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AMBLETEUSE and BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (Reuters) – French pilot Bruno Vezzoli performed on Tuesday (June 13) the final checks for a cross-Channel flight attempt on Wednesday (June 14) aboard a flying car aptly named ‘Pegasus’ (‘Pegase’) – a winged horse in Greek mythology. He said he felt confident the flight attempt would be a success, unlike another Greek hero, Icarus, whose endeavor failed when he flew too near to the Sun. Vezzoli is expected to take […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — One restaurant in Tokyo’s shopping district of Ginza has teamed up with art collective company to provide diners with an interactive virtual art and food full course feast. Called “Worlds Unleashed and then Connecting,” it uses the latest technology in sensors, projection mapping and sound, to give a maximum of eight diners per day experience a multi-sensory digital art space paired with their 12 course fusion meal. It is a feast […]
Worldwide obesity has doubled since 1980. More than 2 billion people are overweight. Of these, more than 700 million are obese. (AFP)
by Anne Chaon A rare Afghan marsh that was once a royal hunting ground is set to come under the official protection of the United Nations environment agency, with the aim of saving hundreds of migratory bird species. On the long, arid journey to the Caucasus and Siberia, across the Hindu Kush massif, the Kol-e-Hashmat Khan wetlands outside Kabul provide sanctuary for the thousands of storks, egrets, pelicans and flamingos that head north every spring from southern […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An anti-diabetic drug that lowers blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes sufferers also significantly cuts the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease, according to a study published Monday. The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, came in a clinical trial of more than 10,000 patients in 30 countries, using canagliflozin. It found the drug reduced the overall risk of cardiovascular disease by 14 percent and reduced […]
LUND, Sweden (Reuters) — A Swedish-based professor who became famous by pioneering the art of customised 3D printed instruments has unveiled his latest invention – a 3D-printed aluminium electric guitar. Olaf Diegel, a professor at the University of Lund, has already made around 70 guitars using polyamide – a nylon powder – one of which is used by United States rock legends The Steve Miller Band. But the New-Zealander was intrigued by the idea of […]
LOS Angeles, California (Reuters) — Gaming fans at E3 2017 in Los Angeles over the weekend saw Microsoft present their new console, which they say is ‘the world’s most powerful.’ On stage at the annual gaming conference the computer giant revealed the Xbox One X, a fully featured 4K player, formerly code-named ‘Project Scorpio’. In a press release Microsoft said the Xbox One X ‘was designed to be the best console to create and play […]
CHINA (Reuters) – The newest outcome of the third expedition to the South China Sea may rewrite the textbooks of plate tectonics, according to a press conference co-hosted by Chinese Office of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and Tongji University in Shanghai on Monday. The Chinese-led international scientific team wrapped up their research on the US drilling ship JOIDES Resolution on Sunday, with much of the new findings pointing towards some interesting discoveries about […]
CHINA (Reuters) – The only snow leopard cub alive by artificial breeding in China turned one year old on Saturday. It lives at a wildlife zoo in Xining, capital of northwest China’s Qinghai Province. It is 80 centimeters in length, 48 centimeters in height and 18.5 kilograms in weight. Given the high death rate of snow leopard cubs, its survival is of great significance to research on and protection of this endangered animal, which in […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japanese zoo celebrated the first birth of a baby panda in five years Monday, with the tiny cub small enough to fit in the palm of a human hand. Eleven-year-old mum Shin Shin gave birth just before noon, officials at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo said in a statement. Pandas are born pink, hairless and weigh around 100 grams — so small it can be difficult to determine their sex. “There have […]
by Michel Viatteau Agence France Presse RUSKIE PIASKI, Poland (AFP) — An elderly woman leans over to smell a lush flowerbed of lavender in sprawling gardens surrounding an imposing early 20th-century palace in a pastoral corner of eastern Poland. Slowly a smile lights up her face, erasing her previous stony expression — she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which often renders her emotionless. The sudden burst of happiness is one of the benefits of horticultural, or […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) – Atop Hong Kong’s tallest peak blanketed in clouds, three masked urban explorers took a step back in time as they climbed through a hole in a wire mesh fence, climbed down a hill and marched toward an abandoned army barracks built during British colonial times, likely used during World War Two. Twenty years since Britain returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule, these young, alternative conservationists are eager to document the […]
