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Most plastics aren't recyclable, Greenpeace finds

Oct 24, 2021 (UPI)

Greenpeace found that only about 5% of the discarded plastic is recycled. That means about 5 million tons of plastic winds up in landfills and waterways each ye...

In-Orbit cloud computing and storage platform successfully demonstrated

Oct 21, 2021 (SPX)

This first iteration of the system has been built in collaboration with Swedish-based AI company Unibap on top of their radiation-tolerant iX5-100 SpaceCloud pl...

Laser Communications Relay Demonstration gears up for launch

Oct 19, 2021 (SPX)

LCRD will leverage the power of infrared light to send and receive information encoded into invisible laser beams from one location to the next. Once in orbit, ...

Three hours to save Integral

Oct 19, 2021 (ESA)

As a result of the spacecraft turning, data were only reaching ground control patchily and the batteries were quickly discharging. With just a few hours of powe...

Concrete: the world's 3rd largest CO2 emitter

Oct 19, 2021 (AFP)

How can this material, essential for global housing, construction and infrastructure, be made less damaging to the planet? - How bad can it be? - Cement is the ...

One in three young kids uses social media, use of parental controls spotty

Oct 18, 2021 (UPI)

In addition, nearly half of those ages 10 to 12 indicated that they are on social media, the data showed. Still, one in six parents of elementary and middle sch...

French cloud computing IPO mints Europe's latest tech billionaire

Oct 15, 2021 (AFP)

The shares traded at slightly above their introduction price of 18.5 euros on Friday, valuing the group at around 3.5 billion euros ($4.1 billion). The flotatio...

Facebook parent Meta unveils AI video generator Make-a-Video

Oct 08, 2021 (UPI)

Make-a-Video, which is not yet available for public use, will allow users to create videos from a text prompt in the latest addition to the recent push for AI-g...

Simulating space on Earth: NASA receives hardware for testing satellite servicing tech

Oct 07, 2021 (SPX)

A gravity offset table is a large piece of granite used for testing space payloads in simulated zero-gravity conditions. Measuring 8 feet by 10 feet and weighin...

New model simplifies orbital radar trade-off studies for environmental monitoring

Oct 05, 2021 (SPX)

Satellite imaging of the Earth is used to monitor agricultural land use, ocean ice cover, coastal change, and hostile weather events. These observations are mad...

Urban mining for metals flashes forward

Oct 05, 2021 (SPX)

The flash Joule heating method introduced last year to produce graphene from carbon sources like waste food and plastic has been adapted to recover rhodium, pal...

eFootball fiasco symptom of growing rush to bring out games

Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)

The latest edition of the game previously known as Pro Evolution Soccer was meant to offer something to compete with undisputed football game champion FIFA, wit...

In Siberia, a copper mine hopes to become a global energy pivot

Oct 03, 2021 (AFP)

More than 70 years later, a mining complex in Russia's Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific Ocean is finally due to launch operations next year. With co...

Beam diagnostics for future laser wakefield accelerators

Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)

Electron energies in the GeV range have been achievable with this technique for some time. However, the electron bunches produced in this way have so far been t...

Starfish Space raises $7M to develop Space Tug

Sep 29, 2021 (SPX)

Up until now, missions to service existing satellites on-orbit, like the Hubble Space Telescope, have been too large and expensive to be commercially viable. Bu...

Going hyperspectral for CHIME

Sep 28, 2021 (ESA)

The Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment, or CHIME for short, is one of six new missions that the EU and ESA are developing to expand th...

Isotropic Systems secures funding to develop multi-link antenna through to product launch in 2022

Sep 28, 2021 (SPX)

The round is led by Seraphim Space Investment Trust PLC - the world's first listed space tech fund - in the first significant investment since its IPO on the Lo...

Engineering researchers develop new explanation for formation of vortices in 2D superfluid

Sep 24, 2021 (SPX)

The researchers revealed an alternative explanation for the formation of so-called Onsager vortices in a two-dimensional superfluid, a type of quantum fluid tha...

EPFL engineers introduce a new approach for recycling plastics

Sep 24, 2021 (SPX)

In light of this, Francesco Stellacci, a full professor and head of the Supramolecular Nanomaterials and Interfaces Laboratory at EPFL's School of Engineering, ...

Chinese game makers vow to cut effeminacy, limit underage players

Sep 24, 2021 (AFP)

The 213 gaming firms, including top industry players Tencent and NetEase, promised in a joint statement dated Thursday to ban content that was "politically harm...