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Adani to begin work on Australia mine by August: report![]() Mumbai (AFP) March 19, 2017 India's Adani Enterprises says work on a giant coal mine near Australia's Great Barrier Reef will begin in August despite mounting opposition to the long-delayed project, local media reported Sunday. The controversial $16 billion Carmichael mine - destined to be one of the world's biggest - has encountered numerous regulatory and legal hurdles, leading to over six years of delays. Company chairman Gautam Adani said his board was expecting final approvals from the Australian federal government ... read more |
Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From IndiaBengaluru, India (IANS) Mar 17, 2017 Seven teams, including three from India, have qualified for the country's first private moon mission in December, space technology start-up TeamIndus said on Wednesday. "Teams Callisto, Ears a ... more
India test fires BrahMos Extended Range missileWashington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017 Indian defense researchers completed a test launch with the BrahMos Extended Range Missile in a move industry partners praised as a milestone for the program. ... more
Nuera Solar Announces Partnership with The Solar Village ProjectBarrington RI (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 Nuera Solar has announced a partnership with the Solar Village Project, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that delivers light and power to communities in Africa, India, and Polynesia. The p ... more
Nepal police demolish camp for earthquake displacedKathmandu (AFP) March 14, 2017 Nepal police Tuesday demolished the largest remaining settlement of people displaced by a powerful earthquake that struck nearly two years ago, a move that will leave hundreds homeless. ... more |
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Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighborTempe AZ (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 Unlocking humanity's future as an interplanetary species is no simple feat. But students at Arizona State University and the Central University of Tamil Nadu in India are up for the challenge. The i ... more
BrahMos Aerospace to Be Indian DRDO's Commercial Wing AbroadNew Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017 India's Defense Research Development Organization (DRDO) has decided to use BrahMos Aerospace as its commercial wing to advertise products for sale worldwide. BrahMos Aerospace will soon submit a pa ... more
NASA finds missing LRO, Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbitersWashington (UPI) Mar 10, 2017 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said it has located its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft after disappearing for years. ... more
ISRO Makes More Space for Private Sector Participation in Satellite MakingNew Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 07, 2017 The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is thinking of ways to enhance involvement of the private sector in its future satellite launches and include local firms in making integrated systems a ... more
Chemists create molecular 'leaf' that collects and stores solar power without solar panelsBloomington IN (SPX) Mar 09, 2017 An international team of scientists led by Liang-shi Li at Indiana University has achieved a new milestone in the quest to recycle carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere into carbon-neutral fuels ... more
Space squadron supports record-breaking satellites launchEglin AFB FL (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 The 20th Space Control Squadron's Charlie Crew successfully tracked India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Feb. 15. Loaded with 104 satellites, the Indian PSLV set the record for the most spacecraft ... more |
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115 migrants rescued, 25 missing: Libya navyTripoli (AFP) March 3, 2017 The Libyan navy said it rescued 115 migrants Friday headed for Europe whose overloaded rubber boat was sinking off the coast near Tripoli, and that another 25 people were missing. ... more
India's Moon Mission on 2018 Target, Says ISRO ChiefMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2017 ISRO boss AS Kiran Kumar says the second lunar mission Chandrayaan 2 is making good progress; it is scheduled for launch next year. But critics question why should India get into the manned spacefli ... more
India has capability to develop space station, says top officialNew Delhi (XNA) Mar 03, 2017 India has the capability to develop a space station, a top official of the state-owned space agency has said. "We have all the capabilities to set up a space station. The day the country takes ... more
India stages successful test of missile interceptorBalasore, India (UPI) Mar 1, 2017 India has successfully test-fired its Advanced Air Defense interceptor against a ballistic missile traveling at low altitude. ... more |

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Washington (UPI) Mar 21, 2017 The U.S. Air Force issued an invitation this week to industry to participate in a capability assessment of light attack aircraft.
The live-fly experiment, part a broader Air Force effort to explore cost-effective attack platform options, will be held this summer at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
The off-the-shelf aircraft from industry participants will be flown by service ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Lockheed Martin to recoat U.S. Air Force F-22s Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2017Boeing gets $3.2B for Apache sales to Saudi Arabia Singapore (AFP) March 21, 2017BOC Aviation orders 13 Boeing jets worth $1.4 bln |
Jerusalem (AFP) March 17, 2017
Intel's $15-billion purchase of Israeli firm Mobileye could help fuel the country's rise in the driverless car industry - not as a builder of vehicles, but as the brains behind them.
