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President Barack Obama said his upcoming budget would increase the number of US soldiers, state the true cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and cut "Cold War-era" weapons programs. Setting out his priorities for military spending, Obama said late Tuesday in his first address to a joint session of Congress that he wanted to provide relief to men and women in uniform with higher pay and ... read more 
Seoul (AFP) Feb 25, 2009North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has visited several venues in a northeastern province where preparations for a controversial rocket launch are under way, state media reported. Kim visited the birthplace in Hoeryong town of his mother Kim Jong-Suk, who died in 1949 when he was seven, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Wednesday. The town is in North Hamkyong province ... more
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EU to probe Czech aid for two nuclear units
Japan vote moves world's biggest nuclear plant closer to restart Global nuclear arms control under pressure in 2026 Macron, on UAE visit, announces new French aircraft carrier North Korea says Japan's nuclear ambitions must be stopped 'at any cost' India's parliament passes bill to open nuclear power to private firms Russian nuclear-capable missile Oreshnik deployed in Belarus Mossad chief says Israel must 'ensure' Iran won't restart nuclear programme Zelensky says Donetsk among key disagreements in peace talks Press Release from Business Wire: Helical Fusion Co., Ltd. 
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Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 The dispatch of the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to combat the pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden is an ideal role for the enormous 80,000-ton plus warship. At first glance, deploying the Eisenhower may seem like using an enormous and extremely expensive hammer to crack open a nut. But it makes cost-effective sense in a lot of ways. ... more  
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 25, 2009The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday continued its buying spree at the country's biennal IDEX defence show, lifting its orders to a record 4.6 billion dollars despite the global credit crunch. "Total orders up to date have reached 16.8 billion dirhams" (4.6 billion dollars), IDEX 2009 defence show spokesman General Obeid al-Ketbi boasted. The enormous spending tally excludes a large ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2009The Army's Stryker armored vehicle will get its first crack at the resurgent Taliban and terrorist strongholds in Afghanistan this summer when the 2nd Infantry Division's, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team hits the ground there. Gen. David D. McKiernan, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan, said at a Pentagon news conference yesterday that ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2009Robotic technologies were used to detect and remove unexploded ordnance from training ranges at Fort Bliss, Texas, Feb. 10 in a demonstration sponsored by the U.S. Army Environmental Command. Experts from the Army's Environmental Command joined bloggers for a special roundtable discussion on how the demonstration went and how robotics could improve safety, efficiency, and provide ... more |
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France updates net-zero plan, with fossil fuel phaseout; Fight over fossil fuels nixes key text of UN environment reportParis, France (AFP) Dec 12, 2025 France released on Friday a revamped roadmap to become carbon neutral by 2050, with an ambitious plan to phase out oil and gas. ... more  
Policies to expand US grid weigh cost reliability and emissionsBoston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Growing energy demand means the U.S. will almost certainly have to expand its electricity grid in coming years. What's the best way to do this? A new study by MIT researchers examines legislation in ... more 
EU agrees to weaken and delay green business rulesBrussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 European governments and lawmakers agreed to weaken and delay new environmental and human rights rules Tuesday, clearing a key hurdle in a push to unpick EU regulations seen as too burdensome for businesses. ... more 
  
X-MAT introduces X-FOAM: A game-changing ceramic foam for extreme environmentsOrlando, FL (SPX) Dec 01, 2025 X-MAT has announced the release of X-FOAM, a 1,300°C ceramic foam engineered for use in harsh environments demanding high thermal insulation and structural performance. ... more 
Bible 1.0: How Ancient Canon Became Our First Large Language ModelsSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Modern large language models are treated as something radically new: vast statistical machines trained on almost everything humans have written, and able to regenerate knowledge on demand. Yet in structural terms, humanity has worked with something similar for millennia. ... more 
Digital twin successfully launched and deployed into spaceDavis CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 A dynamic digital twin designed by UC Davis researchers was launched into Earth's orbit last week aboard a SpaceX rocket. The innovation, which will model the current condition and predict the futur ... more
  
AI advances robot navigation on the International Space StationStanford CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025 Imagine a robot about the size of a toaster floating through the tight corridors of the International Space Station, quietly moving supplies or checking for leaks - all without an astronaut at the c ... more 
Indian dance mudras yield advanced synergies for robotic hand controlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025 Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County extracted building blocks from precise hand gestures in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Their analysis revealed a richer set ... more 
MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebeeBoston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through t ... more
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Bushehr, Iran (AFP) Feb 25, 2009The head of Iran's atomic agency said on Wednesday that it was now operating 6,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium, defying international calls that it halt the sensitive nuclear process, "We have 6,000 centrifuges working and we plan to increase them. In the next five years we plan to have 50,000 centrifuges," Atomic Energy Organisation Gholam Reza Aghazdeh told reporters. He was speaking ... more 
McLean VA (SPX) Feb 26, 2009Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a $3.3 million task order to analyze technical data and emerging technologies for the Joint and Special Operations Program at Navy Crane in Crane, IN. The Joint and Special Operations Program at Navy Crane develops weapons, munitions, enhanced optics, infrared targeting systems and other technologies in support of the Special Operations warfigh ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Feb 25, 2009A British businessman who has announced plans for a 50-million-dollar fund to invest in North Korea said Wednesday he does not view the communist state's planned rocket launch as a complicating factor. The ChosunFund was opened Tuesday, the day the North announced it would launch a research satellite into orbit -- a move widely seen in Seoul and Washington as a pretext to test its long-range ... more  
Prague, Czech Republic (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 More than a decade ago U.S. Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the supreme allied commander Europe, arrived in Prague a hero. Clark is still a hero to most Czechs -- to most Europeans, as a matter of fact. It isn't just that he is seen as a hero; Wesley Clark is a true-blue war hero, a religious man, a great American -- one with a remarkably human side. Clark was the first North Atlantic Treaty Orga ... more |
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