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February 07, 2017
TRADE WARS
India's techies fear US crackdown on high-skilled visas



Mumbai (AFP) Feb 5, 2017
Indian student Sunny Nair has always dreamt of working for a technology giant in the United States but fears that President Donald Trump will crush his life ambition. The 19-year-old worries that Trump's crackdown on immigration will include restrictions on so-called H-1B visas, which India's IT sector uses to send thousands of highly-skilled workers to America every year. Analysts say the issue also threatens to sour Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's burgeoning relationship. The l ... read more

OIL AND GAS
Oil spill threatens India's nesting turtles
/> Hundreds of students and fishermen were working Friday to clean up an oil spill on India's southern coast that campaigners say threatens the turtles that nest there every year. The Indian Co ... more
GPS NEWS
ISRO to Launch Standby Navigation Satellite to Replace IRNSS-1A
India will launch one of its back up navigation satellites this year as a replacement to IRNSS-1A satellite, whose three atomic clocks have failed, an official of the Indian space agency said on Mon ... more
GPS NEWS
IAI debuts GPS anti-jamming system
Israel Aerospace Industries has revealed its new ADA anti-jamming system, a product developed for use on multiple military platforms. ... more
TECTONICS
Researchers confirm the existence of a 'lost continent' under Mauritius
Scientists have confirmed the existence of a "lost continent" under the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius that was left-over by the break-up of the supercontinent, Gondwana, which started about 200 m ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE
ISRO tests C25 Cryogenic Upper Stage of GSLV MkIII
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully ground tested its indigenously developed Cryogenic Upper Stage for GSLV MkIII on January 25, 2017. The cryogenic stage designated as C25 was te ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Climate change drove population decline in New World before Europeans arrived
What caused the rapid disappearance of a vibrant Native American agrarian culture that lived in urban settlements from the Ohio River Valley to the Mississippi River Valley in the two centuries prec ... more
MILPLEX
In a bid for defense exports, India is giving contracts to the private sector
The Indian government has signed a sizable contract with Reliance Defense and Engineering Ltd (RDEL) a company promoted by Reliance Infrastructure, in a major boost for private defense manufacturing ... more
WHITE OUT
Death toll from deadly Kashmir avalanches rises to 25
The death toll from a series of avalanches in Kashmir has climbed to 25 after five Indian soldiers pulled alive from beneath heavy snow died of their injuries, the military said Monday. ... more
MISSILE NEWS
Russia to arm T-50 PAK FAs with BrahMos light cruise missiles
A BrahMos light cruise missile is in development for future use on Russia's 5th-generation T-50 PAK FA fighter aircraft. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
How India's 'Garden City' became garbage city
The stench of rubbish hanging over swathes of Bangalore is so powerful it rouses residents in the middle of the night, the fetid result of a trash crisis that threatens its reputation as one of India's nicest places to live. ... more


India Defers Much-Awaited Heaviest Rocket Launch

WEATHER REPORT
Bangladesh plants million trees to cut lightning toll
Bangladesh has begun planting one million palm trees nationwide to help prevent hundreds of people being killed by lightning strikes every year, a top official said Tuesday. ... more
WATER WORLD
Oceanographic analysis offers potential crash site of MH370
A group of oceanographers offers a new analysis of the potential crash site of flight Malaysian Airlines flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. The researchers, which included scientists from the ... more
ABOUT US
Humans, not climate change, wiped out Australian megafauna
New evidence involving the ancient poop of some of the huge and astonishing creatures that once roamed Australia indicates the primary cause of their extinction around 45,000 years ago was likely a ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Doubt over Everest's true height spurs fresh expedition
Scientists will take the tape measure to Mount Everest to determine whether a massive earthquake in Nepal really did knock an inch off the world's tallest peak. ... more

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Lockheed trims costs for F-35, most expensive plane ever
Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon on Friday said the next batch of F-35 stealth fighters, the most expensive planes in history, will be produced at a reduced cost. They announced $728 million in savings after President Donald Trump publically upbraided Lockheed over "out of control" costs, although most of the savings were already planned ahead of his involvement, during a months-long contrac ... more
Canada negotiating F/A-18 Super Hornet buy

