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  Chicago IL (SPX) Nov 29, 2017 A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago shows how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm through electrodes implanted in the brain. The research, published in Nature Communications, details changes that take place in both sides of the brain used to control the amputated limb and the remaining, intact limb. The results show both areas can create new connections to learn how to control the device, even several years after an amputation. "That's the novel aspect to this ... read more |
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Scientists developed a new sensor for future missions to the Moon and MarsMoscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 A team of scientists from the Faculty of Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University and their colleagues developed a compact spectral polarimeter for carrying outmineralogical investigations on th ... more 
NASA builds its next Mars rover missionPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 29, 2017 In just a few years, NASA's next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet. At a glance, it looks a lot like its predecessor, the Curiosity Mars rover. But there's no doubt it's a souped-u ... more 
Lockheed Martin autonomous driving system tops 55,000M in extended testDallas TX (SPX) Dec 04, 2017 Lockheed Martin's Autonomous Mobility Applique System (AMAS) logged more than 55,000 testing miles during the U.S. Army Extended Warfighter Experiment (EWE) at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Fort ... more 
Amazon brings Alexa from the home to the office in a new AI pushWashington (AFP) Nov 30, 2017 Amazon announced Thursday it is bringing its Alexa digital assistant to the workplace, expanding artificial intelligence efforts that have gained traction in the home market. ... more |
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With 'material robotics,' intelligent products won't even look like robotsCorvallis OR (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 Robots as inconspicuous as they are ubiquitous represent the vision of researchers in the new and burgeoning field of material robotics. In an invited perspective paper published in Science Ro ... more  
Artificial muscles give 'superpower' to robotsMiami (AFP) Nov 27, 2017 Inspired by the folding technique of origami, US researchers said Monday they have crafted cheap, artificial muscles for robots that give them the power to lift up to 1,000 times their own weight. ... more 
Facebook trains artificial intelligence to spot suicidal signsSan Francisco (AFP) Nov 27, 2017 Facebook on Monday said stepping up the use of artificial intelligence to identify members of the leading social network who may be thinking of suicide. ... more  
Zwicky Transient Facility sees "First Light"College Park MD (SPX) Nov 16, 2017 A new robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image of the sky - an event astronomers refer to as "first light." ... more 
Speedy collision detector could make robots better human assistantsSan Diego CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2017 Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a faster collision detection algorithm that uses machine learning to help robots avoid moving objects and weave through ... more 
New technology makes artificial intelligence more private and portableWaterloo, Canada (SPX) Nov 22, 2017 Technology developed at the University of Waterloo is paving the way for artificial intelligence (AI) to break free of the internet and cloud computing. New deep-learning AI software produced ... more |
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 Calls mount for action on 'killer robots' after UN talks 
New Challenges Await Competitors in NASA's 25th Annual Human Exploration Rover ChallengeWashington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2017 Six minutes of air, 14 obstacles and five mission tasks lay ahead of the intrepid explorers. Decisions on which obstacles and tasks to complete and which to bypass must be made by them and their tea ... more 
Mars 2020 Mission performs first supersonic parachute testPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2017 Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful. Well-designed advance testing helps. An ambitious NASA Mars rover mission set to launch in 2020 will rely on a special parachute to slow the s ... more  
Robotic arm reaches out and grapples CygnusHouston TX (SPX) Nov 15, 2017 At 5:04 a.m., Expedition 53 Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency) and Randy Bresnik of NASA successfully captured Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo spacecraft using the Internationa ... more 
Cars and speakers: Baidu speeds up AI progressBeijing (AFP) Nov 16, 2017 Chinese web giant Baidu unveiled Thursday a smart speaker model and plans for a self-driving mini-bus, its latest foray into the hyper-competitive field of artificial intelligence. ... more |
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  Paris (ESA) Dec 03, 2017 
ESA is considering extending its activities to a new region of the sky via a novel type of aerial vehicle, a 'missing link' between drones and satellites.
High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites, or HAPS, are platforms that float or fly at high altitude like conventional aircraft but operate more like satellites - except that rather than working from space they can remain in position inside the at ... more Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Drone photos offer faster, cheaper data on key Antarctic species  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2017Drone Race: Human Versus Artificial Intelligence  Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2017Pentagon steps up Somalia drone strikes |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2017 
Chemists have developed another catalyst that can selectively activate a carbon-hydrogen bond, part of an ongoing strategy to revolutionize the field of organic synthesis and open up new chemical space.
