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NASA and Planet expand imagery partnership to all NASA-funded Earth science research

NASA and Planet have deemed their pilot partnership a success, and the result is that NASA will extend its contract with Planet to provide the company’s satellite imagery of Earth to all research programs funded by the agency. NASA had signed an initial contract last April with Planet to provide Planet imagery to a team […]




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Operations Research Analyst - GS 9-13

Announcement Number: TN-20-EI-00898-DE
Closing Date: 07 May 2020




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Tree planting search engine Ecosia is getting a visibility boost in Chrome

Ecosia, a not-for-profit search engine which uses ad generated revenue to fund planting trees, is set to get a visibility boost in Chrome. A change Google is making to its chromium engine will see it added as a default search engine choice in up to 47 markets for the version 81 release of Google’s web […]




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Apple and CMU researchers demo a low friction learn-by-listening system for smarter home devices

A team of researchers from Apple and Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute have presented a system for embedded AIs to learn by listening to noises in their environment without the need for up-front training data or without placing a huge burden on the user to supervise the learning process. The overarching goal is for […]




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Cliqz pulls the plug on a European anti-tracking alternative to Google search

Cliqz, a Munch-based anti-tracking browser with private search baked in that has sought to offer a local alternative to Google powered by its own search index, is shutting down — claiming this arm of its business has been blindsided by the coronavirus crisis. Today was not great. We closed parts of @cliqz & our dream […]




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Transfer news: Barcelona prefer Marcus Rashford to Roberto Firmino in search to replace Luis Suarez'

Suarez, who turns 33 in January, looks set to leave the Nou Camp next summer and Barcelona chiefs want a marquee name to fill the void left by the former Liverpool striker.




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Barcelona 'turn to ex-Southampton star Dusan Tadic in search for new forward'

Barcelona are weighing up a move for Ajax star Dusan Tadic after their pursuit of Valencia forward Rodrigo fell through, with the club still chasing a move for a new forward.




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Barcelona 'turn to Levante striker Roger Marti' as Spanish giants search for attacking options

Barcelona have turned their attentions to Levante striker Roger Marti as the Catalan giants search for a new forward following the long term injuries of Ousmane Dembele and Luis Suarez.




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Where are the finalists of the Girlfriend Model Search now?

Girlfriend Magazine's Model Search has launched the careers of some of Australia's biggest runway stars over the past 30 years, from supermodel Abbey-Lee Kershaw to actress Ruby Rose.




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Banana bread tops the list of most searched for recipes in lockdown

The 'Brilliant banana loaf' tops a list of the website's most-searched for recipes between March 23, when Boris Johnson put the country into lockdown, and April 30, followed by chocolate brownies.




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Chemicals found in kitchenware can DOUBLE your risk of obese grandchildren, research shows

The Public Health Institute in California found that obesity was up to 2.3 times higher among 20-year-old women whose grandmothers had been exposed to syn chemicals.




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Mother searches for mystery grieving couple who gave their daughter a 'priceless' gold ring

The couple were at the Florida theme park over Halloween to mark the one-year anniversary of their daughter's Make-a-Wish trip when they ran into Kara Geiselman's young daughter - Belle.




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England forward James Graham pledges brain to trauma research 

England's James Graham has become the first active player to pledge his brain to science upon his death to aid research into concussion.




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Medics search for Johnny Depp's severed fingertip as Amber Heard sobs in the background

Johnny Depp and his then-wife Amber Heard had an explosive argument at Depp's rented home in Queensland, Australia, in March 2015.




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Using delivery drones in cities consumes MORE energy than vans, according to new research

A new study has found that using delivery drones in dense urban environments might consume more energy than a conventional delivery van due to wind and other factors.




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Seb Coe uneasy about Justin Gatlin's IAAF athlete of the year nomination after latest steroid research

Sebastian Coe has questioned the nomination of former drugs cheat Justin Gatlin as one of the IAAF's athletes of the year after the new research in to long-lasting effects of steroids.




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See the Northern Lights with Carol Kirkwood - join the presenter on a search for the aurora borealis

The magical Northern Lights have enchanted travellers for centuries. And what better way to experience them than on this exclusive 12-day voyage along the stunning Norwegian fjords?




