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Why wet dogs are a Mars rover's best frienda Golden Labrador shaking itself dry may sound like a mundane topic for a film.
but may also help design future Mars rovers. The idea for the film came about
He hopes that it could become the basis of self-cleaning robot oe a potentially useful design for Mars rovers
So, perhaps in the not too distant future, Mars rovers will shake their circuits in a similar way to a dog emerging from a pond.
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Government builds free cloud-based backup for ungrateful nation Totient Medium 8 july 2013"The cloud backup program, called Prism, safely stores all American's phone
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six lions lay dead in the dim headlights of an old land cruiser. Just hours earlier, dozens of Maasai men had descended upon them with sharpened spears in a fit of anger and frustration."
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Fascinating reworkingwhile it is easy to imagine radical designers like Flaminio Bertoni-the stylist behind the sensational 1950s Citroen DS oe or Philippe Starck with his famous Juicy Salif lemon
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Now Chinese buy more Lamborghinis and Rolls-royces than anybody else in the world. Shanghai's per capita energy use is already higher than London's,
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from Gucci and LVMH to Mercedes-benz and BMW. oeconsumers are much more in demand for authenticity,
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This shocking picture, with its piles of oven chips, mini rolls and tubs of ice cream, represents just how much junk food one child in the UK consumes in a year.
54 packs of Cadbury Mini Rolls Fat: 22. 7g per 100g=1, 823g per year Sugars:
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a high-paid engineer at a Mercedes-benz showroom in northern India. oenow if something happens, we have a backup plan.
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the intruder smashed a plate glass window of a dessert shop in Lincoln, Neb. Inside, destruction.
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Unilever, GE, Blackmont Capital, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Ford motor Company, Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, Capital One
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Auto manufacturers unsuccessfully sued to overturn rules to slash carbon dioxide emissions from tailpipes. Oil refiners and truckers filed suit this week against a measure to reduce the carbon content of gasoline and diesel.
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including the auto industry, interior design and clothing fashion. oethey meet a couple of times a year, Stewart said,
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Many car companies including General motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, and Volvo have begun early testing of driverless car systems.
General motors has stated that they will have a driverless model ready for final testing by 2015, going on sale officially in 2018.
Even though car companies are making plans for the transition planning departments are not. Most local and regional transportation departments are working with models that assume 20 years from now transportation systems will be basically the same, with only slight variations around the edges.
In October 2011, Ford demonstrated three SYNC apps offering in-car health monitoring for drivers to track chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma and hay fever.
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Brands, including VW, Lego, and Nintendo are nearly a century or more old. Even Apple and Camaro have been consumer products for decades.
To date the Wii has sold more than 86 million units. 6. Volkswagen Volkswagen was relatively unknown in the U s. during the 1960s,
and VW contemplated pulling out of the U s. altogether.##Just six years later, following the launch of the new Beetle,
In 2010, Volkswagen sold more than 250,000 cars in the U s.#its best year since 2003.
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The list includes Sears, Sony Pictures, American Apparel, Nokia, Saab, A&w All-American Foods Restaurants, Soap opera Digest, Sony Ericsson, Myspace,
Pontiac, a major car brand since 1926, is gone, shut down by a struggling GM. Blockbuster is in the process of dismantling,
and transportation cost compared to competitors many times as large. 3. Saab The first Saab car was launched in 1949 by Swedish industrial firm Svenska Aeroplan.
Saabs engineering reputation and the rise in its international sales attracted GM to buy half the company in 1989 and the balance in 2000.
Saabs problem, which grew under the management of the worlds No. 1 automobile manufacturer, was that it was never more than a niche brand in an industry dominated by very large players such as Ford and Chevrolet.
It did not build very inexpensive cars like VW did, or expensive sports cars as Porsche did.
Saabs models were in price and features, up against models from the worlds largest car companies that sold hundreds of thousands of units each year.
Saab also did not have a wide number of models to suit different budgets and driver tastes.
