Новости за 10.08.2019

Young M.A has been rolling out the singles since she teased new music at the beginning of 2018. On Friday (Aug. 9) she unveiled her new video for...

San Francisco (AFP) Aug 8, 2019
Samsung on Wednesday unveiled a new-generation Galaxy Note large-screen handset starting at $950 and said it will work closer with Microsoft so that services function better across its array of devices. The Note 10 "phablet" which is set for release on August 23, comes in two sizes, with the larger beginning at $1,100. The price puts the model at the premium end of a cooling global smartphon

College Station TX (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
To help combat global warming, a team led by Dr. Mert Atilhan from Texas A and M University and Dr. Cafer Yavuz at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is working on a new porous polymer that can store natural gas more effectively than anything currently being used. Their research focuses on adsorbed natural gas (ANG), a process to store natural gas that is a safer and

Paris (AFP) Aug 7, 2019
Longstanding warnings from economists of global spillover from the US-China trade war appear to be materialising, with a trio of central banks springing surprise rate cuts on Wednesday and bond markets in retreat. The bold monetary policy moves in India, New Zealand and Thailand came as industrial production in European powerhouse Germany fell back in June, adding to uncertainty in the euroz

Beijing (AFP) Aug 8, 2019
China's exports beat expectations to rise in July while its purchases continued to shrink, official data showed Thursday, despite simmering US trade tensions. The trade war with the United States and weakening global demand had weighed on China's manufacturing sector during the first six months of the year, with its global exports roughly flat from a year earlier. But in July China's ex

New York (AFP) Aug 7, 2019
The cost of President Donald Trump's latest tariffs on Chinese goods will either be passed on to consumers, or taken from profits, several US companies said Wednesday. "The American people are being misled by this administration that China is paying for these tariffs. This is a tax on them, or on the businesses that are bringing products to America," said Win Cramer, chief executive of Jlab

Fort Collins CO (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
With water scarcity a critical challenge across the globe, scientists and engineers are pursuing new ways to harvest purified water from unconventional sources, like seawater or even wastewater. One of those researchers is Tiezheng Tong, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, whose lab is studying an emerging technology called membrane distillation

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
As an alternative to traditional fossil fuels, biofuels represent a more environmentally friendly and sustainable fuel source. Plant or animal fats can be converted to biofuels through a process called transesterification. In particular, the storage molecule triacylglycerol (TAG), found in microscopic algae, is one of the most promising sources of fat for biofuel production, as microalgae

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology discover a new strategy to design incredibly efficient perovskite-based LEDs with record-setting brightness by leveraging the quantum confinement effect. Several techniques for generation of light from electricity have been developed over the years. Devices that can emit light when an electric current is applied, are referred to as electrolumines

Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
Framatome, an international leader in the nuclear energy market, signed a cooperation agreement with Warsaw University of Technology to establish training and development programs for future nuclear energy industry professionals. In a signing ceremony held 30 July 2019, Bernard Fontana, CEO of Framatome, and Professor Jan Szmidt, rector of Warsaw University of Technology, were joined by me

Corvallis OR (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
The most productive places on Earth for solar power are farmlands, according to an Oregon State University study. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, finds that if less than 1% of agricultural land was converted to solar panels, it would be sufficient to fulfill global electric energy demand. The concept of co-developing the same area of land for both solar photovoltaic

Trieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
Researchers have, for the first time, identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect. In a new study, led by researchers from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Waterloo, a solid theoretica

HOUSTON (AP) - A jury that convicted a former Houston-area high school football coach for a second time in his pregnant wife's 1999 killing could not decide on a sentence, so the judge has declared a mistrial for that portion of the trial.

Washington (UPI) Aug 2, 2019
To make the transition from sea to land, plant roots had to learn to grow downward, to follow gravity. This ability, gravitropism, helped plants anchor to the soil and retrieve water and nutrients. New analysis of this vital adaptation suggests the ability first emerged roughly 350 million years ago. Scientists have studied gravitropism in flowering plants, but until now research

Mahia, New Zealand (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
Pearl White, an Air Force Space Command demonstration program, is set to launch no earlier than August 16th as part of a rideshare aboard a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle in summer 2019. The launch will take place at the Rocket Lab Launch Complex-1 near Mahia, New Zealand. The program goal is to design, develop, launch and operate two 6U cubesat experimental spacecraft as an on-orbit t

Coventry UK (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by 'tuning in' to the radio waves that they emit. In new research led by the University of Warwick, scientists have determined the best candidate white dwarfs to start their search, based upon their likelihood of hosting surviving planetary cores and the strength of the radio signal that we can 'tune in' to.

Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2019
When small, dense stars called white dwarfs explode, they produce bright, short-lived flares called Type Ia supernovae. These supernovae are informative cosmological markers for astronomers - for example, they were used to prove that the universe is accelerating in its expansion. White dwarfs are not all the same, ranging from half of the mass of our Sun to almost 50 percent more massive t

Ontario, Canada (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
In February, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada is joining the international effort to explore the Moon with robots and, eventually, humans. In order to prepare for these future missions, a team of Western University faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students is conducting an analogue Moon mission over the next two weeks. Dubbed CanMoon, this simul

Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
At the center of certain galaxies are objects of such tremendous brightness they outshine the rest of their galaxy by four orders of magnitude. Our understanding of these active galactic nuclei has progressed by leaps and bounds over the past several decades, though recently debate has centered on the identity of some of these objects. Now, a team of researchers has settled some questions

Birmingham UK (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
Gravitational wave researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new model that could help astronomers track down the origin of heavy black hole systems in the Universe. Black holes are formed following the collapse of stars and possibly supernova explosions. These colossally dense objects are measured in terms of solar masses (Mo) - the mass of our sun. Typically, sta

St. Petersburg (Sputnik) Aug 08, 2019
Russian Military Space Academy experts claim the introduction of refuelling satellites holds out the prospect of significantly extending a spacecraft's life, as well as impressive cost-savings. Russia is developing a "space gas station" - a group of robots that will use lasers to recharge satellites in near-Earth orbit, Izvestia learned from experts at the Alexander Mozhaysky Military Spac

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2019
Equipped with visionary science instruments, the Mars 2020 rover (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020) underwent an "eye" exam after several cameras were installed on it. The rover contains an armada of imaging capabilities, from wide-angle landscape cameras to narrow-angle high-resolution zoom lens cameras. "We completed the machine-vision calibration of the forward-facing cameras on the rover

Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2019
Exposure to chronic, low dose radiation - the conditions present in deep space - causes neural and behavioral impairments in mice, researchers report in eNeuro. These results highlight the pressing need to develop safety measures to protect the brain from radiation during deep space missions as astronauts prepare to travel to Mars. Radiation is known to disrupt signaling among other proces

Logan UT (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
Innovative Space Logistics B.V. (ISL) and UK-based orbital launch services provider Orbex has signed a wide-ranging Cooperation Agreement at the 33rd Annual Conference on Small Satellites in Logan, Utah. The co-operation will include technical launch services including launch manifest coordination and payload integration. As part of the agreement, ISL will also procure orbital space launch

White Sands NM (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
NASA is building a system to send astronauts to the Moon for Artemis missions, and that includes tests to make sure the Orion spacecraft is prepared to safely carry crew on an alternate mission profile in the face of unexpected problems. That capability was most recently demonstrated with a successful, continuous 12-minute firing of Orion's propulsion system that simulated a possible alternate m