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Polysynthetic twinned TiAl single crystals for high-temperature applications

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                                Prof. Chen Guang (in dark suit) at press conference on<br />
                               China’s major breakthrough in aviation and aerospace materials<br />
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<a href="http://news.ifeng.com/a/20160622/49214461_0.shtml" target="_blank">A report on June 22</a>, Professor Chen Guang’s success in developing an 
aircraft engine material much better than US best alloy for aircraft 
engine.<br />
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It seems that the new alloy will allow an engine built with it to operate at 150-200 degrees celsius higher temperature. <br />
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Chen has achieved the success through long-term research with 
the funding from Nanjing Polytechnic University and the state’s Program 
973.<br />
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Prof. Chen’s achievement, Polysynthetic twinned TiAl (PST TiAl) 
single crystals for high-temperature applications, was published on the 
Internet at <a href="http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v15/n8/full/nmat4677.html" target="_blank">Natural Materials</a> on June 20.<br />
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<i>Optical micrographs of directionally solidified Ti–45Al–8Nb PST single crystals at different withdrawal rate</i><br />
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General Electric development of the Titanium alloy Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb 
(Alloy 4822) as a critical technology for the GEnx engine used in the 
Boeing 787.<br />
Alloy 4822 was hailed as a sensational success in the development of 
aircraft engine materials as it reduces the weight of an aircraft engine
 by 200 pounds, fuel consumption by 20% and discharge of NOx by 80% and 
significantly lowered engine noise.<br />
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At room temperature, PST TiAl has high tensile ductility of 6.9%, 
yield strength of 708 MPa and tensile strength of 978 MPa, a wonderful 
combination of ductility and strength.<br />
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What is more important for aircraft engine alloy, at the high 
temperature of 900℃ its yield and tensile strength is still as high as 
637MPa and it has wonderful creep resistance. Its minimum creep rate and
 lasting life are <a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/nmat4677.epdf?shared_access_token=xf4x1O7evy7hllqZgMXkBdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0M_PZh_tPhR4KvGgIaM2O8xYaOPsST-H6ZQHzSgjpYlHE16Bcymx4aK9QiHHfQ4GSSNyFEKZwoZ34gcy_Gr6uKoPKnuQqffMsx9FUvB8ECV5uuHwsef-gXOBo3sWNTdsDs%3D" target="_blank">better than Alloy 4822 by one to two magnitudes</a>.<br />
It is
 hopeful that the allow may be used above 900℃ much higher that the 
650~750℃ for Alloy 4822.<br />
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Is the mystery of the 'impossible' fuel free EmDrive thruster about to be solved?

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The technology has been dubbed the 'warp drive' for its similarity to the power plant from the fictional Star trek series.<br />
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<span id="ext-gen35" style="font-size: 1.2em;">It has been dubbed the  'impossible engine', that could take humans to Mars in just 10 weeks - but nobody knows how. </span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen36" style="font-size: 1.2em;">The so-called EmDrive creates thrust by bouncing microwaves around in an enclosed chamber, and uses only solar power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Many
 argue the concept is simply hype, suggesting the design goes against 
the laws of physics , and now a Nasa lab that has been studying the 
concept is set to publish its findings for the first time it has been 
claimed.</span></div>
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<span class="cap" itemprop="caption">The EmDrive cavity chamber created by Shawyer's space company Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd</span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">. <i>Roger Shawyer, Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHAT IS AN EM DRIVE? </span></span>                            </h3>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The concept of an EmDrive engine is relatively simple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It provides thrust to a spacecraft by bouncing microwaves around in a closed container.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Solar energy provides the electricity to power the microwaves, which means that no propellant is needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 implications for this could be huge. For instance, current satellites 
could be half the size they are today without the need to carry fuel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Humans could also travel further into space, generating their own propulsion on the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But when the concept was first proposed it was considered implausible because it went against the laws of physics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Its allegedly fuel-free nature also means that the drive may directly contradict the law of conservation of momentum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It suggests it would produce a forward-facing force without an equal and opposite force acting in the other direction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">British scientist Roger Shawyer devised the EmDrive concept and first presented it in 1999, but spent years having his technology ridiculed by the international space science research community. According to Shawyer, if the technology is ever commercially realised, EmDrive could transform the aerospace industry and potentially solve the energy crisis, end climate change and speed up space travel by making it much cheaper to launch satellites and spacecraft into orbit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The idea for an EmDrive was proposed in 1999 by a researcher named Roger Shawyer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Since then four independent labs, including one at Nasa, have recreated the drive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But