GM decided to jettison the brand in late 2008, and the small company quickly became insolvent.
Saab finally found a buyer in high-end car maker Spyker which took control of the company last year.
Spyker quickly ran low on money because only 32,000 Saabs were sold in 2010. Spyker turned to Chinese industrial investors for money.
Pang Da Automobile agreed to take an equity stake in the company. But the agreement is not binding,
and with a potential of global sales which are still below 50,000 a year based on manufacturing and marketing operations and demand,
Saab is no longer a financially viable brand. 4. American Apparelthe once-hip retailer reached the brink of bankruptcy earlier this year,
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Toyota recently offered a free program on Cydias store, promoting the companys Scion sedan. Once installed, the car is displayed on the background of the iphone home screen,
Toyota was also the first major corporation to offer an ad to the jailbreaking site, www. modmyi. com,
The Toyota ad and theme, to me, meant there was a turning of the tides and that jailbreaking is becoming more mainstream,#
Matthews said Apple pressed Toyota to remove the theme and the ad this past week,
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#which aired on Wednesday 2/2, focuses on the new discoveries that scientists such as Deborah Mielewski, the technical leader of plastics research at Ford motor Co.,
Mielewski says Ford has been working to find a way to reduce the use of petroleum plastics since 2000,
and Ford decided to jump on the green trend with some success. Currently, as much as 10 percent of car parts that are made typically from petroleum plastics can now be made from soy-based polyurethane foams or bioplastic.#
#In fact, the 2011 Ford fiesta uses bioplastic not only in soft foam seats but also for hard plastic surfaces like the dashboard.
She says scientists at Ford are experimenting by mixing some mushroom roots together with other plant matter, like wheat straw,
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textile rolls and food-processing equipment, says he can barely find machinists who know how to handle manual machines.
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and bought a three-bedroom house and a 1951 Chevrolet. One day in 1976, Moraitis felt short of breath.
I drove a Chevrolet. But I was always in a hurry.##When she and her family moved to Ikaria
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A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution.
#It still houses a dingy, unused Toyota corolla assembly line on which an army of workers once turned out half a million cars annually.
Hyundai and Beijing Motors recently completed a mammoth factory outside Beijing that can produce a million vehicles a year using more robots
They watch over a four-story cage with different levels holding 168 rover#robots the size of go-carts.
Each rover is connected wirelessly to a central computer and on command will race along an aisle until it reaches its destination#a case of food to retrieve
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#Dennis miller. VW s post climate change prototype vehicle...Have you ever felt you were in a farmers dreams?..
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Ford had its Evos concept car on display at CES 2012 turning heads with style and design,
but little true innovation Transportation At CES, Ford motor Company unveiled its first-ever zero emissions, electric passenger vehicle, following in the footsteps of Tesla and Nissan.
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Audi, BMW, GM and Google tested them first. The search engine giant wanted them on the roads by 2020
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taking a picture of the Lexus that I m riding in with an engineer named Anthony Levandowski.
His Lexus is what you might call a custom model. It s surmounted by a spinning laser turret and knobbed with cameras, radar, antennas,
#Every week for the past year and a half, Levandowski has taken the Lexus on the same slightly surreal commute.
or an accident ahead and the Lexus insists that he take the wheel. A chime sounds, pleasant yet insistent, then a warning appears on his dashboard screen:#
as the Lexus took us across the Dumbarton Bridge.##oethis is more like Charles Lindbergh s plane.
As a commercial for the Dodge Charger put it two years ago, #oehands-free driving, cars that park themselves,
In 1939, at the World s Fair in New york, visitors stood in lines up to two miles long to see the General motors Futurama exhibit.
