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China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout
Then, when the lander reached the moon's surface, ground control instructed the mini-biosphere to water the plants and expose them to natural light. The China National Space Agency's Chang'e 4 lander is exploring the mysterious side of our lunar neighbor that faces away from Earth. [Full Article...]
Antarctic ice sheet could suffer a one-two climate punch
Eric Rignot, Earth-systems scientist for the University of California at Irvine and NASA , found that a more in-depth study needed to be conducted after scientists found weaknesses in East Antarctica that could be catastrophic, the Post said. [Full Article...]
SpaceX va "dégraisser" 10% de ses quelque 6 000 employés
Cela signifie que nous devons nous séparer de quelques membres talentueux et travailleurs de notre équipe. Nous sommes reconnaissants de tout ce qu'ils ont accompli et de leur engagement dans la mission de SpaceX . La société spatiale développe actuellement une nouvelle fusée gros porteur, "Starship", appelée à devenir à terme son seul lanceur. Il doit emmener un jour des astronautes autour de la... [Full Article...]
UBC astronomers find unknown radio signals from distant galaxy
The telescope at the Canadian observatory that found the latest signals had previously detected the lowest frequency FRB known on record at wavelengths of 400 megahertz, according to Nature . "But it has to be in some special place to give us all the scattering that we see", said Ng. We can be 100 percent sure that more such bursts will be found as this early into the lifespan of CHIME ... [Full Article...]
Voici les Benchmarks officiels de la carte graphique Radeon VII — AMD
La Radeon VII serait similaire aux GPU Radeon Instinct MI60 & MI50 dAMD présentés quelques mois plus tôt. De plus, la marque se paie le luxe de se comparer à Nvidia et de mettre en confrontation la GeForce RTX 2080 avec sa Radeon VII . [Full Article...]
L'Epic Games Store débarquera sur Android en 2019 - Epic Games Store
En prélevant une commission moindre que Steam , l'Epic Games Store perturbe le quasi-monopole de la plateforme sur PC. Les éditeurs pourraient alors récolter 23% de revenus en plus sur Epic Games Store par rapport à Steam . Un partenariat justifié également par Tim Sweeney , le directeur général d'Epic Games . Ce dernier s'est élevé ces derniers mois contre les politiques tarifaires de ... [Full Article...]
Face cachée de la Lune
Le robot s'était mis en veille samedi pour se protéger des températures glaciaires de la face cachée de la Lune, selon le Programme chinois d'exploration lunaire de l'agence spatiale chinoise (CNSA). La mission va désormais " aborder l'étape de l'exploration scientifique ", a indiqué la CNSA dans un communiqué. C'est la deuxième fois que la Chine envoie un engin explorer la Lune après la missi... [Full Article...]
China shows first images from far side of the moon
After making a soft landing on January 3 at 10:26 am, Chang'e 4 released a lunar rover to roam and survey its surroundings in the Von Karman crater, the moon's largest, oldest and deepest one, located in the South Pole-Aitken basin. Video has been released showing the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, launched in December, making a "soft landing" on the moon at 0226 GMT on January 3. The craters close to... [Full Article...]
Hubble's detailed image of nearby galaxy
While it is the third largest galaxy in the Local Group , the Triangulum Galaxy is also the smallest spiral galaxy among Milky Way's neighbors. While it is possible to observe the Triangulum Galaxy under excellent dark-sky conditions, the human eye will only see it as a faint, blurry object with an ethereal glow in the Triangulum (the Triangle) constellation. [Full Article...]
En Allemagne, Apple a interdiction de vendre certains de ses iPhone
L'affaire allemande est la troisième tentative de Qualcomm de bloquer la vente d'iPhones. La firme avait également précisé qu'elle retirerait effectivement les modèles concernés de ses magasins mais que tous les modèles d'iPhone resteraient disponibles auprès des revendeurs tiers et des opérateurs. [Full Article...]
