Discovered in Australia

how to counter the threat of asteroids Record a stone 4.4 billion years discovered in Australia :

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Asteroids that circulate around the Earth is a very serious threat. Specialists are working hard on this problem and develop strategies to prevent these space rocks hitting our planet.
A green spot on a small screen . As trivial as it may seem , it indicates the presence of an asteroid. If one of them crashed on our planet, the consequences could be terrible . What are our options?
Record: a rock 4.4 billion years discovered in Australia
A fragment of zircon found in Western Australia has been dated at 4.4 billion years by a second method. It is indeed the oldest mineral ever found on Earth, appeared only 100 million years after its formation, at a time when we thought that there was still molten rock that ... Our planet would it cooled faster than estimated ? And could it change the period of emergence of life ?
There are 4.5 billion years , its formation, the Earth was not a blue planet, but wore the reddish hues of molten rock that composed the core to the surface. This is the time , and cooling the soil became solid and liquid water. But when was that time?

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SNCM: CEO

 

SNCM:PDG of Veolia wants "the protection of the court," not "filing for bankruptcy" :

PDG of Veolia Environnement , Antoine Frérot , defended Monday recourse to " the protection of the court " trade Marseille for the shipping company in difficulty SNCM , emphasizing not defending the " bankruptcy " last week .
Frérot assured , the antenna BFM Business , want not " absolutely not " the bankruptcy filing , " I want SNCM put under the protection of the Commercial Court ."
"For SNCM to live , we must find a viable and sustainable level. Today, the company is not viable because of Brussels fines of EUR 440 million , which one day or another will be enforceable , " he has said.
" For the business to be viable , it must find a way to put away these fines from Brussels. For this there are not 36 solutions , in all cases we found that c ' is put under the protection of the commercial court , " defended Frérot .
Thursday, Veolia boss had asked turning the "protection" of the court SNCM , adding quickly that it was not a cessation of payments and therefore a " bankruptcy " as some ' had originally understood.
" The Commercial Court , it does not mean filing for bankruptcy ," repeated Mr. Frérot Monday. " In fact the opposite is usually when you go to the commercial court is to avoid filing for bankruptcy , to put under the protection of the court to find a solution and use the time necessary," he pleaded .
But even the mere mention of an appeal to the Commercial Court - a decision that does not belong to M. The brother - had drawn criticism from the staff of the Corsica Continent shipping company, owned 66 % Transdev , a joint subsidiary of Veolia and Caisse des Dépôts (CDC).
The state, despite pressure from Brussels, " has indeed said he did not intend to report these claims SNCM and he sought other legal solutions," argued the direction.
" It is therefore , so far, no reason or economic or legal , which could constrain the direction of the company - only competent - to seek the protection of the Commercial Court of Marseille to file for bankruptcy or to implement some collective procedures that are " in the direction .
Track mentioned by Mr. Frérot Monday is that the court " find solutions to isolate the viable part of the business , and put it under another name ." " As long as there will be no lasting solution , we will not put money in SNCM " Has he said.
The record of the ferry company to 2,600 employees blocked the progressive output by Veolia Transdev . As part of the takeover of the subsidiary public transport by the CDC, the world leader in water and waste originally destined to live 66 % of the capital SNCM but was abandoned because of claims of Brussels.

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Robot

Robot :

 Able to analyze its environment, adapt and move, it consists of a processor connected to sensors and actuators. Present in professional and domestic services, service robots have already found opportunities in areas as diverse as agriculture, military, health, logistics and education.

"There will be more designs in the next ten years, companies in the service robotics that there was in the first ten years of the Internet."

Bruno Bonnell founder Robolution Capital

 17 billion € , it is the weight in 2013 the market for service robotics worldwide, according to the International Federation of Robotics. The sector is expected to reach € 100 billion by 2018.