Engineers huddle around a driverless Ford on a test track.##oecars like this one may be on the nation s roads by the year 2000!#
General motors pioneered the first approach in the late nineteen-fifties. Its Firebird III concept car#haped like a jet fighter, with titanium tail fins and a glass-bubble cockpit#as designed to run on a test track embedded with an electrical cable,
In the nineteen-eighties, a German engineer named Ernst Dickmanns, at the Bundeswehr University in Munich, equipped a Mercedes van with video cameras and processors,
the Carnegie mellon team was working with General motors, Caltech with Northrop grumman, Ohio State with Oshkosh trucking.
Caltech s Chevy Tahoe crashed into a fence. Even the winner, Carnegie mellon, earned at best a Pyrrhic victory.
Stanford with its puny Volkswagen Touareg, nicknamed Stanley. It was an even match. Both teams used similar sensors and software,
A Ford S. U. V. programmed by some insurance-company employees from Louisiana finished just thirty-seven minutes behind Stanley.
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At about 8am every morning, Anthony Levandowski gets into the driver s seat of his white Lexus for his daily commute to work.
but also most of the major car manufacturers: Audi, Volkswagen, Toyota, GM, Volvo, BMW, Nissan. Arguably the most important outcome of the DARPA field trials was the development of a robust and reliable laser range finder.
It s the all-seeing eye mounted on top of Levandowski s car, and it s used by virtually every other experimental self-driving system ever built.
Automakers may then use this information to take the next step: program automated responses. Levandoswki s commute is 45 miles long,
The attack came from Chrysler, the smallest of Detroit s Big Three automakers, in the form of a television commercial for the new Dodge Charger.
A year after the Dodge commercial aired, Levandowski showed up in Detroit as the keynote speaker at the SAE s annual shindig.
Google wants to make#oeavailable to the rest of the auto industry all of the building blocks that we ourselves use,
automakers should focus on making the user experience their own. No one talks about the actual terms of the deal#egotiations with individual car companies were held behind closed doors#ut it shouldn t surprise anyone
Industry scuttlebutt has it that Ford is giving Google the most serious consideration. Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask
whether he could make a next-generation lidar#ruggedized, standardized automotive component. The company wanted a design that it could hide (perhaps behind the windshield) that would wholesale for no more than $1, 000,
Google is not a car manufacturer. Nor does it intend to be one, Levandowski says. So what s the plan?#
It too is filled with catch-22 s. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker s analysis of self-driving-car technology.#
Volvo has perfected a simple auto-drive system called platooning, in which its cars autonomously follow a professional driver.
It uses technology that s already built into every high-end Volvo sold today, plus a communications system.
In Volvo s real-world platooning tests, drafting resulted in average fuel savings of 10 to 15 percent#ut that,
Volvo s goal is to eliminate fatalities in models manufactured after 2020 and its newest cars already start driving themselves
and automakers could eliminate roll cages, returning the consequent weight savings as even better mileage.
The EPA has a new mileage mandate for car manufacturers: They must achieve a fleet-wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025;
Several automakers have systems that approach level two on the test track, and Mercedes appears to be the first to market.
Mercedes offers Distronic Plus with Steering Assist as an option on the 2014 S-class luxury sedans.
GM anticipates its Super Cruise system will debut later this decade. Both use a combination of radar and computer vision to center the vehicle in the lane
Mercedes, for example, requires two hands on the steering wheel at all times.##oeeveryone s looking for ways to keep the driver engaged,
#Advocates like to say that there is no technical reason the new Mercedes needs hands on the wheel to steer through a turn.
#Google is betting that established car manufacturers, working with low-cost radar and camera components, will never adequately bridge that gap.
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In the late 1980s, there was a spontaneous move to Lincoln, Nebr. to work on filament-wound structures#mix shafts for the food industry and rocket-motor casings.
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Auto plants in California, accustomed to#oejust in time#deliveries of parts from Japan, found themselves chartering planes to bring in parts they otherwise would have had shipped, at a cost of $600 per car.
