UN report: Global hunger levels ease for third consecutive year as regional disparities persist

Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, a Soviet probe heads for Mars. The second of two Soviet probes headed for Mars, Phobos 2 got closer than Phobos 1 to achieving its mission goals — but still fell short. Credit: Soviet Space Program The Soviet Union launched Phobos 2 on July 12,…

ESA’s Plato spacecraft completes critical testing ahead of its spaceflight. (Image credit: ESA – R. Moorkens O’Reilly) A planet-hunting spacecraft named Plato just passed a series of critical tests as it prepares for the challenges of outer space. What is it? Gleaming in the light of a laboratory, this box of electronics is actually the…

Around 7,500 spoken and signed languages are used worldwide today. Yet this extraordinary diversity may represent only a fraction of the linguistic richness humanity once possessed. A new modeling study published in Science suggests language diversity reached a forgotten golden age between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, when tens of thousands of languages may have…

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The paper submission window for the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots closed Friday — the signal that the world’s premier humanoid robotics gathering is now officially in motion for its December 6–9 run at the Santa Clara Convention Center. What attendees will find when they arrive in Silicon Valley this winter is not the…