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ESA Opens First Asian Office in Tokyo to Boost Space Partnership with Japan
The European Space Agency (ESA) is setting up its first office in Asia, choosing Tokyo, Japan, as its…
Cyprus Set to Join European Space Agency as Associate Member
Nicosia, Cyprus— Cyprus has signed an agreement to become an Associate Member of the European Space Agency (ESA),…
New Drug Shows Promise in Fighting Prostate Cancer
Ann Arbor, MI — Researchers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new way to stop the…
CERN welcomes Ireland as an Associate Member State
Ireland has officially become an Associate Member State of CERN, following confirmation that it has taken all the necessary steps to ratify the Associate Membership Agreement and…
WHO Sounds Alarm on Global Neurological Health Crisis: Over 3 Billion Affected, Urgent Action Needed
Geneva, October 27 — The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a stark warning that fewer than one…
Charts can be social artifacts that communicate more than just data
CAMBRIDGE, MA – The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on…
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University Students Win NASA/NIA Space Engineering Design Contest
Future astronauts may someday explore Mars using winning concepts from NASA’s 2015 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition. Sixteen teams competed in the contest sponsored by NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), which challenges graduate and undergraduate students to solve real-life space exploration challenges. This year, the competition asked teams to […]
NASA, German Aerospace Center Partner for Research into Advanced Aircraft
NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have signed agreements to work together to reduce aircraft noise and advance research into rotorcraft, two projects that extend years of vital cooperation…
GOD OF SMALL THINGS
KATYAYANI CHOWDHRY | On 3rd June, 2015, CERN (European Organisation For Nuclear Research) restarted its LHC (Large Hadron Collider), after a two-year hiatus of technical upgrades, to run non-stop for…
Team KAIST wins the DARPA Robotics Challenge 2015
DRC-HUBO finished all eight assignments in less than 45 minutes, taking first place among 24 international teams and claiming the USD 2 million prize offered by a US defense research…
