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XPRIZE Awards 15 Winners $1M Each for CO2 Removal Know-How

April 22, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on XPRIZE Awards 15 Winners $1M Each for CO2 Removal Know-How

LOS ANGELES, California, April 22, 2022 (ENS) – In celebration of Earth Day, 15 teams have been designated as million-dollar Milestone winners in the $100 Million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition. [...]

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Mapping the Universe: Scientists Reveal 4.4 Million Galaxies

February 25, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Mapping the Universe: Scientists Reveal 4.4 Million Galaxies

DURHAM, UK, February 25, 2022 (ENS) – Astronomers from Durham University collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the [...]

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Artificial Intelligence Ethics Approved by 193 Countries

December 1, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Artificial Intelligence Ethics Approved by 193 Countries

PARIS, France, December 1, 2021 (ENS) – The first global agreement on the ethics of artificial intelligence, AI, was adopted Thursday by 193 countries. All the member states of the [...]

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Facebook Morphs Into Meta for Metaverse: Zuckerberg Explains

October 28, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Facebook Morphs Into Meta for Metaverse: Zuckerberg Explains

MENLO PARK, California, October 28, 2021 (ENS) – Facebook has had many troubles in its 15 year history – outages, accusations of all kinds, privacy concerns, lawsuits, the list goes [...]

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2021 Nobel Prizes Raise Awareness of Democracy, Climate

October 10, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on 2021 Nobel Prizes Raise Awareness of Democracy, Climate

OSLO, Norway, October 10, 2021 (ENS) – The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 to Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia [...]

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Artificial Intelligence Systems Learn to Teach Each Other

October 4, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Artificial Intelligence Systems Learn to Teach Each Other

WASHINGTON, DC, October 4, 2021 (ENS) – A new international project is creating advanced artificial intelligence, AI, programs that will enable machines to learn progressively over a lifetime and share [...]

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Watertech Startup Products Make Blue-Green Algae Commit Suicide

August 4, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Watertech Startup Products Make Blue-Green Algae Commit Suicide

TZUR HADASSAH, Israel, August 3, 2021 (ENS) – BlueGreen Water Technologies, Ltd., a global watertech company that provides innovative solutions to toxic algae blooms, has been named the Global Water [...]

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Roach-sized Robot Can Search Accident, Disaster Scenes

July 4, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Roach-sized Robot Can Search Accident, Disaster Scenes

BERKELEY, California, July 4, 2021 (ENS) – A team of Chinese engineers working at the University of California, Berkeley have created a tiny, lightweight, durable robot that achieves unique control [...]

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Next-Gen Holograms Float, Move in Thin Air

May 9, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Next-Gen Holograms Float, Move in Thin Air

PROVO, Utah, May 9, 2021 (ENS) – Hologram experts can now create real-life images that move in the air. Using lasers to create the displays of science fiction inspired by [...]

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Exposing ‘Deepfake Geography’

April 21, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Exposing ‘Deepfake Geography’

SEATTLE, Washington, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – A fire in New York’s Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. [...]

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New Book Links Southeast Asia’s Wildlife Trade to COVID

December 8, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on New Book Links Southeast Asia’s Wildlife Trade to COVID

 

HANOI, Vietnam, December 8, 2020 (ENS) – “The price of the private dining room would be included in the price of the pangolin, along with the rest of the [...]

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Australian Radio Telescope Maps Universe at Warp Speed

December 1, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Australian Radio Telescope Maps Universe at Warp Speed

 

PERTH, Australia, December 1, 2020 (ENS) – A radio telescope in the outback of Western Australia is creating a new atlas of the universe at astonishing speed, mapping some [...]

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New Smart Windows Generate Power as They Change Color

October 21, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on New Smart Windows Generate Power as They Change Color

 

GOLDEN, Colorado, October 21, 2020 (ENS) – A thermochromic window that darkens automatically in the sun and simultaneously uses the sun to generate electricity has been invented by scientists [...]

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Greener Process Grows U.S. Supply of Rare Earth Metals

May 11, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Greener Process Grows U.S. Supply of Rare Earth Metals

 

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, May 11, 2020 (ENS) – Mining for rare earth metals is about to become more environmentally and economically feasible though a process newly developed and [...]

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Rare UV-C Light Rays Remove Coronavirus From Surfaces

April 23, 2020 News Editor Comments Off on Rare UV-C Light Rays Remove Coronavirus From Surfaces

 

SANTA BARBARA, California, April 23, 2020 (ENS) – As the world races to find vaccines, therapies and cures for the deadly respiratory disease COVID-19, the deep ultraviolet color [...]

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MIT Engineers Find New Way to Remove CO2 From Air

October 29, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on MIT Engineers Find New Way to Remove CO2 From Air

 

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, October 29, 2019 (ENS) – A new way of removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from a stream of air could provide a valuable tool [...]

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Carbon-neutral Fuel Created from Sunlight and Air

June 25, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Carbon-neutral Fuel Created from Sunlight and Air

 

ZURICH, Switzerland, June 25, 2019 (ENS) – An innovative technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels from only sunlight and air has been developed by researchers from the Swiss [...]

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Nano Villain Blamed for Oil Pipeline Corrosion

June 7, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Nano Villain Blamed for Oil Pipeline Corrosion

 

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 7, 2019 (ENS) – A form of nanoscale corrosion is responsible for unpredictable breaks in the steel pipelines that carry oil, decreasing their working [...]

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Seeing the Unseeable: First Image of a Black Hole

April 11, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Seeing the Unseeable: First Image of a Black Hole

 

WASHINGTON, DC, April 11, 2019 (ENS) – An international team of scientists has for the first time captured an image of a black hole. Revealed Wednesday by researchers [...]

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Here Come the RoboBees: Autonomous Flying Microrobots

February 19, 2019 News Editor Comments Off on Here Come the RoboBees: Autonomous Flying Microrobots

 

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 19, 2019 (ENS) – Inspired by the biology of a bee, researchers at the Wyss Institute have developed RoboBees – constructed systems that can do [...]

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