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  Rome, Italy (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Over three centuries ago, microscopy pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was marvelled by the tiny creatures he found in a drop of water from a nearby pond. He was particularly struck by the behaviour of Euglena cells. These unicellular organisms spend most of their time doing what most of their peers do: swim by beating their flagellum. However, on occasions, Euglena perform harmoniously coordinated, large amplitude cell body deformations, in a behaviour known as metaboly. Why these cells engage in re ... read more |
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Weather on Mars: Chilly with a chance of 'dust devils'Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 If you're planning a trip to Elysium Planitia on Mars, pack a sweater. Starting this week, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will provide daily weather reports for Mars, courtesy of the red pla ... more  
5G is coming: what can we expect?Barcelona (AFP) Feb 25, 2019 This year the telecoms industry will begin the transition to new fifth-generation cellular networks - known as 5G - which is expected to one day help run everything from self-driving cars to robot surgeons. ... more 
Can we trust scientific discoveries made using machine learning?Washington DC (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 Rice University statistician Genevera Allen says scientists must keep questioning the accuracy and reproducibility of scientific discoveries made by machine-learning techniques until researchers dev ... more 
Robots track moving objects with unprecedented precisionBoston MA (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 A novel system developed at MIT uses RFID tags to help robots home in on moving objects with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The system could enable greater collaboration and precision by robots w ... more |
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NASA announces demise of Opportunity roverWashington (AFP) Feb 14, 2019 During 14 years of intrepid exploration across Mars, it advanced human knowledge by confirming that water once flowed on the red planet - but NASA's Opportunity rover has analyzed its last soil sample. ... more  
Robot lifts bits of melted fuel at Japan's Fukushima plantTokyo (AFP) Feb 14, 2019 A robot arm has successfully picked up pebble-sized pieces of radioactive fuel at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in a complex operation seen as key to clean-up efforts after the 2011 meltdown, officials said Thursday. ... more 
Psychology: Robot saved, people take the hitMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 Robots are now being employed not just for hazardous tasks, such as detecting and disarming mines. They are also finding application as household helps and as nursing assistants. As increasing numbe ... more 
Programming autonomous machines ahead of time promotes selfless decision-makingAberdeen Proving Ground MD (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 A new study suggests the use of autonomous machines increases cooperation among individuals. Researchers from the U.S. Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory, the A ... more
Robot probes radioactive fuel at Japan's Fukushima plantTokyo (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 A robot will attempt to examine radioactive fuel at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant on Wednesday in a complex operation seen as key to clean-up efforts after the 2011 meltdown. ... more |
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 Trumps orders government to prioritize artificial intelligence 
Trump orders government to prioritize artificial intelligenceWashington (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the US administration to give greater priority to artificial intelligence, a move seen as firing up a battle for leadership with China. ... more  |
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IBM says AI debate loss is still a winWashington (AFP) Feb 12, 2019 IBM conceded Tuesday its artificial intelligence-powered Project Debater lost a competition to a human debate champion but said the experience was an important milestone in efforts to get computers to master human language. ... more 
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft shrinking its Mars orbit to prepare for Mars 2020 RoverGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 NASA's 4-year-old atmosphere-sniffing Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission is embarking on a new campaign to tighten its orbit around Mars. The operation will reduce the highest po ... more 
Developing a flight strategy to land heavier vehicles on MarsUrbana IL (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 The heaviest vehicle to successfully land on Mars is the Curiosity Rover at 1 metric ton, about 2,200 pounds. Sending more ambitious robotic missions to the surface of Mars, and eventually humans, w ... more 
Pope talks AI ethics with Microsoft head SmithVatican City (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 Pope Francis debated the potential threats artificial intelligence poses to humanity with the head of Microsoft on Wednesday, ahead of a robotics summit at the Vatican, it said. ... more  
SoftBank fund invests big in self-driving deliveriesSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 A Silicon Valley startup working on self-driving delivery vehicles on Monday announced nearly a billion dollars in fresh funding from the SoftBank Vision Fund. ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 
NASA has selected two organizations to host the final phase of its four-year series of increasingly complicated technical demonstrations involving small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones.
The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems in Las Vegas and the Lone Star UAS Center for Excellence and Innovation in Corpus Christi, Texas, will host demonstrations to confirm NA ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
When vacationers buy a stake in a beachfront timeshare, they decide in advance who gets to use the property when. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) institute a similar plan for when commercial wireless providers and the U.S. Navy attempt to share a desirable 150-megahertz (MHz)-wide section of the radio frequency (RF) ... more |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
Deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) made from aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) efficiently transfer electrical energy to optical energy due to the growth of one of its bottom layers in a step-like fashion. This finding, published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, can lead to the development of even more efficient LEDs.
