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Facebook parent Meta unveils AI video generator Make-a-Video

Oct 08, 2021 (UPI)

Make-a-Video, which is not yet available for public use, will allow users to create videos from a text prompt in the latest addition to the recent push for AI-g...

Simulating space on Earth: NASA receives hardware for testing satellite servicing tech

Oct 07, 2021 (SPX)

A gravity offset table is a large piece of granite used for testing space payloads in simulated zero-gravity conditions. Measuring 8 feet by 10 feet and weighin...

eFootball fiasco symptom of growing rush to bring out games

Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)

The latest edition of the game previously known as Pro Evolution Soccer was meant to offer something to compete with undisputed football game champion FIFA, wit...

Urban mining for metals flashes forward

Oct 05, 2021 (SPX)

The flash Joule heating method introduced last year to produce graphene from carbon sources like waste food and plastic has been adapted to recover rhodium, pal...

New model simplifies orbital radar trade-off studies for environmental monitoring

Oct 05, 2021 (SPX)

Satellite imaging of the Earth is used to monitor agricultural land use, ocean ice cover, coastal change, and hostile weather events. These observations are mad...

In Siberia, a copper mine hopes to become a global energy pivot

Oct 03, 2021 (AFP)

More than 70 years later, a mining complex in Russia's Far East between Lake Baikal and the Pacific Ocean is finally due to launch operations next year. With co...

Beam diagnostics for future laser wakefield accelerators

Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)

Electron energies in the GeV range have been achievable with this technique for some time. However, the electron bunches produced in this way have so far been t...

Starfish Space raises $7M to develop Space Tug

Sep 29, 2021 (SPX)

Up until now, missions to service existing satellites on-orbit, like the Hubble Space Telescope, have been too large and expensive to be commercially viable. Bu...

Isotropic Systems secures funding to develop multi-link antenna through to product launch in 2022

Sep 28, 2021 (SPX)

The round is led by Seraphim Space Investment Trust PLC - the world's first listed space tech fund - in the first significant investment since its IPO on the Lo...

Going hyperspectral for CHIME

Sep 28, 2021 (ESA)

The Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment, or CHIME for short, is one of six new missions that the EU and ESA are developing to expand th...

Chinese game makers vow to cut effeminacy, limit underage players

Sep 24, 2021 (AFP)

The 213 gaming firms, including top industry players Tencent and NetEase, promised in a joint statement dated Thursday to ban content that was "politically harm...

Engineering researchers develop new explanation for formation of vortices in 2D superfluid

Sep 24, 2021 (SPX)

The researchers revealed an alternative explanation for the formation of so-called Onsager vortices in a two-dimensional superfluid, a type of quantum fluid tha...

EPFL engineers introduce a new approach for recycling plastics

Sep 24, 2021 (SPX)

In light of this, Francesco Stellacci, a full professor and head of the Supramolecular Nanomaterials and Interfaces Laboratory at EPFL's School of Engineering, ...

NASA adviser blasts lack of congressional action on space traffic dangers

Sep 23, 2021 (UPI)

Chairwoman Patricia Sanders, a former Department of Defense senior executive, said NASA's Safety and Advisory Panel has called on Congress to increase oversight...

Researchers find a new way to control magnets

Sep 21, 2021 (SPX)

Less common are magnets based on ferrimagnetic materials, with an "i." In these, some of the atoms are aligned in one direction, but others are aligned in preci...

SpectrumX collective launches the first NSF Spectrum Innovation Initiative Center

Sep 21, 2021 (SPX)

To address these community trends, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $25 million over five years to the SpectrumX collective to create the ...

Nine ways AR and VR used on the International Space Station

Sep 21, 2021 (SPX)

The first use of AR on station, a set of high-tech goggles called Sidekick, provided hands-free assistance to crew members using high-definition holograms that ...

Now we're cooking with lasers

Sep 20, 2021 (SPX)

Under the guidance of Mechanical Engineering Professor Hod Lipson, the "Digital Food" team of his Creative Machines Lab has been building a fully autonomous dig...

European facility prepares for haul of samples returning from planetary bodies

Sep 16, 2021 (SPX)

The 2020s promise a bounty of new missions returning planetary samples to Earth for analysis. Scientists can learn a huge amount about planetary bodies by sendi...

NASA provides laser for LISA mission

Sep 15, 2021 (SPX)

In May, NASA specialists working with industry partners delivered the first prototype laser for the European Space Agency-led Laser Interferometer Space Antenna...