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A search of one of Sydney's busiest shopping centres could have saved Bernard Gore's life

Bernard 'Butch' Gore was found dead in Sydney's Westfield Bondi Junction in January 2017 after he failed to meet his wife outside Woolworths, as planned, three weeks earlier.




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Scientists behind Armageddon flu virus suspend their research because it 'could put world at risk of catastrophic pandemic'

Researchers studying a potentially more lethal, airborne version of bird flu have suspended their studies because of concerns the mutant virus they have created could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism or accidentally escape the lab.




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Where are the finalists of the Girlfriend Model Search now?

Girlfriend Magazine's Model Search has launched the careers of some of Australia's biggest runway stars over the past 30 years, from supermodel Abbey-Lee Kershaw to actress Ruby Rose.




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Crater left by a giant meteor is finally found by scientists after a century of searching

It was one of the largest known meteors to have hit the Earth but the impact location has been a mystery, according to researchers from Nanyang Technical University in Singapore.




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Zika vaccine '100% successful in clinical trials on rats', researchers declare

None of the rats tested at Philadelphia's Wistar Institute contracted Zika after getting the vaccine. It is the best result of a Zika vaccine to date, and it is the same being tested in the first human trials.




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Queensland researchers claim they have found Zika cure

Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology have found a way to kill the Zika virus using compounds found in an Australian native plant.




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Police launch sniffer dog search for British schoolgirl in Malaysia

Nora Quoirin, 15, from London, was on a two-week 'trip of a lifetime' with her family at a resort in the Malaysian town of Seremban, near Kuala Lumpur, when she disappeared.




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Nora Quoirin: Malaysian search teams bring in 'cadaver dogs' in hunt for missing teen

As hopes of finding the missing 15-year-old (pictured) fades, cadaver dogs roamed the dense jungle with their handlers.




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Nora Quoirin was found near a waterfall on SECOND search of area

The unsuccessful first search for Nora Quoirin (pictured) will inevitably raise questions about why the British teen's naked body was not found sooner.




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New search for MH370 will be launched with plans look to send world's leading seabed searchers

Families of victims and the Malaysian government are currently looking to send Ocean Infinity on a new quest to find the missing flight, with talks it could happen within months.




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Skeleton remains found in remote property by a man cutting down trees in search for missing woman 

A man cutting down trees at a property off Tea Tree Road in Bindoon, 80 kilometres north of Perth, made the grim discovery on Sunday.




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Calls to re-examine virus research after Professor Lockdown quit over trysts with his married lover 

Professor Neil Ferguson - who led the team that helped to convince ministers to introduce strict rules on social distancing - breached them himself by meeting his married lover in his London flat.




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Nice attacker Mohamed Bouhlel searched Orlando massacre on Google before killings

Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, searched a string of jihadi content on his computer and phone, which are being trawled through by prosecutors in Paris in the wake of the Nice massacre.




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Climate change increases the risk of wildfires, confirms review of 57 research papers

After conducting a review of 57 climate change research papers, UK and Australian scientists say human-induced climate change promotes conditions that make wildfires spread.




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Liz Jones's Diary: In which my search history reveals all

You can tell a lot about someone's psyche by looking at their search history. Here's mine. On just one day, I searched 124 sites.




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Agonising search for the lost fallen

Missing by Richard van Emden follows the story of Francis Mond who died on May 15, 1918, aged 23, when his RAF plane was shot from the skies and plummeted into no man's land in Northern France.




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Rory McIlroy boosted by moving Masters to November in search of career Grand Slam

Augusta announced last month that the 2020 tournament, scheduled for April 9-12, had been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The tournament is now set to be held November 12-15. 




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Boris Johnson pledges extra £210m for coronavirus vaccine research after G20 video call

Boris Johnson and counterparts including Donald Trump, Xi Jinping of China, and Vladimir Putin linked up for a discussion on how to coordinate the response.




