VIENNA, Austria, September 21, 2024 (ENS) – China is opening 12 nuclear research facilities and testing platforms to international scientists and institutions to enhance global nuclear cooperation, a senior Chinese official said in Vienna this week. […]
ALBANY, New York, April 12, 2024 (ENS) – The world’s most exciting cutting-edge Electron-Ion Collider, expected to generate fresh insights into the structure and behavior of atomic particles, will be built over the next 10 years at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, 67 miles east of New York City. […]
DENVER, Colorado, February 14, 2024 (ENS) – It’s Geo Week in Denver, where one of the world’s largest geospatial conferences is underway. As part of the gathering, on February 12, a group of Lidar enthusiasts celebrated the first World Lidar Day, marking this date as an annual celebration of the expanding world enabled by Light Detection and Ranging, LIDAR. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 27, 2023 (ENS) – U.S. defense and space agencies are moving quickly toward the world’s first in-orbit demonstration of a nuclear thermal rocket, NTR. […]
XIAMEN, Fujian, China, July 10, 2023 (ENS) – Technology for the remote sensing of underwater oil, useful for monitoring leaks in submerged oil pipelines, ships, platforms and other infrastructure, has just taken a leap forward. […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 31, 2023 (ENS) – Humans are taking “colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth,” a new Earth Commission study published today in the journal “Nature” concludes. Forty researchers from across the globe delivered the first quantification of “safe and just Earth system boundaries” on both global and local levels… […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 11, 2023 (ENS) – The first vaccine for the world’s imperiled honeybees has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for two years on a conditional basis. The vaccine was developed by Dalan Animal Health, Inc., a biotech company based at the University of Georgia’s Innovation Hub in Athens, Georgia. […]
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, August 19, 2022 (ENS) – Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, have devised a new kind of wearable sensor that communicates wirelessly without onboard chips or batteries. The sensor design is a form of electronic skin, or “e-skin,” a flexible, semiconducting film that conforms to the skin like electronic Scotch tape. […]
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. XPRIZE, a non-profit that hosts competitions to accelerate breakthroughs that benefit humanity, and the Musk Foundation announced the winners today. […]
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 a pan-European radio telescope. The map reveals a detailed radio image of more than 4.4 million galaxies… […]
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 UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, adopted the historic agreement that defines the common values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of AI. […]
MENLO PARK, California, October 28, 2021 (ENS) – Facebook has had many troubles in its 15 year history – outages, accusations before Congress, privacy concerns, lawsuits. To counteract the negative publicity, Mark Zuckerberg today changed the company name and released a vision of the future that he hopes will change the subject. […]
OSLO, Norway, October 10, 2021 (ENS) – The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize goes to Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” […]
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 those experiences with each other. […]
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 Awards 2021 Breakthrough Technology Company of the Year by the publisher Global Water Intelligence. […]
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 and agility by modulating the electrostatic […]
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 Star Wars and Star Trek […]
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. Colorful lights on Diwali night in India, seen from space, seem to show fireworks exploding. But it’s “location spoofing.” […]
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 dinner.” In this excerpt from his new book, “Pangolins: Scales of Injustice,” wildlife conservationist Richard Peirce recounts a trip to Vietnam during which, within 15 minutes in one restaurant, he was offered both of the animals that are the likely vectors for COVID-19 and SARS. […]
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 three million galaxies in just 300 hours. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope conducts a survey like a Google map of the universe where most of the millions of points on the map are distant galaxies – at least a million of which humans have never seen before. […]
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