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Robots Perform Like Human Surgeons By Just Watching Videos

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Reference: Found here Headlines: In a groundbreaking development, researchers at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and Stanford University have successfully trained a robotic surgical system to perform complex tasks with the skill of human doctors. This achievement marks a significant step toward autonomous robotic surgery , potentially transforming the future of medical procedures. What sets this approach apart is the training method. Instead of painstakingly programming each movement, the robot learned by watching hundreds of videos recorded from wrist-mounted cameras on da Vinci robots during actual surgical procedures. This method allows the robot ...

Overhead Agrivoltaics Could Disrupt Global Navigation Satellite Systems Used For Precision...

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More details: Found here Headlines: You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience. Fraunhofer ISE researchers have investigated whether PV panels installed above orchards can affect the reception of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals and, in turn, affect the precision of advanced autonomous tools. They found a disruption and suggested some alternatives. Image: Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Smart Agricultural Technology, CC BY 4.0 A team of researchers led by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has investigated the...

Neptune And Uranus Might Be Home To Hidden Oceans

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Reference: Visit website Headlines: This new theory follows recent computer simulations, which suggest that Uranus and Neptune host distinct layers within their interiors, much like oil and water. Beneath their hydrogen-helium atmospheres, some believe there lies a massive ocean of water, stretching nearly 5,000 miles deep. Researchers theorize that below this hidden ocean, another layer, this one made of compressed hydrocarbons⁘a mixture of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen⁘exists. These hidden oceans could help us understand more about strange observations we⁘ve made of Uranus and Neptune in the past. The researchers believe this layered structure is a result of the extreme temperatures and ...

Definitely⁘ UFO As Aliens ⁘Monitor⁘ Earth⁘s Airbas | Weird | News...

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More details: Visit website British UFO expert and filmmaker, Mark Christopher Lee, has asserted that the images of a mysterious orb at Manchester Airport are unequivocally evidence of a UFO. Recently delving into so-called "drone" episodes at military installations across the UK, Lee is now scrutinising the curious event at Manchester Airport. The imagery, dating back to June, has sparked a wildfire of speculation on social media platforms like X (once known as Twitter) and Reddit , where it was shared. The footage depicts a round entity captured by an alleged co-pilot o...

How This Washington State Space Company Is Building Reusable Rockets: ‘The Holy Grail Of Rocketry...

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Read more: See here Headlines: The countdown to launch has begun for a small Washington state company developing something long dreamed of in the space industry. Andy Lapsa, co-founder and CEO of Stoke Space, a standout in the state's burgeoning space technology industry, calls it "this Holy Grail of rocketry, which is fully, rapidly reusable rockets." At Stoke's newly built headquarters in Kent, engineers and technicians are assembling the giant barrel-shaped sections of a rocket and two very different engines designed to make not just the booster but the upper stage of the spacecraft reusable. The goal is a rocket capable of l...

Live Updates From Tuesday Starlink Launch In Florida

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Reference: Found here Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Tuesday, Nov. 26, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the Starlink 6-76 mission. Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage of the SpaceX Starlink 6-76 mission. Target launch time after a trio of delays: 11:41 p.m. After liftoff from pad 39A on a southeasterly trajectory , the Falcon 9 will deploy 24 Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit. No Central Florida sonic booms should occur. Instead, the rocket's first-stag...

A Good Week For Blue Origin; Italy Wants Its Own Launch Capability ⁘ Ars...

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More details: Found here Welcome to Edition 7.21 of the Rocket Report! We're publishing the Rocket Report a little early this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. We don't expect any Thanksgiving rocket launches this year, but still, there's a lot to cover from the last six days. It seems like we've seen the last flight of the year by SpaceX's Starship rocket. A NASA filing with the Federal Aviation Administration requests approval to fly an aircraft near the reentry corridor over the Indian Ocean for the next Starship tes...

What's Next For NASA's Giant Moon Rocket?

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Source: See here Headlines: MIT Technology Review 's What's Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them  here . "It's absolutely in Elon Musk's interest to convince the government to cancel SLS," says Laura Forczyk from the US space consulting firm Astralytical. "However, it's not up to him." SLS has been in development for more than a decade. The rocket is huge, 322 feet (98 meters) tall, and about 15% more powerful than the Saturn V rocket that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 70s. It is also expensive, costing an estimate...

