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  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 27, 2017 Things look different on the Moon. Literally. Because the Moon isn't big enough to hold a significant atmosphere, there is no air and there are no particles in the air to reflect and scatter sunlight. On Earth, shadows in otherwise bright environments are dimly lit with indirect light from these tiny reflections. That lighting provides enough detail that we get an idea of shapes, holes and other features that could be obstacles to someone - or some robot - trying to maneuver in shadow. "What ... read more |
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United Launch Alliance to launch Astrobotic mission to the MoonPittsburgh, PA (SPX) Jul 27, 2017 Astrobotic and United Launch Alliance report that Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander will be onboard a ULA launch vehicle in 2019, during the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. "Astrobotic is thr ... more  
Somersaulting simulation for jumping botsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 In recent years engineers have been developing new technologies to enable robots and humans to move faster and jump higher. Soft, elastic materials store energy in these devices, which, if released ... more  
Robot finds possible melted fuel inside Fukushima reactorTokyo (AFP) July 23, 2017 Lava-like rocks believed to be melted nuclear fuel have been spotted inside Japan's stricken Fukushima reactor by an underwater robot, the plant's operator said at the end of a three-day inspection. ... more 
Australia's robo-footballers go for gold at world champsSydney (AFP) July 21, 2017 A roar rings out as a small, white robot wins a tussle for the ball and kicks it into the goal. ... more |
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Designing soft robots: Ethics-based guidelines for human-robot interactionsNew Rochelle NY (SPX) Jul 27, 2017 Soft-bodied robots offer the possibility for social engagement, and novel tactile human-robot interactions that require careful consideration of the potential for misplaced emotional attachments and ... more 
Musk, Zuckerberg duel over artificial intelligenceSan Francisco (AFP) July 25, 2017 Visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg were trading jabs on social media over artificial intelligence this week in a debate that has turned personal between the two technology luminaries. ... more 
Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robotStanford CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of life, they bring out a small, air-tight c ... more 
A robot that growsSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2017 At first glance, robots would appear to have exactly nothing in common with sweet peas or other climbing vines. Yet thanks to some innovative scientists, they now share at least one trait: the abili ... more 
A new method of cooperative control of multiple unmanned surface vehiclesBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 The 21st century is a century of ocean. Ocean contains rich resources such as biology, oil and gas, mineral products, and etc., and it becomes the strategic space and resource base for the survival ... more  
Three Good Reasons Why Russia May Not Actually Need a SupercarrierMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 25, 2017 Russia has adopted a new Navy Policy Framework up to the year 2030. The document devotes considerable attention to creating high-precision long-range cruise missiles, hypersonic weapons, robotics, a ... more |
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Rovers drive through Tenerife darknessParis (ESA) Jul 20, 2017 A pair of ESA rovers trundled around a Moon-like area of Tenerife by both day and night during a nine-day test campaign, gathering terabytes of data for follow-up analysis. A team from ESA's P ... more 
Research makes robots better at following spoken instructionsProvidence RI (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 A new system based on research by Brown University computer scientists makes robots better at following spoken instructions, no matter how abstract or specific those instructions may be. The develop ... more 
Helping robots learn to see in 3-DDurham NC (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 Autonomous robots can inspect nuclear power plants, clean up oil spills in the ocean, accompany fighter planes into combat and explore the surface of Mars. Yet for all their talents, robots still ca ... more 
India's Infosys eyes artificial intelligence profitsBangalore, India (AFP) July 14, 2017 Indian IT giant Infosys said Friday that artificial intelligence was key to future profits as it bids to satisfy clients' demands for innovative new technologies. ... more |
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  Paris (ESA) Aug 01, 2017 
A warm meal was quickly delivered by a drone from an ESA business incubator start-up to the last inhabitant in a remote village in Portugal.
