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  Washington (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 Americans are torn over the promise of artificial intelligence, a new poll showed Wednesday, expressing broad optimism about the emerging technologies but also fearing their negative impacts - including job losses, a poll showed Wednesday. The Gallup survey showed 79 percent of Americans say artificial intelligence has had a "mostly positive" or "very positive" impact on their lives thus far. At the same time, 73 percent said they expect the increased use of AI will eliminate more jobs than it ... read more |
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China's first X-ray space telescope put into service after in-orbit testsBeijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2018 China's first X-ray astronomical satellite, launched in June last year, is put into service for scientific research on Tuesday after finishing in-orbit tests. It embodies a new phase of China' ... more  
Scientists design bacteria to reflect 'sonar' signals for ultrasound imagingPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2018 In the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine is shrunken down and injected into a scientist's body to repair a blood clot in his brain. While the movie may be still be fiction, res ... more 
NIST's superconducting synapse may be missing piece for 'artificial brains'Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting switch that "learns" like a biological system and could connect processors and store memories in ... more  
A vista from Mars rover looks back over journey so farPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2018 A panoramic image that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge provides a sweeping vista of key sites visited since the rover's 2012 landing, and the towering surroundings. ... more |
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Contact with lost NASA satellite IMAGE confirmedGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 The identity of the satellite re-discovered on Jan. 20, 2018, has been confirmed as NASA's IMAGE satellite. On the afternoon of Jan. 30, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryla ... more 
Let's make a deal: Could AI compromise better than humans?Provo, UT (SPX) Jan 23, 2018 Computers can play a pretty mean round of chess and keep up with the best of their human counterparts in other zero-sum games. But teaching them to cooperate and compromise instead of compete? ... more
Updates on recovery attempts for NASA IMAGE missionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 After an amateur astronomer recorded observations of a satellite in high Earth orbit on Jan. 20, 2018, his initial research suggested it was the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration ... more 
China's first successful lunar laser ranging accomplishedBeijing (XNA) Jan 29, 2018 China has accomplished its first successful Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR), with a 1.2-meter telescope laser ranging system. Based on the signals of laser pulses reflected by the lunar retro-reflec ... more  
First Light for Planet Hunter ExTrA at La SillaGarching, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 A new national facility at ESO's La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations. The ExTrA telescopes will search for and study Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars ... more 
NASA tests power system to support manned missions to MarsWashington DC (VOA) Jan 30, 2018 United States government agencies say the first tests of a very small nuclear power system designed for missions to Mars have been successful. The American space agency NASA and the Department ... more 
Jumping around for good healthParis (ESA) Jan 29, 2018 Simple yet efficient: intensive jumping might be a panacea for strong bones, muscles and hearts. A European study has confirmed the benefits of making giant leaps not only for astronauts, but also f ... more |
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 NASA Poised to Topple a Planet-Finding Barrier 
A hot Jupiter with unusual windsMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be - a discovery that challenges scientists' understanding of the many planets of this type found ... more 
Opportunity prepares software update as Sol 5000 approachesPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 29, 2018 Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater from a location in the north fork of the local flow channel. Color imaging of ligh ... more  
Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2018 Chinese students spent 200 continuous days in a "lunar lab" in Beijing, state media said Friday, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people on the moon. ... more  |
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Dust storms linked to gas escape from Mars atmospherePasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2018 Some Mars experts are eager and optimistic for a dust storm this year to grow so grand it darkens skies around the entire Red Planet. This biggest type of phenomenon in the environment of modern Mar ... more 
NASA's Next Mars Lander Spreads its Solar WingsPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2018 NASA's next mission to Mars passed a key test Tuesday, extending the solar arrays that will power the InSight spacecraft once it lands on the Red Planet this November. The test took place at L ... more 
Backgrounder: China's six manned space missionsBeijing (XNA) Jan 23, 2018 Since the establishment of the Taikonaut Corps of the People's Liberation Army in 1998, Chinese taikonauts have completed six manned spaceflights, conducted over 100 scientific experiments and orbit ... more 
Soft, self-healing devices mimic biological musclesBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 In the basement of the Engineering Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, a group of researchers is working to create the next generation of robots. Instead of the metallic droids you may be ... more 
Human genome decoded with pocket-sized deviceParis (AFP) Jan 29, 2018 Scientists used a portable device no bigger than a cellphone to sequence the most complete human genome ever assembled with a single technology, according to a study published Monday. ... more 
'Job-killing' robots, AI under scrutiny in DavosDavos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 26, 2018 "Artificial intelligence and robots will kill many jobs." ... more 
AI, virtual reality make inroads in tourism sectorMadrid (AFP) Jan 21, 2018 A hotel room automatically adjusting to the tastes of each guest, virtual reality headsets as brochures: the tourism sector is starting to embrace new technologies, hoping to benefit from lucrative personal data. ... more |
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 Dutch robots help make cheese, 'smell' the roses 
A new 'atmospheric disequilibrium' could help detect life on other planetsSeattle WA (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 As NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and other new giant telescopes come online they will need novel strategies to look for evidence of life on other planets. A University of Washington study has fo ... more 
Feedback enhances brainwave control of a novel hand-exoskeletonLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 An extremely lightweight and portable hand exoskeleton may one day help the physically impaired with daily living. These are the hopes of EPFL scientist Luca Randazzo who is developing the exoskelet ... more 
European-Russian space mission steps up the search for life on MarsMoscowm Russia (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 In 2013, the European Space Agency and Roscosmos - the Russian governmental body responsible for space research - agreed to cooperate on ExoMars, the first joint interplanetary mission between ESA a ... more  
Europa and Other Planetary Bodies May Have Extremely Low-Density SurfacesTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows. Nelson was the ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2018 
A panoramic image that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge provides a sweeping vista of key sites visited since the rover's 2012 landing, and the towering surroundings.
The view from "Vera Rubin Ridge" on the north flank of Mount Sharp encompasses much of the 11-mile (18-kilometer) route the rover has driven from its 2012 landing site, all inside Gale Crater. One hil ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
NASA optics experts are well on the way to toppling a barrier that has thwarted scientists from achieving a long-held ambition: building an ultra-stable telescope that locates and images dozens of Earth-like planets beyond the solar system and then scrutinizes their atmospheres for signs of life.
Babak Saif and Lee Feinberg at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
In order to understand many of the subtleties regarding launch vehicle design it is useful to understand many of the terms used in the engineering analysis and evaluation of these systems. Below are a few of the most important definitions.
Ascent profile - The shape of a launch vehicle's trajectory with reference to the surface of the Earth. The optimum ascent is one in which gravity is al ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018  Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the Surface Navy Laser Weapon System.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $150 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract.
The contract taps Lockheed Martin's Aculight Corp. to develop, manufacture and deliver two test units in fiscal 2020 - one uni ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Jan 25, 2018 
Qatar is finalising a deal to buy Russian S-400 air defence systems, the isolated Gulf state's ambassador to Moscow said Thursday.
"Negotiations in this direction are in an advanced stage," Fahad bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah told Russia's TASS state news agency.
Talks were also ongoing for the purchase of "ground force technologies," he added.
The announcement came after the historic v ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student ... more |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
Physicists have developed a technique based on optical microscopy that can be used to create images of atoms on the nanoscale. In particular, the new method allows the imaging of quantum dots in a semiconductor chip. Together with colleagues from the University of Bochum, scientists from the University of Basel's Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute reported the findings in ... more |
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