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by Pascale Mollard Agence France Presse PARIS, United States (AFP) — A sleek, subterranean X-ray laser to be unveiled Friday in Germany, by far the most powerful in the world, has scientists in a dozen fields jostling to train its mighty beam on their projects. European XFEL will reveal — and capture in images — secrets at the sub-atomic level, promising breakthroughs in medicine, biology, energy, information technology and chemistry. It will map the molecular […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) — A Taiwanese company is aiming to make laser engraving available to anyone by creating a device that comes at a fraction of the costs of conventional laser engraving tools. Cubiio, the name of a device which resembles a small Bluetooth speaker rather than a tool for shooting lasers, is currently able to load images from a memory card and engrave them onto various objects. According to its inventor, a future update […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The largest asteroid in more than a century will whiz safely past Earth on September 1 at a safe but unusually close distance of about 4.4 million miles (7 million kilometers), NASA said. The asteroid was discovered in 1981, and is named Florence after the famed 19th century founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. “Florence is the largest asteroid to pass this close to our planet since the first near-Earth […]
CAIRO, EGYPT (Reuters) — A group of engineering students in Cairo have built a machine that produces alternative fuel from vehicle tires. The university students came across the idea when they were looking for a graduation project and learnt about the technology from a professor. One of the students, Mohamed Saeed Ali, said the technology is inexpensive and easy to operate. “The project consists of the container in which we put the shredded tires. We […]
ZURICH, Switzerland (AFP) — In Switzerland, one of the world’s wealthiest countries, financial planning starts young. The country’s number two bank Credit Suisse on Tuesday unveiled a piggy bank with built-in apps allowing children under 12 to set savings goals, check their balance and make payments. “The financial education of children is a concern to people in Switzerland,” Credit Suisse said in a statement, citing a recent study showing that 90 percent of parents in […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook on Monday said that pages that make a habit of linking to bogus news stories will no longer be able to advertise at the world’s leading online social network. The move is the latest shot fired by Facebook in its war against ‘fake news’ used to deceive instead of enlighten. “If Pages repeatedly share stories marked as false, these repeat offenders will no longer be allowed to advertise […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — A team from the Technical University of Munich in Germany, known as WARR Hyperloop, won a competition hosted by Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Sunday (August 27) to design the fastest pod for a proposed future transportation system of giant vacuum tubes known as the “Hyperloop.” The WARR (pronounced: VAR) team’s pod traveled down the mile-long Spacex Hyperloop test track at 324 kilometers per hour (201 miles per hour). “That was […]
by Sebastien Berger Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The heir to the Samsung business empire, which includes the world’s biggest smartphone maker, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for bribery and other offenses in connection with the scandal that brought down South Korean president Park Geun-Hye. Lee Jae-Yong’s penalty could leave the giant firm rudderless for years and hamper its ability to make key investment decisions. The vice-chairman of […]
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (Reuters) — SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite on Thursday, August 24. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1151 local time (1851GMT). The rocket carried the Taiwanese-made Formosat-5 spacecraft into orbit and then landed on a SpaceX drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. SpaceX said the Formosat-5 will provide detailed images of the Earth for at least five […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — The media day of World Robot Conference 2017 kicked off in Beijing on Tuesday (August 22) featuring the world’s major areas of robotic research, application and innovation. China is still one of the largest markets for industrial robots with a growing demand for this kind of products. World Robot Conference runs from August 23 to 27 with exhibitors from different areas of robotic research showcasing their work. The event will be […]
By Colleen Knight (EBC Florida Bureau) Eagle News Service BRUNSWICK, Georgia (Eagle News) – “Cloudy” and “rainy” are not the words usually used to describe ideal eclipse viewing conditions, but those were the conditions at the College of Coastal Georgia viewing party in Brunswick, Georgia, in the United States. Despite the gloomy weather, as 2 p.m. on Monday (August 21) approached, excited students, faculty and staff began to gather. A palpable tension was in […]
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) — Dozens of Cubans gathered in the main plaza of Old Havana on Monday (August 21) to watch a rare partial solar eclipse cross the country. Many observers brought their own homemade instruments to view the eclipse’ progress. Abel Rodriguez built a box based on a YouTube tutorial that followed the projection of the eclipse. He said that special glasses to protect the eyes were hard to come by, forcing him to […]
