By Heidi Harley

science / science - 6 years ago

NASA solar Parker probe captures image of Earth

Mexico, Oct. 26 (Notimex).- NASA's Parker Probe solar probe took a photograph of Earth, while the spacecraft was about 27 million miles from the planet. The snapshot taken by the WISPR object, unique in the solar probe to take images, shows the "blue planet" as a bright and round obje...

science / science - 6 years ago

Bitter Rivals Blast Off as Pakistan Enters Space Race With India

“The first Pakistani will be sent to space in 2022,” Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said Thursday, the same year that India is planning its first manned mission. Pakistan’s space agency, the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, has “an agreement for this venture” with China’s Manned...

science / science - 6 years ago

Poor Ivory Coast pupils' ray of hope: solar backpacks

The equatorial sun has been up for about an hour as a gaggle of children set off from the Ivorian village of Allepilla on their hour-long trek to school. Back home in the evening, eight-year-old Marie-France Amoandji Ngbessoo does her homework by the light of her backpack's LED -- captured by solar...

science / science - 6 years ago

France suspends use of popular pesticide after dozens sickened

The French government on Friday ordered a three-month ban of a widely used pesticide after dozens of people, many of them farm workers, fell ill in western France in recent weeks. The move came after metam sodium was suspected when victims reported burning eyes and respiratory difficulties near Ang...