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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2018 NASA's InSight lander looks a bit like an oversized crane game: when it lands on Mars this November, its robotic arm will be used to grasp and move objects on another planet for the first time. And like any crane game, practice makes it easier to capture the prize. Engineers and scientists have a replica of InSight at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. They use this testbed to simulate all the functions of the spacecraft, preparing for any scenario it might meet once i ... read more |
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UTSA researchers want to teach computers to learn like humansSan Antonio TX (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 A new study by Paul Rad, assistant director of the UTSA Open Cloud Institute, and Nicole Beebe, Melvin Lachman Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurship and director of the UTSA Cyber Center for S ... more  
Scientists Share Ideas for Gateway Activities Near the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 NASA is looking at how the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway can create value for both robotic and human exploration in deep space. In late 2017, the agency asked the global science community to submit ... more 
Opportunity collects more 'Selfie' framesPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about half way down the approximately 656 feet (200 meter) valle ... more 
Novel 3-D printing method embeds sensing capabilities within robotic actuatorsBoston MA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 Researchers at Harvard University have built soft robots inspired by nature that can crawl, swim, grasp delicate objects and even assist a beating heart, but none of these devices has been able to s ... more |
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Robo-picker grasps and packsBoston MA (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 Unpacking groceries is a straightforward albeit tedious task: You reach into a bag, feel around for an item, and pull it out. A quick glance will tell you what the item is and where it should be sto ... more 
Berkeley Lab 'minimalist machine learning' algorithms analyze images from very little dataBerkeley CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 Mathematicians at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new approach to machine learning aimed at experimental imaging data. Rather than re ... more 
Robotic crystals that walk n' rollTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 Scientists at Waseda University may have come a step closer to innovating soft robots to care for people. Its material, however, is something you may have never expected. They have developed r ... more  
Putin signs new State Arms Program focused on cutting-edge weaponryMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed the country's new state arms procurement program, which includes, among other things, robotics, ... more
Brothers look to harness artificial intelligence for greater goodSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 As debate swirls on whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or a curse for humanity, two Indian-American entrepreneur brothers are out to ensure the emerging technologies don't just benefit the richest in society. ... more |
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 Opportunity Celebrates 5,000 Days on Mars, Snaps First 'Selfie' 
Google Assistant adds more languages in global pushSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 23, 2018 Google said Friday its digital assistant software would be available in more than 30 languages by the end of the years as it steps up its artificial intelligence efforts against Amazon and others. ... more  |
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Seven ways Mars InSight is differentPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 23, 2018 NASA's Mars InSight lander team is preparing to ship the spacecraft from Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, where it was built and tested, to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where it will bec ... more  
Goonhilly goes deep spaceParis (ESA) Feb 23, 2018 Until now, if you're an entrepreneur planning future missions beyond Earth, you'd have to ask a big space agency to borrow their deep-space antennas. Now, thanks to the UK's county of Cornwall and E ... more 
New stretchable electronic skin sensitive enough to feel ladybug footstepsWashington (UPI) Feb 21, 2018 People with prosthetic limbs live without the ability to touch and feel the world around them. That could change in the near future thanks to new technology developed by scientists at Stanford University. ... more  
Japanese, US astronauts end spacewalk to fix robotic armWashington (AFP) Feb 16, 2018 A Japanese and an American astronaut floated for hours outside the International Space Station Friday on a spacewalk to repair the orbiting outpost's robotic arm and move some equipment into storage. ... more 
Artificial intelligence poses questions for nature of war: MattisWashington (AFP) Feb 18, 2018 Artificial intelligence and its impact on weapons of the future has made US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis doubt his own theories on warfare. ... more |
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
A recent scientific expedition to the Danger Islands, a remote group of tiny islands along eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, used new technologies to discover and survey a breeding colony of over one and a half million penguins.
Michael Polito, assistant professor in the department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at LSU, and co-authors detail their findings in a study published ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 12, 2018 
Leading Russian and foreign space medics and biologists have found a way to protect the human body from the deleterious effects of cosmic radiation to make humans more immune to this phenomenon. The discovery is critically important as it makes it possible to begin an era of deep space manned missions, according to an article published in the latest issue of Oncotarget.
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 Kumamoto, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Recent research from Kumamoto University in Japan has revealed that polyoxometalates (POMs), typically used for catalysis, electrochemistry, and photochemistry, may also be used in a technique for analyzing quantum dot (QD) photoluminescence (PL) emission mechanisms.