 the mysterious engine had baffled scientists because it appeared to 
violate the law of conservation of momentum, which states for every 
action there has to be an equal and opposite reaction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This
 means the rocket can only accelerate forward if a force of equal 
magnitude is sent in the other direction - the rocket's exhaust.</span></div>
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Nasa's Eagleworks team is now ready to reveal its findings, it has been claimed - sending the physic world into a tizzy.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It
 is my understanding that Eaglework's new paper has been today accepted 
for publication in a peer-review journal, where it will be published,' 
claims one user on the Nasa Spaceflight <a class="" href="https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=40959.msg1573592&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark" id="ext-gen31" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">forum</a>. </span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-size: small;">Is the mystery of the 'impossible' fuel free EmDrive thruster about to be solved? Claims secretive Nasa lab to publish paper on 'warp drive' that could take humans to Mars in 10 weeks</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Earlier this year, an employee confirmed the team was working on the paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The Eagleworks Lab is NOT dead and we continue down the path set by our NASA management. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Past
 that I can't say more other than to listen to Dr Rodal on this topic, 
and please have patience about when our next EW paper is going to be 
published. Peer reviews are glacially slow,' Eagleworks engineer Paul 
March wrote on the same forum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Earlier this year, a <a class="" href="http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/6/6/10.1063/1.4953807" id="ext-gen32" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">paper</a> published in AIP Advances  suggests the EmDrive produces an exhaust like every other rocket.</span></div>
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(red high, blue low) at the wide and narrow ends of a metallic tapered 
cavity differ from each other. This uneven interference of microwaves 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'EmDrive
 works just like any other engine,' Dr Arto Annila, physics professor at
 the University of Helsinki and lead author of the paper, told 
MailOnline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Its fuel is the input photons at microwave lengths.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 researchers suggest the photons coming out of the machine interfere 
with each other, so that the overall effect seems as if nothing is 
there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'In
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Then the two photons will be exactly 180 degrees out phase. </span></div>
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 the complete interference electromagnetic fields for the two photons 
will cancel exactly, but the photons themselves continue to propagate.'</span></div>
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 idea is the same as water waves travelling together, at the exact right
 time so that the crest of one wave is exactly at the trough of the 
other and cancelling each other out. </span></div>
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photons are still there and carrying momentum even though they cannot be
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The idea is the same as water waves 
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The EmDrive does work, but there's still a long way to go</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 paired photons without net electromagnetic field will escape from the 
cavity,' Dr Annila said. 'This efflux of paired photons is the exhaust 
of EmDrive.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'When
 the cavity is asymmetric, like the tapered cone, the efflux of paired 
photons is also asymmetric. Therefore the loss of momentum carried by 
the paired photons is uneven. In other words, thrust is non-zero.'</span></div>
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organic chemistry professor at the University of Jyväskylä and Patrick 
Grahn, a multiphysicist at engineering software firm Comsol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Thrust
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'Yet, certain resonant cavities, when fueled with microwaves, deliver 
thrust without apparent exhaust.' </span></div>
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interferometer, the same instrument used to detect gravitational waves.</span></div>
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excess in energy density, especially when operating EmDrive steadily,' 
he said.</span></div>
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about the exhaust can be useful to design the cavity for pairing photons
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The EmDrive creates thrust by bouncing microwaves around in an enclosed chamber, and uses only solar power.</span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen124" style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tourists  in north-west China were treated to a rare phenomenon this week when multiple waterspouts swirled over a lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The incredible scenes lasted for five minutes on Qinghai Lake in Qinghai Province on Wednesday, reported <a class="" href="http://qh.people.com.cn/n2/2016/0825/c182775-28891070.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">People's Daily Online</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 26-second-long footage was taken by one of the onlookers and was released by <a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27WnVJzJoKM" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">China Central Television Station</a> yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">According to eyewitnesses, the spectacle occurred at around 10:30am when clouds suddenly appeared in the skies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Onlookers quickly took out their mobile phones to capture the incredible sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The meteorological phenomenon is known as '<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3759722/Three-waterspouts-descend-Chinese-lake-time.html#v-222856022150433449" target="_blank">dragon sucking water</a>' in Chinese.</span></div>