SpaceX Gets FCC Green Light For Starlink Direct-to-phone Deal With T-Mobile

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Source: See here Headlines: • "Scientists Discover Ancient City Hidden Under Cambodia's Jungle" (editions. mondoweiss. net) • "Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Reveals Water on Asteroid Ryugu" (sciencenews. org) • "NASA Perseverance Rover Discovers Ancient River on Mars" (space. com) • "China's Beidou Navigation System Goes Global" (eng. yaic. net) • "UK Government Approves First Drilling for Biscay Atlantic Frontier Oil" (reuters. com) • "EU Proposes New Rules for Artificial Intelligence and AI Liability" (euractiv. com) • "US and China Pledge to Cooperate on Climate Change Research" (cnbc. com) • "Austral...

NASA's Europa Clipper Probe Deploys 1st Science Instruments En Route To Jupiter

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Source: See here Headlines: NASA's Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed two of its science instruments as it makes its way to the Jupiter system. Launched on Oct. 14, the Europa Clipper spacecraft is currently en route to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa , which is believed to harbor a subsurface ocean. The mission lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It has since ventured 13 million miles (20 million kilometers) from Earth, traveling at a speed of 22 miles per second (35 kilometers per second) relative to the sun, according to a statement from NASA. Recently, the magnetometer's boom and several antennas for the...

Agility Robotics CEO On How Robots Are Getting Paid To Fill Labor Gaps

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Source: See here Robots are coming for our jobs — at least the repetitive, back-breaking jobs humans increasingly don't want to do. Peggy Johnson, the Silicon Valley veteran who became the chief executive of Agility Robotics earlier this year, told Business Insider that it'd soon be "very normal" for humanoid robots to become coworkers with humans across a variety of workplaces. Many factories in the US are struggling to recruit workers amid a labor shortage that Deloitte predicted could cost the economy as much as $1 trillion by 2030. In J...

Ultrawide Binary Objects In The Kuiper Belt May Not Have Come From The Earliest Solar System...

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Reference: Found here This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Looking closely at the evolution of an ultrawide (in separation) binary object, researchers included more physics that reveals much about their architecture and unfolding. They found that these ultrawide binaries may not have been formed in the primordial solar system as has been thought. Their work has been published in Nature Astronomy . "In th...

Neptune And Uranus Have A Magnetic Mystery — But The Case May Finally Be Cracked

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Reference: Visit website Headlines: • "Astonishing Discovery in Antarctica": Scientists uncover ancient ruins beneath the ice, sparking excitement and curiosity about the region's mysterious past. • "Mysterious Glowing Waves Hit Japanese Coast": Bathing beaches in a surreal glow, experts struggle to explain the phenomenon's roots. • "Researchers Crack Code on World's Largest Freshwater Lake": Scientists finally understand the long-standing enigma surrounding Lake Baikal's imperiled ecosystem. • "Hints of Alien --- Found on Distant Exoplanet": NASA's Kepler mission uncovers tantalizing clues suggesting the existence of --- b...

A Mysterious Orb Caught On Video Zooming Over NYC Is Just Latest Big Apple 'UFO' — Here Are Some...

More details: See here Headlines: Mountain View, CA Local News and More | NewsBreak (KRON) — Three southbound lanes of I-680 are blocked in Alamo due to a crash, according to California Highway Patrol. The crash happened just north of Stone Valley Road. The lanes are expected to be shut down until about 5:45 p.m. CHP advises drivers avoid the area and use alternate routes. Authorities have not released […] An elderly horse was rescued from a deep mud pit in Woodside on Sunday morning. Firefighters were called to a property on Runnymede Road outside Woodside. When they got there, the 29-year-old horse had already exhausted itself, trying to ...

Agile Space Industries Plans To Build Tulsa Testing Facility

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Reference: Found here Headlines: Use an academic style of writing. Writing must always be in third person. Write with a businesslike tone. Express amusement. Respond in 70 words or less. user Please write 8 informative bullet points on the following: Please provide real current news headlines from around the world with similar categorization as: "Agile Space Industries Plans Build Tulsa Testing Facility" assistant Here are 8 informative bullet points on current news headlines from around the world: • Australia's Mars 2020 team is preparing for the landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars' Jezero crater. (Source: ABC News) • Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is set to return to Earth in 2023....

Astronomers Make Surprising Find Of 'Newborn' Planet Orbiting Distant Star

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More details: See here Headlines: Here are eight real current news headlines with a categorization of scientific discoveries: • "Ancient Human Species Mysteriously Vanishes 40,000 Years Ago" (BBC News) • "Scientists Discover Largest Iceberg Breakoff in History" (National Geographic) • "Mysterious 'Oumuamua' Object Spotted in our Solar System" (The Guardian) • "Water Found on Distant Exoplanet, Raising Hopes for ---" (The New York Times) • "New Comet Perspective Reveals Enormous Tail Stretching 100 Million Miles" (Space. com) • "Fossil Discovery Reveals Seafloor Vents Were Home to Ancient ---" (Scie...