Brexit: MPs defeat government over no-deal preparations
British Prime Minister Theresa May's aides are believed to be planning to make parliament's approval of her Brexit deal conditional on Brussels providing further concessions, specifically on the thorny issue of the Irish backstop, the Telegraph reported on Sunday (Jan 6). [Full Article...]
Brazilian president says United States military base may be established in Brazil
Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro said that he would be open to the possibility of the United States operating a military base on his country's soil, a move that would form a sharp shift in direction for Brazilian foreign policy. Around half of the people robbed were tourists from Europe, South America and Asia, as reported by Merco Press . "We have to worry about our security and our s... [Full Article...]
Chinese spacecraft makes first landing on moon's far side
Wu Weiren, the chief designer of the China Lunar Exploration Project, called the landing a trailblazing milestone. A Chinese spacecraft on Thursday made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon in the latest achievement for the country's growing space program. [Full Article...]
Le support des applications Android se précise pour Fuchsia OS
Si certains éléments faisaient déjà un lien entre Android et Fuchsia OS , les derniers ajouts ne laissent plus guère de doutes puisqu'il est clairement indiqué en commentaire que le but est de construire une version ART ( Android Runtime ) spéciale permettant de créer des conteneurs Fuchsia (des fichiers en.far) au lieu des APK d'Android et pouvant tourner sur des appareils Fuchsia ... [Full Article...]
Quadrantids meteor shower to take place overnight Thursday into Friday
For sky watchers to witness the crescendo of meteors, the timing must be right. In the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe , people could see between 80 and 200 meteors per hour, according to CNN . It's the first major meteor shower of 2019. It typically occurs in early January and has a shorter peak than others, the website stated. Debris from the Comet Swift-Tuttle, a celestial obj... [Full Article...]
China's Chang'e 4 Lander Touches Down on Far Side of Moon
China's space agency has shared images of the dark side of the moon from its Chang'e 4 lunar probe's historic landing on Thursday. The blast-off marked the start of a long journey to the far side of the moon for the Chang'e-4 mission. [Full Article...]
Chang'e-4 se pose sur la face cachée de la Lune
Il s'agit d'une première dans l'histoire de l'exploration lunaire: aucun atterrisseur n'est en effet parvenu à s'y poser avant lui. Le patron de la Nasa a salué l'opération, la qualifiant d'"accomplissement majeur" . Le module de 140 kg va également mener une petite expérience biologique. Chang'e 4 a en effet emporté avec lui des oeufs du bombyx de mûrier et des semences de pomme de terre. [Full Article...]
Ultima Thule: Clearest image yet of 'snowman' space rock released by NASA
New Horizons , which left Earth 13 years ago and performed an exploratory flyby of Pluto in 2015, will continue probing the Kuiper Belt for more data until at least 2021, when current funding for the mission runs out. The area begins just beyond the orbit of Neptune, more than 4.4 billion kilometres from the sun, and is believed to extend to about eight billion kilometres from the sun. [Full Article...]
New Horizons Nasa probe completes flyby of ancient world of Ultima Thule
New Horizons was on course to fly past the mysterious, ancient object nicknamed Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday. Lead scientist Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, expects the New Year's encounter to be riskier and more hard than the rendezvous with Pluto: The spacecraft is older, the target is smaller, the flyby is closer and the distance from us is g... [Full Article...]
MONSTER HUNTER WORLD, une collaboration avec Assassin's Creed [Actus Jeux Vidéo]
Pour l'occasion, une nouvelle quête est mise en place et s'intitule Slient, Deadly & Fierce. En janvier prochain, cela fera déjà un an que Monster Hunter World est sorti sur Playstation 4 et Xbox One . Pour avoir suffisamment de plumes, il faudra réussir cette quête quatre fois de suite. Afin de patienter avant l'apparition de The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt prévu début 2019, Capcom a inclut ... [Full Article...]