Russia to acquire new MiG-35 light fighters

UK's BAE Systems in deal with Turkey to develop new Turkish fighter jets

Chinese, Mexican automakers team up to make SUVs
China's JAC Motors and a Mexican firm are teaming up to invest $212 million in a plant to produce sport-utility vehicles in central Mexico, officials said Wednesday amid trade tensions with the United States. The deal will expand the capacity of a plant owned by the Mexican company, Giant Motors Latinoamerica, in Ciudad Sahagun, central Hidalgo state. Giant Motors director Elias Massri s ... more
Pedal power revival as bike-share apps race for glory

Dieselgate drags on for VW and Bosch with new payouts

Daimler to supply self-driving cars for Uber



Action is needed to make stagnant CO2 emissions fall
Without a significant effort to reduce greenhouse gases, including an accelerated deployment of technologies for capturing atmospheric carbon and storing it underground, and sustained growth in renewables such as wind and solar, the world could miss a key global temperature target set by the Paris Agreement and the long-term goal of net-zero climate pollution. The finding, published in the ... more
Climate change may overload US electrical grid: study

Nordic countries are bringing about an energy transition worth copying

Iraq inks billion-dollar power plant deal with GE

Toward all-solid lithium batteries
Most batteries are composed of two solid, electrochemically active layers called electrodes, separated by a polymer membrane infused with a liquid or gel electrolyte. But recent research has explored the possibility of all-solid-state batteries, in which the liquid (and potentially flammable) electrolyte would be replaced by a solid electrolyte, which could enhance the batteries' energy density ... more
Building a better microbial fuel cell - using paper

Researchers flip script for Li-Ion electrolytes to simulate better batteries

Scientists take the first step toward creating efficient electrolyte-free batteries

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Toshiba to stop building new nuclear plants: report
Japan's Toshiba is set to dramatically reduce its nuclear operations and stop building new atomic power plants after suffering billion of dollars of losses on US projects, a report said. The engineering conglomerate, a once proud pillar of corporate Japan, is undergoing major restructuring after an accounting scandal and huge losses in its nuclear business. The company now intends to ann ... more
Iran imports 149 tonnes of uranium from Russia: atomic chief

France's Areva picks up Japanese investors

Canada uranium supplier, Fukushima operator in contract fight

Research pushes concept of entropy out of kilter
Entropy, the measure of disorder in a physical system, is something that physicists understand well when systems are at equilibrium, meaning there's no external force throwing things out of kilter. But new research by Brown University physicists takes the idea of entropy out of its equilibrium comfort zone. The research, published in Physical Review Letters, describes an experiment in which the ... more
Shaken, but not stirred

Black Hole Meal Sets Record for Duration and Size

Quantum phase transition observed for the first time



Top tech companies argue against Trump travel ban
Dozens of top tech companies - including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter - have filed a joint legal brief arguing against President Donald Trump's travel ban. The brief was filed late Sunday with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of an ongoing lawsuit against the ban. It charged that the ban "inflicts significant harm on American business, innovati ... more
One income for all: far-fetched, or future fact?

Chinese FM to visit Australia in wake of Trump tiff

India's techies fear US crackdown on high-skilled visas

Fatalities soar for Afghan forces as govt loses ground to Taliban
The death rate among Afghan troops and police soared last year as the Kabul government's overall control of the country declined significantly, an official US watchdog said in a report Wednesday. The grim new statistics paint a picture of a beleaguered nation still in the grip of a security crisis, despite many years and billions of dollars spent building up Afghanistan's army and police. ... more
Afghanistan seeks more women to join its army

Two years after NATO steps down, Afghan forces still struggle: US inspector

Syrian Kurds say not invited to Astana talks

Daily Newsletters - Space - Military - Environment - Energy

Station crew get special delivery from Virginia
This week, astronauts are unloading more than 5,000 pounds of cargo and crew supplies from the Cygnus spacecraft to support dozens of science and research investigations. However, this shipment has special significance. This shipment arrived via an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Rocket launches to the International Space ... more
Orbital cargo ship arrives at space station