Quantum dots (QDs) are small, semiconducting nanocrystals or particles typically between two to ten nanometers in size. Disc ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Framatome, Bureau Veritas and Doosan Babcock signed an Agreement creating EQUALLE, an alliance targeted at supporting the challenge of nuclear Equipment Qualification for the benefit of new build projects and in-service reactors in the United Kingdom. The qualification of nuclear safety equipment ensures its operability in normal and accidental conditions in compliance with the safety case.
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 Buenos Aires (AFP) March 7, 2018 
Reynaldo Bignone, the last president of Argentina's 1976-1983 "Dirty War" military junta, died Wednesday in a military hospital, local media reported. He was 90.
Bignone took power in 1982 after Argentina's disastrous defeat in the Falklands War against Britain, and left power when democracy was restored in 1983.
Some 30,000 people disappeared - presumably killed - under Argentina's mi ... more |
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 San Juan (AFP) March 1, 2018 
Puerto Rico's power grid broke down again on Thursday, leaving some 800,000 customers without power, as the US Caribbean possession struggles to recover five months after Hurricane Maria slammed the island.
Justo Gonzalez, head of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), said that one of the island's main transmission lines was out of service. Officials said the line should be fully ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets them pinpoint the location of chemical reactions happening inside lithium-ion batteries in three dimensions at the nanoscale level. Their results are published in the journal Nature Communications.
"Knowing the precise locations of chemical reactions wit ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 
China is getting closer to a finalized design for its next-generation X-ray observatory.
As reported by Science this week, scientists at China's National Space Science Center are honing in on the final iteration of their design for the X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry, eXTP, satellite.
The eXTP mission team plans to complete a prototype by 2022, with a goal to launch the satellite in ... more |
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 Daytona Beach FL (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
At first, inflatable habitats in orbit around Earth may sound like a dangerous idea, given that the vacuum of space is littered with, as NASA says, "millions of pieces of human-made debris or space junk consisting mainly of fragmented rocket bodies and spacecraft parts created by 50 years of exploration."
Most space debris is tiny - almost microscopic - but there are also millions of natur ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2018 
NASA's InSight lander looks a bit like an oversized crane game: when it lands on Mars this November, its robotic arm will be used to grasp and move objects on another planet for the first time.
And like any crane game, practice makes it easier to capture the prize.
Engineers and scientists have a replica of InSight at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. They use ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Mar 12, 2018  Arianespace has successfully launched four additional O3b satellites for the constellation operated by SES Networks. The launch took place on Friday, March 9 at 2:10 pm (local time) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana (South America).
This mission was the second of the year for Arianespace, the first in 2018 using a Soyuz rocket and the second launch sin ... more |
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 Nusa Penida, Indonesia (AFP) March 8, 2018 
Millions of tourists are drawn to Bali's palm-fringed scenery and rich marine life, but there is a danger lurking beneath its famously crystal-clear waters: a wasteland of plastic rubbish.
An underwater video shot by British diver Rich Horner this week showing a sea overflowing with plastic and other garbage at Manta Point, a well-known diving site near Bali's main island, has highlighted tr ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 5, 2018 
Top Japanese carmakers said on Monday they were teaming up to nearly double the amount of hydrogen stations in Japan, as the car-mad country seeks to head off competition from China and Germany.
Toyota, Nissan and Honda formed a joint venture with major gas and energy companies, including French industrial gases company Air Liquide, to build 80 new hydrogen stations in the next four years, t ... more |
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 Raleigh, NC (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows them to print circuits on flexible, stretchable substrates using silver nanowires. The advance makes it possible to integrate the material into a wide array of electronic devices.
Silver nanowires have drawn significant interest in recent years for use in many applications, ranging from prosthetic dev ... more |
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Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 12, 2018
Leading Russian and foreign space medics and biologists have found a way to protect the human body from the deleterious effects of cosmic radiation to make humans more immune to this phenomenon. The discovery is critically important as it makes it possible to begin an era of deep space manned missions, according to an article published in the latest issue of Oncotarget.
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 
Smallholder farmers who cultivate perhaps only a few hectares of land dominate the agricultural landscape in places like China, India, and sub-Saharan Africa. Increasing their efficiency while reducing their environmental impact are critical steps to ensuring a sustainable food source for the world's growing population.
Yet sharing best practices with smallholder farmers, who often have li ... more |
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