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SRIHARIKOTA, India (Reuters) — India fired a rocket carrying 31 small satellites into space on Friday, several of them for European countries looking for high-resolution earth images, underlining its strength as a low-cost provider of services in space. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launched a 712 kg Cartosat-2 satellite for earth observation and 30 other tiny satellites from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 9.29 a.m. (0359GMT). The rocket is carrying satellites from India and […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Subsidizing the purchase of electric cars in Canada is an inefficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that is not cost effective, according to a Montreal Economic Institute study released Thursday. “It’s just a waste,” said Germain Belzile, one of the authors of the study, which examined electric vehicle subsidies offered by Canada’s two biggest provinces Ontario and Quebec, which can rise to as much as a third of a vehicle’s […]
Reuters — Ohio-based electric vehicle manufacturer Workhorse has unveiled ambitious plans to reinvent personal transportation with the SureFly octocopter. Making its public debut at the Paris Air Show ahead of piloted test flights later this year, Workhorse founder Stephen Burns told Reuters: “It’s basically a massive drone.” The two-seater SureFly does indeed resemble a much larger version of a traditional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It has two propellers on each of its four arms, with […]
LE BOURGET, France (Reuters) — The idea may seem far-fetched but with self-flying drones available for less than $1,000, the technology of pilotless planes has real possibilities says Mike Sinnett, Boeing’s vice president of product development. Airlines are among those backing the idea, in part to deal with a projected need for 1.5 million pilots over the next 20 years as global demand for air travel continues to grow. “I see a need for 41,000 […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — NASA revealed Monday 10 new rocky, Earth-sized planets that could potentially have liquid water and support life. The Kepler mission team released a survey of 219 potential exoplanets — planets outside of our solar system — that had been detected by the space observatory launched in 2009 to scan the Milky Way galaxy. Ten of the new discoveries were orbiting their suns at a distance similar to Earth’s orbit around […]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Robots are big business. The industry will be worth $188 billion USD by 2020, up from $91.5 billion last year, according to the Industrial Design Consultancy (IDC). Yet there remains a lot that robots are unable to do, partly because they are made from rigid metal or plastic. If they were softer, lighter and less reliant on external power they could more safely and predictably move among and interact with humans, go […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The clinging power of octopus tentacles has inspired a breakthrough new adhesive patch that works on wet and oily surfaces with potentially huge medical and industrial uses, according to South Korean researchers. Octopuses are among the most intelligent and behaviourally diverse of all invertebrates, but it was their extreme strength that attracted the interest of the research team from Sungkyunkwan University. “Two years ago, we bought an octopus from a […]
by Jo Biddle Agence France-Presse RAAMSDONKSVEER, Netherlands (AFP) — From “The Jetsons” to “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” flying cars have long captured the imagination. While several futuristic projects are under way in different countries, a Dutch design may be the first one sold and soaring into the skies. After years of testing, the PAL-V company aims to pip its competitors to the post. It is poised to start production on what they bill as a […]
LUND, Sweden (Reuters) — A super-fast ‘camera’ developed at Lund University can capture on film processes in chemistry, physics, biology and biomedicine, that until now have proved impossible. It’s been called the ‘world’s fastest camera’, capable of filming at a speed equivalent to five trillion images per second. The device consists of an off-the-shelf camera, lasers, and mirrors. “The camera we’re using is extremely slow. But we have figured out a way so that we […]
CCTV — A team of Chinese scientists have realized the satellite-based distribution of entangled photon pairs over 1,200 kilometers, with photon pairs demonstrating to be still entangled after traveling long distances. This satellite-based technology has opened bright prospects for both practical quantum communications and fundamental quantum optics experiments at distances previously impossible on the ground, said Pan Jianwei, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Pan, who is also the chief scientist of the quantum […]
HAWAII, United States (Reuters) – Six scientists have crossed the halfway point of an eight-month stint in a dome perched atop a remote volcano in Hawaii. This is where they are living in isolation to simulate life for astronauts traveling to Mars, the University of Hawaii said. The study is designed to help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration better understand human behavior and performance during long space missions as the United States space agency […]
CCTV — China launched its first X-ray space telescope to observe black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, via a Long March-4B rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Thursday. The 2.5-ton Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), dubbed Insight, was sent into an orbit of 550 kilometers above the earth at 11:00 to help scientists better understand the evolution of black holes, the strong magnetic fields and the interiors of pulsars. Through the […]
