HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD), Ocean Park Corporation and Lingnan University jointly opened the first International Conference on Integrated Conservation of Asian Turtles, bringing together more than 100 experts…
The MOMENTUM study found 27 percent of patients with resistant hypertension have hypercortisolism. More than one in four patients with resistant hypertension have elevated cortisol levels, according to new findings from the MOMENTUM study presented…
[caption id="attachment_4440" align="alignright" width="305"] Ariane 5 liftoff on flight VA223[/caption] An Ariane 5 lifted off last night from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites into their planned orbits. The launch…
[caption id="attachment_4437" align="alignnone" width="985"] Credits: NASA[/caption] NASA has taken another step toward returning America’s ability to launch crew missions to the International Space Station from the United States in 2017. The Commercial Crew Program ordered…
A Japanese researcher is developing a robot that can conduct prenatal ultrasound exams on pregnant women in remote locations. [caption id="attachment_4434" align="alignright" width="300"] World’s first demonstration of the ultrasonic diagnostic robot in January 2014.Copyright :…
New algorithm lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly. [caption id="attachment_4431" align="alignnone" width="639"] MIT researchers tested the viability of their algorithm by using it to guide a crew of three robots in…