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  Tokyo (AFP) June 30, 2018 A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster exploded shortly after liftoff Saturday, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space. Interstellar Technologies, founded by popular internet service provider Livedoor's creator Takafumi Horie, launched the unmanned rocket, MOMO-2, at around 5:30 am (2030 GMT Friday) from a test site in Taiki, southern Hokkaido. But television footage showed the 10-metre (33-foot) rocket crashing ... read more |
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Orbital tapped for Coyote supersonic sea skimming targets for NavyWashington (UPI) Jul 3, 2018 Orbital Sciences Corp. has been awarded a $52 million modification to a previously awarded contract to acquire 18 Lot 12 full rate production of the GQM-163A Coyote Supersonic Sea Skimming Target and the steel needed for the GQM-163A SSST program of the U.S. Navy. ... more  
Three more dead as record heavy rain hits JapanTokyo (AFP) July 6, 2018 Three people were found dead near rain-swollen rivers in Japan on Friday, officials said, as record downpours prompted authorities to order more than 210,000 people to evacuate their homes, with some areas hit by more than a metre of rainfall. ... more  
Japan aims for 24% renewable energy but keeps nuclear centralTokyo (AFP) July 3, 2018 Japan's government on Tuesday pledged to modestly boost the amount of energy coming from renewable sources to around a quarter in a new plan that also keeps nuclear power central to the country's policy. ... more  
N. Korea's Kim asked China's Xi to help lift sanctions: reportTokyo (AFP) July 1, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has appealed to China's Xi Jinping to help end sanctions against Pyongyang following his landmark summit with US President Donald Trump, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday, citing multiple unnamed sources in the two countries. ... more |
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Japan quake battered most powerful microscopesTokyo (AFP) June 29, 2018 Two of the world's most powerful microscopes suffered severe damage from a deadly earthquake that hit the western Japanese city of Osaka, causing delays in cutting-edge cell and atomic-level research, a scientist said Friday. ... more  
Japan space probe reaches asteroid in search for origin of lifeTokyo (AFP) June 27, 2018 A Japanese probe has reached an asteroid 300 million kilometres away to collect information about the birth of the solar system and the origin of life after a more than three-year voyage through deep space. ... more  
Japan to seek partial resumption of commercial whalingTokyo (AFP) June 27, 2018 Japan will seek a partial resumption of commercial whaling at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission later this year, officials said Wednesday. ... more  
Japan says halting missile drills after Trump-Kim summitTokyo (AFP) June 22, 2018 Japan is suspending evacuation drills simulating a North Korean missile attack after historic talks between Washington and Pyongyang, its top government spokesman said Friday. ... more  
Bear necessities: cooler home for S. Korea's last polar bearSeoul (AFP) June 21, 2018 The last polar bear kept in South Korea will be sent to Britain to escape the country's stifling, humid summers and live out his days in more appropriate surroundings, zookeepers said Thursday. ... more |
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 Moon suggests Russian gas be piped to Koreas, Japan 
Japan halts missile drills after Trump-Kim summit: reportsTokyo (AFP) June 21, 2018 Japan has halted evacuation drills simulating a North Korean missile attack in the wake of historic talks between Washington and Pyongyang, local media reported Thursday. ... more  |
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Japan airlines change 'Taiwan' to 'China Taiwan' on websitesTokyo (AFP) June 19, 2018 Japan's two largest airlines have changed "Taiwan" to "China Taiwan" on their Chinese-language websites, officials said Tuesday, sparking an immediate protest from the self-ruled island. ... more
'Drum tower' collapses at Japan's quake-hit Kumamoto CastleTokyo (AFP) June 21, 2018 A tower at the historic, quake-damaged Kumamoto Castle in southern Japan - one of the country's three premier castles and once a major tourist attraction - has collapsed, an official said Thursday. ... more  
Study reveals simple chemical process that may have led to the origin of life on EarthTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Research led by Kuhan Chandru and Jim Cleaves from the Earth-Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, has shown that reactions of alpha-hydroxy acids, similar to the alpha-ami ... more  
KYOCERA to participate in Japan's virtual power plant project to improve energy managementTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Kyocera has registered with the Sustainable open Innovation Initiative (SII) as a resource aggregator*1 for a new program to help control energy resources among Japanese consumers. This latest test ... more  
Physicists solve the mystery of vanishing particles in grapheneMoscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 20, 2018 Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Tohoku University (Japan) have explained the puzzling phenomenon of particle-antiparticle annihilation in graphene, recognized by ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 29, 2018 
Facial recognition technology, which has drawn criticism from civil liberties activists in recent years, was used to identify the suspect in Thursday's newsroom shooting which left five dead in Annapolis, Maryland.
