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MASSACHUSETTS, United States (Reuters) — Harvard’s RoboBees have been upgraded. The tiny robots, the smallest flying drones ever developed, are now capable of perching like a bat to save energy, according to its makers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. The team used electrostatic adhesion, the same basic science that causes a balloon to stick to a […]
SAN Francisco, United States (AFP) — Facebook on Monday said it was making changes aimed at keeping political bias out of its “trending” stories list even though an internal investigation revealed no evidence it was happening. “Our investigation has revealed no evidence of systematic political bias in the selection or prominence of stories included in the Trending Topics feature,” Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch said in a letter responding to a query from Republican US […]
BUDAPEST, Hungry (AFP) — The oldest living Olympic champion Sandor Tarics, who was a member of Hungary’s gold-medal winning waterpolo team at the 1936 Games, has died aged 102. Tarics, who was born in 1913 in Budapest, passed away at his home in San Francisco, according to a statement by the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) Saturday. A keen mathematician from an early age and an engineer by profession, he left Hungary after the Communist Party […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS , France (AFP) — Monster tsunamis caused by meteor impacts swept across the northern plains of Mars more than three billion years ago, radically re-sculpting the edges of the Red Planet’s ancient seas, according to a study published Thursday. The findings, based on geological mapping, could provide new clues in the search for life. They also bolster the theory that massive floods 3.4 billion years ago transformed Mars’ northern lowlands into […]
SAN FRANCISCO , United States (AFP) — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that conservatives are an important part of the social network after a meeting aimed at defusing concerns it is politically biased. “We’ve built Facebook to be a platform for all ideas,” Zuckerberg said on his Facebook page after a meeting at the company’s California headquarters to discuss allegations in a news article that Facebook was suppressing conservative voices in its “trending” news […]
SAN FRANCISCO , United States (AFP) — Twitter plans to let people fire off links or pictures without eating into the 140-character limit set for posts at the one-to-many messaging service, Bloomberg reported on Monday The change could take place by the end of this month, according to a Blomberg report that cited someone familiar with the matter. Twitter declined to comment, but the move would come as the San Francisco-based company strives to ramp […]
by Thomas WATKINS WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Johnny Matheny’s handshake is friendly, confident and firm — though not in the bone-crushing manner favored by some of the alpha types here in the Pentagon. What is remarkable is that Matheny’s proffered hand is not actually his. It is part of a robotic prosthesis researchers hope one day could help transform the lives of countless amputees. “In the beginning, you had to think pretty hard about […]
LOS ANGELES , United states (AFP) — The Solar Impulse 2 will resume its record-breaking quest Thursday to circle the globe without consuming a drop of fuel, with a flight from Arizona to Oklahoma. The experimental sun-powered plane, piloted by Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, is set to take off from Phoenix at 3:00 am (1000 GMT). “After sustained efforts from the entire team, at the Mission Control Center and on the ground, we have found […]
by Kerry Sheridan MIAMI, United States (AFP) — NASA announced Tuesday the discovery of 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, more than doubling the number of exoplanets found with the Kepler space telescope. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington. The unmanned Kepler space observatory, which launched in 2009, […]
PARIS, France (AFP) Monday 5/9/2016 by Pascale MOLLARD Mariëtte Le Roux– Astronomers on Monday were preparing for one of the highlights of the skywatchers’ year, when the Sun, Mercury and Earth all line up — a phenomenon that happens just a dozen or so times per century. Mercury will be seen through telescopes as a black dot inching over the face of our star, providing a celestial spectacle — weather permitting — that will last seven and a half […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Social pressures are forcing people to cut back on their sleep, contributing to a “global sleep crisis,” according to a new study based on research collected through a smartphone app. It enabled scientists from the University of Michigan to track sleep patterns around the world — gathering data about how age, gender and the amount of natural light to which people are exposed affect sleep patterns in 100 countries — […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – In Norway, experts were able to develop a nasal spray that delivers hormones into the brain, possibly curing psychiatric disorders like autism. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Aimee Mendoza and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
