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World-leading physicist distinguished professor Min Gu awarded top international prize, named in honor of the Nobel-winning inventor of holography, Dennis Gabor  IMAGE:  RMIT UNIVERSITY'S DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR MIN GU 2019 RECIPIENT OF THE DENNIS GABOR AWARD IN DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS. view  more  CREDIT: RMIT UNIVERSITY Internationally renowned for his expertise in 3D optical imaging theory, his discoveries are helping drive the development of solutions to some of our biggest challenges in renewable energy, information technology and big data storage. The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) has today announced Gu as the 2019 recipient of the Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics. Gu is Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship and director the Laboratory of Artificial-Intelligence Nanophotonics at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. His research has led to major advancements in how data is store...

By Nerijus Adomaitis Reuters January  A view of Equinor's oil platform in Johan Sverdrup oilfield in the North Sea A view of Equinor's oil platform in Johan Sverdrup oilfield in the North Sea, Norway August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Nerijus Adomaitis By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) - Oil and gas investment in Norway is expected to grow for a second year in a row in 2019 but will fall back between 2020 and 2023, an industry lobby group said on Monday. Western Europe's largest oil producer has seen a recovery in oil industry activity thanks to higher crude prices, after a slump in 2014-2016.

Back Yahoo NEWS Shootout: 5 Best Guns from Glock, Smith & Wesson and Heckler & Koch Kyle Mizokami The National Interest January 6, 2019, 2:00 PM GMT+1 Kyle Mizokami 15 guns you need to know about.  Shootout: 5 Best Guns from Glock, Smith & Wesson and Heckler & Koch Let the debate begin... (Here we present several of our most popular handgun profiles as one combined post for your reading pleasure. These appeared seperately in 2017 and 2018.) 5 Best Glock Handguns on the Market The Glock 17 handgun shook up the gun industry in a big way. Gaston Glock’s polymer pistol masterpiece, with its emphasis on ruggedness and reliability, swept the military and law-enforcement world and conquered the civilian market. Slowly, the company has introduced new handguns, all based on the original design, to compete in virtually every niche of the handgun market, from large-bore semiautomatics to discreet...

DEVIN DWYER Good Morning America Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg misses Supreme Court session due to cancer recovery Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg misses Supreme Court session due to cancer recovery  originally appeared on  abcnews.go.com Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,  recovering from surgery  to remove two  cancerous lesions  from her left lung, will not attend oral arguments Monday -- the first time she has missed a scheduled public session due to illness in her 25-year career on the high court bench, a court spokeswoman said. Monday's oral arguments come 17 days after surgeons at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City performed a pulmonary lobectomy on Ginsburg, cutting out cancerous tissue in her lung. She has been working from home as she recovers. Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Ginsburg still planned to "participate" in the cases by reading the briefs, filings and transcripts from Monday's session...

By Sharon Bernstein Reuters January 8, 2019, 12:12 AM GMT+1 California's new governor takes aim at Trump as he takes office By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Democrat Gavin Newsom was sworn in as California’s 40th governor on Monday, and immediately girded for battle with President Donald Trump while flying the banner of his party's progressive wing. Newsom took office in a campaign-style inauguration ceremony packed with supporters and media, and featuring nods to California's multicultural heritage with music from an African-American church choir from the Los Angeles-area city of Compton and a Mexican folk style group dressed in colors of the California flag.  As his 2-year-old son ran on and off the stage, at times pursued by Newsom's wife, "first-partner" Jennifer Siebol Newsom, the 51-year-old governor vowed to position California - the country's most populous state with a population of almost 40 million - as a bastion ...

In Vietnam's "incense village", dozens are hard at work dying, drying and whittling down bamboo bark to make the fragrant sticks ahead of the busy lunar new year holiday. It is the most frantic time of year for workers in the cottage industry in Quang Phu Cau village on the outskirts of Hanoi, where families have been making incense for more than a century -- a great source of pride for many. "It is a traditional and spiritual job making these sticks," Dang Thi Hoa told AFP, sitting amid bundles of bright pink incense sticks drying under the afternoon sun.  chool. Selling her sticks to central Vietnam, Hoa can earn up to $430 a month leading up to Tet, a tidy sum in the country where the average monthly income is $195. Most households in the alleys of Quang Phu Cau are involved in the ancient trade. Some hack bamboo planks down to be fed into a whittling machine; others dip the thin strips into buckets of pink dye, leaving hundreds of brightly coloure...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's surprise trip to China could herald a new round of summitry on and about the peninsula, analysts say, but may also be an attempt to pressure US President Donald Trump as negotiations between them falter. Discussions between Pyongyang and Washington over the North's nuclear arsenal have stalled since Kim and Trump's high-profile summit in Singapore, with the US insisting that sanctions must remain in place until it gives up its weapons, and the North demanding an immediate easing. In his New Year's address -- always a key moment in the North Korean political calendar -- Kim said that if Washington persisted with its approach, "we may be left with no choice but to consider a new way to safeguard our sovereignty and interests."  With his visit to China, "Kim is eager to remind the Trump administration that he does have diplomatic and economic options besides what Washington and Seoul can offer," said Harry Kazianis...

© AP Actress and singer Lady Gaga, left, and actor and director Bradley Cooper pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'A Star Is Born' in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP) A day after her Golden Globes win, Lady Gaga has sweetly paid tribute to her  A Star Is Born  co-star, director and pal, Bradley Cooper, on Instagram. The  32-year-old musician and actress  took home the Best Original Song award for “Shallow” from the film and thanked Cooper for believing in her as she took to the podium with the track’s co-writers, Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt and Anthony Rossomando, to accept the honor. She mentioned how grateful she felt to  Cooper  in a post shortly after the Sunday night win and on Monday morning, she extended her gratitude further with a heartfelt social media post. “I didn’t get to say everything I wanted to say last night when we won, I was so overcome with emotion and of course ...