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phenomenon suddenly occurred above the calm Qinghai Lake. This is so 
exciting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I have heard of "dragon sucking water" before. I'm so happy to witness the stunning scenes with my own eyes.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A spokesman from the Hainan Region Meteorological Observatory said that waterspout is a common sight on Qinghai Lake. </span></div>
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recently. When a cold front comes, it's quite normal to see the 
phenomenon.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">According to the <a class="" href="http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/waterspout.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">National Ocean Service</a> of the United States of America, waterspouts fall into two categories: the tornadic ones and the fair-weather ones.</span></div>
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 waterspout are usually accompanied by high winds and seas, large hail, 
and frequent dangerous lightning. They develop downwards from 
thunderstorms.</span></div>
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 the other hand, fair-weather waterspouts form along the dark flat base 
of a line of developing cumulus clouds. They develop on the surface of 
waters and work their way upwards.</span></div>
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Russian successfully test a pulse-detonation rocket engine

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The tests were run in July and August, but the announcement was only made on Friday on the <a href="http://fpi.gov.ru/press/news/20160826" rel="tag" target="_blank">homepage </a>of the Russian Advanced Research Foundation (FPI), which is in charge of the project.<br />
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The scientists say they have built and tested <em>“the world’s first full-size pulse-detonation rocket engine demonstrator”</em> that uses clean fuel, namely an oxygen-kerosene pairing.<br />
The
 current liquid fuel engines used by rockets to get to space have 
reached their maximum capabilities, according to the FPI. Instead, a 
pulse-detonation engine that uses high thermodynamic efficiency will 
allow spacecraft to reach previously unattainable performance.<br />
It would also result in additional workload for rockets and the reduction of cost for orbital deliveries.<br />
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<em>“We took up the challenge – to prove the possibility to 
create a detonation in oxygen-kerosene rocket engines. And now we can 
firmly say that this is possible, and we know how to do it,”</em> Igor Denisov, the FPI’s deputy director, said in comments on the successful tests.<br />
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Russia
 is a leader in developing PDRE technology, and the current project was 
launched back in 2014 under the auspices of Energomash, one of Russia’s 
key companies in space research.<br />
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<em>“The experimental studies 
have clearly confirmed the theoretical possibility of creating a 
national PDRE for a new generation of missile technology,”</em> said Boris Satovsky, the chief of the project.<br />
<em>“Many
 leading countries are involved in the development of detonation 
engines, but no one has so far yielded any serious results,”</em> he added. <br />
The initial idea for the principles of the PDRE was thought up by Soviet scientists in the middle of the last century.<br />
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Apart from Russia, the US is also involved in developing the technologies of pulse-detonation engines (PDE).<br />
Back
 in January 2008, it reportedly became the first to have tested a 
pulse-detonation engine, though powering a plane and not a rocket. The 
project was run through the US Air Force Research Laboratory, and the 
aircraft was then moved to the National Museum of the United States Air 
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Watch AI ROBOTS react to horror movies

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<span id="ext-gen60" style="font-size: 1.2em;">Robots
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together to test their reactions by showing them the trailer for the 
horror flick ‘Morgan’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Edi
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although FACE is silent, it offers its ‘thoughts' by eerily moving its 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span class="">This cyborg, although quiet, has a human-like appearance. </span></span></div>
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(Kate Mara) who is sent to investigate a bioengineered child (Anya 
Taylor-Joy), and determine whether or not the artificial being should be
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front screen and even covers its ‘eyes’ during an intense scene of the 
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to wipe us out altogether.</span></div>
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that humans could be wiped out even if robots are instructed to protect 
people.</span></div>
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everyday lives, doing menial tasks, but will eventually make humans 
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human suffering’ could be interpreted by a super computer as ‘kill all 
humans’ or that ‘keep humans safe’ could lead to machines locking people
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adding that human language is subtle and can be easily misinterpreted.</span></div>
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 ‘intentions’ or not and could act as if it is a benefit to humanity 
right until the point it takes control of all functions.</span></div>
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the risk of 'something seriously dangerous happening' as a result of 
machines with artificial intelligence, could be in as few as five years. <i>dailymail</i></span></div>
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Robots have been illustrated as humans’ mechanical servants, but experts are determined to turn these cyborgs into emotional synth...

