNU Engineers Develop Shape-Shifting Soft Robot for Crawling, Climbing, and Adaptive MovementTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 Researchers at Seoul National University (SNU) have unveiled a groundbreaking soft robot capable of crawling like a worm, scaling cables, and swiftly altering its shape to shift directions-all power ... more |
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Negative refraction of light achieved using atomic arrays instead of metamaterialsLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 Scientists have successfully demonstrated negative refraction using atomic arrays, eliminating the need for engineered metamaterials. This breakthrough opens up new possibilities in optical research ... more 
Clearing a Path for More Efficient and Cost-Effective Molecular SeparationsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 The process of isolating useful molecules from complex mixtures is a critical component in various industries, yet it demands 15% of the nation's total energy consumption, generates 100 million tons ... more  
Engineers enable a drone to determine its position in the dark and indoorsBoston MA (SPX) Feb 16, 2025 In the future, autonomous drones could be used to shuttle inventory between large warehouses. A drone might fly into a semi-dark structure the size of several football fields, zipping along hundreds ... more  
Graphite production gets a makeoverCollege Station TX (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 Collaboration efforts between the Texas A and M University Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering and the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) have ... more |
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Toward sustainable computing: Energy-efficient memory innovationBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2025 How much energy is consumed each time we upload an image to social media, which relies on data centers and cloud storage? Data centers currently account for about one percent of global energy consum ... more |
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NRL's Mercury Pulsed Power Facility Celebrates 20 Years of Research ExcellenceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2025 The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is celebrating two decades of groundbreaking research at its Mercury Pulsed Power Facility, a premier platform that continues to drive progress in flash x-ra ... more  
The next-generation solar cell is fully recyclableBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 Researchers at Linkoping University have developed a groundbreaking method for recycling all components of a perovskite solar cell without the use of hazardous solvents. The process ensures that rec ... more 
Machine Learning Enhances Solar Power Forecast AccuracySydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 As solar power becomes a more significant component of the global energy grid, improving the accuracy of photovoltaic (PV) generation forecasts is crucial for balancing supply and demand. A recent s ... more 
GE Vernova advances UK SMR development with new supplier agreementsLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 16, 2025 GE Vernova's nuclear division, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH), has taken a significant step forward in its efforts to deploy Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in the UK. The company has signed new Memo ... more |
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