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  Genova, Italy (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Sustainable energy sources, which are pollution free and environmentally friendly, are one of the key challenges of world's future society. The interdisciplinary team of roboticists and biologists at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Pontedera (Pisa, Italy), found that living plants can help with electricity. Fabian Meder, Barbara Mazzolai and their coworkers at IIT discovered that living plants are literally "green" power source, which may become one of future's electricity supplies that per ... read more |
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New foldable drone flies through narrow holes in rescue missionsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Inspecting a damaged building after an earthquake or during a fire is exactly the kind of job that human rescuers would like drones to do for them. A flying robot could look for people trapped insid ... more  
NYU researchers pioneer machine learning to speed chemical discoveries, reduce wasteNew York NY (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Machine learning algorithms can predict stock market fluctuations, control complex manufacturing processes, enable navigation for robots and driverless vehicles, and much more. Now, researcher ... more  
New models sense human trust in smart machinesWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 New "classification models" sense how well humans trust intelligent machines they collaborate with, a step toward improving the quality of interactions and teamwork. The long-term goal of the ... more  
Planetary scientists assist in capturing image of Insight from orbitLondon, Canada (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 Houston, there is no problem here. Eric Pilles assisted in capturing - for the first-time ever - extraordinary and highly significant scientific images of the NASA InSight robotic lander using HiRIS ... more |
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Norfolk Navy Shipyard introducing exoskeletons for workersWashington (UPI) Dec 7, 2018 The Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia is introducing exoskeletons for heavy manual work designed to prevent injuries and fatigue, according to the Navy. ... more 
Mars 2020 rover mission camera system 'Mastcam-Z' testing begins at ASUTempe AZ (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 Arizona State University research technician and Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z calibration engineer Andy Winhold waited patiently on the loading dock of ASU's Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building ... more  
UConn Research Project Heading to International Space StationStorrs CT (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 An experiment devised by researchers at UConn startup LambdaVision will be launched into space tomorrow. The company's robotic system to manufacture films that could cure blindness will be brought t ... more 
Insight into swimming fish could lead to robotics advancesBaltimore MD (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 The constant movement of fish that seems random is actually precisely deployed to provide them at any moment with the best sensory feedback they need to navigate the world, Johns Hopkins University ... more 
Flexible electronic skin aids human-machine interactionsWashington DC (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Human skin contains sensitive nerve cells that detect pressure, temperature and other sensations that allow tactile interactions with the environment. To help robots and prosthetic devices attain th ... more |
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 Safely on Mars, InSight unfolds its arrays and snaps some pics 
Embark on a NASA technology scavenger hunt with Optimus PrimeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 29, 2018 How much NASA technology is in your life? Through the NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC), OPTIMUS PRIME and the AUTOBOTS encourage students to embark on three miss ... more  |
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SpaceBok robotic hopper being tested at ESA's Mars YardWashington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018 SpaceBok, a robotic hopper, is currently undergoing tested in the European Space Agency's Mars Yard. On Wednesday, ESA released an image of the four-legged robot navigating cragged, red-tinged rocks. ... more 
DARPA, BAE to develop AI for interpreting radio-frequency signalsWashington (UPI) Nov 27, 2018 BAE Systems has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop machine learning algorithms to decipher radio frequency signals for protection against enemy hacking and jamming attempts. ... more 
Smarter AI: Machine learning without negative dataTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 A research team from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) has successfully developed a new method for machine learning that allows an AI to make classifications without what is k ... more 
NASA's InSight Lander Arrives on Martian SurfacePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 26, 2018 Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an a ... more 
ESA lends a hand at MarsParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 The Red Planet will receive its first new resident in six years on Monday when NASA's InSight lander touches down, aiming to investigate the Martian interior. ESA ground stations and orbiters are pl ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 14, 2018 
General Atomics has been awarded $40 million by the U.S. Army for services on the Gray Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle.
The contract modification, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, falls under Army fiscal operations and maintenance funding as is expected to be completed by June 2019.
The Gray Eagle is a development of the Predator drone designed for intelligence, sur ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 
Harwell based Celestia Technologies Group UK Ltd (CTG UK) has signed an 8m euro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of the next generation of Gateway ground stations.
