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by Laurence COUSTAL / Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Non-stop vomiting, a puffy face and the constant need to pee: Volunteers for a week-long loop around the Moon may be in for a rough ride even if all goes to plan. In the week that SpaceX announced it would launch two tourists to skirt Earth’s satellite in 2018, experts agreed the health effects would chiefly be minor and short-lived. These […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The oldest fossils ever found are “direct evidence” of life on Earth 3.8 to 4.3 billion years ago, when our planet was still in its infancy, researchers reported Wednesday. Even at the lower end of the spectrum, “the microfossils we discovered are about 300 million years older” than any runners-up, said Dominic Papineau, a professor at University College London who made the discovery. The dating […]
The new BlackBerry Key One is displayed at the Mobile World Congress centre in Barcelona on February 25, 2017, before the start of the world’s biggest mobile fair, held from February 22 to February 25. / AFP PHOTO / Josep Lago
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) — The team behind the world’s first driver less electric racing series unveiled its first real autonomous car at the World Mobile Congress (MWC) in Barcelona on Monday (February 27). The sleek Roborace vehicle is around five meters long, two meters wide, and weighs in at 975 kilograms. It is entirely driver less, with a computer “brain” using information from sensors to direct the Robocar. It has four motors of 300kW each, […]
Onlookers in Chile, Bolivia and Argentina were treated to a special sight early on Sunday (February 26) when they witnessed the first solar eclipse of 2017. The phenomenon is known as a ring eclipse, where the moon is smaller than the sun, so a ring of light is visible when the moon passes over the sun. Observers donned sunglasses with special filters, heeding experts’ warnings that viewers should not look directly at the eclipse without […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — SpaceX said Monday two private citizens have paid money to be sent around the moon late next year, in what would mark the furthest humans have ever traveled to deep space. The United States has not sent astronauts to the moon since the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Apollo missions of the 1960s and ’70s. “We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens […]
by Daniel SILVA / Erwan LUCAS Agence France-Presse China’s Huawei, LG and other phone firms unveiled new smartphones on Sunday as they tried to capitalize on Samsung’s withdrawal of its flagship device after faulty batteries led several of the handsets to catch fire. Samsung, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, had no device of its own to show at the week-long Mobile World Congress, the phone industry’s largest annual trade fair, in Barcelona in northeastern […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — China’s Huawei unveiled a new smartphone with a better camera on Sunday as it tries to fill the void left by Samsung’s withdrawal of its flagship device due to problems with the battery. Huawei’s P10 and the larger P10 Plus, launched on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world’s biggest annual phone expo, feature dual Leica rear camera lenses, a longer-lasting battery and fingerprint sensor system. “The […]
by Leo RAMIREZ Agence France Presse SARMIENTO, Argentina (AFP) — Stargazers applauded as they were plunged into darkness Sunday when the moon passed in front of the sun in a spectacular “ring of fire” eclipse. Astronomers and enthusiasts in Argentina were among the first to see the so-called annular eclipse as it crossed South America shortly after 1200 GMT, on course for Africa. Staring up through special telescopes, protective glasses or homemade cardboard pinhole devices, […]
DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuters) — Identifying tiny cracks in a person’s bones could act as an early warning sign for more serious degenerative bone diseases, according to researchers from Ireland. Chemists from Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with scientists from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), have developed a biologically safe ‘nanoagent’ that binds to the cracks in a bone, even if the crack is just a few microns in diameter – less than […]
LONDON, England (Reuters) — Using sweet treats and patient coaching, scientists in London have taught a group of bumblebees how to play football. The study at Queen Mary University of London saw a number of bees trained to move a small yellow ball to a circled location in order to score a goal and get a sugary reward from scientists. The sporting prowess shows a sophisticated level of learning, the scientists said, with previous studies […]
Amid the risk of drones being used to snoop or carry out attacks on French soil, the air force groom eagles to take down the unmanned aircraft mid-flight. In this video, four golden eagles are being trained for the job at Mont-de-Marsan in southwestern France. (AFP VIDEO)
