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In a special session on Saturday, the US Senate passed leglislation including authorization for $25 billion in low-interest loans to automobile manufacturers for retooling older factories. The program passed as part of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R. 2638), also called the continuing resolution on the budget. The [...]

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The GE Hitachi ESBWR Reactor. Click to enlarge. New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. has submitted a combined construction and operating license (COL) application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), selecting GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s (GEH) next-generation ESBWR (Economic Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor) reactor design. The nation’s second-largest nuclear plant operator, Entergy is seeking to reserve [...]

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Architects have always aimed towards building bigger, wider and higher (and, recently, more sustainable as well). Now technology has made a fourth design dimension possible: movement . These 15 amazing structures shift their shapes, put a new spin on style! (image via: Everingham Rotating House ) Don’t like the view out the window? Change [...]

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China, already a global center for lithium-ion battery component production and battery manufacturing, is ramping up its research and development efforts in the field, both within the private sector and with government support. At the 1 st International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Applications, organized by Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. Jiqiang Wang [...]

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A team of researchers in Costa Rica’s Alberto Manuel Brenes Reserve have been searching for plants that might help cure the mosquito-transmitted disease known as malaria. While not a common disease in Costa Rica, the country’s tropical rainforests have a wide diversity of plants that sometimes cannot be found elsewhere in the world– and [...]

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