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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 Space exploration has captured our attention for over half of a century. NASA plans to propel human spaceflight beyond low-Earth orbit and continue the legacy of the Apollo missions. With a renewed focus on exploration, NASA is developing new space technologies and capabilities that pave the way for missions back to the Moon and beyond. The agency will advance long duration mission-critical capabilities with the Robotic Refueling Mission 3 (RRM3). From the International Space Station, RRM3 w ... read more |
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NASA will seek partnership with US Industry to develop lunar gatewayWashington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 As part of the agency's Exploration Campaign, NASA's Gateway will become the orbital outpost for robotic and human exploration operations in deep space. Built with commercial and international partn ... more 
Activity simulator could eventually teach robots tasks like making coffee or setting the tableBoston MA (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 For many people, household chores are a dreaded, inescapable part of life that we often put off or do with little care - but what if a robot maid could help lighten the load? Recently, compute ... more 
Rutgers researchers develop automated robotic device for faster blood testingNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 Rutgers researchers have created an automated blood drawing and testing device that provides rapid results, potentially improving the workflow in hospitals and other health-related institutions to a ... more  
NASA, NSF plunge into ocean twilight zone to explore ecosystem carbon flowWashington DC (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 A large multidisciplinary team of scientists, equipped with advanced underwater robotics and an array of analytical instrumentation, will set sail for the northeastern Pacific Ocean this August. ... more |
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Cometh the cyborg: improved integration of living muscles into robotsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 The new field of biohybrid robotics involves the use of living tissue within robots, rather than just metal and plastic. Muscle is one potential key component of such robots, providing the driving f ... more 
C2-A2 AGRODROID the world's new Smart Farming productMoscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 European software developer 'Cognitive Technologies' has developed the world's first industrial agrodroid for international agricultural market. Cognitive Technologies - one of the top develop ... more 
Self-healing material a breakthrough for bio-inspired roboticsPittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 12, 2018 Many natural organisms have the ability to repair themselves. Now, manufactured machines will be able to mimic this property. In findings published this week in Nature Materials, researchers at Carn ... more  
New Tesla software to offer 'full' autonomy, Musk saysWashington (AFP) June 11, 2018 An update to Tesla's Autopilot software coming in August will enable "full self-driving features" for the automaker's electric cars, chief executive Elon Musk says. ... more 
Future robots need no motorsHong Kong (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 To develop micro- and biomimetic-robots, artificial muscles and medical devices, actuating materials that can reversibly change their volume under various stimuli are researched in the past thirty y ... more |
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 New NASA position to focus on exploration of Moon, Mars and worlds beyond  
More building blocks of life found on MarsTampa (AFP) June 7, 2018 A NASA robot has detected more building blocks for life on Mars - the most complex organic matter yet - from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks on the surface of the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday. ... more  |
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Service Robotics Market worth over $22bn by 2024Washington DC (SPX) Jun 07, 2018 The last decade has witnessed service robotics market traversing alongside a lucrative growth path - right from being a subject of science fiction debates to an almost niche vertical of the electron ... more  
Aerial robot that can morph in flightMarseille, France (SPX) Jun 01, 2018 Marking a world first, researchers from the Etienne Jules Marey Institute of Movement Sciences (CNRS / Aix-Marseille Universite) have drawn inspiration from birds to design an aerial robot capable o ... more  
Cell-like nanorobots clear bacteria and toxins from bloodSan Diego CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2018 Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny ultrasound-powered robots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria along with the toxins they produce. These pro ... more  
Researchers use magnets to move tiny DNA-based nano-devicesColumbus OH (SPX) Jun 04, 2018 Researchers have devised a magnetic control system to make tiny DNA-based robots move on demand - and much faster than recently possible. In the journal Nature Communications, Carlos Castro and Ratn ... more 
Opportunity Mars rover ready to study rock targets up closeMoscow (Sputnik) May 31, 2018 Opportunity is halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater, pursuing hypotheses as to the origin of the valley. The rover is still positioned near some tabular ro ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) June 26, 2018 
Australia will invest Aus$7 billion (US$5.2 billion) to develop and buy high-tech US drones for joint military operations and to monitor waters including the South China Sea, it said Tuesday.
Canberra has been embarking on its largest peacetime naval investment through a massive shipbuilding strategy that includes new submarines, offshore patrol vessels and frigates to shore up its defence c ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 
Thanks to the research of magnetic levitation in the conditions of microgravity, a new technology for 3D printing of biological tissues was developed. In the future, this technology will help to create radiation-sensitive biological constructs and repair damaged tissues and human organs. The results are published in Biofabrication. The technology is based on the results of the experimental studi ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 
The smaller and smarter that phones and devices become, the greater the need to build smaller circuits. Forward-thinking scientists in the 1970s suggested that circuits could be built using molecules instead of wires, and over the past decades that technology has become reality.