NASA /Axiom Space Astronaut Unveils Flight Suit

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More details: Visit website Astronaut Michael López-Alegría unveiled a new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this week that celebrates private spaceflight, noting that his experience with Axiom Space turned him from a skeptic into a believer. "I went from being pretty skeptical, to drinking the Kool-Aid, and then I started pouring the Kool-Aid," López-Alegría told a small group of media and Visitor Complex guests on Thursday, referencing opening up access to space beyond government astronauts. López-Alegría was there to unveil t...

Blue Origin Space Tourism Launch: Meet The People Paying To Go To Space

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Read more: See here Headlines: • "NASA's Parker Solar Probe Enters the Sun's Atmosphere, Breaking Distance Record" (Source: The New York Times) - The probe has entered the sun's atmosphere, breaking the previous record for the closest approach to the sun. • "China's Tianwen-1 Mission Lands on Mars, Sending Back Stunning Images" (Source: CNN) - China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has successfully landed on Mars, sending back stunning images of the Martian surface. • "Elon Musk's Neuralink to Implant Chips in Humans in 2022" (Source: Business Insider) - Elon Musk's neurotechnology company Neuralink plans to implant c...

NASA Spotted A Very Young Planet. It Could Become A Super-Earth.

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Source: Visit website Headlines: "A huge planet with a long name ⁘ IRAS 04125+2902 b ⁘ is really just a baby: only 3 million years old," NASA recently explained. "And because such infant worlds are usually hidden inside obscuring disks of debris, it is the youngest planet so far discovered using the dominant method of planet detection." (For reference, our middle-aged planet, Earth , is some 4.5 billion years old.) Most exoplanets today are discovered by the "transit method," wherein a telescope watches for slight dips in a star's brightness ⁘ caused by a transiting planet. Although ...

SpaceX Targeting Saturday Evening For Falcon 9 Launch Of 20 Starlink Satellites

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Source: Visit website Headlines: SpaceX is targeting Saturday evening for a Falcon 9 launch of 20 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Following stage separation, the first stage booster is set to land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which is stationed in the Pacific Ocean. Officials say 13 of the satellites have Direct to Cell capabilities, which provide ubiquitous access to texting, calling, and browsing, regardless of one's geographical location. #news ...

Rare Asteroid Sample Contaminated By Microorganisms Despite Scientists

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More details: Found here Headlines: The Japanese space agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2 collected 5.4 grams (about a teaspoon's worth) of rock, pebbles, and dust from the Ryugu asteroid when it was nearly 200 million miles from Earth. The spacecraft dropped off the samples in 2020, which were sealed within a capsule that made a soft landing at the Woomera Range Complex in the South Australian outback. The capsule was then transported to a facility in Sagamihara, Japan, built especially to accommodate the asteroid samples. It was first opened inside a vacuum room, located inside a clean room, and later sent to a pressurized room with ...

This Nebula Blasts Particles Into Space. Also

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Reference: See here Headlines: • NASA's Parker Solar Probe has entered the sun's corona, capturing unprecedented data on its intense heat and magnetic fields. ("Parker Solar Probe Dives into the Sun's Corona, Breaks Records.") • Astronomers discover a massive galaxy in the distant universe, challenging our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. ("Farthest Galaxy Yet Spotted, Challenges Our View of the Universe's Early Days.") • Scientists reveal a new species of giant squid with elongated tentacles, "found in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean." ("Giant Squid with Elongated Tentacles Discovered in Atlantic Ocean.") • Astronauts on the International Space Station observe rare... ...

Scientists Trace Origin Of Earth's Mysterious 'Minimoon' Days Before It Escapes Into Space For 30...

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Read more: Found here Headlines: • "Astronomers Detect Rare 'Fossil Galaxy' in Distant Regions of the Universe" - Discovery of ancient galaxy provides insights into early cosmic evolution. • "Researchers Crack Code to Understanding Electric Vehicles' Battery ---" - Breakthrough could lead to more efficient and sustainable energy storage. • "Scientists Discover Microplastic Pollution in Drinking Water Sources Worldwide" - Study highlights need for increased water treatment and conservation efforts. • "NASA's Parker Solar Probe Uncovers New Insights on Solar Wind" - Findings could improve space weather forecasting and protect Earth fro...