A robot that's a real softie: 'Squishy' Octobot

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The octobot is an entirely soft, autonomous robot. A pneumatic network, 
pink, is embedded within the octobot's body and hyperelastic actuator 
arms, light blue. It's squishy like Silly Putty, wireless, battery-less 
and made for pennies by a 3-D printer<br />
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<span id="ext-gen49" style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 latest revolutionary robot isn't the metallic, costly machine you'd 
expect: It's squishy like Silly Putty, wireless, battery-less and made 
for pennies by a 3-D printer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meet
 Octobot. It looks like a tiny octopus and is designed to mimic that 
slithery creature to get through cracks and tight places, making it 
ideal as a rescue robot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A
 team at Harvard University has created a robot — actually about 300 of 
them, since they are so cheap to make — that is opposite of the common 
view of a robot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Octobot is soft, not hard. Flexible not rigid. It's not mechanical, nor electrical. It's powered by fluids. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The discovery is described, photographed and on video in the scientific journal Nature on Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen51" style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It's
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We've done something that nobody's been able to do.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Soft
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objects and soft humans' and when they interact — or collide — it can be
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">That's not the painful case with Octobot, which fits in the palm of a hand. It's softer and more adaptive, she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Here's
 a reality check: So far, all Octobot can do is wiggle a bit. It can't 
really even move along a table yet, so this is an 'extremely simple 
first step,' Lewis said. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Initially
 it was supposed to be a spider, but the team wanted both swimming and 
crawling and it looked more like an octopus, Lewis said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 idea is to make this something that is powered by a chemical reaction 
in fluids; fluid movement moves the arms and directs the robot's 
actions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It can be printed cheaply by the 3-D printer with the most costly part a really small bit of platinum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Aside from that it is essentially like bathroom caulk, 'a rubbery-type object,' Lewis said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Outside robotic experts raved about the new squishy machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In
 an email, Tufts University professor Barry Trimmer called it 'an 
ingenious approach to building and controlling a completely soft robot.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Daniela
 Rus at MIT said the discovery was what the soft robotics community has 
been looking for: 'The octopus robot is a first self-contained soft 
robot system whose components are all soft — it is a very beautiful 
machine.' <i>dailymail</i></span></div>
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(SEAS) at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have shown off
 a new method for building bio-inspired robots using tissue engineering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Based
 on the movement of batoid fish, which includes stingrays, the team has 
built a robo-ray measuring just 0.6 inches (16 millimetres) long and 
weighing just 0.4 ounces (10 grams).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They
 crafted neutrally-charged gold skeletons that mimic the stingray's 
shape, which were overlaid with a thin layer of stretchy polymer to give
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Unveils Mars 2020 probe and science goals

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<a href="http://gbtimes.com/china/china-unveils-its-mars-2020-probe-and-science-goals" target="_blank">Martian probe, set for a 2020</a> launch date, is open to public naming suggestions <br />
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China has released images of its orbiter, lander and rover for its 
ambitious 2020 Mars mission, along with details of the scientific 
instruments to be sent to the Red Planet.<br />
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Chief architect of the mission, Zhang Rongqiao, told a press conference 
in Beijing on Tuesday that the mission will be complex and ambitious, 
including an orbiter, lander and rover.<br />
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The lander will carry a gasbag, a parachute and reverse thrust engines 
in order to achieve a safe landing, while factors such as the 
long-distance data transmission delay means that the rover will have a 
high autonomy. <br />
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The science goals include studying the Martian topography, soil, 
environment, atmosphere and water ice, as well as the planet's internal 
structure and search for possible signs of life.<br />
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The mission will launch on a Long March 5 rocket from the new Wenchang spaceport on the island province of Hainan in summer 2020. <br />
