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The samples will be carried to the space station on August 16 on Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s transfer vehicle Kounotori.

The leader of a U.S.-backed rebel group and several of his men have been abducted in northern Syria by the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, the rebel group and opposition activists said Thursday.

For instance, one possibility is that if farmers and water managers know the role that inland deserts play in storing carbon, maybe they can alter how much carbon enters the underground reserves, said Michael Allen, a soil ecologist from the Center for Conservation Biology at the...

Je-Sung Koh of Seoul National University and his colleagues have copied the awesome water strider to build a robot that can jump on water, without sinking.

A DLC pack is headed towards Rocket League next month.

Overall sales were 48.5 trillion won (US$41.7bn), down 7pc on past year.

With Android for Work starting to be used by more carriers and businesses, do you plan on using it with your job or business if you have not already? Silent Circle says that Android for Work’s flexibility in offering customizable solutions fits the company’s...

The Japanese distillery company, Suntory, announced that it is partnering with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the worldwide Space Station to launch its world-class whiskey into space. The experiment, meant apparently to ascertain “development of mellowness in...

Whisky demand rocketed in Japan last year after national broadcaster NHK aired a period drama called “Massan”, the true story of a Japanese entrepreneur and his Scottish wife who are credited with establishing Japan’s first whisky distillery.

A gold record ready to be attached to a Voyager space probe, USA, circa 1977. NASA took this same idea and applied it to the golden record, but also decided to take it one step further.

“What was very important for us while building the jumping water robot was to make sure that the maximum force does not exceed the maximum surface tension force“, noted Je-Sung Koh in an accompanying video demonstration.

Scientists revealed that a newly discovered fungus coming from Asia, can annihilate an large amount of salamander species around the world, representing an important risk for North American biodiversity.

The team detailed the process in a paper published in Nature Photonics. For these microlasers, the spectrum is more narrow, in the 500-800 nanometre range, making it easier to label cells with light, says Jeffrey Karp, a bioengineer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...

The Navy Times cited several military officials with knowledge of the internal investigation on the shooting that left four Marines and one sailor dead and two others wounded, and reported Lt. Cmdr.

The now-dubbed African golden wolf is found in Africa in the northern and eastern portions of the continent, although some can be found in the Middle East. Eurasian golden jackals, meanwhile, are in the southern Europe to the Middle East, so there is some overlap. Koepfli and...