[ad_2][ad_1] LONDON / HONG KONG (Reuters) – Bitcoin hit the headlines this week with its dizzying rise to an all-time high. However, under the radar, a trend has taken place that could change the face of the cryptocurrency market: a massive flow of coins to North America from East Asia. …
Read More »How American investors are devouring booming bitcoin
[ad_2][ad_1] LONDON / HONG KONG (Reuters) – Bitcoin hit the headlines this week with its dizzying rise to an all-time high. However, under the radar, there has been a trend that could change the face of the cryptocurrency market: a massive flow of coins to North America from East Asia. …
Read More »MOXIE Could Help Launch Future Rockets To Mars – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
[ad_1] NASA’s Perseverance rover carries a device to convert Martian air into oxygen which, if produced on a larger scale, could be used not only for breathing, but for fuel as well. One of the hardest things about sending astronauts to Mars will be getting them home. Launching a rocket …
Read More »The COVID toll turns the spotlight on the European taboo of data by race
[ad_1] LISBON (Reuters) – Many European countries shy away from breaking down data along racial or ethnic lines out of concerns about privacy or discrimination, but COVID-19’s outsized impact on blacks and Asian people has revealed flaws in the approach. said some scientists and activists. FILE PHOTO: A man skateboarding …
Read More »Hear audio of NASA’s perseverance as it travels through deep space, NASA’s Mars exploration program
[ad_1] The first to be equipped with microphones, the agency’s latest Mars rover picked up the subtle sounds of its internal mechanisms during interplanetary flight. A microphone aboard NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover recorded the sounds of the spacecraft as it sped through interplanetary space. While another microphone aboard the …
Read More »Scientists have found that heat and dust help launch Martian water into space, NASA’s Mars exploration program
[ad_1] Scientists using an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN spacecraft, or MAVEN, have found that water vapor near the surface of the Red Planet is carried higher into the atmosphere than anyone expected was possible. There, it is easily destroyed by electrically charged gas particles – or …
Read More »Mars is getting a new robotic meteorologist: NASA’s Mars exploration program
[ad_1] Sensors on NASA’s Perseverance will help prepare for future human exploration by making meteorological measurements and studying dust particles. Mars is about to receive a new stream of weather reports once NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on February 18, 2021. As it scours Jezero Crater for signs of ancient microbial …
Read More »How bitcoin met the real world in Africa
[ad_2][ad_1] By Alexis Akwagyiram, Tom Wilson LAGOS / LONDON (Reuters) – Four months ago, Abolaji Odunjo made a fundamental change to his mobile phone business in a bustling street market in Lagos: he started paying his suppliers in bitcoin. Odunjo buys phones and accessories from China and the United Arab …
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