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PARIS, France (AFP) — France and Japan want to recover pieces of a Martian Moon and bring them back to Earth, the head of France’s National Center for Space Studies (CNES) said Thursday. The Martian Moons Exploration project would launch a probe in 2024 destined for Phobos, the largest and closest of two moons circling the Red Planet. Paris and Tokyo signed a preliminary agreement on Monday, and will make a final decision before the […]
by Jean-Louis SANTINI / Maggy DONALDSON Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An ice-encrusted moon orbiting Saturn appears to have the conditions necessary for life, NASA announced Thursday, unveiling new findings made by its unmanned Cassini spacecraft. Cassini has detected hydrogen molecules in vapor plumes emanating from cracks in the surface of Enceladus, a small ocean moon coated in a thick layer of ice, the US space agency said. The plumes have led […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The more toddlers play with touchscreen devices the less they sleep, according to a study released Thursday that suggests the findings could be cause for concern. For every additional hour using a touchscreen phone or tablet during the day, children aged six months to three years slept nearly 16 minutes less in each 24 hour period, researchers reported in the journal Scientific Reports. But the study could not determine if the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Toyota Motor Corporation unveiled Welwalk WW-1000 on Wednesday (April 12) , a robot designed to assist in rehabiliation of patients who have lower limb paralysis. Dozens of journalists gathered at Toyota Motors Tokyo headquarter office to observe a demonstration of the new robot, which comes with a wide variety of rehabilitiation functions that adjusts itself to the user. The robot consists of a treadmill, a monitor, and a robotic leg that […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook on Wednesday said it has started weeding out bogus accounts by watching for suspicious behavior such as repetitive posts or torrents of messages. The security improvement was described as being part of a broader effort to rid the leading social network of hoaxes, misinformation, and fake news by making sure people are who they claim to be. “We’ve found that when people represent themselves on Facebook the same […]
TEMPLIN, Germany (Reuters) — The joint project by Siemens and the German government aims to achieve climate friendly traffic by 2050, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks who visited the test track north of Berlin. Hendricks told reporters that what Germany needed was not just Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “Energiewende”, or shift from nuclear power and fossil fuels towards renewable energy sources. A shift away from conventional traffic was equally crucial, the environment minister said. According […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Swiss researchers said Monday they have developed a wireless camera system to monitor vital signs in premature babies, a move that could replace uncomfortable and highly inaccurate skin sensors. The skin sensors currently used to monitor vital signs in babies born prematurely generate false alarms in up to 90 percent of cases, mainly set off by the baby’s movement. “This is a source of discomfort for the babies, because we have […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Japanese electronics giant Hitachi Ltd is developing software equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance security screenings at large-scale venues including shopping malls and sports stadiums. The software, displayed on three large television screens at a Hitachi research centre in Tokyo, uses artificial intelligence to identify at least 100 different characteristics of dozens of people walking in various places, including train stations and intersections. Each person is highlighted in a green […]
TEXAS, United States (Reuters) — Outgoing International Space Station (ISS) commander Shane Kimbrough along with Russian crewmates Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko were scheduled to wrap up a 173-day mission on Monday (April 10), with a parachute landing in Kazakhstan at 7:21 a.m. EDT (1121 GMT). The astronauts exchanged hugs and took photographs before closing the hatch door on the ISS. Their replacements, NASA’s Jack Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, were due to arrive […]
Reuters — A rocket, designed and manufactured by students from the University of Southern California’s Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, reached an altitude of 144,000 feet (43,891 meters) – a height the group says is a record for a rocket wholly engineered and built by students. Launched on March 04 from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, the rocket, called Fathom II, took roughly three months to manufacture. Its launch marked a milestone in the unofficial ‘space race’ […]
Reuters — A technology that turns the light bulb above your head into an Internet transmitter could have a disruptive impact on the wireless communications market comparable to that of the digital camera on photography, according to developers of pureLi-Fi. Li-Fi uses high-speed modulation of light-emitting diodes (LED), with the data embedded in the beam, to provide a fast Internet connection. Li-Fi’s advocates say that the technology will provide heightened speed and internet security. “The […]
by Shaun TANDON Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Streaming is making it quicker not only to play music. A new study finds that pop songs themselves are getting faster as listeners’ attention spans diminish. Instrumental openings to songs have shrunk dramatically over the past three decades and, to a lesser extent, the average tempo of hit singles has been speeding up, the research found. Hubert Leveille Gauvin, a doctoral student in music […]