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##Dodge City Public library Kentucky Campbell County Public library: Lego club Teens writing a manga book online Class on making medieval weapons from office supplies Sit down aerobics for seniors#oecrafters Who Care##Needlework lovers meet to knit
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859 164 Costa Mesa, Calif. 110,322 160 Denton, Texas 115,098 160 Killeen, Texas 127,995 160 Lincoln, Neb. 259,218 156 Lubbock
in the middle of one workspace, a gleaming red Ducati 1199 Panigale motorcycle. Speaking of design, Charleston may bethe single most important city of inspiration to the New Urbanists who have pushed to redesign cities around more densely populated,
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and the Model S had become the third best-selling luxury car, behind only the Mercedes E Class and BMW 5 Series.
The next segment it needs to reach is the early majoritywho can move the company from a niche car manufacturer into a global powerhouse.
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has positioned itself to sell drones in much the same way as General motors works with its dealers to peddle cars.
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including intentions to blast a fifth rover onto the planet s surface by 2020 and send a manned mission by 2030.
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said study researcher E. Fuller Torrey a psychiatrist at Johns hopkins university Medical center in Chevy Chase Md.
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></p><p>NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet but will take a look at part of our own.
Named Grover (short for Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research) the rover will explore Greenland's ice sheets to better understand how they form
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/29259-nasa-rover-explores-greenland. html target=blank>NASA Rover to Explore...
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</p><p>A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes NASA officials announced today (March 12) in a statement and press conference.</
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27841-ancient-mars-microbes-curiosity-rover. html target=blank>Wow!
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Translation by Gloria Ferrari from Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta University of Chicago Press 2008) A key event on Sparta s road to becoming a more militaristic society was its conquest of the land of Messenia
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 The cave art is described (in Portuguese) in the journal Revista Clio Arqueolã gica. These discoveries of cave drawings emphasize the importance of protecting the Cerrado
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Well-managed private forests offer many advantages such as keeping land on the tax rolls while still providing the myriad benefits that flow from forests renewable wood and paper products wildlife habitat places for recreation and much more.
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Some beverages cross over the line into being a food says Barbara Rolls professor of nutritional sciences at Pennsylvania State university.
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Giblet Sauce Buttered Asparagus Glazed Sweet potatoes Moulded Cranberry Jelly  Chicken salad in Salad Rolls  Thanksgiving Pudding Hard sauce  Chocolate ice cream Strawberry Sauce Â
Eight Courses Curled Celery Oyster Soup Bread Sticks Radish Rosettes  Turbans of Flounder Hollandaise Sauce Potato Straws Olives Crusty Rolls
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Once the babies are about a month old mommy spider rolls onto her back letting her babies climb aboard.
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Curiosity Rover Uncovers a Flood of Evidence LONDON Water water everywhere and some of it fit to drink.
That s the picture of ancient Mars that has emerged during the past few months thanks to discoveries by NASA's Curiosity rover
The Search for Water on Mars (Photos) During many sessions at the conference which was held Sept. 8 to Sept. 13 in London scientists presented details of the rover s most exciting finds made before it began the long drive toward the towering
Curiosity's smaller older cousins NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers found plenty of evidence of ancient Martian water after touching down in 2004
The 1-ton rover may finally arrive at the mountain's base next May or June team members say.
Mount Sharp has been Curiosity's primary destination since before the rover's November 2011 launch.
Mission scientists are eager to find out what the rover discovers there. I think the door is wide open
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Nine years later President Lincoln named Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove as the country s first public preserve.
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but the video itself was likely confusing as the marmosets had seen never one before said Lydia Hopper a research scientist at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago who was not involved with the study.
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</p><p>When the babies are around a month old the mother spider rolls over on her back allowing the spiderlings to clamber over her kill her by injecting their venom
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that's equal to 6. 4 billion pounds or as much as the weight of 1. 4 million new Ford F150 pickup trucks.
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and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago have followed the chimpanzees in the study for years.
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Even many of the larger companies such as Fiat and Benetton are controlled still primarily by single families.
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with its luxury shops, roaming BMWS and Mercedes, and European-style villas in the suburbs.
