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Online course on spaceflight draws upon personal experience
An online course led by Sweden’s history-making astronaut Christer Fuglesang is offering students the chance to learn from a personal perspective on space travel, and earn a certificate.Human Spaceflight: An Introduction is a massive open online course (MOOC) from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The five-week programme begins on Monday January 23; free enrolment via edX is open to students and professionals worldwide.
Technological progress alone won’t stem resource use
Are humans taking more resources from the Earth than the planet can safely produce? The answer lies partly in whether we can “dematerialise,” or reduce the amount of materials needed to produce goods and services.While some scientists believe that the world can achieve significant dematerialisation through improvements in technology, a new MIT-led study finds that technological advances alone will not bring about dematerialisation and...
Laser-driving creates novel quasiparticle states
Studying properties of fundamental particles in condensed matter systems is a promising approach to quantum field theory. Quasiparticles offer the opportunity to observe particle properties that have no realisation in elementary particles.
Study tracks 'memory' of soil moisture
The top 2 inches of topsoil on all of Earth’s landmasses contains an infinitesimal fraction of the planet’s water — less than one-thousandth of a percent. Yet because of its position at the interface between the land and the atmosphere, that tiny amount plays a crucial role in everything from agriculture to weather and climate, and even the spread of disease.
Does Faraday's Future hang in the balance?
At CES this year, a fairly new company Faraday Future, which is in an electric car competition with Telsa, went all out with its press event and revealed a mystery car concept.Electronic and car enthusiasts were on the edge of their seats in Las Vegas last month as it was revealed that it had financial backing fromChinese billionaire Jia Yueting, and had received$335m worth of incentives from the state of Nevada last month to build a brand new $1...
Modern electromechanical relays meet reliability demands
Although they’ve been superseded in some applications by newer technologies such as SSRs (Solid State Relays), EMRs (Electromechanical Relays) still have a lot to offer. Avnet Abacus' Mathias Goebel explains.
All focus on automation and press brakes
Southern Manufacturing will see Bystronic’s Xpert 40 press brake demonstrating this year. Being just one metre and 40 tonne in capacity, it is the Swiss company‘s smallest press brake, of which more than 300 have been sold worldwide in the last two years, 26 of them in Britain and Ireland.
WebAccess 8.2 for End-to-Cloud IoT applications
November will see the launch of WebAccess 8.2, by Advantech, to round out the IoT applications from the end to the cloud. Based on the previous features, the latest version supports MQTT protocol and adds two new drivers (Ethernet/IP for Allen-Bradley PLC and B+B Wzzard MQTT) enabling manager/administrator/system integrator to effortlessly integrate more on-site devices and upload the front-end data to the cloud.
Mobile operators learn to power their digital transformation at MWC
At Mobile World Congress 2017,Glassbox will be showing mobile operators how to power their digital transformation. On stand SF81, Glassbox will show visitors how its systems capture, retrieve and analyse every digital session exactly as it was experienced by the customer, no matter what device, browser or app used.
The Right Cup: It’s a matter of taste
Before, during and after the Christmas holidays this year, most people enjoy the excuse to eat, drink and be merry. But once the overindulging comes to a lackadaisical end, many of us look to the New Year as a time for resolutions and a strict regime for our health. Some will join the gym, some will take up a new sport, others will clean up their diet.