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  Vladivostok, Russia (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 Shinzo Abe confirmed Wednesday his plans to visit China this year in what would be the first trip to the country by a Japanese prime minister since 2011, the latest sign of warmer ties between the two rivals. "I intend to visit China this year, the year in which we commemorate the 40th anniversary of the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China," Abe said in a speech at an economic forum in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok. "After that, I very much wish ... read more |
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Abe dangles 'financial aid' in return for NKorea concessionsVladivostok, Russia (AFP) Sept 10, 2018 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday said he was ready to provide financial aid to Pyongyang on condition that it resolves the issues of its nuclear and missile test and abducted Japanese nationals. ... more  
US approves possible sale of early-warning planes to JapanWashington (AFP) Sept 10, 2018 The US State Department said Monday it is ready to approve the sale of up to nine early-warning military planes to Japan, in a sale worth more than $3 billion. ... more 
N. Korea in focus as Putin to meet Asian leadersVladivostok, Russia (AFP) Sept 9, 2018 Nuclear-armed North Korea will be in the spotlight as Russia's Vladimir Putin begins meetings with Asian leaders Monday, aiming to drive regional diplomacy as a push backed by Donald Trump appears to stall. ... more  
Japan disasters highlight vulnerable infrastructureTokyo (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 Flooded runways, thousands of passengers stranded and a tanker smashing into an access bridge: last week's typhoon in Japan highlighted the vulnerability of Kansai Airport which serves a region with an economy bigger than Belgium's. ... more |
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Race to find survivors after deadly Japan quake, landslidesTokyo (AFP) Sept 6, 2018 Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors Thursday after a powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes in Japan, killing at least 11 people and leaving dozens missing. ... more 
Japan 'confirms first Fukushima worker death from radiation'Tokyo (AFP) Sept 5, 2018 Japan has announced for the first time that a worker at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has died after being exposed to radiation, Japanese media reported. ... more  
Airbus-built ACLS Life Support Rack is ready for launch from TanegashimaFriedrichshafen, Germany (ESA) Sep 06, 2018 Airbus is sending a new Life Support Rack to the International Space Station (ISS). The rack also known as Advanced Closed Loop System (ACLS) has been developed by Airbus for the European Space Agen ... more 
Japan's Kansai airport to reopen partially after typhoon damageTokyo (AFP) Sept 6, 2018 Japan's Kansai airport will reopen partially on Friday, the government said Thursday, after a massive typhoon flooded parts of the transport hub and swept a tanker onto the only bridge connecting it to the mainland. ... more 
Japan claims China 'escalating' military actionsTokyo (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 Japan's defence chief on Monday warned the country faces a tough security environment, with China and Russia stepping up military activity and North Korea posing "imminent threats". ... more |
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Race to find survivors after deadly Japan quake, landslidesTokyo (AFP) Sept 6, 2018 Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors Thursday after a powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes in Japan, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing. ... more  |
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Strongest typhoon in quarter century hits Japan Tokyo (AFP) Sept 4, 2018 The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years made landfall Tuesday, with more than a million people urged to evacuate to escape violent winds and heavy rainfall. ... more 
Going up! Japan to test mini 'space elevator'Tokyo (AFP) Sept 4, 2018 A Japanese team working to develop a "space elevator" will conduct a first trial this month, blasting off a miniature version on satellites to test the technology. ... more
Japan braces for 'very strong' typhoonTokyo (AFP) Sept 2, 2018 Japan on Sunday braced for a "very strong" typhoon, with authorities warning of high waves, floods and landslides, including in areas hit by deadly flooding earlier this year. ... more 
Japan eyes record defence budget amid N. Korea, China threatsTokyo (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 Japan's defence ministry on Friday made its biggest-ever budget request, seeking better missile defence and bolstered air power amid ongoing threats from North Korea and China. ... more  
Structural fluctuation evaluation in substances from measurement dataKumamoto, Japan (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 Microstructure analysis of materials is a key technology for new material research. Using an information extraction technique called sparse modeling, a collaboration of researchers led by Professor ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 
Flooded runways, thousands of passengers stranded and a tanker smashing into an access bridge: last week's typhoon in Japan highlighted the vulnerability of Kansai Airport which serves a region with an economy bigger than Belgium's.
