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  Miami (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 An unmanned cargo ship packed with food and supplies for astronauts arrived safely at the International Space Station Thursday, a day after SpaceX aborted the process due to a GPS problem. This time, the Dragon cargo ship made a "perfect approach to the capture point," a NASA commentator said, and was grabbed by the station's robotic arm at 5:44 am (1044 GMT). Astronauts Thomas Pesquet of France and Shane Kimbrough of the United States operated the 57-foot (18 meter) robotic arm to capture the D ... read more |
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Study: Even 'benevolent bots' fight, sometimes for yearsOxford, England (UPI) Feb 23, 2017 An analysis of bot behavior over the course of a decades shows even "benevolent" bots bicker. In fact, researchers found evidence of bot-versus-bot fights lasting several years. ... more  
Next SpaceX mission will deliver slew of experiment payloads to ISSKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 17, 2017 NASA's first cargo resupply mission of 2017 is poised to lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida loaded with almost 5,500 pounds of science experiments, research equipment and supplies bound f ... more  
'Scorpion' robot mission inside Fukushima reactor abortedTokyo (AFP) Feb 16, 2017 A "scorpion" robot sent into a Japanese nuclear reactor to learn about the damage suffered in a tsunami-induced meltdown had its mission aborted after the probe ran into trouble, Tokyo Electric Power company said Thursday. ... more 
Scientists invent new, faster gait for six-legged robotsLausanne, Switzerland (UPI) Feb 17, 2017 Robotics engineers often find their inspiration from nature. For six-legged robots, a nature-inspired gait proved an impediment to maximum speed. ... more |
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Now you can 'build your own' bio-botChicago IL (SPX) Feb 14, 2017 I'll bet you don't have one of these at home. For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been developing a class of walking "bio-bots" powered by ... more 
Will androids dream of quantum sheep?Singapore (SPX) Feb 14, 2017 The word 'replicant' evokes thoughts of a sci-fi world where society has replaced common creatures with artificial machines that replicate their behaviour. Now researchers from Singapore have shown ... more 
Success by deceptionZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 14, 2017 When computers independently identify bodies of water and their outlines in satellite images, or beat the world's best professional players at the board game Go, then adaptive algorithms are working ... more 
How algorithms secretly run the worldWashington (AFP) Feb 11, 2017 When you browse online for a new pair of shoes, pick a movie to stream on Netflix or apply for a car loan, an algorithm likely has its word to say on the outcome. ... more 
Algorithms: the managers of our digital livesParis (AFP) Feb 11, 2017 Algorithms are a crucial cog in the mechanics of our digital world, but also a nosy minder of our personal lives and a subtle, even insidious influence on our behaviour. ... more 
No sad endings for Japan's virtual romance fansTokyo (AFP) Feb 11, 2017 Japanese book editor Miho Takeshita is having an affair. But the recently married 30-year-old is not worried about getting caught - her boyfriend only exists on a smartphone. ... more |
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DARPA Selects SSL as Commercial Partner for Revolutionary Goal of Servicing Satellites in GEOWashington DC (SPX) Feb 10, 2017 In an important step toward a new era of advanced, cost-effective robotic capabilities in space, DARPA has announced that it has selected Space Systems Loral (SSL), based in Palo Alto, CA, as its co ... more 
500 years of robots go on show in LondonLondon (AFP) Feb 7, 2017 Why do humans build machines that resemble them - and what does that say about us? A London exhibition opening on Tuesday is surveying 500 years of simple to sophisticated robots to find out. ... more 
Pentagon's robot satellite repair system sued by aerospace companyMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 10, 2017 American aerospace manufacturer Orbital ATK is leveling a lawsuit against the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to halt a robot-satellite repair system being developed by the agency ... more 
NASA Selects Top 20 Space Robotics Challenge TeamsHouston TX (SPX) Feb 08, 2017 NASA, in partnership with Space Center Houston - the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center, and NineSigma, a global innovation consultant organization, has selected the top 20 teams i ... more |
  Mont-De-Marsan, France (AFP) Feb 20, 2017 
Faced with the risk of drones being used to snoop or carry out attacks on French soil, the air force is showing its claws.
At Mont-de-Marsan in southwestern France a quartet of fearsome golden eagles is being trained to take out unmanned aircraft in mid-flight.
