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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 The next rovers to explore another planet might bring along a scout. The Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, was inspired by origami. Its lightweight design is capable of flattening itself, tucking in its wheels and crawling into places rovers can't fit. Over the past year and a half, PUFFER has been tested in a range of rugged terrains, from the Mojave Desert in California to the snowy hills of Antarctica. The ide ... read more |
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Quadruped robot exhibits spontaneous changes in step with speedSendai, Japan (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 The research group of Professor Akio Ishiguro and Assistant Professor Dai Owaki of Tohoku University have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated that by changing only its parameter related t ... more 
'Tree-on-a-chip' passively pumps water for daysBoston MA (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature's hydraulic pumps. They are constantly pulling water up from their roots to the topmost leaves, and pumping sugars pr ... more 
Toward Machines that Improve with ExperienceWashington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Self-driving taxis. Cell phones that react appropriately to spoken requests. Computers that outcompete world-class chess and Go players. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming part and parcel of t ... more  
Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling and Detecting Life in Chile's High DesertMoffett Field Ca (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 Due to its extreme dryness, the Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the most important environments on Earth for researchers who need to approximate the conditions of Mars. Working in 90-plus-de ... more |
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3D Pizza Printer to Feed Hungry Astronauts in Deep SpaceWashington (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 Has this ever happened to you? You're drifting through the vacuum of space, millions of miles from Earth, when suddenly you have a craving for pizza. To satisfy this probable demand, a startup has r ... more 
Songs that make robots cryOsaka, Japan (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 Music, more than any art, is a beautiful mix of science and emotion. It follows a set of patterns almost mathematically to extract feelings from its audience. Machines that make music focus on these ... more 
DARPA robotic servicing program has become stalledBethesda MD (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 DARPA has been developing a program that will leverage successes in space robotics in order to accelerate in-orbit servicing of satellites. Of particular interest are the satellites that populate th ... more  
'Global startup' vows autonomous car by 2020 in USWashington (AFP) March 10, 2017 A "global startup" which makes electric racing vehicles unveiled plans Friday to sell a fully autonomous electric car in the US market by 2020. ... more 
Rafael completes test firing with Protector USVTel Aviv (UPI) Mar 8, 2017 Rafael Advanced Defense Systems completed a test firing demonstration using its Protector unmanned surface vehicle, or USV. ... more 
Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligentlyProvidence RI (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a table full of different sized wrenches, you'd probably pause and ask, "which one?" Robotics researchers from Brown University have now developed an a ... more |
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 Shape-shifting molecular robots respond to DNA signals 
Switzerland taps Kongsberg for Protector weapon systemWashington (UPI) Mar 2, 2017 Norwegian company Kongsberg received a $15 million contract to deliver updated Protector remote weapon systems to the government of Switzerland. ... more 
Tracking the movement of cyborg cockroachesRaleigh, NC (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 New research from North Carolina State University offers insights into how far and how fast cyborg cockroaches - or biobots - move when exploring new spaces. The work moves researchers closer to the ... more  
Next generation of nuclear robots will go where none have gone beforeManchester UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 The University of Manchester is to lead a consortium to build the next generation of robots that are more durable and perceptive for use in nuclear sites. The cost of cleaning up the UK's existing n ... more  
SpaceX cargo ship arrives at space stationMiami (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. ... more |
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The US Air Force's most secretive plane, the X-37B, is just eight days away from breaking the record for longest orbital mission undertaken by a space plane. The unmanned vehicle is competing against itself, as the X-37B already holds this record with a 674 day flight.
Whether the X-37B will break the record or not, however, is up to the Air Force, which is famously tight-lipped about the ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 21, 2017General Atomics producing additional MQ-9 drone parts  Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Heron 1 UAV becomes operational in Singapore  McLean VA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017FAA Approval Could Mean Big Things for UAS Adoption |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
Berkeley Lab-led research raises new questions about properties of dust in local and distant reaches of Milky Way. Consider that the Earth is just a giant cosmic dust bunny-a big bundle of debris amassed from exploded stars. We Earthlings are essentially just little clumps of stardust, too, albeit with very complex chemistry.