"Even if the village is not far away, it takes a driver by car over half an hour to deliver the meal to Joaquim Reis in Podentinhos and come back due to bad and unpaved roads. Our drone arrived in just three minutes, without the need of a pilot," expl ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 26, 2017Insitu receives contract for Afghan ScanEagle UAS services  Beijing, China (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Special focus on formation control of unmanned systems  Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2017AeroVironment supplying small UAS to Australia |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 
A team of researchers from AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland funded materials science centre based in Trinity College Dublin, have made a breakthrough in the area of material design - one that challenges the commonly held view on how the fundamental building blocks of matter come together to form materials.
Professor John Boland, Principal Investigator in AMBER and Trinity's School of ... more Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Multitasking monolayers  Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2017A new material emits white light when exposed to electricity  Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Writing with the electron beam: Now in silver |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 
Researchers have taken an important step toward the long-sought goal of a quantum computer, which in theory should be capable of vastly faster computations than conventional computers, for certain kinds of problems. The new work shows that collections of ultracold molecules can retain the information stored in them, for hundreds of times longer than researchers have previously achieved in these ... more Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Hamburg researchers develop new transistor concept  Linkoping, Sweden (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Five times the computing power  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Pulses of electrons manipulate nanomagnets and store information |
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 Paris (AFP) July 28, 2017 
France's state-owned energy company EDF saw its profit slip in the first half of the year as two of its nuclear reactors were taken offline due to safety concerns.
Net profit slid 3.7 percent compared to the first half of last year to 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion), while operating profit tumbled 20.6 percent to 7.0 billion euros.
Production of electricity from its nuclear reactors fell ... more Tokyo (AFP) July 21, 2017Underwater robot probes inside Fukushima reactor  Helsinki (AFP) July 20, 2017Finland's TVO claims partial win in Areva nuclear dispute  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 18, 2017Laser-Armed Nuclear Icebreakers: What Russia Has in Store for Arctic |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 31, 2017 
The Nimitz carrier strike group has begun performing combat missions against the Islamic State group in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. Navy announced on Monday.
The first flights launched from the Nimitz were composed of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, early warning radar planes and other support aircraft.
"For the Nimitz Strike Group, today is game day," commander of C ... more Moscow (AFP) July 17, 2017Kremlin says 'contradictory' reports on Baghdadi death  Hong Kong (AFP) July 26, 2017Hong Kong maids lured by Islamic State recruiters: report  Manila (AFP) July 27, 2017US gives surveillance planes to Philippines |
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 Lincoln UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017 
Plans to create 100 new 'smart' cities in India to support the country's rapidly growing urban population could have a significant detrimental impact on the environment unless greater emphasis is placed on providing new supporting infrastructure and utilities, according to a major new study.
Professor Hugh Byrd, a specialist in urban planning from the University of Lincoln, UK, conducted a ... more University Park PA (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Allowable 'carbon budget' most likely overestimated  Edinburgh UK (SPX) Jul 24, 2017Sparkling springs aid quest for underground heat energy sources  Washington (AFP) July 7, 2017Google's 'moonshot' factory spins off geothermal unit |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 
Lithium-ion batteries are popular power sources for cellphones and other electronics, but problematic in extreme heat or cold. A Rice University laboratory has suggested ways to extend their range.
Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and members of his lab have published a review that analyzes recent progress in lithium-ion technology and suggests how to make the batteries more adapta ... more Raleigh NC (SPX) Jul 25, 2017High-temperature superconductivity in B-doped Q-carbon  College Park MD (SPX) Jul 25, 2017UMD engineers invent the first bio-compatible, ion current battery  Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 25, 2017First basic physics simulation of impact of neutrals on turbulence |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017 
China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official.
Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... more Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2017Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit  Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon  Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 07, 2017Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold |
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 Star City, Russia (AFP) July 27, 2017 
Wearing helmets weighing 100 kilos, spinning in a centrifuge and exercising while weightless: Russian cosmonauts and astronauts from abroad have to undergo a gruelling training process before blasting off into space.
