<p>Rev Justin Welby attacks Westminster diktat over restrictions – and says local leaders ‘best qualified to deal with local outbreaks’</p>
In these modern times, people have been looking for quick solutions. But the real question is whether the opted solution lasts long and what is the kind of impact it has on humans and the environment? Most of us ignore this valid point.
SHOCKING figures reveal that 173,000 patients suffering from life-threatening diseases did not attend hospital appointments between March and June this year.
A SECOND wave of the coronavirus “won’t be as bad as the first” due to new treatments and local lockdowns, experts have claimed. Officials claim that while cases are on the rise in the UK, the curve will be flatter compared to the start and the peak of the pandemic in March and April. It […]
Inditex had good news on Wednesday, returning to profitability as it recovered from the major hit it took at the height of the pandemic-linked lockdowns.
50 bipartisan House members unveiled a stimulus compromise called “March to Common Ground” that included stimulus checks and more unemployment.
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Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 16, 2020
Asian stocks edged up Wednesday but investors trod a cautious path following a broadly positive start to the week, with focus on the outcome of the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting.
Markets have enjoyed something of a respite from the roller-coaster ride seen earlier in the month, which saw a rout of previously surging technology firms, as vaccine hopes and upbeat economic data offse
Beijing (AFP) Sept 16, 2020
China's tech titans can rely on their massive home market to ride out a Donald Trump-led campaign against them overseas, and in the long-term their global prospects remain strong, analysts say.
Tech firms from China have stormed to success in the global market with everything from video-sharing apps and mobile games to smartphones and sophisticated telecom infrastructure.
But the United
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Solar cells have come a long way, but inexpensive, thin film solar cells are still far behind more expensive, crystalline solar cells in efficiency. Now, a team of researchers suggests that using two thin films of different materials may be the way to go to create affordable, thin film cells with about 34% efficiency.
"Ten years ago I knew very little about solar cells, but it became clear
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Building upon more than two decades of research, a new web-based platform called OpenET will soon be putting NASA data in the hands of farmers, water managers and conservation groups to accelerate improvements and innovations in water management. OpenET uses publicly available data and open source models to provide satellite-based information on evapotranspiration (the "ET" in OpenET) in areas a
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Nanogenerators capable of converting mechanical energy into electricity are typically made from metal oxides and lead-based perovskites. But these inorganic materials aren't biocompatible, so the race is on to create natural biocompatible piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting, electronic sensing, and stimulating nerves and muscles.
University College Dublin and University of Texas
Brussels (AFP) Sept 16, 2020
The European Commission will propose cutting emissions in Europe by 55 percent by 2030 in response to the climate emergency, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.
"I recognise that this increase from 40 to 55 (percent) is too much for some, and not enough for others," Commission president Von der Leyen said, in her annual State of Union speech.
"For us, the 2030 target is ambi
New York NY (SPX) Sep 15, 2020
A new study of an ancient period that is considered the closest natural analog to the era of modern human carbon emissions has found that massive volcanism sent great waves of carbon into the oceans over thousands of years - but that nature did not come close to matching what humans are doing today.
The study estimates that humans are now introducing the element three to eight times faster
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Sep 15, 2020
Understanding how solar cell operation changes as it moves from the lab into the real world is essential for optimizing their design prior to mass production. KAUST researchers show how perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells function in a sunny and hot environment.
Silicon dominates commercial solar-cell production. It is abundant and efficient as a converter of light to electricity. But re
Kinross MI (SPX) Sep 15, 2020
Oakman Aerospace, Inc. (OAI) and Chippewa County Economic Development Corporation (CCEDC) are pleased to announce a partnership to establish a ground station, referred to as the Homestead ground station, at Chippewa County International Airport (CIU).
The Homestead ground station, expected to be fully assembled by first-quarter 2021, will utilize a high-gain 5.5-meter parabolic dish antenn
Kashiwa, Japan (SPX) Sep 15, 2020
The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the center of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evidence of the annihilation of dark matter particles, but a team led by a researcher at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has ruled out that interpretation.
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to move forward with three studies to develop and demonstrate innovative Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) technologies for potential use on future missions of the Landsat program, a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that is entering its fifth decade of existence.
The studies leverage previou
Germantown MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Hughes Network Systems has announced commercial availability of its artificial intelligence (AI) for IT operations (AIOps) solution for enterprise Wide Area Networks (WANs). Integrated into the company's HughesON Managed Network Services, the Hughes AIOps feature is already in use across more than 32,000 managed sites.
The technology automatically predicts and preempts-or "self-heals"-unde
Aberdeen Providing Ground MD (SPX) Sep 15, 2020
A team of Army researchers uncovered how the human brain processes bright and contrasting light, which they say is a key to improving robotic sensing and enabling autonomous agents to team with humans.
To enable developments in autonomy, a top Army priority, machine sensing must be resilient across changing environments, researchers said.
"When we develop machine vision algorithms, r
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Four-hundred fifty light-years from Earth, a young star is glowing at the center of a system of concentric rings made from gas and dust, and it is producing planets, one for each gap in the ring.
Its discovery has shaken solar system origin theories to their core. Mayer Humi, a scientist from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, believes it provides an apt study target for theories about p
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
An international team of astronomers detected phosphine (PH3) in the atmosphere of Venus. They studied the origin of phosphine, but no inorganic processes, including supply from volcanos and atmospheric photochemistry can explain the detected amount of phosphine. The phosphine is believed to originate from unknown photochemistry or geochemistry, but the team does not completely reject the possib