A NASA-funded commercial space station, Starlab, recently completed four key developmental milestones, marking substantial progress in the station’s design and operational readiness. The four milestones are part of a NASA Space Act Agreement awarded in 2021 and focused on reviews of the habitat structural test article preliminary design, systems integration, integrated operations, and a habitat […]
WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden visited Angola last week, one of the highlights was his pledge of hundreds of millions of dollars for an ambitious trans-Africa rail project that would bring copper and cobalt from central Africa to the Atlantic port of Lobito. The project is possible because of the commitment of a $553 […]
Courtney Cronin, ESPN Staff WriterDec 4, 2024, 06:02 PM ET Close Courtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before switching to the Chicago Bears in 2022. Courtney is a frequent panelist on Around the Horn and host of Best Week Ever on ESPN Radio. She also co-hosts The Chicago Bears Podcast […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that the issues of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to development are “red lines” for China and not to be challenged, the official state media Xinhua said on Sunday. Xi warned the United States not to get involved in bilateral disputes […]
A Brief History of DevOps To understand the future of DevOps, it’s worth understanding its past—which I can recall with a level of experience. In the late ’90s, I was a DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Methodology) trainer. DSDM was a precursor to agile, a response to the slow, rigid structures of waterfall methodologies. With waterfall, […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Contemporary economic challenges in Africa appear to be shifting the continent into a new era of development. From COVID-19 to war-induced inflation, many countries in Africa are facing significant economic challenges. The crises of recent years come on top of longer-term increases in debt, especially after the 2014 commodity price shock. […]
Intuitively, research and development is a building block of a productive future. But exactly how important is it, and can we put a number on it? Heidi Williams is a professor of economics at Dartmouth College, and an expert on innovation policy. She is also a visiting fellow at the Congressional Budget Office. Today on […]
The researchers deposited textured platinum nanoparticles, represented by red triangles, on a silicon semiconductor, represented by the blue rectangle. Electrons, represented by the white circles and arrows, asymmetrically scatter from the nanoparticles, inducing a voltage, represented by a yellow arrow, that runs perpendicular to the current, represented by the black arrow, applied to the semiconductor. […]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Microsoft will allow businesses to start making their own autonomous artificial intelligence agents starting next month, taking the fight back to Salesforcewhich introduced its own configurable […]
Monica Contestabile 00:09 Hello, this is How to Save Humanity in 17 Goals , a podcast brought to you by Nature Careers, in partnership with Nature Sustainability. I am Monica Contestabile, Chief Editor of Nature Sustainability. This is the series where we meet the researchers working towards the Sustainable Development Goals agreed by the United […]