Police said suspect Jarrod Ramos, who had a prior arrest record, had refused to cooperate with authorities after he was taken into custody and that his fingerprints could not imme ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 
Since the start of the space age, mankind has left its mark on the orbital pathways overhead...and not always for the better. Today, some 7,000 tonnes of artificial debris - a mass equivalent to the Eiffel Tower - orbit the planet.
This detritus, ranging from remnants of defunct or broken-up spacecraft to discarded rocket stages, whizzes by at a dizzying 8 km per second - a speed at which ... more |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
Modern civilization relies on water's incompressibility - it's something we take for granted. Hydraulic systems harness the virtual non-compressibility of fluids like water or oil to multiply mechanical force. Bulldozers, cranes, and other heavy machinery exploit the physics of hydraulics, as do automobile brakes, fire sprinkler systems, and municipal water and waste systems.
It takes extr ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new technique to squeeze infrared light into ultra-confined spaces, generating an intense, nanoscale antenna that could be used to detect single biomolecules.
The researchers harnessed the power of polaritons, particles that blur the distinction between light and matter. This ultra ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 27, 2018 
The United States may sell five AEGIS Weapons Systems to Spain, the State Department announced Tuesday.
The deal, which would cost about $860.4 million, requires the approval of Congress before it can be finalized.
The Government of Spain has requested to buy the five AEGIS Weapons Systems MK7 and a variety of other weapons and technologies that come with it - including five shi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 06, 2018 
China Wednesday launched a new space science program focusing on the origin and evolution of the universe, black holes, gravitational waves and relationship between the solar system and human.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced to develop a group of four satellites in the program.
The program includes a satellite named "Einstein-Probe (EP)", which is tasked with discover ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 04, 2018 
In nature, cockroaches can survive underwater for up to 30 minutes. Now, a robotic cockroach can do even better. Harvard's Ambulatory Microrobot, known as HAMR, can walk on land, swim on the surface of water, and walk underwater for as long as necessary, opening up new environments for this little bot to explore.
This next generation HAMR uses multifunctional foot pads that rely on surface ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 5, 2018 
Beijing wants to have Mao Zedong's Mausoleum and Tiananmen Square, powerful and controversial symbols of Chinese communist might, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, official media reported on Thursday.
The Chinese capital wants to apply for 14 sites in total to receive UNESCO World Heritage status by 2035, the state-run Global Times quoted city official Shu Xiaofeng as saying.
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
Airbus and Planet have entered into a partnership to facilitate access to each other's data and the co-development of new geospatial solutions, by establishing a framework agreement to explore opportunities for joint cooperation in new and existing markets, product offerings, sales and marketing efforts.
Both partners aim at providing a comprehensive suite of global satellite data at multi ... more |
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 Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
Lawns in the Salt Lake Valley up to 100 years old are not yet saturated in the nutrient nitrogen, which is added by fertilizer, according to a new study from University of Utah researchers. The result is surprising, since previous studies in the Eastern U.S. suggested that fertilized soil would become saturated with nitrogen within a few decades.
Something different is happening in Salt La ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
A research team led by astronomers at the University of Warwick had to wait over 100 days for the sight of the first of confirmed neutron star merger to remerge from behind the glare of the sun.
They were rewarded with the first confirmed visual sighting of a jet of material that was still streaming out from merged star exactly 110 days after that initial cataclysmic merger event was first ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
Picnics, parades and fireworks are the attributes of a grand July Fourth celebration. So are the itch and scratch of mosquito bites. While the bites are annoying, they don't tend to stop the festivities. However, certain types of mosquitoes can cause serious harm. They are known to carry and spread diseases like Zika, West Nile Virus and malaria.
One of the tools researchers are using to t ... more |
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 Southampton UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
A study led by the University of Southampton has shown the greening up of vegetation prior to the rainy season in Africa is more widespread than previously understood.
Geographers from Southampton, working with scientists at Lancaster University, used remote sensing data (satellite imagery), sourced over a 16 year period (2000-2016), to examine when plants in the continent began and finish ... more |
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 New Delhi (SPX) Jul 06, 2018 
ISRO carried out a major technology demonstration July 05, 2018, the first in a series of tests to qualify a Crew Escape System, which is a critical technology relevant for human spaceflight.
The Crew Escape System is an emergency escape measure designed to quickly pull the crew module along with the astronauts to a safe distance from the launch vehicle in the event of a launch abort.
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 Pyongyang (AFP) July 6, 2018 
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang Friday to press Kim Jong Un for a more detailed commitment to denuclearisation following the North Korean leader's historic summit with President Donald Trump.
Pompeo was greeted in the North Korean capital by Kim's right hand man Kim Yong Chol and Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho.
Since meeting Kim in Singapore last month Trump has been ... more |
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