Sudden fluctuations in Germany’s power grid are causing major damage to a number of industrial companies. While many of them have responded by getting their own power generators and regulators to help minimize the...
Genetically screening our offspring to make them better people is just ‘responsible parenting’, claims an eminent Oxford academic. Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as...
(Reuters) – The mayor of Dallas declared a state of emergency in the ninth largest U.S. city on Wednesday to combat the spread of West Nile virus infections, which have been more prevalent than...
(Reuters) – In China’s booming smartphone market, which is set this year to overtake the United States as the world’s largest, a host of little-known local firms are primed with cheap phones to squeeze...
Researchers have shown off a microwave-emitting version of the laser, called a maser, that works at room temperature. Masers were invented before the laser, but have languished in obscurity because they required high magnetic...
The US state of Texas is battling an outbreak of the West Nile virus, with 17 deaths being blamed on the mosquito-borne disease, authorities said Wednesday. Throughout the state, 381 people have been sickened since the start...
OSLO — Parasites look set to become more virulent because of climate change, according to a study showing that frogs suffer more infections from a fungus when exposed to unexpected swings in temperatures. Parasites,...
(Reuters) – The U.S. military conducted an unmanned test flight of its hypersonic Waverider aircraft, designed to move at six times the speed of sound using technology that bridges the gap between planes and...
The Radiation Belt Storm Probe mission (RBSP) will explore the Van Allen Radiation Belts in the Earth’s magnetosphere. The charge particles in these regions can be hazardous to both spacecraft and astronauts. Project Scientist...
Oren Etzioni, Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor at the University of Washington, describes how his background in machine learning ultimately led him to consider how to solve the foundational problems of artificial intelligence, as...