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Flaw in Twitter Android app lets researcher match 17 MILLION phone numbers with user accounts

A security researcher is warning Android users not to upload their contacts to the Twitter app after he was able to match 17 million phone numbers to their respective user accounts.




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I'm a career coach who found my first job at the end of the 2008 recession. Here are 5 ways for recent graduates to job search in the coronavirus economy.




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Tech Mahindra shares are cheap despite the earnings disappointment, says a research report

One of India's top five technology services companies, Tech Mahindra, reported a rather disappointing set of earnings on Friday. However, the stock is still cheap and it can gain another 15% in the next one year, says a report from Kotak Institutional equities, which cut the estimate for the company's earnings per share by up to 22%. Tech Mahindra has reported a drop of 4.3% in dollar revenue in Jan-March 2020, while the net profit fell 32%, compared to three months ago. The company has announced a final dividend of ₹5 per share. 75472021Tech Mahindra derives a large share of revenue, about 8.7%, from business process outsourcing (BPO) unit, which has 46,816 employees, mostly from voice services. "Transition to work-from-home has lagged with customers refusing to give permissions. Work-from-home




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Russian volunteers search for fallen World War II soldiers

KHULKHUTA, Russia (AP) - Crouching over the sun-drenched soil, Alfred Abayev picks up a charred fragment of a Soviet warplane downed in a World War II battle...




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X Factor: The Band: Simon and Nicole search for next One Direction

The trailer for The X Factor: The Band has been released ahead of the show's grand debut next Monday.




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I'm A Celeb's Charlotte Crosby reveals she's been 'searching for someone like Ryan' her whole life

Things are heating up between Charlotte Crosby and Ryan Gallagher on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Australia.




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PRESENTING: A 28-year-old CEO created a quarantine dating app and a job search platform on the side that have garnered thousands of users - here's how he did it

Courtesy of Daniel AhmadizadehDaniel Ahmadizadeh.Daniel Ahmadizadeh is the CEO of PersistIQ, a company that offers digital tools for sales and customer outreach.But he's also an entrepreneur who saw shifting needs onset by the COVID-19 outbreak, so he went back to the drawing board and came up with three initiatives to meet market demand.What did he come up with? An app for dating while in quarantine, a platform to connect job seekers in sales with work, and a set of tools specifically geared for supporting struggling small businesses. And he doesn't plan on stopping there."Within 14 days - so by March 22 - of launching the app to our friends, it was on the front page of The Wall Street Journal," Ahmadizadeh told Business Insider about his dating app, "Quarantine Together." "It was an insane




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Google chief Karan Bhatia denies it manipulates search results

Karan Bhatia attended the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday and was grilled by several senators including Ted Cruz (pictured) on alleged political bias.




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Breakthrough as researchers discover why people may have pet allergies after studying slow lorises

Professor Bryan Fry, from the University of Queensland's Venom Evolution Lab, took a team of researchers to Indonesia to study slow lorises.




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Expedia reveals the top destinations Aussies are searching to visit once the restrictions are lifted

Australians are beginning to search for their next holiday destination despite the international and state borders remaining closed due to the coronavirus.




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Women turn into their mothers at 33 research shows

British women start turning into their mothers at the age of just 33 - a year before men start behaving like their fathers, according to new research.




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Chris Ramsey is announced as host of Little Mix's new BBC talent show The Search

The stand-up comedian, 33, will appear alongside the group, Perrie Edwards, 26, Jesy Nelson, 28, Jade Thirlwall, 27, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 28, as they search for a new wave of talented singers to mentor.




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Liz Jones's Diary: In which my search history reveals all

You can tell a lot about someone's psyche by looking at their search history. Here's mine. On just one day, I searched 124 sites.




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FDA expert warns the US could run out of researchers to run coronavirus drug trials

Head of the FDA drug research arm, Dr Janet Woodcock, warned in a webinar that if every potential coronavirus drug is trialled separately, we could run out of scientists to run them the studies.




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Yale researchers lunch trial on asthma drug to test if it could treat coronavirus patients

Yale University will begin a clinical trial to test the safety and effectiveness of asthma drug ibudilast after it was found to reduce lung inflammation caused by coronavirus in mouse models.