Новости за 15.03.2023

Tarragona, Spain (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
A European consortium coordinated by Prof. Jose Ramon Galan-Mascaros from the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ-CERCA) with research institutions from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland under the A-LEAF project, reports outstanding results to make affordable and sustainable energy in a close future. The final outcome of this artificial photosynthesis research pro

Dakar (AFP) March 9, 2023
Discarded containers and bags are an eyesore in many towns, while beaches are covered by debris - Senegal's notorious problem of plastic pollution is not going away. Fly-tipping is a scourge and landfills like the sprawling Mbeubeuss site near the capital Dakar are overstretched, with several thousand tonnes of detritus dumped daily, polluting the ground and water. For young Senegalese

Cartago, Costa Rica (AFP) March 13, 2023
Costa Rica, a country where open pit mining is banned, has become a leader in the extraction of heavy metals such as lithium - not from the Earth, but old batteries. The Fortech recycling factory which opened nearly three decades ago in Cartago about 27 kilometers (17 miles) from the capital San Jose, is referred to by its staff as an "urban mine." For the last six years, it has focused

Paris (ESA) Mar 09, 2023
Would you like to know the future of satellite navigation? Try ESA's Navigation Laboratory. This is a site where navigation engineers test prototypes of tomorrow's user receivers, using simulated versions of the navigation signals planned for the coming decade, such as set to be transmitted from Galileo's Second Generation satellites. Jose Antonio Garcia Molina, heading ESA's Radio Navigat

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
The failure of Santa Monica's "Project Dox" has led Bradley Bartz, founder of ABC Solar Inc., to file a Notice of Tort Claim against the city, urging it to come into compliance with state solar laws. Bartz has been successful in getting other cities, including San Juan Capistrano, Los Angeles County, City of Pasadena, City of Redondo Beach, and others, into compliance with state solar laws. He b

Paris (AFP) March 15, 2023
Global corporations are not adapting fast enough to safeguard the environment or their own businesses from global warming and looming climate regulations, according to a report released Wednesday. Most companies are failing to provide a full picture of their carbon footprints and environmental impacts, slowing progress toward a net zero economy and exposing themselves to climate risk.

Wolfsburg, Germany (AFP) March 13, 2023
The CEO of German auto giant Volkswagen and its luxury subsidiary Porsche on Monday backed moves by Berlin to block a European ban on new combustion engines from 2035. "We think e-fuels (synthetic fuels) can play a useful complementary role for a large number of existing cars and niche segments," Oliver Blume said at the presentation of Porsche's annual results for 2023. Germany upset pa

London (AFP) March 14, 2023
Britain's government and its biggest domestic energy supplier Centrica on Tuesday welcomed news that EDF will extend the life of two nuclear power stations in northern England. French energy giant EDF decided last week that it will operate its Hartlepool and Heysham 1 open for two years longer than previously planned until 2026. The announcement was aimed at curbing UK demand for gas imp

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
In 1994, as Professor Peter Shor PhD '85 tells it, internal seminars at AT&T Bell Labs were lively affairs. The audience of physicists was an active and inquisitive bunch, often pelting speakers with questions throughout their talks. Shor, who worked at Bell Labs at the time, remembers several occasions when a speaker couldn't get past their third slide, as they attempted to address a rapid line

Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
Hydrogen's potential as a clean fuel could be limited by a chemical reaction in the lower atmosphere, according to research from Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. This is because hydrogen gas easily reacts in the atmosphere with the same molecule primarily responsible for breaking down methane, a potent greenhouse gas. If hydrogen emissions exceed a

San Jose CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) reports that its Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base for its third demonstration mission targeted to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission next month. The Momentus team completed final flight preparations, and the Vigoride-6 OSV is integrated with the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The priorities of this mission include

Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
In January 2023, NASA published the latest edition of the State of the Art in Small spacecraft Technology report. It is noteworthy that at the time of the first edition of this report in 2013, only 247 CubeSats and 105 other non-CubeSat small spacecraft under 50 kilograms (kg) had been launched worldwide. This represented less than 2% of the total mass launched into orbit over multiple yea

