Sea-based radar market tipped to grow over 10 years
Newtown, Conn. (UPI) Jun 30, 2015 -
A 10-year study of the sea-based radar market indicates it will grow to an estimated $13.037 billion, with production accounting for 61 percent of market value.
The analysis was conducted by Forecast International and detailed in its new report, "The Market for Naval Radar Systems."
Covered in the analysis are six market segments - air defense, electronic counter-measures, fire ...
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China determined to safeguard its rights over Nansha Islands
Beijing (XNA) Jul 01, 2015 -
China is determined and able to continue to safeguard its justified rights and interests of the Nansha Islands by legitimate means, Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday.
"On the Nansha Islands issues, we have resolute determination and enough capabilities. We will continue to take reasonable and legitimate approaches to safeguard our justified rights and interests of the Nansha Islands. We ...
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China's Beidou navigation system more resistant to jamming
Beijing (XNA) Jun 28, 2015 -
China has made breakthroughs in the anti-jamming capability of its Beidou satellite navigation system (BDS), the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Daily said Thursday.
The new technology, developed by Wang Feixue and his team from the National University of Defense Technology, has made the satellites 1,000 times more secure, the newspaper said.
In March, China launched the 17th BDS sate ...
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Deal or no deal, Iran president faces headaches at home
Tehran (AFP) June 30, 2015 -
Iran's president has been pursuing a nuclear agreement for two years but even if a deal is reached Hassan Rouhani and his government will soon face mounting political pressure at home.
Having sought to end the nuclear crisis - and with it the international sanctions that have paralysed Iran's economy - Rouhani's fate is often seen as inextricably linked to the negotiations.
An agreemen ...
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Iran-US talks give foes rare window into another world
Vienna (AFP) June 30, 2015 -
Iran and US have not had diplomatic ties for more than three decades, yet over the past 20 months they have likely sat down together more often than any other nations on Earth.
The sustained pace and intensity of the nuclear negotiations between Iran - an Islamic clerical theocracy - and the United States which prides itself on its constitutional freedoms, is all the more astonishing given ...
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Iran nuclear talk deadline extended to July 7
Vienna (AFP) June 30, 2015 -
Iran and six major powers on Tuesday gave themselves until July 7 to clinch a historic nuclear deal as a midnight deadline approached in marathon talks with no breakthrough in sight.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who joined the talks in Vienna earlier Tuesday, said however he believes that, after almost two years of trying, a deal ending the 13-year standoff is "within reach".
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Secret Russian Hypersonic Nuke Glider Can Pierce Any Missile Defense
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 01, 2015 -
Extremely maneuverable, ultra-fast and elusive, the hypersonic Yu-71 can break through any missile defense system, military experts said. Russia has reportedly carried out four tests already. Russia is test-launching a new hypersonic attack aircraft that can carry nuclear warheads and penetrate missile defense systems, US media said citing a report by Jane's Information Group.
The developm ...
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Russia to Develop System to Block Satellite Signals, Shut Down Missiles
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 01, 2015 -
Russian engineers are working on a new signal suppression system that could block cruise missiles and communication of satellites, said Yuri Maevskiy, the Deputy Director of Radio-Electronic Technologies Concern.
The new high-tech system will shut down cruise missiles and other high-precision weaponry, as well as jam the signals of foreign military satellites, Meavskiy said.
The syst ...
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China Builds Top Secret Midget Submarine
Beijing (XNA) Jul 01, 2015 -
Satellite imagery from October 2014 shows what appears to be a new midget submarine at China's Wuchang shipyard. The space snapshots captured by DigitalGlobe show the vessel berthed at the shipyard pier used for fitting out submarines. The midget submarine had left the pontoon by late November and by mid-January 2015, another submarine, probably a Type 041 Yuan-class boat, occupied the pier.
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America needs Russian rocket engines to fly to space
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 01, 2015 -
US space agencies need additional Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines until a domestically produced equivalent is ready for use, the head of US Space Command said June 26.
"Without access to the RD-180... we severely limit our assured access [to space], undermine the competition we have worked so diligently to enable and will have traded one monopoly for another in the medium and intermedia ...
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Hong Kong protest march seeks unity as turnout set to shrink
Hong Kong (AFP) June 30, 2015 -
Thousands are expected to gather for a pro-democracy march in Hong Kong Wednesday but organisers say numbers will be lower than in previous years as momentum has waned since a key vote last month.
It is the first large-scale protest since pan-democratic lawmakers vetoed a divisive Beijing-backed electoral reform package on how the city's next leader should be chosen in June.
The bill was ...
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Lupita Nyong'o joins fight to save Africa's elephants
Nairobi (AFP) June 30, 2015 -
Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has returned home to Kenya to spearhead a new campaign to stop the record slaughter of elephants for their valuable ivory.
More than 30,000 elephants are killed every year to satisfy demand for ivory in China and the Far East where it is worth more than $2,000 (1,790 euros) a kilogramme.
The 32-year old actress - who won an Oscar for her portrayal of ...
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Study details fluorescent Red Sea corals
Southampton, England (UPI) Jun 26, 2015 -
A rainbow of colors can be found 150 feet below the surface of the Red Sea. The cacophony of color is thanks to a variety of fluorescent coral species, newly detailed by researchers in England and Israel.