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<i>Above: China's Mars 2020 lander using thrusters for landing (Xinhua).</i><br />
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After around seven months and 400m kilometres, the mission will attempt 
to enter Mars orbit and achieve the orbiting, landing and roving aspects
 of the mission.<br />
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Dr Wu Ji, director of the National Space Science Centre in Beijing which develops space science payloads, <a class="externalLink" href="http://gbtimes.com/china/china-racing-make-2020-launch-window-mars" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">revealed to gbtimes in February</a>
 that the orbiter will have on board space particle detectors and 
cameras capable of detecting methane – the presence of which may 
indicate biological processes occurring on Mars.<br />
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The rover will carry a ground penetrating radar that could reveal a much about the past and present of Mars.</i><br />
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<i><i><i><i><i><span style="font-size: 18px;"><i>The same instrument allowed China’s <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/01281656-fun-with-a-new-data-set-change.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yutu rover</a>
 to image around 400m below the lunar surface, making intriguing 
discoveries about the composition and history of the Moon, such as 
evidence of <a class="externalLink" href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/chinas-yutu-lunar-rover-found-evidence-of-multiple-volcanic-floods/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">volcanic floods</a>.</i></span></i></i></i></i>  </i><br />
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<i>2020 Mars rover.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">From the Moon to Mars</span><br />
China has already successfully put a lander and rover on the Moon in 
late 2013, but a landing on the Red Planet poses greater challenges, as 
it involves great speeds than a lunar mission, a thin but significant 
atmosphere, different gravity and an active planetary surface.<br />
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<a class="externalLink" href="http://gbtimes.com/people/ye-peijian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ye Peijian</a>,
 an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, says the probe is 
being developed by the team that completed the 2013 Chang'e-3 lunar 
lander mission.<br />
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While this will be China's first attempt at an independent mission to 
Mars, China first attempted to reach the Red Planet with Yinghuo-1 on 
the back of Russia’s exciting <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.russianspaceweb.com/phobos_grunt.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Phobos-Grunt mission</a> to return samples from one of the moons of Mars in 2011, but the spacecraft failed to leave Earth orbit.<br />
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The country was then stung by
 the success of neighbours and fellow emergent Asian space power India, 
when it successfully inserted its ‘Mangalyaan’ probe into orbit around 
Mars in 2014.<br />
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China’s 2020 mission will share the optimal launch window for Mars missions, which occurs roughly every two years, with <a class="externalLink" href="http://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nasa’s 2020 Mars mission</a>, a Japan-launched mission for the <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.emiratesmarsmission.ae/mars-probe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">United Arab Emirates</a> and perhaps also the second European-Russian <a class="externalLink" href="http://exploration.esa.int/mars/48088-mission-overview/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ExoMars </a>mission.</i></i><br />
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Sensitive Data of Navy’s Scorpene Class Submarines Leaked

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The Indian Navy’s first Scorpene submarine in Mumbai last year.<br />
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The Indian Navy’s new $3 billion fleet of submarines – said to 
be the quietest in their class – may have been compromised after 22,400 
pages of top-secret files detailing the vessels’ stealth capabilities 
were reportedly leaked from a French shipbuilder.<br />
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The leak describes in 
detail vital features of six Scorpene-class submarines that the French 
state-owned shipbuilding company DCNS designed for the Indian Navy, 
according to <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/our-french-submarine-builder-in-massive-leak-scandal/news-story/3fe0d25b7733873c44aaa0a4d42db39e" target="_blank">the Australian</a> – which published  number of redacted documents on its website.<br />
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 could become an intelligence gold mine for India’s rivals such as 
Pakistan or China, given the potential use of the data to detect, 
identify and destroy the French-built submarines in wartime.<br />
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A DCNS spokesperson said the company is unsure if the information is correct, adding: <i>“the competition is more and more hard and all means can be used in this context.”</i><br />
The
 leaked DCNS files detail frequencies on which the Indian Scorpene 
submarines gather intelligence, the levels of noise they make at various
 speeds, as well as their diving depth, range and endurance. 