The journal Nature is publishing the work by chemists at Emory University, following on their development of a similar catalyst last year. Both of the catalysts are able to selectively func ... more Boston MA (SPX) Nov 29, 2017New 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts  Singapore (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Device could reduce the carbon footprint of ethylene production  Raleigh NC (SPX) Nov 29, 2017Researchers inadvertently boost surface area of nickel nanoparticles for catalysis |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have invented a new approach to testing multilayered, three-dimensional computer chips that are now appearing in some of the latest consumer devices. The new method may be the answer the semiconductor industry needs to quickly assess the reliability of this relatively new chip construction model, which stacks layers of flat ... more Boston MA (SPX) Dec 01, 2017A step forward for quantum computing  College Park MD (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Quantum simulators wield control over more than 50 qubits, setting new record  Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) Nov 29, 2017Quantum systems correct themselves |
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 Mounana, Gabon (AFP) Nov 29, 2017 
"We are all sick. It's our health, and we are being conned," Moise Massala says angrily.
The 82-year-old is a retired geochemist who used to work in a uranium mine in Gabon owned by French nuclear giant Areva.
He and hundreds of other former workers say they fell ill from their work to extract the uranium - a source of nuclear power and warheads, but toxic and potentially carcinogenic. ... more Ostrovets, Belarus (AFP) Nov 26, 2017Belarus nuclear power plant stirs fears in Lithuania  Charlotte NC (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Lightbridge and AREVA NP Sign Agreements to Immediately Advance Fuel Development  London (AFP) Nov 22, 2017UK made grave errors over Hinkley nuclear project: MPs |
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 Erbil, Iraq (AFP) Dec 3, 2017  Around half of the Yazidis kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago are still missing, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Sunday.
In 2014, IS jihadists killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the religious minority to abuse them as sex slaves.
Kurdish fighters backed by the US-led coalition against IS captured Sinjar from the jihadists ... more Baghdad (AFP) Dec 2, 2017Two mass graves found in Yazidi district of Iraq  The Hague (AFP) Dec 1, 2017S. Sudan to join Chemical Weapons Convention: watchdog  Buenos Aires (AFP) Nov 30, 2017Argentine court sentences 48 in 'Dirty War' trial |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 08, 2017 
Electrical physicists from Czech Technical University have provided additional evidence that new current sensors introduce errors when assessing current through iron conductors. It's crucial to correct this flaw in the new sensors so that operators of the electrical grid can correctly respond to threats to the system.
The researchers show how a difference in a conductor's magnetic permeabi ... more Washington (UPI) Oct 23, 2017Japan faces challenges in cutting CO2, Moody's finds  Washington (UPI) Oct 19, 2017IEA: An electrified world would cost $31B per year to achieve  Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2017'Fuel-secure' steps in Washington counterintuitive, green group says |
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Norwegian energy company Statoil said it was planning a battery system for a floating wind farm that will be "smart " enough to compensate for calm conditions.
The company said Tuesday its Hywind facility off the coast of Scotland, the first floating wind farm in service in the world, will be equipped next year with batteries to store power.
"The purpose is to 'teach' the battery ... more Adelaide, Australia (AFP) Dec 1, 2017Musk's record-breaking battery officially launches in Australia  Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Batteries with better performance and improved safety  Beijing, Russia (SPX) Nov 29, 2017Activity descriptors for electrocatalysts in energy storage applications |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017 
China is now the world leader in remote sensing technologies for scientific purposes and is able to provide an unprecedented amount of data to support research and development for the world, officials said on Tuesday.
Remote sensing refers to aerial or satellite-based technologies to detect and measure objects on Earth's surface, atmosphere and oceans.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Sci ... more Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040  Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017China plans first sea based launch by 2018  Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017China's reusable spacecraft to be launched in 2020 |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
Since the dawn of the human race, mankind has looked up at the night sky and wondered 'what's out there?' The ancient Greeks and Romans saw the constellations and wove them into their myths of warring gods. The native Americans' creation story is based on the movements of the sky. The past few hundred years brought with them the birth of a new age, an age of science and deeper understanding of t ... more Wageningen, Netherlands (Sputnik) Nov 30, 2017Space Farms: 'Mark Watney in The Martian Was Right to Add Poop to the Soil'  Washington (AFP) Dec 2, 2017NASA successfully fires Voyager 1 thrusters after 37 years  New York NY (Sputnik) Nov 28, 2017Does the Outer Space Treaty at 50 need a rethink |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 04, 2017 
The ExoMars 2020 mission is the first joint program between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos space corporation.