The roar of a departing Rafale fighter jet gives way to the buzz of a drone lifting into the air on a runway at the air base, so ... more Jerusalem (AFP) Feb 23, 2017Israeli warplanes shoot down Hamas drone: army  Rome (UPI) Feb 21, 2017Leonardo supplying radars for Patroller drones  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Feb 21, 2017Ukroboronprom presents modified Phantom unmanned vehicle |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Feb 17, 2017 
University of Pennsylvania researchers are now among the first to produce a single, three-atom-thick layer of a unique two-dimensional material called tungsten ditelluride. Their findings have been published in 2-D Materials.
Unlike other two-dimensional materials, scientists believe tungsten ditelluride has what are called topological electronic states. This means that it can have many di ... more Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Feb 21, 2017Breakthrough with a chain of gold atoms  Warwick, UK (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Breakthrough in 'wonder' materials paves way for flexible tech  Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 21, 2017When ultrafast laser pulse meets magnetic materials |
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You may not realize it but alien subatomic particles raining down from outer space are wreaking low-grade havoc on your smartphones, computers and other personal electronic devices.
When your computer crashes and you get the dreaded blue screen or your smartphone freezes and you have to go through the time-consuming process of a reset, most likely you blame the manufacturer: Microsoft or A ... more Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Artificial synapse for neural networks  Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Combining the ultra-fast with the ultra-small  Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 17, 2017A new spin on electronics |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Feb 22, 2017  German energy provider RWE on Thursday announced a surprise loss of 5.7 billion euros for 2016, hit by writedowns on its plants and one-off costs related to the country's exit from nuclear power.
"The difficult market environment made impairments necessary. In addition, the nuclear energy fund imposed a substantial one-off burden on us," chief executive Rolf Martin Schmitz said in an unsched ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 22, 2017Russia's Rosatom Subsidiaries Produced 7,900 Tonnes of Uranium in 2016  Paris (AFP) Feb 21, 2017China delays nuclear reactor start again  West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 21, 2017System automatically detects cracks in nuclear power plants |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 23, 2017  Islamic State jihadists are forcing children and disabled people into explosives-laden trucks and making them drive at Iraqi security forces in Mosul, a general from the US-led coalition has said.
The barbaric tactic, coupled with other increasingly desperate battlefield measures, is a sign the IS group knows defeat is inevitable, officials say.
The jihadists have used exploding trucks, ... more Beirut (AFP) Feb 23, 2017Syria rebels say Al-Bab captured from IS jihadists  London (AFP) Feb 22, 2017British IS bomber was ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee: report London (AFP) Feb 21, 2017IS won't be defeated unless corruption tackled: report |
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 Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017  Even with international praise for its renewable energy strategy, New Zealand's government said there is room for improvement.
An annual review of the New Zealand energy sector from the International Energy Agency described the country as a "success story" for its ability to advance on low-carbon options like hydro-electric power and geothermal energy, all without government subsidies. ... more Strasbourg, France (AFP) Feb 15, 2017EU parliament backs draft carbon trading reforms  Taipei (AFP) Feb 12, 2017Taiwan lantern makers go green for festival of lights  Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2017Republican ex-top diplomats propose a carbon tax |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2017 
USC researchers may have just found a solution for one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the next wave of rechargeable batteries - small enough for cellphones and powerful enough for cars.
In a paper published in the January issue of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Sri Narayan and Derek Moy of the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute outline how they developed an alteratio ... more Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Stabilizing energy storage  Champaign IL (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Tiny nanoclusters could solve big problems for lithium-ion batteries  Corvallis OR (SPX) Feb 22, 2017New hydronium-ion battery presents opportunity for more sustainable energy storage |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2017 
China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday.
The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST.
An increase in satellite throughput will provide better access to the Internet ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 15, 2017Chinese cargo spacecraft set for liftoff in April  Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2017China looks to Mars, Jupiter exploration Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2017China's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 22, 2017 
Russia's Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia hopes to be the first to offer space tourism around the Moon aboard the Soyuz spacecraft by 2021-2022.
First round-the-Moon flights should be possible for space tourists aboard the Soyuz spacecraft in 2021-2022, Vladimir Solntsev, the head of Russia's Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia, told Sputnik.
"We are speaki ... more Berlin (UPI) Feb 22, 2017Study: People don't want their future revealed  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 22, 2017NASA selects proposals for first-ever Space Technology Research Institutes  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2017NASA saves energy and water with new modular supercomputing facility |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2017 
Opportunity is located on the rim of Endeavour crater, about to leave the rim and get back on the plains of Meridiani.
