ESA's Planetary Defence team The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of ten asteroids – and one comet – after people and places linked to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) efforts to protect…
World academies call for global solidarity on COVID-19…
A Communique from the InterAcademy Partnership urges countries to collaborate, use and share science-based information, and help the developing world. Asia Research News The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) urges countries to collaborate, use and share science-based…
Neural networks facilitate optimization in the search for…
Sorting through millions of possibilities, a search for battery materials delivered results in five weeks instead of 50 years. When searching through theoretical lists of possible new materials for particular applications, such as batteries or…
IDC Predicts Asia/Pacific IT Spending Growth Will Drop…
COVID-19 pandemic continues to hamper economic activities around the globe impacting businesses and industries at nearly every level, and IT markets will not be spared. In January 2020, IDC originally forecasted Asia/Pacific excluding Japan and…
System trains driverless cars in simulation before they…
Using a photorealistic simulation engine, vehicles learn to drive in the real world and recover from near-crash scenarios. By Rob Matheson, MIT News Office CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A simulation system invented at MIT to train driverless…