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China

China wants cleaner economic growth :

BEIJING ( Reuters) - China has again suggested that the time of unbridled growth was now over, the Prime Minister has indeed a "war" against pollution and a slower pace of increased investment , which fall announced this year to a low of more than ten years.
Speaking at the opening of the annual session of parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC) , Li Keqiang said the second world economic power was a growth in gross domestic product (GDP ) of about 7.5% 2014.
This objective, almost identical to the growth of 2013 ( 7.7%) and in line with forecasts of most analysts , is part of the ambitious reform program unveiled in November at the plenum of the Party Central Committee Communist .
This program aims to rebalance China's development , even slow the pace slightly , reducing its dependence on investment and exports in favor of strengthening domestic demand.
" The reforms are the priority of the government . We must have the will to break the psychological locks to deepen reforms on all fronts ," said Li Kegiang before the 3,000 delegates to the NPC.
Plants no longer producing little or nothing will be closed , private investment will be encouraged and the work of developing a new tax , favorable to the protection of the environment, will be accelerated , said the Prime Minister .
To accompany the molt of the Chinese economic model, the planning agency of the country - the Commission of reforms and national development - said in Parliament that the government was this year an increase of 17.5% investment in fixed assets , which would be the pace of the slowest growth in 12 years.
For some 30 years of often double-digit growth , these investments were the main driver of the Chinese economy, but at the cost of massive pollution of air and water and a colossal debt including local communities.
They had increased by 19.6% in 2013 - against a target of 18 % that was set by Beijing - and accounted for more than half of GDP growth last year.
REFORM PROGRAMME OF ENGAGED PRUDENT WAY
Pollution - like the "smog" that fell on Beijing in January - has become a major concern , even anger , to the Chinese.
It is not uncommon that the levels of air pollution in some Chinese cities exceed the threshold of danger to the health of residents .
The authorities intend to act on prices in order to promote non-fossil energy and reduce consumption in the sectors of steel and cement, which are among the main sources of air pollution.
In his speech broadcast live on state television , Li Keqiang said that the inflation target would be maintained at around 3.5% in 2014 and that China would move towards convertibility of its currency, the yuan.
Chinese authorities plan a budget for 2014 of 15.300 billion yuan ($ 1.800 billion ), with a deficit of about 2.1 % of GDP , a rate unchanged from 2013, the ministry of Finance.
These ads , in line with expectations of economists indicate that the reform program is well underway but prudently.
" This should mean that policy makers have a sufficient flexibility to ensure that growth remains at a sufficient level while implementing reforms ," wrote HSBC in a note written before this parliamentary session .
Analysts said the proposed reforms , such as reducing the weight of the public administration or the debt in sectors with overcapacity plant closures will be implemented gradually and with caution because of the risk of explosion of unemployment and social destabilization .
In addition, in the eyes of some of them , by refusing to accept a deceleration too strong economic growth , Beijing confirms that the evolution towards another model will be smooth , no offense to the sometimes strong expressions used by the Prime Minister.
" By maintaining a target of 7.5% of GDP , the government suggests that it may not contain the pace of credit growth as quickly as we hoped not going ," said Julian Evans- Pritchard, economist at Capital Economics.
As some market participants had anticipated a lower GDP target , the announcement of a 7.5% growth for this year has contributed to the good performance of Asian stock markets , those of Tokyo and Seoul and ended up having 1.20% and 0.88 % respectively .

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715 New Planets identified by the Kepler telescope

 715 New Planets identified by the Kepler telescope :

 CAPE CANAVERAL Florida (Reuters) - The Kepler space telescope has added 715 more planets to the list of known beyond the solar system worlds, bringing the total of these exoplanets to nearly 1700 , NASA announced Wednesday during a press conference.
In the latest additions include four planets larger than about two and a half times the Earth and is the right distance from their star mothers have water in liquid form on the surface, an estimated necessary for life long .
These findings were made by Kepler before shelved due to a technical problem last year.
The telescope , launched in 2009 , spent four productive years scrutinizing 160,000 stars . New generation of telescopes are being designed by NASA and other space agencies.
By adding the number of planets identified by Kepler ( 961 ) and the observations of other telescopes , we arrive at a total of nearly 1,700 exoplanets .
This boom is due discovered a new verification technique that analyzes the planets in batches rather than one at a time. The findings entities prove once again that small planets , that is to say two or three times the size of Earth , are common throughout the galaxy .
Like what happens in the solar system with eight planets plus Pluto as well as " dwarf planets " newly discovered exoplanets are grouped into families.
But , unlike the solar system, the new sets are grouped more constricted . Most planets move at a distance from their lower to 108 million miles between the sun Venus star.