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and has signed a deal with US car manufacturer Chrysler. The company, based in Waterford, Massachusetts, was founded in 2001 by materials scientist Yet-Ming Chiang and his colleagues from the Massachusetts institute of technology in Cambridge.
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and General motors estimated that cellulosic ethanol could compete with petrol in 2030 only if oil was $90 a barrel or higher.
which General motors has undisclosed an stake, relies on gasification to turn biomass into hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
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and in collaboration with General motors. Ghosh's team has been working to improve the genetic stock of their jatropha,
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Administration officials announced the broad outlines of the deal with automakers in May, at a time when the industry was seeking government aid to stay afloat.
Both General motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC ended up filing for bankruptcy leaving Ford motor Co. as the only major US automaker standing.
Speaking at a General motors Co. plant in Lordstown, Ohio, on Tuesday, President Barack Obama asserted that the regulations will give companies long-overdue clarity,
stability and predictability as they struggle to pull out of a financial tailspin. Michael Stanton, president of the Association of International Automobile manufacturers, called the new regulations a welcome step toward a single, national programme.
The regulations are rooted in a 2007 Supreme court finding that the EPA has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
But by 2016, automakers will have to comply with the more stringent of the two, which effectively means that the greenhouse gas standards take over,
In addition to increasing overall fuel efficiency, automakers could improve their air-conditioning systems and opt for new chemical refrigerants that contribute less to global warming.
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Despite the materials'present reliance on the mixed fortunes of the automobile industry, the market for carbon nanotubes as raw materials looks set to grow rapidly.
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they are talking about apples and oranges and Porsches and whales and moons, he says.
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A123, meanwhile, says that it has ended a deal with Chrysler to provide batteries for the firm's electric cars
although it promised a new deal with an unnamed car manufacturer. Ranbaxy resignation: The chief executive of India's biggest drug maker, Ranbaxy, resigned unexpectedly last week,
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Andersen says an additional boost to the proposal to include HFCS in the Montreal Protocol has come from the global automobile industry,
Delaware, and Honeywell of Morristown, New jersey, in response to a 2006 European union law requiring car makers to reduce the greenhouse-gas potential of their refrigerants,
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we have to resort to concepts like odds, rolls of the dice, roulette wheels. And because climate is complex,
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when it comes to conservation, according to a study by Philip Hulme, a weed specialist at Lincoln University in New Zealand1.
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, joined with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo alto, California,
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The 22-23 Â September meeting, hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase,
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NASA/JPL-CALTECHEVENTSCURIOSITY bound for Mars NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, also known as Curiosity, is on its way to Gale crater on Mars. The 900-kilogram rover (pictured,
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/ASUEVENTS Fresh clue to ancient Mars water NASA's Opportunity rover has discovered veins of hydrothermally deposited minerals at the edge of Endeavour crater on Mars. The bright
Gypsum deposits can form in water that is much less acidic than required by the water-altered sulphate minerals previously discovered on Mars meaning that the site could have been more habitable than others explored by the rover.
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and organizations including the World bank, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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according to the US Drought Monitor service, run by the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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and US President Barack Obama unveiled an aid package for stricken farmers on 13 Â August 17-23 august NASA s Mars rover Curiosity will attempt its first drive on the red planet next week
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Mars landing NASA announced on 6 Â August that its Mars rover, Curiosity, had landed successfully in Gale Crater after an 8-month journey
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In May, the US Food and Drug Administration approved Elelyso (taliglucerase alfa) a drug for the lysosomal storage disorder Gaucher disease which is produced in cultured carrot cells.
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with collaborative efforts and'big data'coming to the fore. www. sfn. org/am201214-19 october New results from the Curiosity rover on Mars,
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Red rover NASA s next Mars explorer will be a leaner meaner version of the Curiosity rover, with one major upgrade:
the ability to store rock and soil samples for return to Earth, the agency said on 9 july.
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says Brian Ford-Lloyd, a plant geneticist at the University of Birmingham, UK.""This is one of the most clear examples of extremely plausible damaging effects of GM CROPS on the environment.
