Technology&Life | 2024 World Agrifood Innovation Conference (WAFI 2024) convenes in Beijing
13 Oct
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Technology&Life | 2024 World Agrifood Innovation Conference (WAFI 2024) convenes in Beijing

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Technology tamfitronics An agricultural drone is displayed at the 2024 World Agrifood Innovation Conference (WAFI 2024) in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)BEIJING, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- About 800 experts from China and around the world convened Friday at the 2024 World Agrifood Innovation Conference (WAFI 2024), advocating a low-carbon transition in agrifood systems through sci-tech innovation to address climate change. The conference, themed "Climate Change and Agrifood Systems Transformation," highlights the urgent need for innovation in the agricultural sector.The opening ceremony of the 2024 World Agrifood Innovation Conference (WAFI 2024) is held in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)A staff member operates an agricultural robot at the 2024 World Agrifood Innovation Conference (WAFI 2024) in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)The agricultural machinery...
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How AI is allowing cows to send messages to farmers when they’re giving birth
13 Oct
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How AI is allowing cows to send messages to farmers when they’re giving birth

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Technology tamfitronics In a lab at Melbourne University, a robotic arm grips a stubby and precisely pours a beer into a glass repeatedly with unerring accuracy.It is not a gimmick, but a robot designed to function in outer space where there is no gravity.The arm is also an example of artificial intelligence (AI) at work.The scientists behind this innovation are part of NASA's global team, whose work includes cultivating plants for future, long-term space missions.Their focus may be mostly on distant horizons, but AI is hurtling into our lives here on Earth.Melbourne University Associate Professor Sigfredo Fuentes said Australian agriculture was one of the fastest adopters of AI."Artificial intelligence is a whole discipline based on new digital technologies to acquire data," he said."They are basically mathematical models, the machine acquires the data, finds the...
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‘Stunning was the word’: Astronauts snap amazing aurora photo from ISS during severe geomagnetic storm
12 Oct
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‘Stunning was the word’: Astronauts snap amazing aurora photo from ISS during severe geomagnetic storm

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NASA Space Technology NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared this photo of auroral displays, taken from the International Space Station, via X on Oct. 11, 2024.(Image credit: NASA/Don Pettit)The auroras were pretty special on Thursday night (Oct. 10) — especially if you got to see them from orbit.NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Matthew Dominick are in that very exclusive club, getting a bird's-eye view of the amazing auroral displays — which were supercharged by a recent solar storm — from the International Space Station (ISS). And the sight took the spaceflyers aback."Stunning was the word," Pettit wrote in a lengthy post on X on Friday (Oct. 11)  that shared a photo of the celestial light show. "The sun goes burp and the atmosphere turns red. Spectacular not only from Earth but from orbit as well."The sun goes...
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Planning our lunar return? Get a telescope
12 Oct
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Planning our lunar return? Get a telescope

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NASA Space Technology Perhaps you’re a propulsion engineer making lunar landers as part of NASA’s CLPS program. Perhaps you’re a lawyer specializing in the OST. Or you are a chemist cracking the codes of lunar ISRU.If you are any of these things or even if you just know what those acronyms mean, you’re part of the lunar revival, our return to the dramatic wilds of the moon, a return for science and industry and, just maybe, helping to make life multi-planetary.I absolutely support those goals, but I also have a telescope. Anyone planning our lunar future should have one too or, at least, regular access to one. Why? Because we won’t have a lunar future worth having if we don’t really see the moon. And if we don’t really see the moon, we’ll miss how...
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