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Thailand moving ahead with high speed rail plans that will eventually be part of a high speed rail network from China to Laos, Malaysia and Singapore

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Thailand’s military government approved a massive budget to upgrade the country’s railways including high-speed rail that would eventually link with China as part of an eight-year plan to improve infrastructure. The junta approved 741.46 billion baht ($23.3 billion) to build two high-speed train routes that will connect Thailand’s industrialized eastern seaboard with its northern and …

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Eric Drexler Counts Five kinds of nanotechnology and two are not called nanotechnology currently

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Eric Drexler counts five kinds of nanotechnology, of which only three are called by that name. Of the three, one is a revolutionary prospect, one is a fantasy, and the third is mostly materials science. As for the other two kinds, one is the heart of today’s greatest technological revolution, while the other is the …

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Hydrogel implant enables light activated genetically modified cells that can treat diabetes and other diseases

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Light can now be used to heal diabetes in mice. By implanting a transparent gel that contains genetically modified light-sensitive cells, researchers have demonstrated a new type of implant that could one day be used to treat disease and monitor toxins in people. “Light is a great tool to interface with biological systems, but there …

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Electricity, lighting, clean cooking and heating, smartphones, electrified transportation for the bottom 1 to 3 billion is possible in 10-20 years

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The IEA projects that under business as usual close to 1 billion people will still be without access to electricity and 2.6 billion people will still lack access to clean cooking facilities in 2030. The IEA estimates that total investment of nearly $1 trillion ($979 billion) would be required to achieve universal energy access by …

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Spacex Grasshopper flew 250 meters into the air on a windy day

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SpaceX’s Grasshopper flew 250 meters (820 feet) straight up, tripling the height flown on its previous leap. The video provides a great overhead view from SpaceX’s hexacopter. Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. Spacex …

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European Space Agency has 2018 mission to probe ice on the moon

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By 2018 a mission which includes British technology hopes to have landed a robot probe on the surface of the Moon to find out if it has ice present under the surface. Finding ice would upend scientific orthodoxy and the results of previous lunar missions, which suggested that the Moon was dry. The £500 million …

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European Space Agency has 2018 mission to probe ice on the moon

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By 2018 a mission which includes British technology hopes to have landed a robot probe on the surface of the Moon to find out if it has ice present under the surface. Finding ice would upend scientific orthodoxy and the results of previous lunar missions, which suggested that the Moon was dry. The £500 million …

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Tighter crystals means better graphene

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Similar to how tighter stiches make for a better quality quilt, the “stitching” between individual crystals of graphene affects how well these carbon monolayers conduct electricity and retain their strength, Cornell researchers report. The quality of this “stitching” — the boundaries at which graphene crystals grow together and form sheets — is just as important …

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Tighter crystals means better graphene

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Similar to how tighter stiches make for a better quality quilt, the “stitching” between individual crystals of graphene affects how well these carbon monolayers conduct electricity and retain their strength, Cornell researchers report. The quality of this “stitching” — the boundaries at which graphene crystals grow together and form sheets — is just as important …

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