Dans le cadre de la stratégie 2020 de l'Union européenne, le gouvernement luxembourgeois prévoit de sortir une personne sur vingt-quatre de la pauvreté. «Une plaisanterie!», selon le député de La Gauche, André Hoffmann, qui souhaitait impliquer la Chambre des députés dans la lutte contre la pauvreté et les inégalités par la création d'un observatoire. Parler de pauvreté dans un pays riche peut ressembler à une mauvaise blague.

Pourtant, c'est bien 75 000 personnes qui vivent sous le seuil de pauvreté au Luxembourg (1 588 euros/mois). Mais au final, ceux qui ont pris le moins au sérieux cet a...

La «Petite» sera de retour vendredi vers 18 h à l'Abbaye de Neumunster. La «Petite», c'est comme ça que Steven Weinberg surnomme sa voiture, une 4CV de 1959. Au début de l'été dernier, il s'est mis à son volant pour un long, un très long voyage. «A l'arrivée, j'aurais fait un peu plus de 33 000 km et traversé 13 pays», précise Steven Weinberg. Les USA de New York à San Fransisco, en passant par les immenses étendues américaines, la vallée de la mort et les geyser de Yellowstone, le Canada et l'Alaska par la côte Ouest, avec des nuits éclairées d'aurores boréales, le Japon, l'immense Russie, le...

Brouillard dense pour accompagner le match amical entre le Luxembourg et la Slovaquie, ce mercredi soir. Après deux matches nuls à domicile face au Belarus (0-0) et l'Algérie (0-0), le Luxembourg a fait encore mieux en s'offrant une victoire largement méritée, mercredi, face à la Slovaquie (2-1).

D'entrée de jeu, les hommes de Luc ...

Before trying to contact aliens, maybe we should test our messages on ourselves.

In a new paper in the journal Space Policy, three alien-hunters suggest designing a standard protocol for writing intelligible letters to extraterrestrials, and building a website where teams can decode candidate messages to ensure they make sense.

“The basic idea is, if you’re going to talk to aliens, you’d better have something that’s understandable to humans,” said UCLA planetary scientist Michael Busch, who has previously tried to design an ideal alien postcard but was not involved in the new work.

The search...

When we first saw a production-ready version of the very impressive Nissan Leaf two years ago, we asked the brass, “Great. When do we see an electric Z?”

Next month, actually.

The Japanese automaker rolls into the Geneva auto show with the Esflow, a slick concept built from the ground up to be an electric sports car approaching the Tesla Roadster. Rather than simply slap an electric motor — two, actually — in a Nissan 370Z and call it a day, the engineers say they designed the Esflow from the ground up.

Nissan didn’t offer any specs beyond saying the car has two motors mounted just above and a...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday launched a touchscreen tablet and two new smartphones powered by Palm’s mobile operating system, webOS.

Dubbed the TouchPad, the HP tablet has a 9.7-inch screen with 1024 x 768 resolution, a front-facing camera for videoconferencing and a dual-core 1.2-GHz processor.

Due for a summer release, the TouchPad also includes stereo speakers, gyroscope and accelerometer sensors, Bluetooth compatibility and support for Adobe Flash. HP did not announce a price tag.

“For the first time webOS is available on a form factor that lets the intuitive elegance of the p...

I/O Venture companies get office space in the hip environs of the Summit Café in San Francisco's Mission district. Photo Credit: TastingSF

The program is modeled loosely after YCombinator, an incubation program that started in 2005, that has shown it’s possible to give startup founders a small amount of cash, mentorship, and introductions, which in a period of months h...

Astronomers have a new view of the chaos brewing beneath Jupiter’s cloud belt, thanks to some help from its icy moon Europa.

This new image, captured Nov. 30, 2010 with the 10-meter Keck II telescope in Hawaii, shows heat escaping from Jupiter’s interior, giving astronomers a peek into the roiling turmoil inside Jupiter’s missing red stripe.

The image shows Jupiter at four wavelengths of infrared light, which is beyond the range that human eyes can see. Three of those wavelengths show reflected sunlight. But one wavelength, 5 micrometers, can sense breaks in the cloud cover.

Jupiter’s famous red ...

The Obama Administration’s dream of seeing 1 million electric vehicles on the road is laudable and necessary, but it’s going to require a Herculean effort if we’re to pull it off.

Think about it. There are roughly 251 million vehicles on the road in the United States, so a mere 1 million doesn’t sound like many — especially when Americans bought 12 million vehicles last year. But we’re talking about electric vehicles, and that’s a whole ‘nother ballgame because exactly two automakers sell mass-market EVs at the moment. General Motors sold 326 Chevrolet Volts last month, while Nissan sold 87 Le...