The trouble is, some molecules have particularly complex interactions that make it hard to predict which of them ... more |
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 Paris (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 
New technology has the power to improve competitiveness in nuclear power plant (NPP) maintenance, says Gilles Perrier, Head of Operational Excellence and Digital Transformation at Framatome's* Installed Base (IB) Business Unit.New technology has the power to improve competitiveness in nuclear power plant (NPP) maintenance, says Gilles Perrier, Head of Operational Excellence and Digital Transform ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) June 23, 2018 
The Islamic State group on Saturday threatened to execute within three days six Iraqi men it said it is holding, unless authorities in Baghdad release Sunni Muslim female prisoners.
The threat came in a video released by the jihadists' Amaq propaganda agency, showing six men, their faces covered in bruises.
IS said the men were abducted members of the Iraqi police and the Hashed al-Shaab ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 26, 2018 
The adoption of clean energies to power electric grids won't be sufficient to meet the Paris climate targets established by the United Nations.
According to new research published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the continued use of fossil fuels for a variety of industrial processes, to power vehicles and heat buildings, is likely to push CO2 emissions beyond manageable levels. ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 
Fuel cells and batteries provide electricity by generating and coaxing positively charged ions from a positive to a negative terminal which frees negatively charged electrons to power cellphones, cars, satellites, or whatever else they are connected to. A critical part of these devices is the barrier between these terminals, which must be separated for electricity to flow.
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Jun 28, 2018 
China successfully launched new-tech experiment twin satellites on the Long March-2C rocket from southwest China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center Wednesday morning.
The twin satellites were launched at 11:30 a.m., and entered their intended orbit.
The twin-satellites missions are to link the inter-satellite network and conduct new technology tests on satellites earth-observation. ... more |
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 Vienna (AFP) June 25, 2018 
It sounds appealing given the state of politics on Earth: a plan to launch a utopian "space nation" with the aim of transcending earthly divisions.
At a lavish ceremony in Vienna's Hofburg Palace on Monday, some 200 attendees inaugurated Russian scientist and businessman Igor Ashurbeyli as the first "head of nation" of Asgardia, named after a realm in Norse mythology.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2018 
The dust storm on Mars is now a Planet-encircling Dust Event (PEDE).
It shows no indication of receding at this time. Since the last contact with the rover on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), it is likely that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault, putting herself to sleep only to wake when the skies eventually clear.
If the atmospheric opacity or the solar array dust factor has got ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Jun 28, 2018 
Arianespace, the global reference in space transportation, has orbited 60% of commercial satellites in the Asia-Pacific region since 1981. And this dynamic is continuing apace: after four satellites orbited for customers in the region during 2017, and the successful launch of DSN-1/Superbird-8 for SKY Perfect JSAT and the Japanese Ministry of Defense on April 5, 2018, Arianespace's order book in ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) June 26, 2018 
Mining giants BHP and Vale, co-owners of Samarco, Tuesday reached agreement with Brazilian public authorities to settle a 20 billion real (US$5.3 billion) civil suit over a mine collapse that left 19 people dead.
The companies also established a framework to progress a second 155 billion real claim brought by federal prosecutors in the next two years, Australia's BHP said in a statement.
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) June 7, 2018 
German auto giant Volkswagen has warned it will have to halt production at its main Wolfsburg plant for several days next quarter as it adapts to rigorous new EU emissions tests.
"We must plan for interruptions to production in the third quarter," VW chief executive Herbert Diess told workers Wednesday.
He told staff to expect "closure days" in late summer and September.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new technique to squeeze infrared light into ultra-confined spaces, generating an intense, nanoscale antenna that could be used to detect single biomolecules.
The researchers harnessed the power of polaritons, particles that blur the distinction between light and matter. This ultra ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 26, 2018
Thanks to the research of magnetic levitation in the conditions of microgravity, a new technology for 3D printing of biological tissues was developed. In the future, this technology will help to create radiation-sensitive biological constructs and repair damaged tissues and human organs. The results are published in Biofabrication. The technology is based on the results of the experimental studi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) June 25, 2018 
China signed a deal Monday to lift a ban on French beef and said discussions to buy Airbus planes remained open as French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe ended a four-day visit.
The beef ban was imposed over a decade ago as Beijing started closing off its markets to all European imports, and later to US beef imports, in the wake of the "mad cow" disease scare.
Philippe and Premier Li Keq ... more |
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