New Instrument on ISS to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases

Two Russians, one American blast off to ISS

Shifting monsoon altered early cultures in China
The annual summer monsoon that drops rain onto East Asia, an area with about a billion people, has shifted dramatically in the distant past, at times moving northward by as much as 400 kilometers and doubling rainfall in that northern reach. The monsoon's changes over the past 10,000 years likely altered the course of early human cultures in China, say the authors of a new study. Researche ... more
The ancient Indus civilization's adaptation to climate change

EU ahead of the curve on climate fight

Land-use change possibly produces more carbon dioxide than assumed so far



N. Korea nuclear attack would trigger 'overwhelming response': Mattis
/> Any nuclear attack by North Korea would trigger an "effective and overwhelming" response, US Defence Secretary James Mattis said Friday as he sought to reassure Asian allies rattled by President Donald Trump's isolationist rhetoric. Mattis spoke in the South Korean capital of Seoul on the first overseas tour by a senior Trump administration official as concerns rise about the direction o ... more
Defiant Iran in missile exercise day after US sanctions

Trump slaps sanctions on Iran as tension mounts

VP Pence warns Iran against testing Trump's resolve

Exile, jail, abduction: the hazardous lives of China's rich
The mysterious case of a billionaire who went missing from Hong Kong last week, reportedly abducted by mainland security agents, has underscored the precarious lives of China's ultra rich. Local media say financier Xiao Jianhua was last seen at his apartment in Hong Kong's Four Seasons hotel and is under investigation in connection with China's 2015 stocks crash. There is no shortage of ... more
Missing Chinese billionaire targeted over stocks crash: report

'Abduction' of China tycoon sparks fear in Hong Kong

Hong Kong leadership favourite testifies in corruption trial

Daily Newsletters - Space - Military - Environment - Energy

A struggle for land and survival in Kenya's restive highlands
/> The broad plains of Mugie, a huge estate on a high plateau northwest of Mount Kenya, are crisscrossed with cattle trails and the wildlife is mostly gone. The knee-high grass remains, but not for long, reckons manager Josh Perrett. Tensions between semi-nomadic pastoralists and settled landowners are nothing new, nor is competition between livestock and wildlife, but in Kenya's centr ... more
Weapons seized from Gambia ex-leader's home: general

Shabaab attacks Kenya army base in Somalia

14 members of pro-govt militia killed in Mali attack

Denel to deliver armored vehicles to Namibia
South Africa-based defense contractor Denel is on track to deliver armored patrol vehicles and lightweight remote weapon systems to Namibia. Namibia's order includes eight RG32M vehicles in addition to four SDROW weapon stations. Denel officials expect to deliver all the items by the end of March 2017. The RG32M is part of a family of mine-resistant 4x4 vehicles used by peacekeep ... more
Army orders mortar fuzes for FMS customer

Harris providing electronic warfare gear to Morocco

Austria orders Pandur 6x6 armored personnel carriers



Keel laid for future USS Lyndon B. Johnson
The U.S. Navy held a keel laying and authentication ceremony for the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer. The keel laying ceremony marked the joining of the developing ship's components months ahead of the start of the ship's construction. The event was held at General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works' shipyard in Bath, Maine, and was attended by industry and mil ... more
Chinese aircraft carrier program to make new advances in 2017

Nammo, Navy form private-public partnership

US delivers two more patrols boats to ally Tunisia

A new recruit for ESA's astronaut corps
Matthias Maurer, from Germany, has started his astronaut training as part of ESA's astronaut corps. Matthias was among the 10 finalists in 2009 selection, and is now undergoing basic training at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is on the International Space Station and all the original class of 2009 have now flown in space. Matthias Maurer's n ... more
Progress Underway for First Commercial Airlock on Space Station

The Outer Space Treaty has been remarkably successful - but is it fit for the modern age?

Full Braking at Alpha Centauri



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