Google's robotic spinoff launches ride-hailing service
Google's self-driving car spinoff is finally ready to try to profit from its nearly decade-old technology.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 5, 2018
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First 'piggyback' kit for monitoring space weather launched
Tiny sensors for measuring the Earth's space weather environment have launched today attached to a South Korean satellite.
Earth Sciences
Dec 5, 2018
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Wildfire ash could trap mercury
In the summers of 2017 and 2018, heat waves and drought conditions spawned hundreds of wildfires in the western U.S. And in November, two more devastating wildfires broke out in California, scorching thousands of acres of ...
Environment
Dec 5, 2018
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Understanding how plants use sunlight
Plants rely on the energy in sunlight to produce the nutrients they need. But sometimes they absorb more energy than they can use, and that excess can damage critical proteins. To protect themselves, they convert the excess ...
Biochemistry
Dec 5, 2018
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Galileo satellites prove Einstein's Relativity Theory to highest accuracy yet
Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system – already serving users globally – has now provided a historic service to the physics community worldwide, enabling the most accurate measurement ever made of how shifts in ...
General Physics
Dec 5, 2018
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Study finds indications for recovery after ecosystem pollution
Environmental damage caused by human activity can reduce the number of plant and animal species dramatically. At the same time, very little is known about how biodiversity recovers after ecosystem pollution is curtailed and ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2018
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Image: Researching supersonic flight
This image of the horizon was seen from the cockpit of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center's F/A-18 research aircraft during a flight in support of the Quiet Supersonic Flights 2018 research series, or QSF18. NASA test ...
Space Exploration
Dec 5, 2018
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A more accurate way of resolving spatial patterns in weather could lead to better predictions of climate change
A divide and conquer approach, combined with some mathematical gymnastics, has helped KAUST researchers Ying Sun and Yuxiao Li to come up with a fast and flexible statistical scheme for improving the accuracy of climate-change ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 5, 2018
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Honeybee protein keeps stem cells youthful
An active protein component of royal jelly helps honeybees create new queens. Stanford researchers have identified a similar protein in mammals, which keeps cultured embryonic stem cells pluripotent.
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2018
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Ariane 5's sixth launch this year
An Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, has delivered the GSAT-11 and Geo-Kompsat-2A satellites into their planned orbits.
Space Exploration
Dec 5, 2018
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