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Reuters – In the latest image released by NASA on Monday (April 4), ‘a half-lit’ Saturn sits askew as the planet’s moon Dione (698 miles or 1,123 kilometers across) looks on from lower left,’ Nasa said. The picture was taken using the Cassini spacecraft wide angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers), NASA said. “The terminator, which separates night from day on Saturn, is also askew, owing […]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) – Further to the outbreak of the Zika virus, Brazil is battling an increase in cases of flu with anticipated vaccination services, despite sweeping budget cuts for health. State health authorities in Sao Paulo initiated their annual vaccination services early this year to protect some 3.5 million people who are most at risk. An extra round of vaccinations began on March 23, ahead of the start of planned services mid-April. The […]
KRASIEJOW, Poland (Reuters) — Polish scientists say they have discovered the world’s oldest preserved fossils of blood vessels and fragments of fossilized animal proteins inside 240 million-year-old bones. The discovery was made by a joint team of scientists from the University of Silesia, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the Polish Academy of Sciences and a facility promoting the study of prehistoric fossils, the Science and Human Evolution Park in Krasiejow. Millions of years ago southern Poland […]
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health is open to the proposal of using different dengue vaccines in the future. Although the DOH will use a single brand in its free vaccine program for the next 20 months, said department welcomes the development of other brands. According to the World Health Organization, five more dengue vaccines are under development. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith […]
NEAR VAN HORN, TEXAS, United States (Reuters) — Jeff Bezos’ space transportation company Blue Origin successfully launched and landed for the third time a suborbital rocket capable of carrying six passengers, taking another step on its path in developing reusable boosters, the company said on Saturday (April 2). The New Shepard rocket and capsule blasted off from a launch site in West Texas on Saturday at an undisclosed time, and landed minutes later back […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United Sates (AFP) — Orders for the much-hyped Tesla Model 3, a cheaper version of its electric car aimed at the mass market, have surged to 276,000 in just three days, company founder Elon Musk said Sunday. Orders are piling up fast and exceeding the expectations of the company for its Model 3 — which will have a base price of $35,000 — even though it won’t be available until late next year. […]
KEY WEST, Florida (Reuters) — An artificial reef in the Florida Keys has become a temporary gallery for a sub sea art exhibition. Video released on Sunday (April 3) by the Florida Keys News Bureau shows divers hanging artwork on the 523-foot Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the world’s second-largest artificial reef located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary about seven miles south of Key West. Over the weekend, divers installed a dozen photo […]
REUTERS — This headset turns the vibrations from your jawbone into sound. Swedish company Invisio says it allows wearers to communicate clearly even if they were standing in front of a roaring jet engine. The in-ear device is positioned so it just touches the jawbone, with user’s voice transmitted up the bone to the microphone and then sent to the radio. “It’s a bone conduction technology that we use for voice pick-up and we […]
By Robert Capistrano Eagle News (Manila, Philippines) — Globe Telecom recently held its One Digital Nation event at the Marriot Hotel Manila introducing its partnership with the Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia and formally launching Asia’s first Disney smartphone. With the Disney Fan in mind and themed around the latest and most popular Disney franchises, these smartphones embody the Disney lifestyle with its lively colors and trendy themed accessories. Classic themes like Mickey […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — US researchers announced Thursday the first three-dimensional map of Zika, an advance that some hope will speed efforts to develop a vaccine against the mosquito-borne virus which has been linked to birth defects. The findings in the journal Science describe a virus that is in many ways similar to other in its family of flaviviruses — including dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, and Japanese encephalitis — but also […]
(Reuters) – Tesla Motors gave a sneak preview Thursday (March 31) of its Model 3 sedan, saying more than 130,000 people had ordered the car, even though it is more than a year away from production. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk unveiled a prototype of the Model 3 in Hawthorne, California outside Los Angeles to hundreds of Tesla owners and the media, saying the vehicle will go into production in 2017 at a starting […]
RATCHABURI, Thailand – The El Nino weather phenomenon has played havoc with crops across Southeast Asia and beyond. Thailand, the world’s second-largest sugar exporter, will ship 20 percent less of the sweetener to international markets this year than last, and farmers fear the damage already inflicted on young cane plants could make the situation even worse next year. A drop in exports from Thailand and India has contributed to forecasts for a widening global supply […]