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An asteroid will graze Earth closer than the Moon

An asteroid will graze Earth closer than the Moon :

NASA ensures that the object 30 meters in diameter presents no risk of collision with our planet.
At first glance the ad can be scary, but NASA ensures that there is no risk . An asteroid already known to astronomers pass close to Earth Wednesday night less than that separating Earth from the Moon distance .  

The object, called 2014 DX110 , measuring about 30 meters in diameter and intersect closest to Earth 348,000 km to 22 hours , while the average Earth-Moon distance is only some 385 000 km . A type of event which, according to NASA , occurs on average no less than twenty times a year.
Residues of the formation of the solar system, many asteroids sizes run in the terrestrial neighborhood. The " Near - Earth Object Observations " program of the U.S. space agency detects , tracks , describes and lists , as well as comets , using a fleet of telescopes on the ground and in space. Objective: to determine if they pose a potential danger to Earth. NASA estimates , to date, have already identified nearly 95% of the largest of these celestial objects larger than one kilometer in diameter. Scientists point out that a collision with one of these large objects is very rare and none of those already detected present a risk in the foreseeable future.

 However, the fall of one of them , there are 65 million years , would, however, at the origin of the extinction of the dinosaurs. To learn more about these threats from the sky , read our interview with Jean -Pierre Luminet , French astrophysicist world-renowned specialist in asteroids.
And if large asteroids are easily spotted , this is not the case of smaller , which is also much higher.

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PSA

PSA starts well in 2014 in Europe, uncertainty elsewhere :

PSA Peugeot Citroën has started 2014 in Europe, where it regained market share with new products , which partly offset a difficult environment in several emerging markets.If China is expected to again this year a double-digit growth , the Russian and South American markets, where PSA is losing money , still marked by many uncertainties, Tuesday said Carlos Tavares , the future CEO of PSA during the press days of the Geneva Motor Show." In the first two months of the year , the European business was very correct," has he said, adding that the group's market share had risen around 13% on the continent. In 2013, it had fallen to 11.9% , against 12.7% in 2012." There are many uncertainties in the global markets , difficulties in Russia , instability in Latin America," he added. "In Europe, we see a slight increase , and for the moment it's going pretty in this sense . Currently , France is stable or slightly down I hope it will pass on the positive side in the current the year. "Press the 84th Geneva Motor Show days were open to good news for PSA , the Peugeot 308 was elected Monday " Car of the Year " by a jury of specialized European journalists. This is the first time in nine years that a French car receives this distinction, and the new compact Peugeot succeeds Golf crowned in 2013."This is a good thing for the group's employees , it gives confidence in the fact that together they can do things their high quality ," said Carlos Tavares .He reiterated that his priority for the next three years would redress the group's profitability by reducing the number of models in the catalog by country , optimizing procurement, factory organization and distribution." It takes a limited number of things, but do them thoroughly ," he has said.Legacy of its past Renault -Nissan years, Carlos Tavares intends to chase what the Japanese call " muda " ( waste ) . He also defended a " cynicism " in the management of production capacity to meet the plants up ." Sometimes it is better , when you engage the resources of the company, to be a little more cynical , that is to say size your teams to do a little less cars than what promises to protect your efficiency , "said he said.For this reason, Carlos Tavares excluded in the medium term a new industrial establishment on the outskirts of Europe to install a platform more competitive cars for emerging markets , because the Slovak Trnava and of Vigo, Spain , do not use today their full production potential.

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715 new planets identified by the Kepler telescope

715 new planets identified by the Kepler telescope.

