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Amsterdam, Netherlands (AFP)– Plagued by ever-shrinking space to park its hundreds of thousands of bicycles, Amsterdam opened Wednesday the first of its largest-ever bicycle parking complexes, built underwater in a pioneering engineering project. The shelter is constructed beneath the Open Haven Front, an access tributary to the city’s IJ river, and will be followed by another next to the IJ itself that will open in February. They will have a combined capacity for 11,000 bikes […]
by Sara HUSSEIN Agence France Presse Tokyo, Japan (AFP) – The specks are tiny. No, really tiny. Smaller than the diameter of a hair. But they hold billions of years of history that reveal some of the secrets of asteroids. The three minute particles from an asteroid called Itokawa show some of these space rocks are vastly older than was thought, and are much tougher. And that could mean we need bolder ways to prevent […]
by Jenny VAUGHAN Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — Electric car batteries could be used to boost power storage in the future, injecting electricity into the grid during times of scarcity or storing electricity during periods of excess, a new study found Tuesday. Renewable energy is essential for the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius, but the need to scale up quickly and the intermittency of wind […]
Washington, United States (AFP) — Tick, tick, tick. An update is coming to the “Doomsday Clock,” representing the judgment of leading science and security experts about the perils to human existence. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Tuesday that they will announce at 10:00 am (1500 GMT) on January 24 whether the time of the symbolic clock will change. The organization describes the clock as a “metaphor for how close humanity is to […]
by Pierre Celerier Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — Scientists said Monday they have used a laser beam to guide lightning for the first time, hoping the technique will help protect against deadly bolts — and one day maybe even trigger them. Lightning strikes between 40-120 times a second worldwide, killing more than 4,000 people and causing billions of dollars worth of damage every year. Yet the main protection against these bolts from above […]
by Jules BONNARD Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — Know-it-all chatbots landed with a bang last year, convincing one engineer that machines had become sentient, spreading panic that industries could be wiped out, and creating fear of a cheating epidemic in schools and universities. Alarm among educators has reached fever pitch in recent weeks over ChatGPT, an easy-to-use artificial intelligence tool trained on billions of words and a ton of data from the web. […]
by Pierre Celerier and Daniel Lawler Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — It was an anomaly detected in the storm of a nuclear reactor so puzzling that physicists hoped it would shine a light on dark matter, one of the universe’s greatest mysteries. However new research has definitively ruled out that this strange measurement signalled the existence of a “sterile neutrino”, a hypothetical particle that has long eluded scientists. Neutrinos are sometimes called “ghost […]
by Daniel Lawler Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — Dodging the kind of meteorite strike that forced Russia to plan a space station rescue mission is nearly impossible, yet the greater threat to spacecraft is actually the man-made debris in orbit, experts say. Russian announced on Wednesday a February mission to the International Space Station to pick up crew members left stranded after a strike damaged the capsule that was to take them home. […]
Moscow, Russia (AFP) Russia said Wednesday it would send a rescue capsule next month for three crew members of the International Space Station, after a meteorite damaged the spacecraft that was due to return them to Earth. The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, made the announcement after examining the flight worthiness of the Soyuz MS-22 crew capsule docked with the ISS that sprang a leak in December. On Wednesday, Roscosmos said the spacecraft that was originally set […]
by Julie JAMMOT Agence France Presse Las Vegas, United States (AFP) — At the annual CES tech show in Las Vegas, hundreds of start-ups presented products aimed at improving health, education and work, increasing productivity and helping to save the planet. Here are some highlights from the 2023 edition of the popular gadget fest, which ends on Sunday: – Brain-scanning cap – Like the Sorting Hat in the “Harry Potter” book series, the iSyncWave sits […]
by Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France Presse Las Vegas, United States (AFP) — Getting shot, standing in a downpour, being surrounded by bees: None are ideal, but for gamers, feeling the sensations of each is the goal. At the CES tech show, the video game industry is showing off just how lifelike gaming can be made with new vests, head cushions and other simulation products. “Lots of consumers are doing games, and they are looking for […]
San Francisco, United States (AFP)– The question of whether Pegasus spyware used by governments and police to snoop on smartphones is used to target activists, journalists and others not involved in nefarious activities a lawsuit by WhatsApp against Israeli technology firm NSO Group The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by NSO Group to block a WhatsApp lawsuit accusing the Israeli tech firm of allowing mass cyberespionage of journalists and human rights activists. […]
