08/05/2014

Swarm's precise sense of magnetism

(Phys.org) —Although they were launched only five months ago, ESA's trio of Swarm satellites are already delivering results with a precision that took earlier missions 10 years to achieve.

EasyJet to deploy inspection drones for aircrafts

EasyJet, the UK's largest airline, has today announced it is working with the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, a partnership between the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, to modify existing technology ...

Exoskeleton to remote-control robot

Visionary 'rocket scientists' will share their ideas on Thursday, 8 May at the TEDx RocketMinds event at ESA's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

Tech review: Keeping tabs on your kids' phone activity

I've received emails over the years from worried parents asking me how they can monitor the phone use of their teenagers, especially in this age of smartphones with their many different ways of communicating.

Why a bacterium got its curve—and why biologists should know

Drawing from his engineering background, Princeton University researcher Alexandre Persat had a notion as to why the bacteria Caulobacter crescentus are curved—a hunch that now could lead to a new way of studying the evolution ...

Japan institute rejects 'phoney' research scientist appeal

A respected Japanese institute that sponsored stem cell research hailed as groundbreaking said Thursday the young scientist who wrote the paper should withdraw it, adding it stood by its conclusion that she fabricated data.

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