Paris, France (SPX) Jan 22, 2025
Artificially intelligent systems are increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, from automated vehicles to delivery robots and virtual assistants. As research shifts towards developing systems with artificial awareness, critical ethical questions arise: What responsibilities come with these advancements? How can benefits and challenges be balanced among developers, policymakers, and end-users? A

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2025
NASA has launched the Sustainable Business Model Challenge to encourage entrepreneurs, startups, and researchers to use the agency's Earth system science data in developing innovative commercial solutions to address climate challenges. This initiative aims to connect vast NASA climate data resources with actionable business models to support climate resilience and informed decision-making.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2025
A research team led by Chunhui Xu from Emory University has demonstrated that heart muscle cells can survive and grow in the microgravity environment of space. Published in Biomaterials, the findings suggest new avenues for creating more resilient heart cells that could enhance cell therapy-a technique that involves transplanting millions of heart cells to repair damaged cardiac tissue. "T

Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2025
Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves - so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs) - emanating from somewhere in the northern constellation Ursa Minor. Leung, a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship recipient at the University of California, Berkeley, hopes eventua

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 22, 2025
Finland became the 53rd nation to join NASA's Artemis Accords on Tuesday as the space agency continued to build global support for responsible manned exploration of the moon. The signing happened during the Winter Satellite Workshop in Espoo, Finland. The country's Economic Affairs Minister Wille Rydman said Finland has participated and has had a long interest in space exploration and l

Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 22, 2025
Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have unveiled a major advancement in using artificial intelligence to generate realistic satellite images depicting the impacts of climate change. This innovation holds promise for better communicating the consequences of environmental shifts, such as flooding and reforestation, to policymakers and the public. The project, spearheaded by Nat

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2025
In the evolving lexicon of space exploration, the term "cislunar" has become fundamental to describing Earth-Moon operations, encompassing everything from satellite deployments to lunar gateway missions. As humanity extends its reach to Mars, we face a compelling need to define and characterize the complex orbital environment of our neighboring planet. The introduction of ORBIMARS re

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2025
A University of Michigan-led research initiative is paving the way for cosmology to fully utilize the capabilities of telescopes and instruments tackling the universe's biggest questions. The project highlights a novel computational method that extracts significantly more information from cosmic maps depicting the clustering and distribution of galaxies across the universe. Such maps are c

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2025
Flexential, a prominent provider of secure and adaptive data center solutions, has joined forces with Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. (Lonestar), a leading innovator in lunar infrastructure and Resiliency as a Service (RaaS). This collaboration supports the launch of Freedom, Lonestar's second data center on the Moon, which will be deployed via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket by Intuitive Machines. This ef

Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2025
Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with tech tycoon Elon Musk and urged US firms to "seize the opportunity" to deepen economic ties with China, Beijing's state media said Monday. Han - who is set to attend the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump later on Monday - met with Musk and other American business representatives on Sunday, Xinhua said. The world's richest person,