Many companies realized that there was a huge opportunity when it comes to on-demand delivery of food and groceries. And apparently, too many companies as Glovo co-founder Sacha Michaud expects some consolidation in the space in the near future. At TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin, the General Manager of Northern, Central and Eastern Europe for Uber Eats
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SAN FRANCISCO – NASA will continued to buy Earth observation data gathered by commercial satellite constellations in the wake of a pilot program, said Kevin Murphy, program executive for NASA’s Earth Science Data System. NASA wants to obtain more data from Maxar and Planet satellites after determining the information was of sufficient quality and utility,
Signage of Saudi Aramco’s initial public offering (IPO) is seen during a news conference by the state oil company at the Plaza Conference Center in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia November 3, 2019. Hamad Mohammed | Reuters Shares of Saudi Aramco surged on their second day of public trading, pushing the kingdom’s record IPO to a gargantuan
India on Wednesday successfully placed into orbit its latest radar imaging earth observation satellite RISAT-2BR1 and nine foreign satellites from four countries using its PSLV rocket. In the process, India touched 319 foreign satellite launch mark ever since 1999. India’s latest radar imaging earth observation satellite RISAT-2BR1 now up in the sky will send sharp
1. Boyd, B. The evolution of stories: from mimesis to language, from fact to fiction. Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Cogn. Sci. 9, e1444 (2018). Google Scholar 2. Azéma, M. & Rivère, F. Animation in Palaeolithic art: a pre-echo of cinema. Antiquity 86, 316–324 (2012). Article Google Scholar 3. Mithen, S. in Becoming Human: Innovation in Prehistoric
The Porsche Taycan Turbo, one of several variants of the German automaker’s first all-electric vehicles, has an EPA estimated range of 201 miles, according to government ratings posted Wednesday. This is the first variant of the Taycan — Porsche’s first all-electric vehicle — to receive an estimated range from the EPA. The range, which indicates
The team at Wotch has created a new social video platform — but wait, don’t roll your eyes quite yet. “Obviously, we’re very used to someone creating a new internet video-sharing platform,” said co-CEO Scott Willson. “It must be very irritating for everyone to hear that.” And yet Willson and his co-founder/co-CEO James Sadler have
Strategic Forces Chairman Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said the standup of a Space Force is “like the birth of a new baby” that has to be nurtured. WASHINGTON — The original proponents of a separate military branch for space — Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) — are poised for a victory after
Humans have struggled against bed bugs for thousands of years. And despite our best efforts and technological advances, infestations are only getting worse. Bed bugs are developing defenses against our best insecticides, such as thicker hides and toxin-fighting enzymes. —————————————————— #BedBugs #Insects ##ScienceInsider Science Insider tells you all you need to know about science: space,
A photo taken on August 19, 2013 shows a worker checking oil tanks at an oil well near Tioga, North Dakota. Karen Bleier | AFP | Getty Images Oil prices dropped about 1% on Wednesday following a surprise build in U.S. crude inventories, and as investors waited to see if a fresh round of tariffs
(Photo : pixabay) Some people just want a new beginning, and it’s always a good time to have one! If you have grown tired of your current living situation and town, it may be time to shake things up. There is nothing like experiencing a brand new city for the first time. You might live
Media and social media followers got an up-close look at the completed core stage of our powerful new Space Launch System rocket during “Artemis Day,” Dec. 9, 2019, at our Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. Administrator Jim Bridenstine spoke in front of the rocket stage which will power the first Artemis flight to
A river made of graphene with the electrons flowing like water. Courtesy: Ryan Allen and Peter Allen, Second Bay Studios Electrons can behave like a viscous liquid as they travel through a conducting material, producing a spatial pattern that resembles water flowing through a pipe. So say researchers in Israel and the UK who have
A smartphone snaps an image of curved OLED TVs at an electronics trade fair.Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images As scientists race to find low-carbon technologies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, energy is a hot research topic in materials science. It is obvious, then, that the search for better batteries is a focus for some emerging stars in
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s new executive was set to launch a Green Deal policy package to tackle climate change on Wednesday, trumpeting the plan to raise 100 billion euros for the initiative as the bloc’s “man on the moon moment”. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during an extraordinary session to
Acquia announced it has acquired customer data platform (CDP) startup AgilOne today. The companies did not disclose the purchase price. CDPs are all the rage among customer experience vendors, as they provide a way to pull data from a variety of channels to build a more complete picture of the customer. The goal here is
SAN FRANCISCO – The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released an updated plan for U.S. Earth observation Dec. 9 calling for improved coordination, greater engagement with the private sector and efforts to assess the value of the data. “We really want to emphasize this is a national Earth-observation plan, not a federal
Chevron Chairman and CEO Michael Wirth defended the energy giant’s expected fourth-quarter write-down of up to $11 billion of assets, saying that while “business is good,” it could be better. “Good isn’t good enough,” Wirth said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Chevron said on Tuesday it plans to write down the value of its assets by
