Новости за 20.10.2022

Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 19, 2022
An enormous number of near-Earth asteroid (NEA) orbit around the Sun, and among them 2072 NEAs, which are recorded in the Minor Planet Center (MPC) database, belong to the class of potential hazardous near-Earth asteroids (PHAs). These PHAs frequently make close approaches to Earth's orbit, and therefore, the hazard caused by PHAs is still a very real and ever-present threat. Faced with potentia

Paris (ESA) Oct 19, 2022
The Ariane 6 launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana now hosts for the first time a fully assembled example of ESA's new heavy-lift rocket, following the addition of an upper composite to the core stage and four boosters already in place. The upper composite - consisting of two half-fairings and a payload mock-up with the structural adapter needed to join it to the core stage - made th

Kinshasa (AFP) Oct 18, 2022
Gold mining in a Democratic Republic of Congo national park is threatening the okapi, a stripy-legged relative of the giraffe, civil society groups warned on Tuesday. They called for a halt to the "rapidly expanding" mining operation in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the northeast of the country. The endangered okapi, also called the forest giraffe, is only f

Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 20, 2022
Equities tumbled Thursday, tracking a sell-off on Wall Street, while the dollar jumped further as surging inflation, interest rate hikes and recession fears returned to the fore. Traders in Europe were keeping tabs on Westminster a day after Prime Minister Liz Truss's government was plunged into a fresh crisis and facing collapse following the resignation of home secretary Suella Braverman.

San Francisco (AFP) Oct 19, 2022
Meta on Wednesday said that it built an artificial intelligence system that translates Hokkien into English even though the Taiwanese language lacks a standard written form. The Silicon Valley tech titan that owns Facebook and Instagram billed the work at its Universal Speech Translator project as an effort to enable users from around the world to socialize regardless of the languages they s

Nairobi (AFP) Oct 19, 2022
A Nairobi-based green mobility company on Wednesday unveiled an electric bus its inventors hope will encourage environmentally friendly commuting in a city where smog-belching minivans are a far more familiar sight. The brightly painted bus pulled out into the notorious morning traffic in the city of nearly five million, which lacks a state-run transport network - even though it is the capi

Newport News VA (SPX) Oct 20, 2022
Nuclear physicists have confirmed that the current description of proton structure isn't all smooth sailing. A new precision measurement of the proton's electric polarizability performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has revealed a bump in the data in probes of the proton's structure. Though widely thought to be a fluke when seen in earlier mea

The Hague (AFP) Oct 19, 2022
Environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday that polluting flights by luxury jets from Dutch airports were skyrocketing, with a recent study showing emissions equivalent to almost 40,000 cars per year. The study conducted by Dutch environmental thinktank CE Delft also showed that one out of every three private flights from Schiphol or Rotterdam The Hague Airport were used for trips shorter

Boston MA (SPX) Oct 20, 2022
In the past several years, hydrogen energy has increasingly become a more central aspect of the clean energy transition. Hydrogen can produce clean, on-demand energy that could complement variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. That being said, pathways for deploying hydrogen at scale have yet to be fully explored. In particular, the optimal form of hydrogen production re

Ulsan, South Korea (SPX) Oct 20, 2022
A research team, led by Professor Hyesung Park in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has succeeded in manufacturing potentially high efficiency, stable, and scalable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) via vacuum deposition apparatus, a method of fabricating organic light-emitting display devices (OLEDs). Such method is also advantageous for the mass production of batteries,

Paris (AFP) Oct 19, 2022
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are expected to grow just one percent this year despite concerns that the energy crisis could lead countries to slow their transition to renewables, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday. The IEA predicted CO2 emissions would stand at 33.8 billion tonnes in 2022, more than 300 million tonnes more than in 2021. That incr

Madrid (AFP) Oct 19, 2022
The EU's proposals to rein in soaring energy prices are too "timid" and could lead to a "breakdown in confidence" in European institutions, Spain's Energy Minister Teresa Ribera said Wednesday during an interview with AFP on the eve of an EU leaders summit. Energy prices and inflation have surged across the 27-nation European Union as Moscow slashed gas supplies apparently in response to EU

Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 20, 2022
Physicist Stefano Munaretto of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has received leadership roles in two DOE three-year awards. Both are designed to improve the models used to design and evaluate the performance of spherical tokamaks, compact fusion facilities that are being explored as possible designs for future fusion power plants. The researchers h

Boston MA (SPX) Oct 20, 2022
A new startup, Quino Energy, aims to bring to market a grid-scale energy storage solution developed by Harvard researchers to facilitate more widespread adoption of renewable energy sources. About 12% of U.S. utility-scale electricity generation currently comes from wind and solar sources, which fluctuate with daily weather conditions. For wind and solar to play a greater role in the decarboniza

UK PM Liz Truss has announced her resignation after just 6 weeks in office amid mounting criticism from her fellow Conservative lawmakers
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Truss’ six-week stint, the shortest ever in Downing Street history, had been engulfed in financial chaos following a disastrous growth-focused mini-budget.

The team did hire hitting coach Dillon Lawson and his“ hit strikes hard” philosophy, and in an effort to improve upon their 11.1% swinging strike percentage in 2021 they jettisoned all-or-nothing swinger Gary Sanchez, and eventually Joey Gallo too. If you watched their efforts in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against Houston, you might think...

Last year the Islanders looked step slow compared to the league's true contenders. Thanks to a new approach, that hasn't been the case early this season.

Asian and European equities mostly slid on Thursday after overnight Wall Street losses, while the dollar jumped as...

Prime Minister says she is stepping down as leader of Conservative Party in dramatic speech

A NEW PM will be elected in days after Liz Truss’s shock resignation sparked a Tory leadership election.

Expansion of settlements into previous wildlife-only zones sees increase in deadly animal encounters

Former UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has been strong criticized by a British government report over her claims a Channel 4 documentary used actors. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s special report into Dorries’ comments about fakery in reality show Tower Block of Commons considered why she had not reconsidered evidence provided at a previous political committee […]