The three-year programme will create a fully electronic scanning (eScan) ground station, capable of tracking and communicating simultaneously with multi satellites. Initial development activity w ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
Using laser light to trap atoms in a checkerboard-like pattern, a team led by Princeton scientists studied how resistance - the loss of electrical current as heat - can develop in unconventional metals.
The results may help explain how certain types of superconductors made from copper oxides are able to conduct electricity so efficiently. The research was published online Dec. 6 in the jou ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
The Taishan 1 EPR reactor in China has now entered the commercial operation phase. Following the first chain reaction which took place on June 6, 2018, then successful connection to the power grid on June 29 and the achievement of 100% power on October 30, this new milestone marks the final step of this major project.
As designer of the EPR, Framatome, now part of the EDF group, is delight ... more |
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 Doha (AFP) Dec 16, 2018 
Nobel laureate and former jihadist captive Nadia Murad called for the protection of women belonging to her Yazidi minority until Islamic State leaders are tried for crimes against the community.
"All the victims need a safe haven until Daesh is brought to the international courts," the 25-year-old Iraqi said at an international conference in Doha, using an Arabic acronym for the jihadist gro ... more |
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 Behror, India (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 
Ratan Kumar once battled India's brutal summers with damp bedsheets and midnight baths. Now he is among millions upon millions of Indians using air conditioning - helping make the world hotter still.
With India's AC market expected to explode from 30 million to a billion units by 2050, the world's second-most populous country could become the planet's top user of electricity for cooling. ... more |
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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 
A team of researchers led by Osaka University developed an inexpensive large-scale flexible thermoelectric generator (FlexTEG) module with high mechanical reliability for highly efficient power generation.
Through a change in direction of the top electrodes at the two sides of the module and the use of high density packaging of semiconductor chips, the FlexTEG module has more flexibility i ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 13, 2018 
China's Chang'e-4 probe decelerated and entered the lunar orbit Wednesday, completing a vital step on its way to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced.
After flying about 110 hours from earth, an engine on the probe was ignited when it was 129 km above the surface of the moon, in line with instructions sent fr ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 17, 2018 
The Russian Progress MS-11 cargo spacecraft will for the second time fly to the International Space Station (ISS) under the three-hour scheme, circling Earth twice, in March 2019, a source in the aerospace industry told Sputnik.
"The launch of the freighter is scheduled for March 28. It will have to orbit Earth twice and dock to the ISS three hours after the lift-off. However, this will be ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2018 
Mars atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site remains at a storm-free range around 1.0.
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault. Since the loss of signal, the team has been listening for the rover over a broad range of times, frequencies and polarization ... more |
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 New Orleans LA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
Technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, moved the largest piece of structural test hardware for America's new deep space rocket, the Space Launch System, from the factory to the dock where it was loaded onto NASA's barge Pegasus Dec. 14, 2018.
The liquid hydrogen tank test article will make its way up the river to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, A ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 15, 2018 
Faced with images of turtles smothered by plastic bags, beaches carpeted with garbage and islands of trash floating in the oceans, environmentalists say the world is waking up to the need to tackle plastic pollution at the source.
Stories on social media of giant seas of floating waste or a beached whale found in Indonesia with six kilos (13 pounds) of plastic in its stomach are bringing pla ... more |
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 Arnhem, Netherlands (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
By 2033 half of all new cars sold globally will be electric. This growth will follow an S-shaped curve of innovation, with Electric Vehicle (EV) sales increasing from less than 10% to more than 90% within a 10-year period, resembling the fast transition seen with technologies such as digital cameras.
These are the findings of DNV GL's annual Energy Transition Outlook, which provides a fore ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 
MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA.
"It's a way of putting nearly any kind of material into a 3-D pattern with nanoscale precision," says Edward Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and of brain and cognit ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Dec 19, 2018
Harwell based Celestia Technologies Group UK Ltd (CTG UK) has signed an 8m euro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of the next generation of Gateway ground stations.
The three-year programme will create a fully electronic scanning (eScan) ground station, capable of tracking and communicating simultaneously with multi satellites. Initial development activity w ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Dec 19, 2018 
Harvester ants that eat weed seeds on the soil's surface can help farmers manage weeds on their farms, according to an international team of researchers, who found that tilling less to preserve the ants could save farmers fuel and labor costs, as well as preserve water and improve soil quality.
"These ants are naturally present in the fields," said Barbara Baraibar Padro, a postdoctoral sc ... more |
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