Is The Cold Fusion Egg About To Hatch?
Low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) is a controversial field that traces its origins to the claims of ‘cold fusion’ by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons in 1989. Cold fusion itself is…
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First On-Demand Autonomous Shuttle Trial Opens To Public
Singapore’s first on-demand autonomous shuttle public trial was officially launched at Sentosa today, marking a major milestone since on-road testing of the autonomous shuttles began in June 2018. The public…
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How Cold War Rivalry Helped Launch The Chinese Computer
It was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War win. In 1957, the Soviet bloc scored a major technological victory with Sputnik 1. The next year,…
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Singapore Makes Coding Classes Mandatory For Primary School Students, Starting 2020
All upper primary school students in Singapore will soon have to undergo a mandatory 10-hour coding program, said the country’s minister for communications and information, S Iswaran. The pilot program will…
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Total, ETH Zurich Join Forces To Convert CO2 And Hydrogen Into Methanol
ETH Zurich once more introduces another sustainable solution for the fuel industry. In cooperation with oil and gas company Total, they developed a method to efficiently convert carbon dioxide and…
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Singapore To Build First Large-Scale Floating Solar Plant By 2021
50 MWp floating solar plant will generate green energy for water treatment. National water agency PUB intends to deploy a 50 megawatt-peak (MWp) floating solar photovoltaic (PV) system on Tengeh…
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International Tech Park Gurgaon Begins Operation With Four Major IT Companies On Board
Ascendas, a member of CapitaLand Group — one of the largest real estate companies in Singapore and in Asia — started the operations of their new IT Special Economic Zone,…
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The Weird Wonders Of Combining 3D Printing With The Maths Of Pinecones And Sunflowers
Using rotating, 3D-printed sculptures that he displays under a strobe light, the US designer John Edmark, a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, creates dynamic ‘blooms’ that look…
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ABB Powers Singapore’s Digital Economy
ABB has been selected by leading data center start-up, DODID, to deliver a comprehensive electrification and automation package for its flagship data center, which has 20 percent reduced cost of…
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From 20,000 Miles Up, Our Home Planet Is A Hypnotic Swirl Of The Familiar And The Sublime
The Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 was launched in 2014 for a planned eight-year mission to collect forecasting, weather-monitoring and research data. For his experimental short A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit,…
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