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The Subaru Telescope on Mauna kea Hawaii, took pictures of the exoplanet GJ 504b at near-infrared wavelengths with the help of adaptive optics.
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Rabbit rescue China s moon rover has run into major trouble, according to a report on 25 january from state-run news agency Xinhua.
The Yutu (Jade Rabbit) rover experienced a"mechanical control abnormality as it prepared to hibernate over its second lunar night (roughly equivalent to 14 days On earth)
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Xinhua/Xinhua Press/Corbisrover resurrected China s first Moon rover, Yutu (Jade Rabbit, pictured), may yet be saved.
The Chinese space agency initially said on 12 Â February that efforts to rouse the rover had failed after it experienced mechanical problems in late January before going into hibernation ahead of a two-week lunar night.
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the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico is holding a conference to discuss the state of research on wheat. go. nature. com/hrne9g26-28 march Physicists debate a suitable landing site for the Exomars rover at a meeting
The mission plans to land a rover on the red planet in 2018. go. nature. com/i5n5r2
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Everything on the moon the rovers the flag the mirror could have been placed there by probes.
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and folds his six-foot-six-inch frame into the driver's seat of his white Lexus.
It's not just Google that's developing the technology but also most of the major car manufacturers:
Audi Volkswagen Toyota GM Volvo BMW Nissan. Arguably the most important outcome of the DARPA field trials was the development of a robust and reliable laser range finder.
Automakers may then use this information to take the next step: program automated responses. Automatic driving is a fundamentally different experience than driving myself. when
The attack came from Chrysler the smallest of Detroit's Big Three automakers in the form of a television commercial for the new Dodge Charger.
A year after the Dodge commercial aired Levandowski showed up in Detroit as the keynote speaker at the SAE's annual shindig.
Google wants to make available to the rest of the auto industry all of the building blocks that we ourselves use he said
Instead of rebuilding a whole operating system from scratch he said automakers should focus on making the user experience their own.
Industry scuttlebutt has it that Ford is giving Google the most serious consideration. Hall confirms that a major automaker recently summoned him to its headquarters to ask
whether he could make a next-generation lidar a ruggedized standardized automotive component. The company wanted a design that it could hide (perhaps behind the windshield) that would wholesale for no more than $1000
Google is not a car manufacturer. Nor does it intend to be one Levandowski says. So what's the plan?
It too is filled with catch-22's. Hall described a Powerpoint presentation containing the automaker's analysis of self-driving-car technology.
Volvo has perfected a simple auto-drive system called platooning in which its cars autonomously follow a professional driver.
It uses technology that's already built into every high-end Volvo sold today plus a communications system.
In Volvo's real-world platooning tests drafting resulted in average fuel savings of 10 to 15 percent
Volvo's goal is to eliminate fatalities in models manufactured after 2020 and its newest cars already start driving themselves
-and-steel variety and automakers could eliminate roll cages returning the consequent weight savings as even better mileage.
The EPA has a new mileage mandate for car manufacturers: They must achieve a fleet-wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025;
Mercedes offers Distronic Plus with Steering Assist as an option on the 2014 S-class luxury sedans.
Mercedes for example requires two hands on the steering wheel at all times. Everyone's looking for ways to keep the driver engaged says Dan Flores a spokesman for GM.
Advocates like to say that there is no technical reason the new Mercedes needs hands on the wheel to steer through a turn.
Google is betting that established car manufacturers working with low-cost radar and camera components will never adequately bridge that gap.
Historically it has taken 30 years in the automobile industry for a a new technology to become a production available technology.
Is it the car manufacturer? Perhaps the company that wrote the self-drive software? You certainly can't hold the owner responsible...
Auto manufacturers are not going to assume that responsibility . when the car ahead breaks hard??I'll trust a self-driving car
3-4 years ago I saw a Nissan Altima driving itself with the driver snoozing in a reclined seat;
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