Furthermore, the documents describe where on the boat the crew can speak
 safely to avoid detection by the enemy.<br />
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The news of the Edward Snowden-sized leak also discloses 
the specifications of the Scorpene’s torpedo launch system and weapons 
control electronics, which would allow an adversary to uncover the 
strengths and weaknesses of the Indian Navy’s submarine forces.<br />
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The
 data seen by the <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/" target="_blank">Australian lists</a> 4,457 pages on the submarines’ 
underwater sensors, 4,209 pages on their above-water sensors, 4,301 
pages on their combat control system, 493 pages on their torpedo launch 
system, 6,841 pages on the subs’ communications, and 2,138 on their 
navigation systems.<br />
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The
 $3-billion project – which the Indian government hopes will 
significantly improve India’s naval power in the region – is already 
four years behind schedule. The DCNS-designed Scorpene was chosen ahead 
of its German and Japanese rivals because of its superior stealth 
capabilities.<br />
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Twelve submarines of the same type are currently 
being built by the French for the Australian Navy, a major US ally in 
the region. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the leak was
 <i>“worrying”</i> and could have a potential impact for the country’s security.<br />
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DCNS Australia this month signed a deed of agreement with the Defence 
Department, paving the way for talks over the contract which will guide
 the design phase of the new submarines. The government plans to build 
12 submarines in Adelaide to replace the six-boat Collins-class fleet 
from the early 2030s. The Shortfin Barracuda will be a slightly shorter,
 conventionally powered version of France’s new fleet of Barracuda-class
 nuclear submarines.<br />
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On
 Tuesday, DCNS implied the leak might have originated in India, where 
the six Scorpenes are being assembled, insisting that the company does 
not control the handling of technical data used by a local builder.<br />
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However, according to the Australian’s sources, the leaked 
files had been written in France in 2011, removed from the country by a 
former French Navy officer and DCNS subcontractor, and later passed to a
 Southeast Asian company.<br />
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The data was then reportedly sent on a 
data disk by regular mail to a company in Australia. It is unclear how 
widely it was shared or whether it was obtained by foreign intelligence 
agencies.<br />
Other files in the leak seen by the newspaper include 
separate top-secret DCNS documents on plans to sell French frigates to 
the Chilean Navy, as well as the canceled deal to deliver Mistral-class 
amphibious assault ships to Russia. Those documents have no link to 
India, which adds to the possibility that the data was leaked from 
France.<br />
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<i>"I understand there has been a case of hacking,"</i> Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar told reporters on Wednesday, commenting on the scandal. <i>"We will find out what has happened."</i><br />
Later on Wednesday, DCNS said it will determine whether the leak has affected other company clients. <i>"We're going to determine ... if harm was caused to our clients and establish action plans,"</i> a company spokesman said, as cited by Reuters.<br />
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An anonymous source close to the matter has also claimed the leak <i>“seems to be sensitive information but appears neither critical nor confidential."</i><br />
Except India, Scorpene-class submarines are operated by the Malaysian, Spanish and Chilean Navies.</div>
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<a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/" target="_blank"><b>Restricted data</b></a><br />
The secret information the leaked documents reveal:<br />
• The stealth capabilities of the six new Indian Scorpene submarines<br />
• The frequencies at which the subs gather intelligence<br />
• The levels of noise the subs make at various speeds<br />
• Diving depths, range and endurance<br />
• Magnetic, electromagnetic and infra-red data<br />
• Specifications of the submarine’s torpedo launch system and the combat system<br />
• Speed and conditions needed for using the periscope<br />
• Propeller’s noise specifications<br />
• Radiated noise levels when the submarine surfaces<br />
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<a href="https://theaustralianatnewscorpau.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/secret-submarine-dossier-document-11.pdf" target="_blank">Secret submarine document one</a><br />