At more than 150 feet under the ocean surface, only blue light penetrates. Scientists didn't expect to find bright greens, reds and oranges, but here they were.
The glow-in-the- ...
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Scientists find deepest-ever-dwelling centipede species
Zagreb, Croatia (UPI) Jun 30, 2015 -
It's the centipede from hell - or the centipede trying to dig a hole to China. It's a centipede really far below your feet.
A team of researchers recently discovered the creature in three caves in Croatia. They scientists say it's the deepest-dwelling centipede species every discovered. Specimens of the species were recovered at depths of more than 3,600 feet.
In an homage to th ...
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Firefighters forced to kill 20 million bees escaped from truck crash
Howe, Idaho (UPI) Jun 26, 2015 -
It's been a rough couple decades for honeybees - pesticides, parasites, habitat loss, and now truck accidents and firefighters armed with deadly foam.
A truck carrying hundreds of beehives, each hosting some 50,000 bees, crashed on Thursday in Idaho. In a mad dash for freedom, the bees momentarily escaped the crumpled truck.
But firefighters responding to the accident were force ...
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Rainbow of glowing corals discovered in depths of the Red Sea
Southampton, UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 -
Glowing corals that display a surprising array of colours have been discovered in the deep water reefs of the Red Sea by scientists from the University of Southampton, UK, Tel Aviv University and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences (IUI), Israel, together with an international team of researchers.
The researchers, whose findings have been published online today in research jo ...
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In Beirut, a green paradise off-limits to Lebanese
Beirut (AFP) June 30, 2015 -
With 30 hectares (74 acres) of pine forest, it could be Beirut's answer to New York's Central Park, but for 20 years the capital's largest green space has been de facto off-limits to Lebanese.
It's a galling situation for residents of the city's concrete jungle, where activists have spent years campaigning for Horsh Beirut to be reopened to the public.
They have faced reluctance from the ...
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Fossil fuel divestment alone will not halt climate change: Gates
Paris (AFP) June 26, 2015 -
Fossil fuel divestment would be ineffective on its own as a means of halting global warming, software billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates said Friday.
Pulling money out of carbon-heavy industry must be coupled with large spending on alternative technologies to make any difference, said the Microsoft mogul who is under fire for his charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's reported ...
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China sets CO2 target, garners praise
Paris (AFP) June 30, 2015 -
China, the world's top CO2 polluter, promised Tuesday to peak emissions within about 15 years, in a move widely hailed as a boost for the global effort to curb planet warming.
Beijing's eagerly-anticipated contribution to a roster of carbon-curbing pledges was announced by Prime Minister Li Keqiang when he met French President Francois Hollande in Paris.
The venue and timing were symboli ...
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Coral gardening beckons ecotourists to restore reefs
Miami (AFP) June 30, 2015 -
Coral reefs are fragile and in danger worldwide, but a growing movement to restore them is based on the science of breaking off pieces in order to grow more, known as coral gardening.
It works like this: marine biologists cut off the tips of live branching corals, hang the pieces on man-made underwater trees where they grow, and later "outplant" them on real reefs on the ocean floor.
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Obama and Rousseff focus on climate, play down spy row
Washington (AFP) June 30, 2015 -
US President Barack Obama and Brazil's Dilma Rousseff traded compliments and vowed to work together on renewable energy Tuesday, bidding to put a bitter spying row behind them.
The pair met for extensive White House talks, a meeting originally planned for 2013 but scuppered by revelations the National Security Agency eavesdropped on Rousseff's calls.
Turning on the charm, Obama hailed st ...
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The physics of swimming fish
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 -
Fish may seem to glide effortlessly through the water, but the tiny ripples they leave behind as they wriggle their way along are evidence of a constant give-and-take of energy between the swimmer and its aqueous environment - a momentum exchange that propels the fish forward but is devilishly tricky to quantify because of the continuous nature of a large, ever-flowing body of water.
When ...
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Scientists expect below average Chesapeake Bay dead zone this summer
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 -
Scientists are expecting that this year's Chesapeake Bay hypoxic low-oxygen zone, also called the "dead zone," will be approximately 1.37 cubic miles - about the volume of 2.3 million Olympic-size swimming pools. While still large, this is 10 percent lower than the long-term average as measured since 1950.
The anoxic portion of the zone, which contains no oxygen at all, is predicted to be ...
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Backward-moving glacier helps scientists explain glacial earthquakes
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2015 -
The relentless flow of a glacier may seem unstoppable, but a team of UK and US researchers have shown that during some calving events - when an iceberg breaks off into the ocean - the glacier moves rapidly backward and downward, causing the characteristic glacial earthquakes which until now have been poorly understood.
This new insight into glacier behaviour should enable scientists to mea ...
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Rats dream about the future -- future food
London (UPI) Jun 26, 2015 -
Turns out, we have something in common with rats, after all. We both dream of cheese, sort of.
According to researchers at University College London, rats dream about the future and the routes they might take to forbidden foods. Travel and food - rats may be more sophisticated then they get credit for.
To get an idea of where rodent minds wander during down time, scientists stra ...
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