Monday's deal, the largest ever in Israel's tech sector, could help boost trade despite the fact no commercial cars are assembled in the country.
The self-styled "startup nation" has no real tradition of au ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017Germany pushing e-mobility options New York (AFP) March 16, 2017More gas guzzlers due to Trump? Not necessarily Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) March 15, 2017German prosecutors search Audi offices over 'dieselgate' |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017
Through the use of more natural gas and renewables, the United States and China, the lead world economies, helped keep global emissions flat, the IEA said.
The International Energy Agency reported Friday that global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, were flat in 2016 for the third year in a row, even as the global economy grew.
"These three year ... more Paris (AFP) March 17, 2017CO2 stable for 3rd year despite global growth: IEA Sussex, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017New research urges a rethink on global energy subsidies Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017New Zealand lauded for renewables, but challenges remain |
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 21, 2017
Like a potter shaping clay as it spins on a wheel, physicists use magnetic fields and powerful particle beams to control and shape the plasma as it twists and turns through a fusion device. Now a physicist has created a new system that will let scientists control the energy and rotation of plasma in real time in a doughnut-shaped machine known as a tokamak.
"When designing fusion machines, ... more Graz, Austria (SPX) Mar 21, 2017TU Graz researchers show that enzyme function inhibits battery ageing Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Exhaust fumes as a resource Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Non-toxic material that generates electricity through hot and cold |
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Tokyo (AFP) March 15, 2017
Toshiba shares plunged Wednesday as fears grow about the future of one of Japan's best-known firms, hit by massive losses and accounting fraud allegations at its US nuclear unit.
The Tokyo-listed stock dropped as much as 13.62 percent at one point, with concerns that the embattled company's shares could be delisted from the bourse.
Toshiba ended the day at 189.5 yen ($1.65), down 12.22 p ... more London, UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017The EIC and Nuclear AMRC sign MoU Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017German energy company RWE evolving for success Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Potential approach to how radioactive elements could be 'fished out' of nuclear waste |
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017
Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy. Intense tides tore the star apart, which produced an eruption of optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light that first reached Earth in 2014. Now, a team of scientists using observations from NASA's Swift satellite have mapped out how and where these different wavelengths were produced in t ... more New York NY (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Radiation from nearby galaxies helped fuel first monster black holes Boston MA (SPX) Mar 16, 2017Scientists identify a black hole choking on stardust Washington DC (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Streamlining the measurement of phonon dispersion |
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Berlin (AFP) March 15, 2017
Finance ministers from the world's top nations gather in Germany Friday as fears grow that US President Donald Trump could upend the global economic order with his America First policy.
Within two months of moving into the White House, Trump has already torn up the trans-Pacific free trade pact, threatened punitive tariffs against multinationals with factories outside the United States and a ... more Geneva (AFP) March 21, 2017China asks WTO to weigh in on EU anti-dumping measures Tangiers, Morocco (AFP) March 20, 2017Morocco's Tangiers to host Chinese industrial city Newark DE (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Unforeseen impacts of the fair trade movement |
Washington (AFP) March 9, 2017
The top US military commander for the Middle East warned Thursday that the United States would need more troops on the ground in Afghanistan to stave off a resurgent Taliban.
General Joseph Votel, who heads US Central Command (Centcom), told the Senate Armed Forces Committee he was currently working on a new strategy to break the war out of a stalemate.
