Scientists in Britain said Wednesday they have smashed a previous record for generating fusion energy, an achievement hailed a "milestone" on the protracted path towards harnessing a power source considered cheap and clean.
Nuclear fusion is the same process that the sun uses to generate heat and proponents believe it could one day help address climate change by providing an abundant, safe and green source of energy.
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Gugneja is no police officer. She's a senior computer science major at East Carolina University, and her command was to one of seven NAO robots in the Department of Computer Science.
"What we're doing with this is testing natural language processing methods," Gugneja said. "We're having it walk, having it talk and having it move, just act humanoid basically."
Shape-shifting Robots Adapt With Cleverly Designed Bodies, Grippers - IEEE Spectrum
Robots with shape-shifting grippers and bodies that snap into different shapes can do more with less
Robots have all kinds of ways to change their shapes, in the sense that you can use rigid components along with actuators to design a robot that can go from one shape to another.
Will Robots Save Agriculture—Or Ruin Farm Workers? - dot.LA
As part of its effort to "disrupt" the food industry supply chain, Santa-Monica based automation incubator Wavemaker Labs has added—and revived—a new piece of technology that promises to change the game for apple orchards.
In October, Wavemaker acquired the intellectual property behind agtech startup Abundant Robotics' autonomous apple-picking technology.
'Big Bug' review: Sex robots take France by storm on Netflix
If you've ever wondered what Parisian robots will look like in the year 2050, Jean-Pierre Jeunet has your answer.
The French director of "Amélie," who's been splashing vividly realized, subversive worlds onscreen for three decades, returns to feature films with "Big Bug," an artificial-intelligence mystery sex farce satire on Netflix . There must be a French term that encapsulates all of that.
Today, industrial robots are used in almost all industries - from automotive to plastics and medical technology. They bring many benefits to manufacturing facilities and are paving the way for the smart factories of the future.
Here Neil Ballinger, Head of EMEA at EU Automation, discusses these limitations and how to overcome them.
Naples restaurant adds robots to help amidst staffing shortages | WGCU PBS & NPR for Southwest
Amazon, Lowe's, automotive manufacturers, and Brooks Burgers in Naples. What do these companies have in common? Robots.
Robots on wheels help servers bring food to the tables, providing servers more time to attend directly to customers. Brooks said that servers are able to give better service to customers, as well as up-sell desserts and drinks.
New planet called Proxima d found in our solar system's neighbor
The discovery of Proxima d could indicate that there are many more planets to be found in that region.
João Faria, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, said: “The discovery shows that our closest stellar neighbour seems to be packed with interesting new worlds, within reach of further study and future exploration.”
EarthSky | Passing stars warp star disks, disrupt planets
In space, as on Earth , nature loves spirals. For example, our home galaxy, the Milky Way , is a spiral galaxy , made of billions of stars.
In recent years, astronomical theory has suggested that newly forming individual stars also go through a spiral phase. It happens just as the stars are beginning to form their planets, from great, spinning, primordial wheels of dust and gas.
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Tatooine has appeared in many recent Star Wars projects. After perhaps surprisingly not a place visited by the characters of The Force Awakens , Rogue One , or The Last Jedi , the planet was seen briefly in The Rise of Skywalker .
Tatooine has an incredibly important place in the Star Wars galaxy, as it’s the home of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, so it makes sense that fans have seen so much of the desert world in recent years. However, there are other worlds that are also deserving of this treatment.
Horoscopes & love: Expert on the most compatible star signs according to the planets |
Inbaal said: "So many of us know what our Zodiac sexual matches are - a quick glance back at our dating history can show that one or two signs are just dynamite... in our own personal experience.
“But how many of us know our planetary matches? The one person who'll stick around, treat us right and cheer us up when all goes wrong?
'Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi' Needs To Show Other Planets Than Tatooine
Last night (February 9) during the quarterly Disney Earnings call (one of my four favorite calls of the year), Disney CEO Bob Chapek made what should have been an exciting announcement: Obi-Wan Kenobi , the long anticipated Disney+ series starring Ewan McGregor as the genius who decided to
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The image from April 2021 became the subject of discussion after Scott C Waring, who runs the blog UFO Sightings Daily , said the photograph was more than just a collection of rocks, according to CNET .
"The person is about 1 foot tall, .3 meters and is laying down, pinkish upper chest, neck and face, radish hair, wearing a dark suit, but has a grey object over one shoulder...looks like a backpack of some sort," Waring continued.
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Worldwide Space Mining Industry to 2026 - Advancement in Space Technology Presents Opportunities
The process of extracting resources and minerals from asteroids and near-Earth objects is known as space mining. The goal of space mining is similar to that of earth mining, which is the exploitation and extraction of valuable commodities and minerals.