And because outer space is a very dusty place, that makes things ... more Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Ecosystem For Near-Earth Space Control  Toronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 21, 2017'Flying saucer' quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers  Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Transparent ceramics make super-hard windows |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, energy-efficient transistors to power next-generation electronic devices. They recently found one such material, but it was nothing anyone expected.
In an article published online March 10 in the ... more Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 23, 2017Ultrafast measurements explain quantum dot voltage drop  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Bushwhacking into Unexplored Transistor Territories  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Bonding chips using inkjet printers |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 15, 2017 
Toshiba shares plunged Wednesday as fears grow about the future of one of Japan's best-known firms, hit by massive losses and accounting fraud allegations at its US nuclear unit.
The Tokyo-listed stock dropped as much as 13.62 percent at one point, with concerns that the embattled company's shares could be delisted from the bourse.
Toshiba ended the day at 189.5 yen ($1.65), down 12.22 p ... more London, UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017The EIC and Nuclear AMRC sign MoU  Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017German energy company RWE evolving for success  Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Potential approach to how radioactive elements could be 'fished out' of nuclear waste |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) March 21, 2017 
An Arab Israeli who took her young family to Iraq and joined the Islamic State group was sentenced to more than four years in prison Tuesday, the justice ministry said.
Sabreen Zbedat spent months in the jihadists' Iraqi stronghold Mosul with her husband and three children, in the first known case of an entire Arab Israeli family joining IS, Israel's domestic security agency Shin Bet said. ... more Washington (AFP) March 23, 2017Allies vow to destroy IS as attacks overshadow talks  Paris (AFP) March 23, 2017World leaders stand with Britain after London attack  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2017'Lab-on-a-glove' could bring nerve-agent detection to a wearer's fingertips |
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 Paris (AFP) March 17, 2017 
Global carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector held stable for the third straight year in 2016 despite the global economy continuing to expand, the International Energy Agency said Friday.
By far the main culprit in global warming, carbon dioxide emissions stood at 32.1 billion tonnes last year, the IEA estimated.
This was the same level as the same as the previous two years, des ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Emissions flat for three years in a row, IEA says  Sussex, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017New research urges a rethink on global energy subsidies  Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017New Zealand lauded for renewables, but challenges remain |
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 Graz, Austria (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
It has been known in biology for a long time that the excited oxygen molecule singlet oxygen is the main cause of ageing in cells. To counter this, nature uses an enzyme called superoxide dismutase to eliminate superoxide as a free radical.
Superoxide also occurs in cell respiration for energy production and is the preliminary stage and thus source of singlet oxygen. TU Graz's Stefan Freun ... more New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 23, 2017New gel-like coating beefs up the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries  Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Non-toxic material that generates electricity through hot and cold  Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 21, 2017New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasma |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 
Chinese state media is reporting that the country's space program has developed a craft capable of both landing on the moon and flying in low-Earth orbit.
The new spacecraft is claimed to be able to accommodate multiple astronauts, according to spaceship engineer Zhang Bainian, who Science and Technology Daily cited as comparing the forthcoming ship to the Orion craft currently in developm ... more Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes  Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2017Riding an asteroid: China's next space goal |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
A hybrid computing system developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the enabling technology behind an ambitious experiment testing a relative navigation and autonomous docking capability known as Raven.
