Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 02, 2024
Hainan - China's first commercial spacecraft launch site is ready for operations in South China's Hainan province as of Sunday, having completed a rocket launch simulation rehearsal using its two launch pads.
According to the Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch Co Ltd (HICAL), which built and operates the launch site, the exercises performed using the launch pads included wate
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 04, 2024
Firefly Aerospace successfully launched its Alpha rocket carrying eight CubeSat satellites into space on Tuesday night from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base. This mission marks a significant achievement following a previous scrub due to ground systems issues.
The CubeSats were launched under NASA's Launch Services Program Venture, providing satellite developers at U.S. universities
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 3, 2024
SpaceX early Wednesday launched a new round of Starlink satellites into orbit in its first launch for the month of July after it saw a slight delay.
The liftoff at pad 40 took place in at 4:55 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida after a 2-hour delay.
The Falcon 9 rocket carried with it 20 Starlink satellites that were successfully put into space above Eart
San Francisco (AFP) July 2, 2024
Google, despite its goal of achieving net-zero emissions, is pumping out more greenhouse gas than before as it powers data centers needed to support artificial intelligence, the company said.
Google's climate-changing emissions have increased 48 percent in the past five years, at odds with a touted goal of becoming carbon neutral for the sake of the planet, according to an annual environment
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 2, 2024
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced the sale of 1 million barrels of gasoline in its latest effort to push down the price of gas which largely will impact the northeast United States ahead of Fourth of July travel.
The Energy Department's Office of Petroleum Reserves said contracts have been awarded for the sale and liquidation of 1 million barrels, or 42 million gallons, of g
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 03, 2024
Physicists from Swansea University and bo Akademi University have made a significant breakthrough in solar cell technology by developing a new analytical model that improves the understanding and efficiency of thin-film photovoltaic (PV) devices.
For nearly eight decades, the so-called Shockley diode equation has explained how current flows through solar cells; the electrical current that
Oslo (AFP) July 2, 2024
Norwegian battery recycling firm Hydrovolt said Tuesday that it will expand internationally by opening a facility in France, boosting a nascent hub for producing electric vehicle batteries.
The facility will open in the town of Hordain in what is becoming known as France's Battery Valley, as four major battery production facilities are set to open.
"This is a big milestone for Hydrovol
Madrid (AFP) July 3, 2024
Microsoft is to invest 2.2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in a huge data centre project in northeastern Spain, regional authorities said Wednesday as the area seeks to establish itself as a cloud storage hotspot.
The announcement, which follows other plans unveiled by the US software giant, raises to nearly 6.7 billion euros Microsoft's planned investment in Aragon, regional leader Jorge Azco
Geneva (AFP) July 3, 2024
The number of international patent filings for innovations using cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence have surged eightfold in six years, the UN said Wednesday, the majority from China-based innovators.
A total of 54,000 patents were filed for generative AI innovations in the decade leading to 2023, the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization said in a fresh repor
Arlington, United States (AFP) July 3, 2024
The AI revolution is upon us with companies around the world looking to jump headfirst into the technology made famous by ChatGPT.
To satisfy their generative AI urge, firms need to secure state-of-the-art software and ramp up computing power, which quickly brings them knocking on the doors of the globe's cloud computing giants, of which Amazon's AWS is the biggest.
Amazon's computing ar
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2024
SolarEdge Technologies reports that its technology has been selected by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, as part of an innovative research and demonstration program to explore the potential of dual use agrivoltaics (the combination of agricultural production and solar energy generation simultaneously on the same land) for farmers across the state.
Rutgers research will assist t
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 03, 2024
Titanium alloys are essential structural materials for a wide variety of applications, from aerospace and energy infrastructure to biomedical equipment. But like most metals, optimizing their properties tends to involve a tradeoff between two key characteristics: strength and ductility. Stronger materials tend to be less deformable, and deformable materials tend to be mechanically weak.
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2024
Framatome has been awarded a contract to modernize the Reactor Protection System (RPS) in the emergency control building at the Gsgen Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Switzerland. The plant is operated by Kernkraftwerk Gsgen-Dniken AG. The contract also includes the enhancement of battery capacity.
The RPS monitors vital reactor operation parameters and in the event of any deviation safely pow
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) July 3, 2024
The German government on Wednesday blocked the sale of a gas turbine unit belonging to a subsidiary of the Volkswagen group to a Chinese investor over security concerns.
Volkswagen's MAN Energy Solutions had been due to sell the unit to Chinese group GHGT and its subsidiary Guanghan Gas Turbine, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz's "cabinet had today prohibited" the move, said the economy ministry.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2024
For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could unlock by raising the energy state of an atom's nucleus using a laser. The achievement would allow today's atomic clocks to be replaced with a nuclear clock that would be the most accurate clock to ever exist, allowing advances like deep space navigation and communication. It would also allow scientists to measure precisely w
New Haven CT (SPX) Jul 03, 2024
Solar panel and biorefinery designers could learn a thing or two from iridescent giant clams living near tropical coral reefs, according to a new Yale-led study.
This is because giant clams have precise geometries - dynamic, vertical columns of photosynthetic receptors covered by a thin, light-scattering layer - that may just make them the most efficient solar energy systems on Earth.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 02, 2024
A research team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has bridged a knowledge gap in atomic-scale heat motion. This new understanding holds promise for enhancing materials to advance an emerging technology called solid-state cooling.
An environmentally friendly innovation, solid-state cooling could efficiently chill many things in daily life from food to vehicles
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 2, 2024
Former president Donald Trump has signaled his plan to roll back President Joe Biden's efforts to cut emissions and curb climate change. Some of Biden's initiatives are expected to endure in some form.
During Thursday's presidential debate, Trump indicated that he would again pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, an international treaty meant to help member countries mitiga
Cyber criminals targeted pathology services provider Synnovis with a ransomware attack on June 3.
Can 63-year-old Eddie Murphy give audiences what they want with Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F? Well if what they want is a heady sense of nostalgia and soundtrack that suits your Sony Walkman, then you're in luck, says CBC's Eli Glasner.
YouTuber iShowSpeed has vowed to stay away from Norway after an incident saw him mobbed by fans outside a souvenir shop.
Women's world number one Iga Swiatek beats Petra Martic in straight sets on Centre Court to move into the third round of Wimbledon 2024.
Virat Kohli voiced his support for declaring ace bowler Jasprit Bumrah as a modern marvel, suggesting him as the "Eighth Wonder."
Chelsea's new signing Estevao Willian is hailed as one of "the two most promising players in the world", but will offer something different from his fellow wonderkid Endrick.
IDEMIA's Indian factory accounts for 10 per cent of its SIM global capacity. It is manufacturing the chips embedded in the product at the factory and importing only the wafers from fab plants