AlGaN-based DUV-LEDs are receiving much research a ... more |
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 Phoenix AZ (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
Framatome has signed a contract to provide fuel fabrication and related services to Unit 2 at Palo Verde Generating Station near Phoenix, Arizona. Arizona Public Service (APS) operates and owns 29.1 percent of Palo Verde, the largest power producer in the U.S. The first reload of Framatome fuel will be delivered in the spring of 2020.
This is the first time Framatome will supply full reloa ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Feb 24, 2019 
A US-backed force pushing to take the Islamic State group's last speck of territory in eastern Syria on Sunday extradited 280 Iraqi jihadists, Iraq authorities said.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have detained "a large number" of IS fighters "of multiple nationalities, including more than 500 Iraqis", the security media office said in a statement.
"So far 280 (Iraqis) have been del ... more |
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 Johannesburg (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 
South Africa on Monday introduced its most severe electricity rationing in nearly five years, presenting President Cyril Ramaphosa with a major political challenge just months ahead of a May general election.
The debt-laden state power utility Eskom is at the centre of the country's economic troubles and has been hit by allegations of government graft.
Ramaphosa who last week admitted th ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
A new method of increasing the reactivity of ultrathin nanosheets, just a few atoms thick, can someday make fuel cells for hydrogen cars cheaper, finds a new Johns Hopkins study.
A report of the findings, to be published Feb. 22 in Science, offers promise towards faster, cheaper production of electrical power using fuel cells, but also of bulk chemicals and materials such as hydrogen.
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2019 
China announced Monday that it is developing the modified version of the Long March-6 rocket to add four solid boosters to increase its carrying capacity.
The improved medium-left carrier rocket will be sent into space by 2020, according to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which designed the rocket.
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 
Europe's Columbus laboratory enters its eleventh year in space with steady operations, a few upgrades and several experiments in full swing.
The physical behaviour of particles, liquids and cells in microgravity was the focus of ESA's activities on the International Space Station during the first weeks of February.
The three astronauts from Expedition 58 living in space worked on e ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2019 
Curiosity is taking a hiatus from its scientific mission, according to the rover's most recent Twitter update.
Last week, its computer rebooted without warning. Now, NASA engineers are trying to figure out what caused the unprompted restart.
During the reboot, a glitch caused the spacecraft's computer to go into safe mode. Scientists have since awoken the rover from safe mode, bu ... more |
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 Exploration Park FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Firefly) has announced the execution of a binding term sheet with Space Florida, under which Firefly will establish business operations at Cape Canaveral Spaceport, including launch operations at historic Space Launch Complex 20 and manufacturing facilities at Exploration Park, Florida.
Firefly's announcement is concurrent with its receipt of a Statement of Capabil ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
Low density polyethylene film (LDPE) microplastic fragments, successfully degraded in water using visible-light-excited heterogeneous ZnO photocatalysts.
The innovative nanocoating technology was developed by a research team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and was further investigated together with PP Polymer, Sweden, as part of the EU Horizon 2020 funded project CLAIM: Clea ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Feb 20, 2019 
Lyft is preparing to list its shares on the Nasdaq exchange as early as next month, jumping ahead of ride-hailing rival Uber, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The report said Lyft's documents for its initial public offering may be made public next week to allow the listing by late March.
That would enable Lyft, whose valuation at an estimated $15 billion makes it one of the ri ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
Nanowires have the potential to revolutionize the technology around us. Measuring just 5-100 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter), these tiny, needle-shaped crystalline structures can alter how electricity or light passes through them.
They can emit, concentrate and absorb light and could therefore be used to add optical functionalities to electronic chips. T ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019
When vacationers buy a stake in a beachfront timeshare, they decide in advance who gets to use the property when. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) institute a similar plan for when commercial wireless providers and the U.S. Navy attempt to share a desirable 150-megahertz (MHz)-wide section of the radio frequency (RF) ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 24, 2019 
In a world faced with the conundrum of mountains of waste and obesity for some and dire shortages and malnutrition for others the future of food is a main dish on today's global menu.
A key ingredient is the trend in ever more imaginative forms towards urban agriculture, a multi-faceted recipe already being pored over by some 800 million people globally, according to the UN's Food and Agricu ... more |
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