France confirms wing part found on Reunion is from MH370
Paris (AFP) Sept 3, 2015 -
French prosecutors confirmed Thursday that a wing part found on a remote Indian Ocean island was from ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a month after tests on the flaperon began.
"It is possible today to say with certainty that the flaperon discovered on Reunion island on July 29 came from flight MH370," Paris prosecutors said in a statement, confirming claims made by Malaysia's prim ...
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Solar Frontier's CIS Modules Selected For 26 MW Project In North Carolina
Tokyo (SPX) Sep 02, 2015 -
Solar Frontier, the world's largest CIS solar energy solutions provider, announced that it will supply its advanced solar module technology, CIS, for a 26 MW project located near Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Solar Frontier signed the module supply agreement with a California-based solar equipment supplier and initiated the first of a series of shipments in late August. The project will ...
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G20 seeks to smooth economic shock waves from China
Paris (AFP) Sept 3, 2015 -
World finance ministers and central bankers gather in Turkey this weekend to grapple with the fallout of slowing growth in China, tanking emerging economies and panicked global stock markets.
Signs that China's economy - the world's second-largest - is slowing more than expected have panicked stock markets, pushed commodity prices to fresh lows, sparked a rout in emerging market currencies ...
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Water heals a bioplastic
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 03, 2015 -
A drop of water self-heals a multiphase polymer derived from the genetic code of squid ring teeth, which may someday extend the life of medical implants, fiber-optic cables and other hard to repair in place objects, according to an international team of researchers.
"What's unique about this plastic is the ability to stick itself back together with a drop of water," said Melik Demirel, pro ...
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EDF delays launch of EPR nuclear reactor
Paris (AFP) Sept 3, 2015 -
French energy group EDF on Thursday announced a further delay to the launch of its next generation EPR nuclear reactor, another setback for its 10.5-billion-euro ($11.6 billion) project.
The launch is now set for "the fourth quarter of 2018," said EDF CEO Jean-Bernard Levy, of the showcase project being built with atomic energy giant Areva which has faced fresh technical problems in the pas ...
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Using DNA origami to build nanodevices of the future
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Sep 03, 2015 -
Scientists have been studying ways to use synthetic DNA as a building block for smaller and faster devices. DNA has the advantage of being inherently "coded".
Each DNA strand is formed of one of four "codes" that can link to only one complementary code each, thus binding two DNA strands together. Scientists are using this inherent coding to manipulate and "fold" DNA to form "origami nanost ...
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A technique designed to predict how much energy waves will be bringing
Basque Country, Spain (SPX) Sep 03, 2015 -
Marine energy has a great future potential according to the experts, but there is still a long way to go before it can be used on a large scale. Despite the problem of intermittency, wave energy has an advantage over wind energy, for example: it is easier to predict optimum swell than some suitable gusts of wind.
That is why knowing how much energy the waves will be bringing within a few h ...
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