<a href="https://theaustralianatnewscorpau.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/secret-submarine-dossier-document-21.pdf" target="_blank">Secret submarine document two</a><br />
<a href="https://theaustralianatnewscorpau.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/subs-document-3.pdf" target="_blank">Secret submarine document three</a><br />
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Huge 22.4K-page data leak shows tech details of the French-built DCNS <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Scorpene?src=hash">#Scorpene</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/submarine?src=hash">#submarine</a> <a href="https://t.co/nMaYYl3pfL">https://t.co/nMaYYl3pfL</a> <a href="https://t.co/ppLXzu3usy">pic.twitter.com/ppLXzu3usy</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 
developers called the ship a 'great British innovation' after the 
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abandoned after the famous Hindenburg disaster in 1937.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Stephen
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 combination of an aircraft that has parts of normal fixed-wing 
aircraft, it's got helicopter, it's got airship.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Airlander is designed to use less fuel than a plane, but carry heavier loads than conventional airships.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">HAV say it can reach 16,000 feet, travel at up to 90 mph and stay aloft for up to two weeks.</span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen124" style="font-size: 1.2em;">The aircraft was initially developed for the U.S. military, which planned to use it for surveillance in Afghanistan. </span></div>
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 the US blimp program was scrapped in 2013 and since then, HAV, a small 
British aviation firm that dreams of ushering in a new era for airships,
 has sought funding from government agencies and individual donors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 vast aircraft is based at Cardington, where the first British airships 
were built during and after World War I. That program was abandoned 
after a 1930 crash that killed almost 50 people, including Britain's air
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">That
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the Hindenburg, which killed 35 — dashed the dream of the airship as a 
mode of transportation for decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Unlike hydrogen, the gas used in the Hindenburg, helium is not flammable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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was scrapped at the last minute because of an unspecified technical 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr McGlennan
 said the team had been waiting for low winds for the launch on 
Wednesday but added the airship could 'operate very happily' in 80 knots
 of wind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He
 said: 'Think of a big helicopter, a really giant helicopter. This can 
do the same thing that a helicopter can do - that's to say, provide air 
transportation for people and goods without the need for a runway - but 
this thing can take more over longer distances, it's cheaper and it's 
greener. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">McGlennan
 is confident there will be plenty of customers for Airlander — both 
civilian and military — because of its potential to gather data and 
conduct surveillance for days on end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 can also carry up to 10 metric tons (22,050 pounds) of passengers or 
cargo. The company hopes to have an even bigger aircraft, capable of 
carrying 50 metric tons (110,000 pounds), in service by the early 2020s.</span></div>
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for a runway. But this thing can take more over longer distances, it's 
cheaper and it's greener,' he said.</span></div>
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 and hybrids have still got a credibility gap to cover,' he said. 
'Technically I think they are there now, but economically I'm not so 
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 clapped and cheered as the craft soared above them during its first 
outing from the First World War hangar where it was revealed in March 
after undergoing 'hundreds' of changes by HAV over two years.</span></div>
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fading and the moon visible in the sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 is about 50ft  longer than the biggest passenger jets but its four 
engines appeared noticeably quieter than a plane or helicopter as it 
took to the skies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr McGlennan, who is not a pilot but has practised flying the craft on a simulator, said it was 'very simple' to manoeuvre.</span></div>
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