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 […]
July 01 :New research details the “first fingerprints of healing” of the Antarctic ozone layer. Scientists found that the September ozone hole has shrunk by more than 4 million square kilometers — about half the area of the contiguous United States — since 2000, when ozone depletion was at its peak. The team also showed for […]
June 25 : Secretary of State John Kerry doesn’t just want entrepreneurs to build successful companies. He wants them to build successful companies that also help solve things like violent extremism, climate change, and government corruption. Easy enough, right? Kerry kicked off the seventh annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University with a call to […]
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