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  Raleigh NC (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 North Carolina State University researchers have developed a fiber that combines the elasticity of rubber with the strength of a metal, resulting in a tougher material that could be incorporated into soft robotics, packaging materials or next-generation textiles. "A good way of explaining the material is to think of rubber bands and metal wires," says Michael Dickey, corresponding author of a paper on the work and Alcoa Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State. "A rubbe ... read more |
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Waymo to sell its self-driving tech to outside firmsSan Francisco (AFP) March 6, 2019 Waymo, the former Google car division developing self-driving technology, said Wednesday it would sell a key innovation to companies that don't compete with its autonomous cars. ... more  
Moon shot: Toyota, Japan space agency plan lunar missionTokyo (AFP) March 6, 2019 Toyota is teaming up with Japan's space agency on a planned mission to the Moon, with the Japanese auto giant expected to develop a lunar rover, officials and local media said Wednesday. ... more  
Assembly in the air: Using sound to defy gravityBath UK (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 Scientists at the University of Bath have levitated particles using sound in an experiment which could have applications in so-called "soft robotics" and help reveal how planets start to form. ... more 
Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflipBoston MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 MIT's new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals a champion gymnast. The four-legged powerpack can bend and swing its legs wide, enabling it to walk ... more |
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Life on Mars: my 15 amazing years with Oppy, NASA's record-breaking roverStirling UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 "It's getting dark, my batteries are running low." With this final poignant message, the most successful mission to Mars - originally planned to last 90 days - ended after 15 years, in a dust storm ... more 
Aquatic microorganism could inspire soft robots able to move fast in narrow spacesRome, 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 ... 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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 Weather on Mars: Chilly with a chance of 'dust devils' 
Teaching AI systems to adapt to dynamic environmentsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 Current AI systems excel at tasks defined by rigid rules - such as mastering the board games Go and chess with proficiency surpassing world-class human players. However, AI systems aren't very ... more  |
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Mars Rover Opportunity Ends Mission After 15 YearsIthaca NY (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 The Mars rover Opportunity, NASA's robotic geologist fitted with an array of tools to search for evidence of water, ended its mission Feb. 13 - three weeks after its 15th anniversary and long past i ... more 
DLR 'Mole' deployed on surface of MarsCologne, Germany (SPX) Feb 14, 2019 It stands vertically on flat ground, ready for its historic mission. At 19:18 CET on 12 February 2019, the German Aerospace Center Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) or 'Mole' was deplo ... more 
Getting a grip on human-robot cooperationPisa, Italy (SPX) Feb 14, 2019 There is a time when a successful cooperation between humans and robots has decisive importance: it is in the precise moment that one "actor" is required to hand an object to another "actor" and, th ... more 
The first walking robot that moves without GPSPris, France (SPX) Feb 14, 2019 Human eyes are insensitive to polarized light and ultraviolet radiation, but that is not the case for ants, who use it to locate themselves in space. Cataglyphis desert ants in particular can cover ... more
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 |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019 
Researchers have trained drones outfitted with infrared sensors to recognize a koala bear's heat signature. Wildlife managers and biologists are using the technology to accurately and efficiently monitor koala populations in Australia.
An algorithm processes the drone's infrared readings and determines whether the heat signatures belong to a koala or some other animal. Researchers plan ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
Very small steps make a big difference to researchers who want to create large wafers of two-dimensional material.
Atom-sized steps in a substrate provide the means for 2D crystals growing in a chemical vapor furnace to come together in perfect rank. Scientists have recently observed this phenomenon, and now a Rice University group has an idea why it works.
Rice materials theorist Bo ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
Scientists from the Higher School of Economics, Manchester Univesity, the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed a novel technology, which combines the fabrication procedures of planar and vertical heterostructures in order to assemble graphene-based single-electron transistors of excellent quality.
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 Vilnius (AFP) March 7, 2019 
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Thursday suggested that Belarus convert its nearly-completed nuclear power plant to gas, saying the move could lead to closer ties between Minsk and the EU.
Lithuania, a eurozone Baltic state, has repeatedly said construction of the plant 20 kilometres (12 miles) from its border does not meet safety standards, a claim rejected by Minsk.
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 Damascus (AFP) March 7, 2019 
The Syrian regime on Thursday rejected a report by the world's chemical weapons watchdog confirming chlorine was used in an attack against the Syrian town of Douma in April 2018.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said last Friday that there were "reasonable grounds" to believe toxic chemicals containing "reactive chlorine" had been used in the attack, which witnesses s ... more |
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 Norwich UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 
Efforts to cut emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and tackle climate change in developed economies are beginning to pay off according to research led by the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
The study suggests that policies supporting renewable energy and energy efficiency are helping to reduce emissions in 18 developed economies. The group of countries represents 28 pe ... more |
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 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
A new tungsten-based alloy developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory can withstand unprecedented amounts of radiation without damage. Essential for extreme irradiation environments such as the interiors of magnetic fusion reactors, previously explored materials have thus far been hobbled by weakness against fracture, but this new alloy seems to defeat that problem.
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2019 
China's lunar rover has conducted scientific detection on some stones on the far side of the moon, which might help scientists find out whether they are from outer space or native to the moon.
The rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, was sent to the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3 in the Chang'e-4 mission.
Currently, the rover h ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
The ARISS-US team (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) will auction two very unusual items in its first-ever auction! Picture yourself as the winning bidder and proud owner of a unique JVC Kenwood TS-890S signed by astronauts! Or, you could be top bidder on a special astronaut-signed 6-volume boxed set 2019 ARRL Handbook!
Bidding starts April 8th at 12:00 UTC and ends April 1 ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 
Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of potential shallow water-ice sources across the surface of the Red Planet.
Two teams led by Putzig and Morgan were contracted by NASA to pursue separate mapping efforts of subsurface ice deposits ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 7, 2019 
A North Korean long-range rocket launch site appears to have resumed "normal operation status," US experts said Thursday, calling it an "affront" to President Donald Trump's strategy of diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang.
The specialized website 38 North and the Center for Strategic and International Studies used commercial satellite imagery to track construction at the site - which they ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 
The products of wastewater treatment have been found to contain trace amounts of antibiotic resistant DNA. These products are often reintroduced to the environment and water supply, potentially resulting in the spread of antibiotic resistance.
As such, researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have been studying the development of these potentially ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) March 8, 2019 
Electric carmaker Tesla has won more than $520 million in loans from Chinese banks to build its first overseas car plant near Shanghai, the first foreign automaker to wholly own a factory in China.
The funding, announced on Thursday, is an important boost for the California-based firm, which has been in negotiations with Beijing for years over building the plant in the world's biggest electr ... 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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Houston TX (SPX) Mar 08, 2019
Very small steps make a big difference to researchers who want to create large wafers of two-dimensional material.
Atom-sized steps in a substrate provide the means for 2D crystals growing in a chemical vapor furnace to come together in perfect rank. Scientists have recently observed this phenomenon, and now a Rice University group has an idea why it works.
Rice materials theorist Bo ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
Farmers irrigating their crops may soon be getting some help from space. In 2018, scientists launched ECOSTRESS, a new instrument now attached to the International Space Station. Its mission: to gather data on how plants use water across the world.
"Technically, the instruments are measuring surface temperature, which reflects the heat stress of plants," explains Joshua Fisher of NASA's Je ... more |
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