Technology
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JAXA Successfully Launches Observation Rocket from Kagoshima Prefecture; Mission Is Part of Efforts to Develop ‘Detonation Engine’ That Burns Fuel in Space
An observation rocket, S-520 No. 34, was successfully launched at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday from the...
November 14, 2024
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Chinese Rover Helps Find Sign of Martian Shoreline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — With the assistance of China’s Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fre...
November 13, 2024
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Spanish Rocket Maker Sets Sights on Carrying Humans
ELCHE, Spain (Reuters) — Spanish start-up PLD Space, which carried out Europe’s first fully priva...
November 6, 2024
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Japan’s New H3 Rocket Successfully Launched, Carrying Kirameki 3 Defense Communication Satellite
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched Monday the new mainstay H3 rocket No. 4 fr...
November 4, 2024
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Osaka-Kansai Expo: Robot Avatars to be Operated by Online Visitors; Hopes to Show Barrier-free Future in Japan
If you’re unable to visit the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo you might be able to see it through the eyes...
November 2, 2024
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Tim Burton Talks about His Dread of AI
LONDON (AP) — The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters an...
October 31, 2024
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Inside Underground Lab in China TASKED with Solving Physics Mystery
KAIPING, China (Reuters) — A giant sphere 700 meters underground with thousands of light-detectin...
October 24, 2024
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Italy’s Spacewear to Make Training Clothing for Virgin Galactic Fliers
ROME (Reuters) — Italy’s Spacewear has closed a deal with Virgin Galactic to design and develop a...
October 23, 2024
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Manchester Opens Doors to $2.3 Billion Sci-tech Innovation District
MANCHESTER (Reuters) — The city of Manchester on Sept. 27 opened the first phase of a £1.7 billio...
October 17, 2024
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Power Struggle: Serbia Eyes N-Energy to Fuel Future
BELGRADE (AFP-Jiji) — Time stands still at Serbia’s Vinca nuclear facility, where the decommissio...
October 3, 2024
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Japan Is Next Level for Retro Game Collectors
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. tourist David Madrigal is over the moon after paying $200 for a “vintage”...
September 19, 2024
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Japan H-2A Rocket Launch Postponed Again
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Monday that the launch of the 49th unit ...
September 16, 2024
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South Korean Pet Care Goes High-tech with AI Diagnostics
YONGIN, South Korea (AFP-Jiji) — When five-year-old goldendoodle Mozzi started walking “unnatural...
September 5, 2024
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U.N.: Tokyo-Yokohama Still Largest Science, Tech Cluster
GENEVA (AFP-Jiji) — Tokyo-Yokohama remains the world’s largest science and technology cluster in ...
September 4, 2024
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Undersea Drone to Check Aging Breakwaters for Damage; Govt Aims to Establish New Business Model for Inspection Technology
The government has launched a test to inspect aging breakwaters using an autonomous underwater ve...
September 2, 2024
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