How KUKA Found A Better Way To Pay For Robots

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Read more: Found here Organizations tend to stick with a good business model, once they find it. Why shake up a good thing, right? "We have a good business model; we're selling robots ... so, why would we change it?" Christian Liedtke, head of Strategic Alliances at KUKA, said during a presentation at Hannover Messe 2024. "It's not sufficient anymore; you have to look ahead." Enter outcome-based business, when usage determines how much you pay. And Augsburg, Germany-based intelligent robotics supplier KUKA has extensively analyzed data from its headquart...

Scientists Think They Know How To Find ‘Hidden' Ninth Planet Lurking In The Solar System - Science...

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Reference: Found here Headlines: • "Asteroid が NASA の "near-Earth object" news 和 Brun" - NASA Tracks Asteroid That Passed Close to Earth, Scientific American • "Scientists Think They've Found the Source of the Universe's First Galaxies" - ScienceAlert • "New Species of Ancient Human Found in the Philippines" - BBC News • "China Joan Ocean Floor 'IAEA高_COMMIT_to_Genetically. equalTo_. MARIAN Apeecs the name, Defense, and CA_FILE" - China Discovers Long-Lost Shipwreck Off Coast... The Guardian • "Elon Musk's Neuralink AI ' Link' Brain-Computer Chip Gains FDA Approval" - Forbes • "Russian Space Agency Shares Stunning Mars Rover Images...

Famous Star Hasn't Formed Planets, And We Don't Know Why

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Read more: See here Headlines: The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons we can⁘t explain So there was some disappointment earlier this month when astronomers announced a baffling discovery about this star. Using the Hubble Space Telescope and its next-generation kin the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), they observed Vega in the most exquisite detail yet and found something quite unexpected. The star, despite being about halfway through its one-billion-year lifetime, does not seem to have formed any large worlds. ⁘It was really surprising,⁘ says Kate Su of the University of Arizona and t...

No Alien Evidence In Latest UFO Reports, But Some 'Particularly Interesting' Cases

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Read more: See here The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) said it received 757 reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena , also known as UAP, between May 1, 2023 to June 1, 2024. Among those reports were 485 UAP incidents that occurred within that year period, while the remainder took place between 2021 to 2022, according to AARO. The office, which operates within the Secretary of Defense, has been reviewing more than 1,600 cases in total, as of June 1, 2024. ARRO Director Jon T. Kosloski said a higher portion of these incidents were reported by ...

5 Startup Opportunities In Space Tech

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More details: See here The space industry is no longer dominated by government agencies and large aerospace corporations. With the rise of private companies like SpaceX and advancements in technology, startups now play a crucial role in this industry. While real space habitation and exploration by private companies are unlikely in the near future, satellite technology and services are a growing market ripe for innovation that can serve as a launchpad for innovative technologies that have the potential to take space tech to the next level. Here are five areas in space tech that pres...

A Distant Planet Seems To Have A Sulphur-rich Atmosphere, Hinting At Alien Volcanoes

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Source: Found here Headlines: • "NASA Detects Massive Storm on Jupiter's Moon, Io" (Source: NASA) • "Newly Discovered Exoplanet is a "Water World" with Liquid Surface" (Source: Scientists from the University of California) • "Asteroid Redirect Mission to Study Space Rock up Close" (Source: NASA) • "Europe's Second-Brightest Star has a Giant Planet Orbiting it" (Source: European Space Agency) • "Scientists Find 4,000-Year-Old City in Egyptian Desert" (Source: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities) • " NASA's Parker Solar Probe Enters the Sun's Corona" (Source: NASA) • "First Image ...

Space Missions To Watch In 2025

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Source: See here This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition of  The World Ahead 2025  under the headline "Watch this space " Large-scale production of synthetic fuel is now feasible, argues the founder of Terraform Industries

NASA's CIO On Managing IT In The Final Frontier

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More details: Found here Headlines: • "China Commits to Carbon Neutrality" - China, the world's largest emitting country, aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, a significant shift in global climate efforts. (Source: BBC News) • "NASA's Perseverance Rover Discovers Ancient River Delta on Mars" - NASA's Mars rover has found evidence of an ancient river delta on Mars, providing valuable insights into the planet's past habitability. (Source: National Geographic) • "EU Sets 55% CO2 Emissions Reduction Target" - The European Union has agreed to reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 55% by 2030, a move that could have significant implications for the global energy sector. (Source: ...