Durham UK (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
An international team of astronomers led by Durham University and including astronomers at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre has reported the first detection of a rotating disc structure around a forming high-mass star outside of our Milky Way in another galaxy.
The disc surrounds a young massive star located in a stellar nursery called N180, residing in a neighbouring dwarf galaxy called
New Haven CT (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
Scientists have long puzzled over why all of the planets in Earth's solar system have slightly slanted orbits around the sun. But a new, Yale-led study suggests this phenomenon may not be so unusual after all. Even in "pristine" solar systems, planets exhibit a bit of a tilt.
Astronomers had long assumed that planets with pitchy, angled orbits - orbits that don't align with the spin axis o
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world - quadruple the diameter of Earth, with 15 times the mass and 63 times the volume.
Unvisited by spacecraft for more than 35 years, Uranus inhabits one of the least explored regions of our solar system. Although scientists have learn
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 30, 2023
Earth planning date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023: Mars has just emerged from its solar conjunction period, when sending commands to all Mars spacecraft was not safe for three weeks since the Red Planet was behind the Sun as seen from Earth.
During that time, Curiosity followed a long plan of instructions covering Sols 4004-4022 which were uploaded to the rover during the week of October 3
Beijing (XNA) Nov 30, 2023
Lunar samples retrieved by China's Chang'e 5 robotic mission went on display in Macao on Tuesday, marking the first time any lunar samples have been brought to the city for public exhibition.
The samples, contained in a specially built glass case and closely guarded, can be viewed by members of the public at the Macao Science Center until next Saturday.
The appearance of the lunar ma
Tucson, AZ (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
Observations during a stellar occultation detected the presence of evolving material orbiting around Centaur (2060) Chiron, rather than a two- ring system interpretation, according to a paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Amanda Sickafoose.
"We observed a star passing behind the Centaur Chiron from the 1.9-m telescope in Sutherland. We detected dips in the starlight as it
San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
The satellite discovered during the first asteroid encounter of NASA's Lucy mission has an official name. On Nov. 27, 2023, the International Astronomical Union approved the name "Selam", which means "peace" in the Ethiopian language Amharic, for Dinkinesh's moon.
"Dinkinesh is the Ethiopian name for the fossil nicknamed 'Lucy,'", says Raphael Marshall of the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 30, 2023
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the Universe, and searching for life on Mars is a major goal of the Mars 2020 mission. While humans have long wondered whether there are others like us, it's only been a few decades since we've developed the technologies to search for life beyond Earth in earnest.
With space-based telescopes like James Webb, as
Seoul (AFP) Nov 29, 2023
A sharp rise in sales of gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles by the world's three largest carmakers has offset any climate gains from the companies' transition to electric vehicles, Greenpeace said Wednesday.
The fleets of SUVs produced by Toyota, Volkswagen, and Hyundai-Kia have all posted sales increases of more than 150 percent over the past decade, meaning the companies are moving "in th
Washington (AFP) Nov 29, 2023
Social media CEOs including Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Instagram and TikTok's Shou Zi Chew will face a grilling in the US Senate early next year over online child sexual exploitation.
Though they initially declined to attend, X's Linda Yaccarino and the bosses of Snap and Discord will also be part of the Senate Judiciary Committee panel on January 31 after receiving subpoenas ordering t
Xi'an, China (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
Blue light-emitting diodes represent a fundamental element in the contemporary lighting and display technology landscape. Like prevailing technology such as III-V, organics and quantum dot LEDs, developing efficient and stable blue perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) is a formidable challenge.
Over the past few years, the research community has experienced a remarkable upsurge in the
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
Framatome announced today that it is planning the construction of a nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the UK and is evaluating targeted local industrial sites in engagement with the UK Government's Department for Energy Security and Net-Zero (DESNZ) and EDF in the UK.
The current assessment of selected existing and former nuclear generation sites precedes detailed site justification and
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
Framatome signed a services contract for a period of five years for the digital Instrumentation and Control (I&C) system of EDF's Flamanville 3 EPR reactor, during the World Nuclear Exhibition 2023. The contract covers in-service support for the I&C protection system.
The Flamanville 3 protection system uses Framatome's TELEPERM XS platform developed specifically for the nuclear industry.
Paris (AFP) Nov 30, 2023
Host United Arab Emirates wants nearly 200 nations attending the COP28 climate summit starting Thursday to commit to tripling installed renewable energy capacity worldwide by 2030, a goal experts say is "ambitious but achievable".
If the UN forum sets that target in stone, it could become a key marker of COP28's success, especially if coupled with a pledge to drawn down fossil fuel use.
Basel, Switzerland (AFP) Nov 29, 2023
The international bank regulatory body on Wednesday launched a process to develop rules for lenders to report their climate-related risks in a bid to boost transparency and financial stability.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said it aims to "promote a common disclosure baseline for climate-related financial risks across internationally active banks" as it issued a preliminary pro
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
Speaking at the "Generative AI: Shaping the Future" symposium on Nov. 28, the kickoff event of MIT's Generative AI Week, keynote speaker and iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks warned attendees against uncritically overestimating the capabilities of this emerging technology, which underpins increasingly powerful tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard.
"Hype leads to hubris, and hubris l
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
New technology often calls for new materials - and with supercomputers and simulations, researchers don't have to wade through inefficient guesswork to invent them from scratch.
The Materials Project, an open-access database founded at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) in 2011, computes the properties of both known and predicted materials. Rese
Fairbanks AK (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
A University of Alaska Fairbanks-led research team has been awarded a $1.9 million federal grant to explore whether seaweeds are absorbing rare-earth elements near a rich deposit in Southeast Alaska.
The study will focus on seaweeds in the waters near Bokan Mountain, a remote landmark on Prince of Wales Island known to contain rare-earth elements. Starting in March 2024, researchers will c
Phnom Penh (AFP) Nov 29, 2023
Cambodia is scrapping plans for a $1.5 billion coal project as crunch climate talks get under way in Dubai, the country's energy minister told AFP on Wednesday.
Keo Rottanak said Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet would announce the cancellation on Thursday.
Phnom Penh would instead consider building a terminal for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG).
"Cambodia is fully committed t
Newport News VA (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
Alexandre Deur has spent his career studying the mystifying spin structure of the nucleon - which is also one of the primary missions of the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, where Deur has been a staff scientist for nearly 20 years.
A particle's spin is one of its basic characteristics, like its mass or electric charge, and physicists have long tr
Helsinki (AFP) Nov 29, 2023
Finland's Olkiluoto 3, the largest nuclear reactor in Europe, stopped production on Wednesday after a test caused the plant unit to unexpectedly go offline, its operator TVO said.
"During the test, the plant was supposed to produce electricity normally," said Johanna Aho, head of communication at TVO.
Before production was interrupted at 1:35 pm (1135 GMT), Olkiluoto 3 was undergoing a f
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The first meeting between representatives of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE), Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont and an ‘international verifier’ who will monitor that the agreements between both parties are respected will take place on Saturday in Geneva, sources from...
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