Science and technology

Japan has revealed  ambitious plans to put an astronaut on the Moon around 2030 in new proposals from the country’s space agency.
This is the first time the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has said it aims to send an astronaut beyond the International Space Station, an agency spokeswoman told AFP on Friday.

French energy giant TOTAL is expected to start exploratory drilling in block 11 of the Cyprus Exclusive Economic Zone on July 14.

Block 11 covers some 2,958 square kilometres and the drill site is 150 km off the coast of Cyprus.

Before any exploratory work begins, a 4400-metre diameter area around the site will be explored for objects of archaeological interest.

A robot waiter serves fruit to customers at a restaurant in Xuchang, central China's Henan Province, Jan. 11, 2015. The robot, worth some 13,000 dollars (80 thousand yuan), has been put into use to serve customers at the restaurant for ten days. (Xinhua/Li Bo)

Two days ago, the Turkish Business and Industry Association (TÜSİAD) held a conference about STEM-A education and what it means for Turkey. At the end of the report, they had some suggestions as well. The report was prepared in collaboration with PWC.  

There is a need to restructure the education curriculum by focusing more on science, technology, engineering and math, the chair of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD) urged on June 13.  

A telltale white plume streaked across the sky over Israel Monday morning, revealing the country’s latest missile test. No announcement was made on what propulsion system was tested but experts say it was for an intercontinental ballistic missile or a missile defense rocket.

We refer to the inventor of something as the "father" of it when we know for a fact that the person is behind the invention. Being a father of a "thing" is getting exceedingly harder as the "things" that are being invented are getting even more complicated. For example, the most important invention of the last century, the internet, has many fathers and mothers.

Professor Stephen Hawking has repeated his warning that human survival depends on finding a new home beyond Earth.
The search for other planets to colonise should start now, he believes.

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has posted a photo showing Istanbul from space on his official social media accounts, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Pesquet, an astronaut from the European Space Agency (ESA), took the photo from the International Space Station on May 17. 

Wednesday's Google Doodle celebrates the 115th anniversary of the discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, one of the most remarkable scientific objects of antiquity.

The 2nd-century BC device, often hailed as the world's oldest computer, was retrieved from a shipwreck by sponge divers in 1902 off the remote Aegean island.