CAPE CANAVERAL Florida (Reuters) -The Kepler space telescope has added 715 more planets to the list of known beyond the solar system worlds, bringing the total of these exoplanets to nearly 1700 , NASA announced Wednesday during a press conference.
In the latest additions include four planets larger than about two and a half times the Earth and is the right distance from their star mothers have water in liquid form on the surface, an estimated necessary for life long .
These findings were made by Kepler before shelved due to a technical problem last year.
The telescope , launched in 2009 , spent four productive years scrutinizing 160,000 stars . New generation of telescopes are being designed by NASA and other space agencies.
By adding the number of planets identified by Kepler ( 961 ) and the observations of other telescopes , we arrive at a total of nearly 1,700 exoplanets .
This boom is due discovered a new verification technique that analyzes the planets in batches rather than one at a time. The findings entities prove once again that small planets , that is to say two or three times the size of Earth , are common throughout the galaxy .
Like what happens in the solar system with eight planets plus Pluto as well as " dwarf planets " newly discovered exoplanets are grouped into families.
But , unlike the solar system, the new sets are grouped more constricted . Most planets move at a distance from their lower to 108 million miles between the sun Venus star.

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Apocalypse Tomorrow

Apocalypse Tomorrow Advice from the U.S. government about where to take refuge in case of nuclear attack. 

The U.S. government has published a guide explaining to citizens how to reach quickly the best anti- atomic shelter . The nuclear weapon is a weapon of mass destruction. 

In history, it has been used only twice operationally . During World War II , the United States bombed the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan, which resulted , according to various estimates , the death of one hundred to two hundred thousand people . 

During the Cold War that followed, nuclear deterrence allowed a sort of balance of terror between the United States and the USSR . If since the fall of the Soviets , the Cold War is over , the risks of a future nuclear war remain. 

The willingness of North Korea and Iran to hold this weapon of mass destruction shows that the world must remain on guard. Therefore, you are certainly ever wondered what impact could have a nuclear bomb on your city. And especially how to react and to take refuge ?

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Ants

 Ants, insects even stronger than we think?

According to a new study, ants are able to withstand much higher than we previously thought forces. 

As the world faces the exploits of Olympic athletes, a team of researchers has unveiled once again the outstanding performance of an admittedly more modest but equally impressive champion : the ant.

 This remarkable insect is known for years for his prowess in the transport of heavy loads. Previous studies suggest that the insect is capable of carrying up to 1,000 times its own weight , the equivalent of a fledgling fallen from the nest .

 However, this figure already sensational, could be even higher, according to recent findings of work by engineers in mechanical and aerospace Ohio State University. The latter argue that the ant would be able to carry up to 5,000 times its weight !

 A very strong joint This is the neck joint ants would be able to such resistance . In reaching these conclusions , the researchers developed an extreme and destructive protocol. This was to stick on the head of a centrifuge insects size of a compact disk .

 The device was then switched on so that the forces applied to the neck ants gradually increase to the point of rupture and deformation of the joint. 

The findings, published in the Journal of Biomechanics , indicate that the ants head separates from the body when they apply equivalent between 3,400 and 5,000 times their own body weight means forces. 

According to researchers, this resistance is that the surface of the neck joint has microstructures of bumps shaped and folds that allow to take large loads .

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Supernova

Supernova: the heart of a star observed just before explosion. 

 The NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) Space Telescope has recently succeeded in observing the heart of a little star before it exploded.

 The images collected should help to learn more about the phenomenon related to the formation of supernovae. 

The formation of a supernova following the explosion of a star is a phenomenon that astronomers are still struggling to understand a whole. 

New data collected by the NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) telescope, expected to shed new light on this mystery . 

Space Telescope NASA succeeded , for the first time , to observe the heart of a little star before it exploded . 

With these observations in X-rays, the researchers were able to recreate an almost complete mapping of shock waves that caused the end of the star in 1671. 

This explosion was born supernova Cassiopeia A, also known as Case A and located about 11,000 light-years from Earth. This is not the first time that astronomers are interested in this star. In recent years , the remains of this star were photographed by many telescopes . 

However, the latest images collected by NuSTAR are unprecedented . They have also been published in the journal Nature. 

Mechanisms in the heart of the explosion Through these images , scientists can now understand how the stellar debris collide with the surrounding gas and dust in the shock wave and how these elements are heated during the process . 

NuSTAR is the first telescope capable of mapping the heart of a star from radioactive elements present in the remains of the star.

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