July 15: An airplane powered by energy from the sun arrived Wednesday in Egypt, the penultimate stop on the first fuel-free flight around the globe. Solar Impulse 2, a spindly single-seat plane, flew over the pyramids to make a smooth landing at Cairo airport at about 7:10 a.m. (0510 GMT), ending a flight leg that […]
July 15: Canada is often thought of as a winter country, but our summers are sometimes brutally hot. The blast of air conditioning is sometimes the only thing that can bring relief, aside from jumping in a body of cold water. But many Canadians are concerned about the effects of climate change brought on by the […]
July 15: Using the Hitomi satellite astronomers find that turbulence in the central region of the Perseus cluster is low, implying that errors in previous measurements of the masses of galaxy clusters using X-ray observations are small. Most galaxies lie in clusters, groupings of a few to many thousands of galaxies. Our Milky Way galaxy […]
July 09: A two-kilometre test stretch of Highway E16 in Sandviken, about 160 kilometres north of Stockholm, has been equipped with overhead electrical wires that can be used to feed power into trucks that have a hybrid-electric motor, says Trafikverket, the Swedish Transport Administration. The power is fed into the truck via a current conductor […]
Matt McFarland / July 09: There’s nothing new about a dangerous suspect dying at the hands of police. But Thursday night in Dallas, the situation played out with a twist. Micah Johnson, believed to have fatally shot five police officers, was killed by an explosive device that a robot delivered. Two executives at robotic companies […]
July 09: A newly published study reveals clues about possible water at seasonally dark streaks on Mars. The study investigated thousands of these warm-season features in the Valles Marineris region near Mars’ equator. Some of the sites displaying the seasonal flows are canyon ridges and isolated peaks, ground shapes that make it hard to explain […]
July 09: Scientists have designed a robotic stingray that could help our understanding of the human heart. The miniature robot, one-tenth the scale of the actual fish, moves using heart cells taken from a rat. Researchers hope the robotic ray will give new insight into the heart’s ability to pump blood and its potential implications […]
Sophie Morlin-Yron / July 2: When artist Daan Roosegaarde visited Beijing in 2014, he was inspired by what he didn’t see. From his hotel room on the 32nd floor, his view of the sprawling Chinese capital was totally obscured by smog. “It was all gone,” Roosegaarde says. “The city was completely covered with smog.” Two […]
July 02 / BMW, Intel and Mobileye, an Israel-based sensor technology firm, said they are teaming up to develop self-driving car technology that will be ready for production early in the next decade. At a joint news conference held Friday outside Munich, Germany, the three companies announced plans to offer self-driving cars by 2021. In […]
July 01: A driver with a history of speeding who was so enamoured of his Tesla Model S sedan that he nicknamed the car “Tessy” and praised the safety benefits of its sophisticated Autopilot system has become the first U.S. fatality in a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode. The National Highway Traffic Safety […]
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