New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
A team of Rutgers scientists dedicated to pinpointing the primordial origins of metabolism - a set of core chemical reactions that first powered life on Earth - has identified part of a protein that could provide scientists clues to detecting planets on the verge of producing life. The research, published in Science Advances, has important implications in the search for extraterrestrial li

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 14, 2023
SpaceX mission CRS-27 is planned for launch to the International Space Station Tuesday, carrying food, equipment, and materials for experiments in orbit. The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 8:30 p.m. EST from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its launch will be livestreamed by SpaceX. The commercial resupply mission will carry about 6,300 pounds of food to the spac

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
When it comes to making a rapid estimate of ground motion and moment magnitude for an earthquake, using data from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) might be a good alternative or addition to data from seismic stations. Researchers were able to compare how well each type of data performed in assessing the 2021 magnitude 8.2 Chignik earthquake in Alaska, as they report in the journa

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
NASA held a virtual showcase last week to demonstrate the agency's efforts in transforming aviation to become more innovative and sustainable. The event called ImaginAviation focused on different areas of aerospace development, featuring NASA's subject matter experts in each area. One of the focus areas of the event was the use of drones for disaster response, specifically for persistent w

Tel Aviv, Israel, (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
Agmatix, a start-up AgTech business specializing in turning agronomic big data into powerful models and insights, has announced a partnership with NASA Harvest - NASA's global Food Security and Agriculture Consortium - to support crop production in a sustainable way at the field level and mitigate the impact of climate change. A combination of ground sampling and remote sensing data will b

San Mateo CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
QuSecure, Inc., a leader in post-quantum cybersecurity, has announced that the company has accomplished the first known live, end-to-end quantum-resilient cryptographic communications satellite link through space, marking the first time U.S. satellite data transmissions have been protected from classical and quantum decryption attacks using post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The quantum-secu

Troy NY (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Moussa N'Gom, assistant professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy, has devised a method to make communications between satellites and the ground more effective no matter the weather. In research recently published, N'Gom and his team used ultrafast, femtosecond lasers to cut through the clouds and rain that commonly cause losses in free-space optical

Plymouth NY (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
Scientists have called for a legally-binding treaty to ensure Earth's orbit isn't irreparably harmed by the future expansion of the global space industry. In the week that nearly 200 countries agreed to a treaty to protect the High Seas after a 20-year process, the experts believe society needs to take the lessons learned from one part of our planet to another. The number of satellit

Space Coast FL (SPX) Mar 15, 2023
SpaceX launched its 27th Commercial Resupply Service (CRS-27) mission for a 35-hour journey to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA on Tuesday, March 14 at 8:30 p.m. EDT (0030 GMT Wednesday) from Launch Complex-39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The uncrewed Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket is packed with more than 6,000 pounds of fresh food, hardware, and ex

It’s been over 24 hours since the Islamabad Police, flanked by several units of the Punjab Police, showed up at PTI chief Imran Khan’s residence in Lahore’s Zaman Park to arrest him.

The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission will consider expanding the use of national currencies by the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union in mutual settlements at its next videoconference meeting on 30 March, official representative of the Eurasian Economic Commission Iya Malkina said at a briefing.

(Telecompaper) Casa Systems founder and CEO Jerry Guo announced his retirement from 17 March 2023, though he will remain an active member of the company's board of directors...

Leaders of several opposition parties on Wednesday urged the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to initiate an investigation into the Adani Group over allegations of corrupt practices, including money laundering through shell companies. In a letter emailed to the ED Director S K Mishra, the parties told the probe agency that "it cannot turn around and abdicate its jurisdiction". The letter as signed by leaders of the Congress, CPI, CPI-M, JDU, SS (UBT), RJD, DMK, JMM, AAP, IUML, VCK, Kerala Congress and others. Читать дальше...