A heavy downpour and strong winds pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan's worst in six decades made landfall and passed over the capital, where streets, nearby beaches ...
Environment
Oct 12, 2019
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An experiment conducted in German train stations involving paper cups and escaping oranges has found that people are less likely to help a woman if she appears to be Muslim—but they're more likely to help that same woman ...
Social Sciences
Aug 7, 2019
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A pair of New Zealand penguins that broke into a sushi stall at Wellington's busiest railway station have been returned to their natural habitat.
Ecology
Jul 17, 2019
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Train riders have to get to stations somehow. This is often referred to as the "first mile" or "last mile" problem. There are many technical solutions to help travellers get from home to the station and back, ranging from ...
Social Sciences
May 3, 2019
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ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer practices Space Station repairs in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA.
Space Exploration
Apr 10, 2019
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Train delays could be a thing of the past, thanks to a system that predicts when part of a train track, signaling equipment or other devices at a station are likely to fail. It does this by using thousands of sensors and ...
Internet
Jan 7, 2019
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New virtual reality training could help prevent accidents in "safety-critical" industries like the NHS, aviation, the military and nuclear power.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 6, 2017
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Matthias Maurer, from Germany, has started his astronaut training as part of ESA's astronaut corps.
Space Exploration
Feb 3, 2017
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With ESA astronaut Tim Peake stepping out of the International Space Station tomorrow, have you ever wanted to know if you have what it takes to be an astronaut? ESA is offering a trial version of a test developed for future ...
Space Exploration
Jan 19, 2016
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Google's new chief executive Sundar Pichai used his first official visit to India Wednesday to outline plans to bring hundreds of millions of Indians online, including installing free wifi at railway stations.
Business
Dec 16, 2015
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