Tesla sells over 3,000 cars in China in 9 months: firm
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 23, 2015 -
US electric carmaker Tesla Motors sold more than 3,000 cars in China, the world's biggest auto market, in the first nine months of this year, it said Friday.
The company has struggled in the Chinese market despite early positive media coverage, building up an inventory of unsold cars and laying off staff.
The firm's founder Elon Musk told the media earlier this year: "China is the only p ...
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Expect more oil from United Arab Emirates
Washington (UPI) Oct 23, 2015 -
OPEC-member United Arab Emirates could expand oil production by 30 percent by 2020 using a costly recovery technique, a U.S. federal review finds.
The United Arab Emirates was the third-largest contributor to oil production from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries last month. September oil production of 2.9 million barrels per day represented a 0.8 percent increase from th ...
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Exciting breakthrough in 2-D lasers
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2015 -
An important step towards next-generation ultra-compact photonic and optoelectronic devices has been taken with the realization of a two-dimensional excitonic laser. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) embedded a monolayer of tungsten disulfide into a special microdisk resonator to achieve bright excitonic lasing at visible l ...
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A 'hot' new development for ultracold magnetic sensors
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2015 -
Magnetoencephalography, or MEG, is a non-invasive technique for investigating human brain activity for surgical planning or research, and has been used in hospitals and universities for more than 30 years. It's just one of the many powerful technologies made possible by a tiny device called a SQUID, short for superconducting quantum interference device. SQUIDs can detect minuscule magnetic field ...
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Unveiling distribution of defects in proton conductors
Sendai, Japan (SPX) Oct 20, 2015 -
Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), recently used as a power source for households in Japan, have several drawbacks such as high-cost, material degradation and long start-up time derived from high operating temperatures up to 750C.
Lowering the operating temperature to an "intermediate" range of 300-500C would, in effect, enable the use of low-cost materials and allow for a quicker start-up whi ...
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Iran likely to sell excess enriched uranium abroad instead of diluting it
Vienna (Sputnik) Oct 20, 2015 -
The Iranian enriched uranium is expected to be exported to Russia. According to Russian officials, the preparatory work to import the enriched uranium could be completed by early next year.
"We have had some discussions on that with a certain specific country and again negotiations are going well, we are on schedule and we think that instead of diluting we can do the business and receive n ...
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Anti-clumping strategy for nanoparticles
New York NY (SPX) Oct 20, 2015 -
Nanoparticles are ubiquitous in industrial applications ranging from drug delivery and biomedical diagnostics to developing hydrophobic surfaces, lubricant additives and enhanced oil recovery solutions in petroleum fields. For such nanoparticles to be effective, they need to remain well dispersed into the fluid surrounding them. In a study published in EPJ B, Brazilian physicists identified the ...
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