The rover is not leaving the crater, just setting up for faster progress south along the rim toward the next major scientific objective, the gully now less than a kilometer away.
Opportunity completed the last in-situ (contact) measurements on Sol 4638 (Feb. 9, 2017) ... more Dublin, Ireland (UPI) Feb 15, 2017Scientists say Mars valley was flooded with water not long ago  Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Researchers pinpoint watery past on Mars  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2017Opportunity passes 44 kilometers of surface travel after 13 years |
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 Miami (AFP) Feb 23, 2017  An unmanned cargo ship packed with food and supplies for astronauts arrived safely at the International Space Station Thursday, a day after SpaceX aborted the process due to a GPS problem.
This time, the Dragon cargo ship made a "perfect approach to the capture point," a NASA commentator said, and was grabbed by the station's robotic arm at 5:44 am (1044 GMT).
Astronauts Thomas Pesquet o ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 21, 2017Russian Aviation Company S7 Group restructures  Moscow (AFP) Feb 22, 2017Russia successfully launches space freighter after crash  Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 22, 2017Energia to make 2 modifications of Federatsiya spaceship |
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 Manila (AFP) Feb 23, 2017  After two decades as a yoga missionary, Philippine Environment Secretary Regina Lopez is unleashing her inner rage on the mining industry while aiming for Bhutan-style gross national happiness.
Lopez has in recent months moved global commodity markets with a campaign to close roughly two-thirds of the existing mines in the Philippines, which is the world's biggest supplier of nickel ore and ... more Hanoi (AFP) Feb 22, 2017Vietnam to punish officials over mass fish deaths  Geneva (AFP) Feb 21, 2017Tiny plastic particles from clothing, tyres clogging oceans: report  Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Underwater seagrass beds dial back polluted seawater |
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 Redmond WA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 
Kymeta, has announced that its 20 cm mTenna satellite antenna subsystem module (ASM) for the consumer connected car industry, successfully connected to the Intelsat satellite constellation. This successful test continues Kymeta's progress toward bringing high throughput, secure mobile connectivity to the automotive industry and follows the partnership announced with Toyota Motor Corporation at t ... more San Francisco (AFP) Feb 23, 2017Tesla slips back into red but revenue grows  Hanover NH (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Roads are driving rapid evolutionary change in our environment  Atlanta GA (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Four-stroke engine cycle produces hydrogen from methane and captures CO2 |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Feb 21, 2017 
A new technique using liquid metals to create integrated circuits that are just atoms thick could lead to the next big advance for electronics. The process opens the way for the production of large wafers around 1.5 nanometres in depth (a sheet of paper, by comparison, is 100,000nm thick). Other techniques have proven unreliable in terms of quality, difficult to scale up and function only at ver ... more Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 22, 2017Switched-on DNA spark nano-electronic applications  Ramat Gan, Israel (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Scientists create a nano-trampoline to probe quantum behavior  Lincoln NB (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Scientists decipher the nanoscale architecture of a beetle's shell |
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Philadelphia PA (SPX) Feb 17, 2017
University of Pennsylvania researchers are now among the first to produce a single, three-atom-thick layer of a unique two-dimensional material called tungsten ditelluride. Their findings have been published in 2-D Materials.
Unlike other two-dimensional materials, scientists believe tungsten ditelluride has what are called topological electronic states. This means that it can have many di ... moreKonstanz, Germany (SPX) Feb 21, 2017Breakthrough with a chain of gold atoms Warwick, UK (SPX) Feb 17, 2017Breakthrough in 'wonder' materials paves way for flexible tech Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 21, 2017When ultrafast laser pulse meets magnetic materials |
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 Mumbai (AFP) Feb 23, 2017  A fitting tribute to a local legend or a grotesque misuse of money? The decision to build the world's tallest statue just off Mumbai's coast has divided the city.
But the traditional Koli community, who depend on fishing for their livelihoods, fear they will be worst hit by the construction, warning that it threatens their centuries-old existence.
India will spend 36 billion rupees ($53 ... more Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Researchers unravel powerful tool in maize breeding  University Park PA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Widely accepted vision for agriculture may be inaccurate, misleading  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2017Cultivating cool-for-cash-crop |
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