Science and Technology
Tokyo, Feb14 (EFE).- The Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), which successfully landed on the Moon on Jan. 20 and is currently in a state of hibernation, will attempt to restart in late February, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Wednesday. «Although the SLIM landing module...
Miami, US, Feb 14 (EFE).- SpaceX has postponed the launch of a Moon lander due to a fuel issue, hours before its scheduled take-off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Odysseus Moon lander was to launch on Space X Falcon 9 rocket at 12:57 am Wednesday and is...
Science Desk, 13 feb (EFE).- Polar bears are sea-ice animals, but increasingly long Arctic summers will force them to spend more time on land, where they are unlikely to be able to adapt to living for long periods and may even risk starvation. A study published Tuesday in Nature Communications...
By Caty Arévalo Madrid, Feb 8 (EFE).- Juan Antonio Bayona wanted ‘Society of the Snow’ to exude realism, so he sought scientific advice to ensure that 30 actors lost 30 kilos within a few months, mirroring the victims of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in the Andes in...
Tokyo, Feb 7 (EFE).- A pod of around 15 orcas has been reported trapped in ice floes off the coast of the Shiretoko peninsula, Hokkaido, northern Japan, according to the town’s coast guard. A fisherman and the NGO Wildlife Pro LLC warned on Tuesday morning that orcas appeared to be...
Beijing, Feb 6 (EFE).- Chinese scientists have determined the precise timing of the largest mass extinction of life on Earth, which occurred over 250 million years ago. The researchers found that different ecosystems responded at different speeds to environmental degradation, which helped in accurately reconstructing the mass extinction process. «The...
Science Desk, Feb 6 (EFE).- NASA and SpaceX suspended the launch of their latest space mission due to unfavorable weather conditions after takeoff was scheduled for Tuesday. The Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds and Ocean Ecosystems, or PACE mission, was to lift off at 06:33pm GMT from the Kennedy Space Center in...
Seoul, Feb 5 (EFE).- A South Korean court on Monday acquitted Samsung chairman Lee Jae-yong in the trial for alleged fraud and stock manipulation during a controversial merger of two companies of the group in 2015. SLee Jae-yong (C), chairman of Samsung Group, leaves after attending his sentencing session trial...
Tokyo, Feb 5 (EFE).- Classified Japanese diplomatic documents were leaked after Chinese cyberattacks on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2020, a government source has revealed to Kyodo news agency, exposing once again the country’s digital vulnerability. Japanese authorities detected the large-scale attack and the leak of diplomatic telegrams during...
Moscow, Feb 4 (EFE).- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko set a new record on Sunday for total time spent in space, surpassing his compatriot Guennadi Padalka, who had spent 878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes and 48 seconds. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara (L) along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (C) and...
By Nora Quintanilla New York, US, Feb 1 (EFE). – The leading five technology companies in the United States, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, earned 94 billion dollars in the last quarter of 2023, showing sustained growth and, in some cases, capping a spectacular year. The Big Five reported...
Washington, Jan 31 (EFE).- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday apologized to a group of parents who say social media has failed to protect children from sexual predators, but denied that its use is harming children’s mental health during his testimony at a US Senate hearing. During the session, the...
