Spacewalking astronauts set up TV cameras for arriving ships
Spacewalking astronauts set up TV cameras Thursday for new crew capsules set to arrive in coming months.
Space Exploration
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Robot vision makes solar cell manufacture more efficient
"The price of solar-generated electricity continues to plummet, and the technology is taking over as the least expensive form of energy in more and more parts of the world," says solar cell researcher John Atle Bones at SINTEF.
Robotics
Jun 14, 2018
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Why 50,000 ships are so vulnerable to cyberattacks
The 50,000 ships sailing the sea at any one time have joined an ever-expanding list of objects that can be hacked. Cybersecurity experts recently displayed how easy it was to break into a ship's navigational equipment. This ...
Security
Jun 14, 2018
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Grenfell: a year on, here's what we know went wrong
The Grenfell Tower fire resulted in the greatest loss of life from a fire in Britain since World War II. A year on, we know that the fire's rapid spread was at least partly due to the cladding that enveloped the building. ...
Other
Jun 14, 2018
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We must ensure new food retail technologies are not barriers to better health
Imagine a world where smart pantries sense when you are running out of your favourite food and order more of it, without you lifting a finger. Where intelligent robots roam your grocery store, ever at your service. Where ...
Other
Jun 14, 2018
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New device to protect communities in Colombia from unsafe water
The 'Water Monitoring in Colombian Vulnerable Communities in a Post-Conflict Scenario' project, financed by the Newton Fund Institutional Links, has developed a developed a low cost, portable and user-friendly multi-sensing ...
Environment
Jun 14, 2018
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The fake news detector
A story on Reddit asks, "Did Palestinians Recognize Texas as Part of Mexico?" The origin of the story might be dubious, but it doesn't prevent the "fake news" story from accumulating 1.5 million likes across multiple platforms ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 14, 2018
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New and improved way to find baby planets
New work from an international team of astronomers including Carnegie's Jaehan Bae used archival radio telescope data to develop a new method for finding very young extrasolar planets. Their technique successfully confirmed ...
Astronomy
Jun 14, 2018
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New Greenland telescope is up and running
Greenland can now brag about hosting a large, operational radio telescope, with a dish measuring 12 metres in diameter.
Astronomy
Jun 14, 2018
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Native fish tell story of Australia's less arid past
Despite the odds, new research has shown how a tiny fish managed to find its way across the arid Australian continent – more than once.
Ecology
Jun 14, 2018
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