Exxon, BP Defy White House; Extend Partnership with Russia
Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2014 -
Several of the largest oil companies in the world are doubling down in Russia despite moves by the West to isolate Russia and its economy. ExxonMobil and BP separately signed agreements with Rosneft - Russia's state-owned oil company - to extend and deepen their relationships for energy exploration. The U.S. slapped sanctions on Rosneft's CEO Igor Sechin in late April, freezing his assets and pr ...
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Sight for sore eyes: Augmented reality without the discomfort
Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2014 -
Augmented reality is increasingly becoming...well...a reality. Smartphone apps can point out restaurants as you scan the street with your phone camera or even identify constellations when you point your phone at the night sky. And goggle-like devices-akin to Google Glass-that you wear on your head can superimpose computer-generated images onto your direct view of the physical world.
But on ...
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UK dominates Europe large scale PV activity in 2014
Englewood CO (SPX) May 29, 2014 -
"After 7th July 2014, we will know the outcome of the consultation process to revise the support for large-scale PV plants in the UK that the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) opened in May. If the result of the process is a sharp end to the ROC scheme for large-scale solar projects on 1 April 2015, we expect a huge rush to beat the deadline and a surge in ground-mount PV installati ...
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Leaving the islands
Munich, Germany (SPX) May 29, 2014 -
In a recent study involving LMU researchers, the desorption of oxygen molecules from a silver surface was successfully visualized for the first time. The effects account for the shortcomings of conventional models of desorption.
In heterogeneous catalytic reactions, which take place at the boundary layer between a solid and the gas phase, the products finally have to desorb from the surfac ...
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A Path Toward More Powerful Tabletop Accelerators
Berkeley CA (SPX) May 29, 2014 -
Making a tabletop particle accelerator just got easier. A new study shows that certain requirements for the lasers used in an emerging type of small-area particle accelerator can be significantly relaxed.
Researchers hope the finding could bring about a new era of accelerators that would need just a few meters to bring particles to great speeds, rather than the many kilometers required of ...
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Zeroing in on the proton's magnetic moment
Saitama, Japan (SPX) May 30, 2014 -
As part of a series of experiments designed to resolve one of the deepest mysteries of physics today, researchers from RIKEN, in collaboration with the University of Mainz, GSI Darmstadt and the Max Planck Institute for Physics at Heidelberg, have made the most precise ever direct measurement of the magnetic moment of a proton.
The work, published in Nature, seeks to answer the fundamental ...
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Supersonic spray delivers high quality graphene layer
Chicago IL (SPX) May 30, 2014 -
A simple, inexpensive spray method that deposits a graphene film can heal manufacturing defects and produce a high quality graphene layer on a range of substrates, report researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Korea University.
Their study is available online in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
Graphene, a two-dimensional wonder-material composed of a sing ...
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