Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 27, 2018
The Mars camera CaSSIS on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned its first colour images of the red planet. The camera system, which was developed at the University of Bern, is now ready for the start of its…
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Bernese Mars camera CaSSIS sends first colour images from Mars
Posted by Space News From SpaceDaily.Com on April 27th, 2018
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No Comments »There’s a weird link between coffee and cryptocurrency
Posted by Amy Adams-Stanford on April 24th, 2018
Swirling liquids, such as coffee, follow the same principles as transactions with cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. No, but really.
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Posted by Richard Lachman on January 19th, 2018
How can universities train our scientists, technologists and engineers to engage with society rather than perform as cogs in the engine of economic development? Author Richard Lachman asks for educational system to require STEM students to take art and humanities courses, not as an attempt to “broaden minds” but as a necessary discussion of morals, ethics and responsibility.
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Posted in Science General Tags: Algorithms, appeared, atomic, Challenges, Chang'e, changing, Citizens, Citizenship, Climate, Climate Change, community, complex, computer, conversation, Culture, Debate, delivered, design, Design Thinking, develop, Developers, development, digital, discuss, Economic, Elements, Empathy, engage, engaged, engineering, entire, ethical, Ethics, examples, Experiments, fields, Geoengineering, Graduates, Humanities, impacts, important, include, increasing, Inventions, issues, learning, literary, medical, millions, mitigate, mitigate climate, mitigate climate change, Moral Questions, policy, problems, question, questions, questions about, required, research, responsibility, Science, Science Space, scientific, Scientists, seeing, simply, Social, Social Science, social science space, Society, software, something, special, studies, systems, technological, technological issues, technological issues they, technologies, Technology, than ever before, thinking, training, Universities, university, Values, working No Comments »Reindeer’s blood donation saves his brother’s life
Posted by Lindsey Hadlock-Cornell on December 20th, 2017
In dire condition due to a tick-borne disease, Little Buddy the reindeer wouldn’t have survived without help from his brother Moose.
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Posted by Laurel Thomas Gnagey-Michigan on December 20th, 2017
While suing drug makers that produce opioids hasn’t been very successful in the past, researchers say the strategy could work better now.
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