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Alleviating paralysis with new brain-reading technologies

Cyprus Mail 

EU-backed scientists are making progress in efforts to give people with impaired motor functions more independence. By Michael Allen  In 2009, a former US policeman named Richard Marsh suffered a severe stroke that left him completely paralysed but conscious – a condition known as locked-in syndrome. Little more than four...

Dutch defence ministry official arrested for evasion of Russia sanctions

EurActiv 

The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) arrested a Defence Ministry official accused of having evaded EU sanctions against Russia by exporting spare aircraft parts to Russia via third countries, the government agency announced on Friday. The 48-year-old Arnhem-based...

Report: One in 10 Japanese older than 80

The Punch 

More than 10 per cent of Japanese people have crossed 80 years or older for the first time, new official data showed, as the nation faces a rapidly greying population. Government data released on Sunday, ahead of Monday’s “Respect for Aged Day” national holiday, also showed that the share of Japan’s population at 65 or

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NASA gears up for its next giant space telescope

Spacedaily.com 

Tempe AZ (SPX) Sep 11, 2023 - NASA recently announced the selection of the Science, Technology, Architecture Review Team (START) to include Arizona State University professors Evan Scannapieco and Evgenya Shkolnik of the School of Earth and Space Exploration.

"Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s," undertaken by the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 (Astro2020) Steering Committee, lays out the visionary plan for the upcoming decade with recommendations on the next generation of space telescopes.

New cosmological constraints on the nature of dark matter

Spacedaily.com 

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 11, 2023 - New research has revealed the distribution of dark matter in never before seen detail, down to a scale of 30,000 light-years. The observed distribution fluctuations provide better constraints on the nature of dark matter.

Mysterious dark matter accounts for most of the matter in the Universe. Dark matter is invisible and makes itself know only through its gravitational effects. Dark matter has never been isolated in a laboratory, so researchers must rely on "natural experiments" to study it. Читать дальше...

Primary Instrument for NASA's Roman Completed, Begins Tests

Spacedaily.com 

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 15, 2023 - A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace, one of the industry partners for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have finished assembling the spacecraft's giant camera. Called the Wide Field Instrument (WFI), this state-of-the-art tool will enable astronomers to explore the cosmos from the outskirts of our solar system to the edge of the observable universe.

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Could these dirty ‘probiotic tiles’ make buildings healthier?

Fast Company 

These tiles are porous, imperfect, and full of microbes.

Richard Beckett has an unusual background and an unusual mission. Before turning to architecture, the associate professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London trained in physiology and in biochemistry. Now, he wants you to know that microbes are our friends.

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Mexican Architect Frida Escobedo Wins the 2023 Charlotte Perriand Award

Archdaily.com 

The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Charlotte Perriand Award, organized by The Créateurs Design Awards. From the Serpentine Pavilion to the design of the new wing for modern and contemporary art at the MET in New York, Escobedo has consistently demonstrated her commitment to creating and implementing exceptional design. Frida Escobedo is the second architect to receive the Charlotte Perriand Award, following in the footsteps of architect Jeanne Gang.

Endangering our collective memory

Times of Malta 

The government had promised to build a new National Archives at the National Park at Ta’ Qali. Photo: DOI

Safeguarding our cultural heritage

Times of Malta 

The current system for a planning application which can result in a national monument being scarred forever is not fit for purpose. Photo: Matthew Mirabelli

Benefits scandal: epitome of Labour

Times of Malta 

The benefits scandal is another example of the total systemic hijack of our institutions, the same institutions Robert Abela would like us to so blindly trust. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier





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