When it comes to the animal kingdom’s most extreme milk, cows don’t make the cut. Hooded seal milk contains more fat than ice cream, while wallaby milk contains more sugar than coca cola. Nine banded armadillos produce milk with ten times the calcium as cow milk, and flamingos produce a pink, nutritious, fluid called crop
Space debris has been cluttering the space just beyond the Earth’s clouds and outside of the average person’s notice. Whenever satellites are launched into space, they are expected to continue to follow a path of orbit to bounce a signal back to ground stations. These are built to last in outer space, but when they
Airbourne wind energy offers some advantages over standard ground-based wind turbines (Courtesy: Shutterstock/CappaPhoto) Wind energy is on the up globally with 1000 GW likely to be in place soon. Longer term, if on-land and offshore sites get congested then there is the prospect of using airborne wind-energy devices or tethered kites that operate at high
China is taking dramatic steps to improve the quality and international reputation of its home-grown science journals. Publishers of hundreds of Chinese titles will receive generous government funding as part of a major five-year plan to elevate the country’s publications to among the world’s best. The government said in August that it wants to publish
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, in Sun Valley, Idaho, United States, on July 12, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook started his Wednesday with a Singaporean breakfast in the quaint and charming neighborhood of Tiong Bahru — one of the oldest housing estates in Singapore known
Barrett said the Air Force is reviewing the NDAA conference agreement and discussing next steps WASHINGTON — In her first comments since the release of the conference agreement on the the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said service leaders are reviewing the language that would pave the
Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest initial public offering (IPO), surged past expectations as it debuted on the country’s stock exchange on Wednesday morning. Shares of the state-owned oil company rose to 35.2 Saudi riyals ($9.38) from 32 riyals in early deals in Riyadh, up 10% and hitting their daily limit. The price gives it a
SAN FRANCISCO – NASA Earth Science leaders are enthusiastic about the potential for principal investigators to take advantage of current and anticipated low-cost launch options. “Venture Class Launch Services is starting to bear fruit,” said Sandra Cauffman, NASA Earth Science Acting Division Director, referring to NASA’s campaign to encourage development of small rockets by buying
For more, visit http://science.discovery.com/tv/how-its-made | Find out how sardines are processed and packaged on this clip from The Science Channel’s, “How It’s Made.”
Although we tend to think of death as the end of line for your “self”, your body still has a long way to go. Within a few minutes, your brain and other fuel-guzzling organs will break down, as their cells die and collapse. That night, microbes will eat their way through your gut and escape
Behavioural science was key to pedestrianizing the approach to London’s busy Oxford Street.Credit: Loop Images/UIG/Getty There was a time when ‘sustainable development’ meant economic development, or perpetual economic growth — not, as we know it today, environmentally sustainable development. The change in meaning can be traced to the 1987 report Our Common Future, chaired by
Today’s devices have been secured against innumerable software attacks, but a new exploit called Plundervolt uses distinctly physical means to compromise a chip’s security. By fiddling with the actual amount of electricity being fed to the chip, an attacker can trick it into giving up its innermost secrets. It should be noted at the outset
The bull market can find another leg to run on in the new year if natural resource sectors can rebound, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “The charts, as interpreted by Dan Fitzpatrick, suggest that the metals and mining stocks and the basic materials plays are headed higher, and even the energy cohort might be ready
The Montreal Protocol, an international agreement signed in 1987 to stop chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from destroying the ozone layer, now seems to be the first successful international treaty to slow the rate of global warming. New research published today in Environmental Research Letters has revealed that today’s global heats are considerably lower. The Earth will be least 1 degree
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is heading to the Sun.Thermal Protection System Engineer Betsy Congdon (Johns Hopkins APL) outlines why Parker can take the heat. More: https://go.nasa.gov/2O7YKsK | NASA launch schedule: https://go.nasa.gov/2JfklMB Music credit: Cheeky Chappy [Main Track] by Jimmy Kaleth, Ross Andrew McLean Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Genna Duberstein (USRA): Lead Producer/Lead Editor
GHGSat‐D observations of methane plumes at various sites in the Korpezhe oil/gas field of western Turkmenistan. (Courtesy: Geophysical Research Letters https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083798) The satellite was supposed to be looking for mud volcanoes. Instead, it found an ongoing environmental hazard. That, in essence, is the story Adina Gillespie told attendees at the Appleton Space Conference, which was
SAN FRANCISCO – TriSept Corp., a U.S. launch integration company, announced plans to open an office at the United Kingdom’s Harwell Space Cluster as part of a comprehensive teaming agreement with the Satellite Applications Catapult, a government-backed nonprofit. “Together, the duo expects to build a mission manifest for new vertical and horizontal launch sites in
#HowItsMade Mondays 9/8c on Science Though ketchup today uses tomato as a base, early versions did not. They were made from anchovies, shallots, oysters, lemons, or walnuts. Full episodes streaming FREE on Science GO! https://www.sciencechannelgo.com/how-its-made/ More How It’s Made: http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-its-made/ Subscribe to Science Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribeScience Check out SCI2 for infinitely awesome science videos. Every day.
