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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019. The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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Old habits

Real Climate

Media awareness about global warming and climate change has grown fairly steadily since 2004. 2659-2673, 2011. My impression is that journalists today tend to possess a higher climate literacy than before. Here are two examples, polar amplification and extreme rainfall. Bintanja, E.C. van der Linden, and W. Aue, and A. 50, 2023.

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What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

Real Climate

We don’t have direct measurements over such a long time (only since 2004 from the RAPID project ), but various indirect indications. 2011; Garzoli et al. 2011), could be related to a bias in the northward freshwater transport in the South Atlantic by the meridional overturning circulation. Here a quote from Liu et al.

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Five Nobel Prize winners publish scientific article collection for children

Frontiers

Commenting on the Collection, Aaron Ciechanover who was awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004, said, “Prizes and recognition are not targets that one should aim for. Quasi-Crystal, Not Quasi-Scientist , written by Dan Shechtman , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011. Kornberg , awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006.

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Secrecy keeps the Nobel prize fresh and exciting

Physics World

Indeed, just one year later in 2010 , Andre Geim and Kostantin Novoselov were honoured for their isolation of graphene, which they did in 2004. There have been four prizes in this discipline since 2011, with two in the past two years. Novoselov was just 36 when he bagged his prize, compared to Boyle who was 85.

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Quantum computational advantage and beyond

Physics World

He obtained a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2004, and a PhD in physics from the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge in 2011. Since 2011, he is a Professor of Physics at USTC. Chao-Yang Lu was born in 1982 in Zhejiang, China.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 26 to May 2: Contaminated Livestock Water Supply; Ruptured Gathering Pipeline; Failure To Comply With Shale Gas Well Plugging Order

PA Environment Daily

The wells have not produced gas since 2004. Well was drilled in 2011. Well as drilled in 2011. Original violation issued November 9, 2011. . - Violations: 5 Abandoned Conventional Wells April 16, 2025 inspection of 5 conventional wells in Salem Township, Westmoreland County found them all abandoned and not plugged.

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