"On November 30, 2017, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) 2017/2214 in order to permit certain operations concerning hydrazine (CAS 302-01-2) in concentrations of 70 % or more, which is included in the Common Military List of the European Union," the Counci ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 04, 2017Winter wanderings put Opportunity at 28 Miles on the odometer  Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2017Earthworms can reproduce in Mars-like soil  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 29, 2017Opportunity Greets Winter Solstice |
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 New Delhi (IANS) Nov 30, 2017 
India plans to have at least one rocket launch every month in 2018 from its spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh to deploy satellites in orbit, said a top space official on Tuesday. "We are planning to have at least one launch mission a month in 2018 to deploy satellites in the earth's orbit for various applications," said Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 29, 2017Russia to build launch pad for super heavy-lift carrier by 2028  Los Angeles CA (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2017Flat-Earther's self-launch plan hits a snag  Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Mechanisms are critical to all space vehicles |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 1, 2017  Environment ministers from about 100 countries gather in Nairobi next week to issue a clarion call against air, land and water pollution blamed for some nine million deaths in 2015.
Ministers under the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) will finalise a global declaration vowing to combat "rampant pollution" as a growing threat to human life, economies and ecosystems.
Seven million of those d ... more Beirut (AFP) Dec 1, 2017Serious health risks from Lebanon waste burning: report  New Delhi (AFP) Dec 4, 2017Cricketers flounder in New Delhi's hazardous smog  Warwick UK (SPX) Nov 29, 201799 percent of ocean microplastics could be identified with dye |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2017 
US auto giant General Motors and its partners in China will recall nearly one million vehicles over a fuel tank issue, a Chinese regulator said Friday.
It is the latest recall to hit car companies in China in recent months.
GM and its joint venture partners SAIC and Wuling Automobile will recall 938,686 vehicles starting December 1, according to China's General Administration of Quality ... more Washington (AFP) Nov 28, 2017SoftBank offer for Uber shares to cut valuation: reports  Shanghai (AFP) Dec 1, 2017Traffic-weary Chinese man fined for repainting road lines  Washington (AFP) Dec 1, 2017GM sees 2019 launch for self-driving taxi fleet |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
An international team of researchers from MIPT; Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS; Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS; Skoltech; and Aalto University (Finland) has examined the optical and dielectric properties of thin macroscopic films based on single-walled carbon nanotubes and obtained an explanation for the metallic nature of their conductivity using infrared and terahertz spectroscopy. ... more Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) ov 27, 2017Ceria nanoparticles: It is the surface that matters  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2017Semiconducting carbon nanotubes can reduce noise in interconnects  Joensuu, Finland (SPX) Nov 17, 2017Manganese dioxide shows potential in micromotors |
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Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2017
Chemists have developed another catalyst that can selectively activate a carbon-hydrogen bond, part of an ongoing strategy to revolutionize the field of organic synthesis and open up new chemical space.
The journal Nature is publishing the work by chemists at Emory University, following on their development of a similar catalyst last year. Both of the catalysts are able to selectively func ... moreBoston MA (SPX) Nov 29, 2017New 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts Singapore (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Device could reduce the carbon footprint of ethylene production Raleigh NC (SPX) Nov 29, 2017Researchers inadvertently boost surface area of nickel nanoparticles for catalysis |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 4, 2017 
International Olympic officials will be fed produce from northern Japan hit by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, as Tokyo 2020 organisers aim to dispel fears over food from the region.
"Restoration of the disaster-hit area is an important pillar of our Games," a spokeswoman for the Tokyo 2020 organising committee told AFP.
"By offering food from three disaster-hit prefectures, we ho ... more Davis CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Gene discovery may halt worldwide wheat epidemic  Davis CA (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Genome of wheat ancestor sequenced  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Getting a better handle on methane emissions from livestock |
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