Nasa and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a collaborative project to test a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space. Nasa and DARPA could test the thermal rocket engine as soon as 2027, with a view towards unlocking the key to enable future Mars missions. The two space organisations
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The Virginia Tech Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety (CVeSS) and the Railway Technologies Laboratory want to harness the energy created by moving trains and transform that energy into usable electricity. Approximately 76% of the total miles on American railroad tracks are in rural areas that lack the electricity required for
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Scientists have made a breakthrough in robotics: a shapeshifting robot that can switch between liquid and metal states to navigate tricky environments without compromising on strength. Because they can be both soft and hard, the small, sea cucumber-inspired robots can overcome the limitations of robots that are only one or the
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A chatbot powered by reams of data from the internet has passed exams at a US law school after writing essays on topics ranging from constitutional law to taxation and torts. ChatGPT from OpenAI, a US company that this week got a massive injection of cash from Microsoft, uses artificial intelligence
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The House of Representatives may be on a collision course with the Central Bank of Nigeria over the redesign of naira notes and the January 31 deadline set for the exchange of the old notes with the new ones. An ad hoc committee set up by the House to investigate the
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Digitalisation promises much, and while some of the claims made of ‘industry 4.0’ are far-fetched, integrated digital technology is truly transforming the performance of many industries. How can digitalisation help to decarbonise the power industry more rapidly? Electricity networks are becoming more complex. Grids are receiving more renewable energy input than
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Foundation heave is the uplift, elevation of a foundation precipitated by soaked, expanding soils and can generally be attributed to a seasonal increase in moisture, a plumbing leak, or underground aquifers. Foundation heave is a phenomenon that occurs when the soil beneath a building's foundation expands, causing the foundation to rise.
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) yesterday raised the alarm over the number of children that can neither read nor solve basic mathematical problems in the country. The Nigeria Representative of UNICEF, Ms. Cristian Munduate, in a statement on the International Day of Education, said 75 percent of children aged
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Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has said the federal government would use the 5G technology in tacking insecurity in the country. Pantami spoke Tuesday in Abuja at the official launch/roll out of 5G network service by MAFAB Communications. He said there were many economic benefits from the 5G
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Stakeholders at the one-day strategic conference on the Nigerian startup ecosystem have stated that the country must deepen collaboration between the private and public sector players for the country to attain the needed growth in the startup space. Tagged, ‘Strategic fore-sighting: A peep into the future of start-ups in Nigeria’, stakeholders
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