Developed by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division, or SSPD, the carry-on luggage-sized module was launched February 19 aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraf ... more Washington (AFP) March 21, 2017Trump, NASA and a rare consensus: mission to Mars  Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 21, 2017Russia to Build First New-Generation 'Federation' Spacecraft by 2021  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2017COBALT Flight Demonstrations Fuse Technologies to Gain Precision Landing Results |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 
New NASA research reveals that the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity. The last volcanic activity there ceased about 50 million years ago - around the time of Earth's Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, when large numbers of our planet's plant and animal species (including dinosaurs) went extinct. ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day  Paris (ESA) Mar 17, 2017ExoMars: science checkout completed and aerobraking begins  Moffett Field Ca (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling and Detecting Life in Chile's High Desert |
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 Seoul (AFP) March 20, 2017  North Korea's latest rocket engine test showed "meaningful progress" in its missile capabilities, Seoul said Monday, as the nuclear-armed state steps up its controversial weapons development programmes.
The North's leader Kim Jong-Un oversaw the "successful" test of the powerful new rocket engine, state media said Sunday, in a move apparently timed to coincide with a trip to Asia by new US ... more Esrange, Sweden (SPX) Mar 23, 2017MAXUS - Europe's largest sounding rocket to be launched from Esrange  Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 23, 2017Russia, China could cooperate on developing reusable rockets  Washington (SPX) March 20, 2017SpaceX cargo ship returns to Earth |
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 Minneapolis, MN (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 
Mercury is very toxic and can cause long-term health damage, but removing it from water is challenging. To address this growing problem, University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Sciences (CFANS) Professor Abdennour Abbas and his lab team created a sponge that can absorb mercury from a polluted water source within seconds.
Thanks to the application of nanotechnology ... more Jakarta (AFP) March 22, 2017Indonesia increases estimate for cruise ship reef damage Jakarta (AFP) March 17, 2017Indonesia summons UK envoy over coral reef destruction  Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017China's severe winter haze tied to effects of global climate change |
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 London (AFP) March 22, 2017  Chinese carmaker Geely, owner of the London Taxi Company, opened Wednesday a 300-million pound UK factory making only electrical versions of the iconic London black cab for use worldwide.
The site in Coventry, central England, "has the capacity to build more than 20,000 vehicles per year... the best ultra-low emission commercial vehicles in the world", LTC said in a statement.
Geely bought LT ... more Jerusalem (AFP) March 17, 2017Intel deal may fuel Israel's rise as builder of car brains  New York (AFP) March 16, 2017More gas guzzlers due to Trump? Not necessarily  Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) March 15, 2017German prosecutors search Audi offices over 'dieselgate' |
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 Krasnoyarsk, Russia (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 
The project received support from the Regional Science Foundation and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in the competition for oriented interdisciplinary research in 2016. The results of the research were published in the journals Physics of the Solid State, Vacuum and Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism.
The authors of the project say that with the help of this techno ... more Akron OH (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Researchers develop new method to program nanoparticle organization in polymer thin films  Hanover NH (SPX) Mar 23, 20173-D printing turns nanomachines into life-size workers  Paris, France (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Light-controlled gearbox for nanomachines |
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Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
Berkeley Lab-led research raises new questions about properties of dust in local and distant reaches of Milky Way. Consider that the Earth is just a giant cosmic dust bunny-a big bundle of debris amassed from exploded stars. We Earthlings are essentially just little clumps of stardust, too, albeit with very complex chemistry.
And because outer space is a very dusty place, that makes things ... moreBethesda MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Ecosystem For Near-Earth Space Control Toronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 21, 2017'Flying saucer' quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 21, 2017Transparent ceramics make super-hard windows |
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 Mogosani, South Africa (AFP) March 21, 2017 
Under a cloudless sky in South Africa's northwestern farming region, donkeys still amble along muddy paths, pausing to nibble on grass, oblivious to the threat from a demand for Chinese medicine.
The gelatin found in the animals' skin has made them a target, leading to a growing wave of donkey slaughtering in several African countries, as gangs seek to fuel a lucrative, and in South Africa i ... more Washington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Wild sunflowers provide resilient diversity  Wellington (AFP) March 21, 2017New Zealand's 'green' image under threat: OECD  Washington (UPI) Mar 21, 2017Almond-crop fungicides are harmful to honey bees |
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