Leroy Chiao (foreground) works in Endeavour’s payload bay during one of the STS-72 EVAs. Photo Credit: NASA A quarter-century ago, today, six astronauts began an ambitious mission which put virtually all of the Space Shuttle’s capabilities—satellite deployment and retrieval, rendezvous and proximity operations, research and Extravehicular Activity (EVA)—to the test, as well as providing a great insight into the work ...

Enterprise Ireland has reported a net drop in employment of 872 for 2020 Nearly 16,500 jobs were created by Enterprise Ireland (EI) backed companies last year, similar to 2019 levels. But the twin challenges of Covid-19 and Brexit meant when the 17,368 jobs that were lost in Enterprise Ireland client businesses were taken into account, there was a net drop in ...

Special relativity is one of the most strongly validated theories humanity has ever devised. It is central to everything from space travel and GPS to our electrical power grid. Central to relativity is the fact that the speed of light in a vacuum is an absolute constant. The problem is, that fact has never been proven. When Einstein proposed the ...

In order to successfully manipulate food items, robots have to know their material properties. This task is difficult and time-consuming for robotic systems, but humans can accomplish it by vision or touch. A recent study on arXiv.org suggests distinguishing properties between food items using multimodal sensor data from interactive robot exploration.  Image credit: G.steph.rocket via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) The ...

Source: Adobe/piter2121 There are more bad news coming for XRP, following the recent lawsuit filed against major US-based blockchain company Ripple – as yet another major exchange stops trading, an investor sues Ripple looking to force a stock redemption, and the number of addresses with XRP 1m or more has dropped sharply. However, some argue that “the fall of XRP ...

Uplift has secured a new $68 million credit line as the company looks for travel to pick back up in the new year and to possibly expand into new sectors. The new line of credit was provided by Atalaya Capital Management. Menlo Park, California-based Uplift is a buy now, pay later platform for travel that now has raised a total ...

Components for the Long March 5B rocket that will launch the core module of China’s space station. Credit: CASC The core section of China’s space station is scheduled to launch in the next several months, the first of 11 missions carrying lab elements, cargo, and astronauts to the fledgling outpost over the next two years, according to Chinese space program ...