Because of concerns about engine noise, Kansai - located in the bay of Osaka - is the world's first airport entirely situated on a huge man-made island, puttin ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Sep 13, 2018 
Researchers looking to hydrogen as a next-generation clean energy source are developing hydrogen-sensing technologies capable of detecting leaks in hydrogen-powered vehicles and fueling stations before the gas turns into an explosion. The most common type of hydrogen sensors is composed of palladium-based thin films because palladium (Pd), a silvery-white metal resembling platinum, readily absor ... more |
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 Livermore CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2018 
Insights from experiments at Sandia National Laboratories designed to push chemical systems far from equilibrium allowed an international group of researchers to discover a new major source of formic acid over the Pacific and Indian oceans.
In addition to being the smallest organic acid and an important chemical for communication among ants, formic acid is the most abundant organic acid in ... more |
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 Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Sep 04, 2018 
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic "building blocks" from which stable structures formed.
The findings, reported in Nature Communications, provide insights that may improve design of 2D materials for fast-charging energy-storage and electronic devices.
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2018 
The US State Department said Monday it is ready to approve the sale of up to nine early-warning military planes to Japan, in a sale worth more than $3 billion.
The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft, made by Northrop Grumman, are equipped with powerful radars that can detect other planes and ships at long range.
Worth an estimated $3.1 billion, the deal would also include associated technolo ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 
Engineers have successfully tested the propulsion system of China's planned space station lab capsules, a key step in its space station program.
Weighing 66 tonnes, the space station will comprise a core module and two lab capsules. The propulsion system will determine whether lab capsules can move in space.
Engineers designed 36 engines for the propulsion system with four to adjust ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 10, 2018 
Humans have long been masters of dexterity, a skill that can largely be credited to the help of our eyes. Robots, meanwhile, are still catching up. Certainly there's been some progress: for decades robots in controlled environments like assembly lines have been able to pick up the same object over and over again.
More recently, breakthroughs in computer vision have enabled robots to make b ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 10, 2018  Beijing officials have shut down one of China's largest "underground" Protestant churches for operating without a licence, the Communist government's latest move to ramp up control over religious worship.
Around 70 officials stormed into the Zion Church - housed on the third floor of a nondescript office building in the north of the capital - after its Sunday afternoon service, said church ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 06, 2018 
PlanetWatchers has developed a new multi-source Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) platform that utilizes multiple SAR sources to deliver actionable insights without the usual delays due to weather, time of day, and environmental conditions. Natural resource managers will now receive enhanced risk management and analytical data from the new platform.
World-renowned remote sensing specialist Pr ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 12, 2018 
Researchers have discovered evidence of beer brewing dating to 13,000 years ago, several thousand years before the cultivation of grains in the Near East.
The discovery lends credence to those who argue beer, not bread, inspired the earliest grain growers.
Scientists didn't find beer steins or stout recipes. Instead, they found telling plant residues on stone mortars inside a cav ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Sep 10, 2018 
Wolf 503b, an exoplanet twice the size of Earth, has been discovered by an international team of Canadian, American and German researchers using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. The find is described in a new study whose lead author is Merrin Peterson, an Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) graduate student who started her master's degree at Universite de Montreal (UdeM) in May. ... more |
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 Kochi, India (AFP) Sept 4, 2018 
"Rat fever" and other diseases have killed 14 people in the southern Indian state of Kerala after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said Tuesday.
The separate death toll from the monsoon floods that forced more than a million people from their homes in Kerala last month has meanwhile risen to 486, the government said.
"We had anticipated leptospirosis (rat fever) due to c ... more |
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 Doumassi, Gabon (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 
Just back from the hunt with a choice selection of plants, Ebona feels at home in the endless forest where many Gabonese fear to tread.
"Townsfolk paid me to find these leaves," the Pygmy says, setting the heap down outside his wooden hut, 500 metres (yards) from the rest of Doumassi village in north Gabon.
Ebona's people, the Baka, are held in folklore to be Africa's oldest inhabitants, ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 
Future space tourists may be able to toast the view from orbit with fine champagne, after designers came up with a high-tech bottle made for knocking back bubbly in zero gravity.
The Mumm champagne house teamed up with designer Octave de Gaulle, who has specialised in conceiving of everyday objects for the final frontier, to develop the space-age bottles.
Journalists from several countri ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 06, 2018 
The Soviet rocketry program, which would eventually help Moscow achieve strategic parity with the United States and send human beings into space, had its origins in a design reverse-engineered from a captured German V-2.
Russian Space Systems, a subsidiary of Roscosmos, has published a unique and detailed photo album detailing the elements that comprised the R-1, a short-range ballistic mi ... more |
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