Royal Navy’s T26 GCS next-gen warship unveiled

Royal Navy’s T26 GCS next-gen warship unveiled: "The U.K.’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) has unveiled its new multi-mission warship - the Type 26 Global Combat Ship (T26 GCS). Due to replace the thirteen Type 23 frigates in Britain’s Royal Navy when it enters service in after 2020, the T26 GCS has been in development by the MOD and BAE Systems since 2010 and is intended for use in combat and counter-piracy operations as well as supporting humanitarian and disaster relief work around the world."

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Slovenia's supercar: The Tushek Renovatio T500

Slovenia's supercar: The Tushek Renovatio T500: "In the future, every nation on the globe may just have its own home-brewed supercar. We're getting closer every year, one country at a time. We've seen a 1,100-hp electric supercar from Croatia. Brazil and Poland have chimed in with their thoughts on supercar design. The Netherlands and Denmark have represented. Now, Slovenia has a little something to say."

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Room-temperature solid state maser may be the laser of tomorrow

Room-temperature solid state maser may be the laser of tomorrow: "Everyone has heard of lasers, but hardly anyone outside of a physics lab or a science fiction novel has heard of a maser. Despite the fact that it was the precursor of the laser, the maser has been something of a technological backwater because masers are difficult to build and expensive to operate. "

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War of the Worlds: Curiosity fires first laser shot on Mars

War of the Worlds: Curiosity fires first laser shot on Mars: "NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has fired its laser for the first time. Its target wasn’t attacking Martians, but a 7 cm (2.75 inch) wide rock called “Coronation” (AKA N165) about 10 feet (3 m) from the rover. Curiosity’s laser fired 30 pulses over a ten-second interval, hitting Coronation with one million watts for five-one billionths of a second."

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Is this the largest rooftop wind installation in the world?

Is this the largest rooftop wind installation in the world?: "A newly opened wind farm on the roof of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is claimed by turbine suppliers Venger to be the largest building-integrated wind farm in the US. But might it be the largest in the world?"

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