MIAMI,United States (AFP) — SpaceX chief Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he will send an unmanned spaceship to Mars as early as 2018, as part of his quest to colonize the Red Planet some day. Few details of the plan were released by Musk, the Internet entrepreneur who rose to fame as the cofounder of PayPal and currently also runs Tesla Motors. “Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018,” Musk announced on […]
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Melanoma and pregnancy: A dangerous combo?
Melanoma kills an estimated 10,000 people per year. Researchers are now making a correlation between Melanoma and pregnant women
3D vision makes industrial robots friendly
Algorithms that can make a collaborative robot arm react to moving objects within milliseconds could mean a future where robots and humans work closer together on production lines.
INC conducts clean up drive in Eastern Canada
The Iglesia ni Cristo members in Eastern Canada are giving back to the community by conducting a clean up drive. The “Clean Toronto Together” activity is an annual city-wide initiative of keeping Toronto clean and green. The city holds the event every April. Camille Enriquez and Monica de Jesus reports.
What you need to know about the Islamic State group
https://youtu.be/II_X8QUeUEs Vidoegraphics explaining the origins of the IS organisation, videographics by AFP TV Islamic State took control of Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, before declaring a caliphate across Iraq and Syria. The Jihadist organisation and its leader, Abu Bakr alBaghdadi, took the world by surprise. But the group has existed under various names for more than a decade, born during the USled invasion of Iraq which ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003. Jordanian Abu Musab […]
Eagle Broadcasting Corp. joins NAB show 2016 in Las Vegas
Eagle Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), the media company that pioneered all-digital broadcasting in the Philippines, is joining delegates from more than 180 countries from every continent at the NAB Show, the world’s largest annual conference and expo for professionals who create, manage and distribute entertainment content across all platforms held from April 16 to 21 in Las Vegas. Julie Docena reports from Las Vegas!
DOH to establish cancer centers
MANILA, April 26 -The Department of Health (DOH) is set to establish cancer centers to address the need for accessible and quality radiation therapy services. “Given that cancer is one of the top causes of death and sickness in the Philippines, the establishment of cancer centers in strategically located hospitals will help ensure access to radiation therapy for our cancer-stricken patients, especially those who live far from Metro Manila,” Health Secretary Janette P. Loreto-Garin said. […]
Salt – friend or foe?
Your body can’t function without sodium, so is salt really the blood pressure bogeyman we think it is? What we know and suprisingly don’t know about salt.
Sinkhole appears in the middle of the road in China
CCTV footage shows an officer noticing cracks forming in the middle of the road. He then decides to divert traffic around the cracks by cordoning off the area using cones. Minutes later, the road collapses!
Europe launches environmental satellite
The European Space Agency launched a satellite on Monday (Aprli 25) to track the progress of global warming, as part of its Copernicus project. The Sentinel-1B joins its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to deliver information for various services, from monitoring ice in polar seas to tracking land subsidence, the ESA said. It will also respond to disasters such as floods. Both satellites carry an advanced radar that images Earth’s surface through cloud and rain […]
WHO warns of potential for ‘marked increase’ in Zika cases
PARIS, France (AFP) — The World Health Organization warned Monday of the potential for a “marked increase” in the number of Zika infections in the coming months, and its spread to new parts of the world. With mosquito season arriving in Europe, “the possibility of local transmission combined with the likelihood of onward sexual transmission could see a marked increase in the number of people with Zika and related complications,” WHO assistant director general Marie-Paule […]
Better health through smartphones
You can stay fit without dropping a lot of money on gyms and trainers. There are apps that do more than just count your steps, they can measure your oxygen and blood pressure and even give you your own avatar trainer