Our sun is a chaotic place, simmering with magnetic energy and constantly spewing out particles. Sometimes the sun releases solar flares and coronal mass ejections—huge eruptions of charged particles—which contribute ...
Space Exploration
Mar 30, 2017
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Viscous, lobate flow features are commonly found at the bases of slopes in the mid-latitudes of Mars, and are often associated with gullies.
Space Exploration
Mar 8, 2017
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Launched 10 years ago, on Oct. 25, 2006, the twin spacecraft of NASA's STEREO mission – short for Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory – have given us unprecedented views of the sun, including the first-ever simultaneous ...
Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2016
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Driverless minibuses will begin taking passengers in the eastern French city of Lyon at the weekend in a year-long experiment that officials are calling a "world first".
Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 2, 2016
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While music lovers continue to argue about the relative merits of digital audio and the analogue vinyl disc, another debate is going on about the renaissance of an audio format that most people thought had long since disappeared: ...
Other
Aug 19, 2016
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Researchers have developed an imaging technique that can simultaneously acquire a color image and a depth map from a single image taken by a monocular camera. This technique achieves high-precision distance/range detection, ...
Engineering
Jun 8, 2016
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A camera designed and built at the Center of Space and Habitability (CSH) of the University of Bern will be launched with the ExoMars space orbiter next Monday 14 March and start its journey to Mars. The instrument will obtain ...
Space Exploration
Mar 9, 2016
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On Oct. 1, 2014, NASA mission operations lost communication with one of the two spacecraft of the Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, mission, just as the spacecraft was about to orbit around the other ...
Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2015
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Humans have the best of all possible visual worlds because our full stereo vision combines with primitive visual pathways to quickly spot danger, a study led by the University of Sydney has discovered.
Plants & Animals
Nov 19, 2015
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Hitachi, Ltd. today announced that it has developed a technology which can accurately measure human behavior and estimate attributes (characteristics) in real time. By analyzing 3D data obtained from a stereo camera, human ...
Engineering
Oct 27, 2015
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