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June 16, 2014

Wealthy Chinese buy space flight tickets: report
Beijing (AFP) June 13, 2014
More than 300 Chinese space enthusiasts have booked tickets costing nearly $100,000 for a five minute trip to outer space, official media reported Friday. The 305 buyers snapped up tickets for a trip with Dutch firm Space Expedition Corp (SXC) when they went on sale on Taobao, an online retail website, the state-run China Daily reported. The trips will take place in a two-man craft that remains in space for five to six minutes, giving the tourist a rarely seen view and the experience of weightle ... read more

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Charging Portable Electronics in 10 Minutes Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a three-dimensional, silicon-decorated, cone-shaped carbon-nanotube cluster architecture for lithi ... more		New computer program aims to teach itself everything about anything In today's digitally driven world, access to information appears limitless. But when you have something specific in mind that you don't know, like the name of that niche kitchen tool you saw at a fr ... more		Trump's 'Golden Dome' US missile defense plan faces major challenges Iran lawmakers ratify partnership treaty with Russia Iran-US nuclear talks set for Rome this week		The Inflatable Concrete Dome When concrete shells are constructed, they usually have to be supported by elaborate timber structures. A revolutionary technique developed at the Vienna University of Technology now uses inflatable ... more
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