TOKYO - Japan’s matcha green tea may do more than provide a caffeine boost. A study in mice suggests it could help reduce sneezing linked to hay fever, researchers at Hiroshima University said. Matcha, a…
Giving robots a more nimble grasp
Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity. [caption id="attachment_5464" align="alignnone" width="639"] A simple robotic gripper can adjust its grip using the environment. Here, a robot grips a rod lightly while pushing…
First applications from Sentinel-2A
[caption id="attachment_5380" align="alignnone" width="700"] Agriculture in Saudi Arabia[/caption] From agricultural monitoring to charting changing lands, early images from Europe’s new Sentinel-2A satellite show how the ‘colour vision’ mission’s critical observations can be used to keep…
Bristol-Myers Wins Approval for 1st Hepatitis C Type…
An experimental drug for one of the hardest-to-treat types of hepatitis C has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, adding to the surge of new options - all much more effective but extremely…
ESA hands over control of the MSG-4 weather…
[caption id="attachment_5371" align="alignnone" width="700"] MSG-4 liftoff[/caption] On 26 July at 09:30 GMT (11:30 CEST), ESA handed control of Europe’s last Meteosat Second Generation weather satellite, MSG-4, to EUMETSAT This follows the launch of the satellite on…