Some of the companies covered in this report are Asteroid Mining Corporation, Bradford Space, ispace, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Moon Express, Offworld, Roscosmos State Corporation, etc.
Singapore Government to invest $150 million in space-tech R&D | The Straits Times
The flagship Space Technology Development Programme (STDP), started by the Office for Space Technology and Industry (OSTIn) and the National Research Foundation, will fund researchers in Singapore.
This investment aims to encourage local space innovation for nationally important sectors, like aviation and maritime, and also everyday applications such as global positioning systems (GPS) that are crucial to ride-hailing services and parcel delivery tracking.
Indian startups keen for opportunity in space tech
On 24th June, 2020, the Government of India (GoI) had approved reforms in the Space Sector aimed at boosting private sector participation in the entire range of space activities.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has taken steps to attract new startups in the field of Defense and Space. Technology Development Fund (TDF) Scheme is a program of MoD executed by DRDO under Make in India initiative.
Pushing the Boundaries | University of Central Florida News
Kathleen Loftin '89 '00MS '09PhD is in her happy place on a Saturday morning: pulling weeds in her garden. The work is peaceful, filthy, and as down to earth as you can possibly be.
"Papayas grow without much effort," Loftin says, sounding more like a wonder-struck gardener than the center chief technologist at Kennedy Space Center. Actually, she's both.
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Business of Space: Shoebox satellites and a Goldilocks planet
As part of the UK's £1.4bn investment in space defence, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) confirmed on Wednesday it will launch its first-ever satellites this year.
In what the government believes is the next phase of the country's growing space research capabilities, the pair of satellites will help support the Ministry of Defence's ambition to be able to monitor, protect and defend its interests in and through space by 2030.
Space-Qualified Cover Glass Market 2022 to Witness Huge Growth By 2029 | Saint-Gobain, Excelitas,
New Jersey, USA,- The latest report released by Market Research Intellect presents a thorough analysis of the global Space-Qualified Cover Glass market. This research report assesses the ever-changing market dynamics that are expected to affect the trajectory of the overall market.
Analysts used Porter’s five forces analysis, study worm analysis, and pestle analysis to determine the course that key suppliers are expected to take in the coming years.
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Scientists have confirmed that the newly-discovered asteroid, called 2020 XL 5 , is the second Trojan asteroid known for Earth. And, at around 1.2km, it's around three times larger than the only other known Earth Trojan, 2010 TK 7 .
Other planets also have Trojan asteroids, and so far, astronomers have found them for Venus (1), Mars (9), Jupiter (7,000+), Uranus (two), and Neptune (28). The first Earth Trojan, 2010 TK 7 , was discovered relatively recently in 2011.
Asteroid Ryugu samples, now on Earth, reveal inner workings of the space rock | Space
Pieces of rock from the asteroid Ryugu splashed down on Earth in 2020. Now, scientists studying the samples are revealing the asteroid's true nature.
Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid that Japan visited with its Hayabusa2 spacecraft. The craft launched in 2014, arrived at the space rock in 2018 and in December 2020 dropped off a capsule carrying 0.2 ounces (5.4 grams) of asteroid material to Earth.
Can humans stop an asteroid apocalypse on Earth? NASA, SpaceX to the rescue?
Several asteroids have reportedly passed close to earth in the past few months. Considering the long Earth history that is replete with tales of such asteroid crashes, there is always a fear that this may happen again. An asteroid crash wiped out dinosaurs, the same can happen to humans too.
In a recent study, scientists at the University of California found how mankind may avoid extinction at the hands of an asteroid. The researchers have conducted their study on hypothetical protagonists just six month's notice before an impact by a 10km comet like the Netflix flick 'Don't Look Up.
Los Alamos National Laboratory working on asteroid defense
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are studying asteroids in the hopes of being better prepared to defend the earth against them.
Planetary scientist Wendy Caldwell says there is no cause for alarm, no asteroids are coming for us right now. But she and her team are trying to learn more about what the massive space rocks are made of and how they behave with the help of a supercomputer.
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Asteroid RE1 officially named after the late SOPHIE following fan-made petition : Dancing Astronaut
Now we have definitive, empirical proof that the late electronic producer and multi-hyphenate talent SOPHIE is officially orbiting in outer space.
The exoplanet was originally discovered in 1980 by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory in the Czech Republic, with an outer surface that reflects the pastel colors used in musical mastermind’s 2018 LP, Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides .
NASA says Starlink Gen2 may cause problems for Hubble and asteroid detection | Ars Technica
NASA outlined its concerns in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission on Monday.