Helped by an instructor at the famed Star City outside Moscow, cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky slowly puts on his helmet as he hangs from the ceiling suspended by a thick metal cord ... more Paris (ESA) Jul 31, 2017ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli starts third mission on Space Station  Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 01, 2017Voyager spacecraft still in communication 40 years out into the void  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2017NextSTEP Partners Develop Ground Prototypes to Expand our Knowledge of Deep Space Habitats |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 31, 2017 
Steps forward in the search for life beyond Earth can be as simple as sending a balloon into the sky. In one of the most unique and extensive eclipse observation campaigns ever attempted, NASA is collaborating with student teams across the U.S. to do just that.
A larger initiative, NASA's Eclipse Balloon Project, led by Angela Des Jardins of Montana State University, is sending more than 5 ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 27, 2017Portals to new worlds: Martian exploration near the North Pole  Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 01, 2017Opportunity enters Automode during solar conjunction pause  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun |
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 Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Jul 27, 2017 
In the heart of baseball season, NASA completed its equivalent of a clean inning, successfully testing the third RS-25 flight controller for use on the new Space Launch System (SLS) deep space rocket. Engineers conducted a 500-second test of RS-25 Engine Controller Unit No. 5 on the A-1 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, July 25, 2017.
The test invol ... more Tehran (AFP) July 27, 2017Iran in 'successful' test of satellite-launch rocket  Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Jul 27, 2017Aerojet Rocketdyne's RS-25 Flight Controller Goes Three for Three in SLS Test  New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 01, 2017India looks to more launches with new facility from 2018 |
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 Gunjur, Gambia (AFP) July 30, 2017 
The Gambia is courting Beijing's attention after re-establishing diplomatic relations last year, but villagers and activists say Chinese investment is a double-edged sword as they fight a firm accused of dumping waste.
Chinese firms in Africa are frequently accused of polluting the environment to produce materials ready to export back home, in incidents recorded by experts across the mines o ... more Leicester UK (SPX) Jul 31, 2017'Omnipresent' effects of human impact on England's landscape revealed  Meulaboh, Indonesia (AFP) July 26, 2017Dozens hospitalised in Indonesia as thick haze spreads  Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Environmental toxins are impacting Lake Baikal |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 2017 
Many of today's cars are coated with paint that exhibits a metallic or glittery shine. The exact sparkle and color you see is determined by the distribution and characteristics of tiny metal flakes used in the paint. A new approach based on the medical imaging technique optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides the car industry with a practical way to automatically analyze these metal flakes, ... more Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) July 27, 2017Volkswagen to refit 1 million more diesel cars in Germany  Los Angeles (AFP) July 28, 2017Los Angeles to have fully electric bus fleet by 2030  Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) July 30, 2017Is 'diesel summit' the last chance for Germany's favourite engine |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a new way to precisely pattern nanomaterials that could open a new path to the next generation of everyday electronic devices.
The new research, published July 28 in Science, is expected to make such materials easily available for eventual use in everything from LED displays to cellular phones to photod ... more Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 21, 2017Nanoparticles could spur better LEDs, invisibility cloaks  Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jul 18, 2017New material resembling a metal nanosponge could reduce computer energy consumption  Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 18, 2017How do you build a metal nanoparticle? |
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Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jul 31, 2017
A team of researchers from AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland funded materials science centre based in Trinity College Dublin, have made a breakthrough in the area of material design - one that challenges the commonly held view on how the fundamental building blocks of matter come together to form materials.
Professor John Boland, Principal Investigator in AMBER and Trinity's School of ... moreNashville TN (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Multitasking monolayers Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2017A new material emits white light when exposed to electricity Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 25, 2017Writing with the electron beam: Now in silver |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 31, 2017 
Swiss farmers practiced various different methods of animal farming as early as 5,400 years ago, as demonstrated by a study by researchers from the University of Basel, as well as research institutions from Germany and the UK. The study focused on the settlement Arbon Bleiche 3 on the south bank of Lake Constance. The academic journal PLOS ONE has published the results.
The Arbon Bleiche 3 ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2017Adjusting fertilizers vital in claypan ag soils  Los Angeles (AFP) July 13, 2017Disneyland China falls a-fowl of huge turkey leg demand  Paris (ESA) Jul 27, 2017One plant at a time is precise |
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