Modern research is far removed from that done by the independent scientist of Charles Darwin’s day. But that model still underpins what we reward. And the tension is showing. The number of authors listed on published papers has increased fivefold. But our system of incentives — accreted haphazardly as science evolved from hobby to career
The 2019 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was held in September at Harvard University, where the world’s top thinkers gathered to celebrate the year’s strangest scientific advances. The competition was fierce. The particles in the air were ionized by the sheer dynamicity of it. Science, at times, can be a little stuffy. Scientists, on the other
Open source is a great source of free tools for developers, but as these projects proliferate, and some gain in popularity, the creators sometimes look for ways to monetize successful ones. The problem is that it’s hard to run a subscription-based, dual-license approach and most developers don’t even know where to start. Enter Israeli startup
Exxon did not mislead shareholders over the true cost of climate change, New York Supreme Court Justice Barry Ostrager ruled on Tuesday. The $1.6 billion suit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleged that Exxon deceived investors about the true cost of climate change. The trial, which began in October and was the
Cats are famous for landing on their feet. But they use a different technique to survive falls from much higher up. By splaying their limbs like a parachuter, cats have been known to walk away from falls as high as 32 stories up with limited injuries. —————————————————— #Cats #TerminalVelocity Science Insider tells you all you
A trip to New York City is on a lot of bucket lists. It is a city of infinite possibilities. Full of locations that have been immortalized by movies and literature for centuries – New York is usually never a disappointing trip. But we should not forget that while New York is beautiful and adventurous,
FluoroTome 1 is a portable apparatus that performs on-site tomographic scanning of radio-fluorogenic gels within minutes of radiation exposure. (Courtesy: CC BY 4.0/J M Warman et al Polymers 10.3390/polym11111729) The ability to create 3D images of radio-fluorogenic (RFG) gels following radiation exposure could enable visualization of the dose deposited during a radiation treatment. To achieve
From the mixing of the dough, pressing of the house shapes and initial assembly, we go inside how Gingerbread Houses are made. Decorations are included for the customer to finish the build. | http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-its-made/ Catch HOW IT’S MADE Thursdays at 9/8c on Science! Watch full episodes: http://bit.ly/HowItsMadeFullEpisodes Subscribe to Science Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=sciencechannel Check out SCI2
Twentieth century German–Swiss philosopher Karl Jaspers is best-known proponent of Axial Age theory.Credit: Fritz Eschen/ullstein bild/Getty It’s an idea that has been influential for more than 200 years: around the middle of the first millennium BC, humanity passed through a psychological watershed and became modern. This ‘Axial Age’ transformed an archaic world of divine rulers,
WHAKATANE, New Zealand (Reuters) – New Zealand police launched an investigation on Tuesday after a volcanic eruption on an island popular with tourists killed five people, injured more than 30 and left eight people missing, who are presumed dead. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said reconnaissance flights showed no signs of life on White Island, as
When Chris Williams founded entertainment platform Pocketwatch in 2017, he was certain that no one had yet found the right way to work with the generation of children’s talent finding its audience on platforms like YouTube. Convinced that packaging creators under one umbrella and leveraging the expanding reach of even more media platforms could reshape
NEW ORLEANS — The federal government issued updated guidelines Dec. 9 to mitigate the creation of orbital debris, but many in the space safety community were disappointed with the limited scope of the changes. The revised Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices (ODMSP), announced in conjunction with an orbital debris conference near Houston, are the first