NASA didn't urge the FCC to reject SpaceX's application , but it said it wants deployment to be "conducted prudently, in a manner that supports spaceflight safety and the long-term sustainability of the space environment.
KRQE Newsfeed: Ankle monitors, Awaiting trial, Warm and windy, Water concerns, Asteroid study |
[1] Pretrial detention bill gets new focus on ankle monitors – The “tough on crime” legislative session is coming to an end but not without some changes to one bill that is still stirring up debate.
[3] Warmest day of the year on the way – Lows are in the lower 40s for the Albuquerque metro area. Other spots with snow are seeing temperatures in the teens, like Taos. But we’ll rapidly warm up due to some stronger wind gusts. Peak gusts will top out in the 30-35 mph range.
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Citizen Science Highlights in 2021 | SETI Institute
The SETI Institute is Unistellar's scientific partner, helping citizen scientists make meaningful contributions to astronomy.
Unistellar's global network of citizen scientists made hundreds of astronomical observations in 2021, including asteroid occultations, exoplanet transits and asteroid observations.
How to save Earth from a doomsday "Don't Look Up" impact - Big Think
As our planet orbits around the Sun, relics from our Solar System’s ancient past constantly exert tiny, almost imperceptible gravitational forces.
65 million years ago, some ~70% of all species on our planet went extinct when a large asteroid about 5 kilometers wide slammed into what is now known as the Gulf of Mexico, creating Chicxulub crater and wiping out every non-avian dinosaur on the planet.
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A solar storm has sent dozens of new Starlink satellites plunging back toward Earth, but @SpaceX says not to worry: https://t.co/lvcGrV2F90weatherchannel (from Atlanta, GA)Thu Feb 10 21:29:11 +0000 2022
MARION COUNTY, Fla. – Marion County students are reaching beyond the stars as their science experiment prepares to blast off on a SpaceX rocket this summer, according to the school district.
Elementary and high school students in the Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) proposed the winning experiment, which will explore "the effect of microgravity on the amount of ethanol produced by yeast fermentation," school officials said.
James Webb Space Telescope's groundbreaking optics explained by NASA | Space
A new explainer video the agency posted on YouTube talks about the huge telescope's optics and how they will let astronomers peer deep into the universe's history for future science work, ranging across subjects from exoplanets to the formation and evolution of early galaxies.
Shaheen Congratulates UNH Researchers' HelioSwarm Mission for Being Chosen By NASA For $250M
(Washington, DC) – Today, U.S.
The HelioSwarm mission’s principal investigator is Harlan Spence from UNH and NASA’s Ames Research Center will provide project management. The University of New Hampshire is a leading heliophysics research institution, with instruments on 16 of 22 operating heliophysics missions.
China planning more than 50 space launches in 2022 - The Hindu
China Space Station (CSS) is also expected to be a competitor to the ISS. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
China is planning to launch more than 50 space launches and six manned flights to complete the building of its space station, as it unveiled an ambitious plan on Thursday for its burgeoning space industry this year.
After 2-year delay, international student team set to launch satellite into space | CU Boulder
Banner image: INSPIRESat-1 with its solar panels folded up in preparation for launch. (Credit: ISRO)
From 2017 to 2020, students from five different countries traveled to the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder to engage in an ambitious undertaking: to design and build a miniature satellite.
Behold! NASA captures groundbreaking images of Venus' surface
The shroud of thick clouds veiling the surface of Venus has been peeled back — thanks to the NASA Parker Solar Probe. The stunning observations reveal a planet marked with continents, flat expanses, and ranging highlands.
"Venus is the third brightest thing in the sky, but until recently we have not had much information on what the surface looked like because our view of it is blocked by a thick atmosphere," says Brian Wood in a statement .
UMass Amherst Student Amanda Desmond Named a 2022 Brooke Owens Fellow | UMass Amherst
AMHERST, Mass. – Amanda Desmond, a junior economics and space science major at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named one of 51 Brooke Owens Fellows for 2022.
Desmond, a native of Beverly, Mass., is the first student selected for the program from the University of Massachusetts system. During the summer of 2022, she will spend 12 weeks with Voyager Space Holdings in Denver working directly with the firm's CEO, Dylan Taylor.
NASA is concerned about SpaceX's new generation of Starlink satellites | Space
With this track record, NASA has some serious reservations about SpaceX's proposed new fleet.
NASA has "concerns with the potential for a significant increase in the frequency of conjunction events and possible impacts to NASA’s science and human spaceflight missions," the agency stated in the letter, which was signed by Samantha Fonder, identified as NASA's representative to the
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