"I do believe it will involve addi ... more Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) March 3, 2017Iraqi Kurds, PKK fight proxy battle in north Iraq Beijing (AFP) March 1, 2017Bloody Islamic State video puts China in cross-hairs Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) March 2, 2017US drone kills two on motorbike in Pakistan: officials |
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Chincoteague Island, VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2016
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 Miami (AFP) Oct 23, 2016Orbital cargo ship arrives at space station Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2016New Instrument on ISS to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 19, 2016Two Russians, one American blast off to ISS |
Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 17, 2017
Global warming is driven by the Earth's energy imbalance (EEI): our planet traps more and more heat due to continuous increasing greenhouse gases. From the energy perspective, the global warming is actually ocean warming, since ocean stores more than 90% of the trapped heat. Therefore, ocean heat content (OHC) change is a fundamental indicator of global warming, thus direct measurement of OHC wi ... more Geneva (AFP) March 21, 20172017 already marked by climate extremes: UN Durham NH (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Is spring getting longer Paris (AFP) March 20, 2017Climate change 'makes deadly China pollution worse' |
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Beijing (AFP) March 18, 2017 The US and China pledged on Saturday to work together in addressing the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear programme, as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned regional tensions had reached a "dangerous level."
The language from Tillerson and his Chinese counterpart after talks in Beijing was notably conciliatory after a run-up in which US President Donald Trump accused China of doing ... more Seoul (AFP) March 21, 2017North Korea nuclear programme in 'new phase': IAEA Jerusalem (AFP) March 20, 2017Israeli nuclear whistleblower says state hounding him Fuling, China (AFP) March 17, 2017China re-brands Cold War nuclear bunker as tourist draw |
Hong Kong (AFP) March 21, 2017 Hong Kong will see a creative surge as Art Basel comes to town, but there's a push for a more permanent change to the visual landscape of the city better known for its business hustle than its art scene.
Asia's largest art fair unveils its first preview Tuesday and has boosted Hong Kong's artistic credentials since it first launched in the city four years ago.
A vibrant, wide-ranging "ar ... more Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2017Chinese police 'admit torture' of dead suspect Hong Kong (AFP) March 17, 2017Warhol Mao portrait goes under the hammer in Hong Kong Hong Kong (AFP) March 17, 2017Hong Kong protesters jailed for 3 years for anti-China clashes |
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Abuja (AFP) March 21, 2017 A Nigerian rights group on Tuesday called for an investigation into "attacks" on the Amnesty International office in Abuja following heavy criticism by the country's military.
Protesters had surrounded the Amnesty office in the Nigerian capital on Monday and Tuesday, demanding that the London-based rights group leave the country immediately.
The demonstration comes less than a month af ... more Bamako (AFP) March 19, 2017Rags, not riches, defining Africa's urban explosion Conakry (AFP) March 13, 2017Senegal extradites Guinean soldier wanted over massacre Addis Ababa (AFP) March 10, 2017.africa joins the internet |
Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2017
Orbital ATK is to supply its Bushmaster M44 Chain Gun to Lithuania to arm the Lithuanian Army's new Vilkas 8X8 infantry fighting vehicles.
The contract from the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense calls for 90 guns, which will be integrated with a Rafael's Samson MKII Remote Weapons Station on the vehicles, the company said.
Deliveries will begin this year but details of the ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017FNSS beings production for Turkish KORKUT armored vehicle Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017Ukroboronprom test fires Shkval, Stilet weapons Ashburn VA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Curtiss-Wright Expands Secure Manufacturing Capabilities for Sensitive U.S. DoD Aerospace and Defense Programs |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 21, 2017 Austal USA received a $36.6 million contract modification to provide core class services and studies for the U.S. Navy's littoral combat ships.
The company's services will include engineering assessment, production tasks, and conducting special studies to evaluate the costs of how the vessels are utilized. Austal will also test new technologies associated with the littoral combat ship p ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2017Report: Taiwan gains decommissioned frigates Kaohsiung, Taiwan (AFP) March 21, 2017Taiwan launches submarine project in face of China threat BAE Systems to modernize U.S. Navy cruiser |
Washington (AFP) March 21, 2017
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a law that said manned missions to deep space, including to Mars, would be the US space agency's main goal in the decades to come.
According to the text - adopted by a rare unanimous vote in the Senate and House of Representatives - NASA will work toward the goal of "a crewed mission to Mars in the 2030s."
The law also highlights the importance ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 21, 2017Russia to Build First New-Generation 'Federation' Spacecraft by 2021 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2017COBALT Flight Demonstrations Fuse Technologies to Gain Precision Landing Results Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2017NASA Selects New Research Teams to Further Solar System Research |
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