Used in many electronic products. 2014 nobel prize in physics to professor akasaki Nagoya University and Nagoya University japan, professor Hiroshi Yamada at Nagoya University japan and professor yam moor ra at santa barbara. For the invention of efficient blue light emitting diodes which has enabled bright and Energy Saving white light sources. Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of scientists made the announcement in stockholm. Akasaki teaches in nagoya city. Yamanno is a professor. In 1989, akasaki and amano used crystals to develop a unique semiconductor that emitted blue light. They built on that achievement to create blue l. E. D. S that were capable of being used in electronic products. So this years nobel prize in physics went to three japanese scientists. Well have the updates for you on this when we get more information, so please stay with us. Now in other news, police in tokyo have questioned a 26yearold Japanese National who they suspect was trying to join Islamic State.
Campaign in new york sparked by the Islamic State insurgency is raising new fears and opening old wounds. Officials with japans space agency have confirmed their new asteroid probe has entered into orbit. The hayabusa2 has begun a sixyear mission that scientists hope will help solve some of the mysteries of the universe. Translator their words encouraged me a lot. I was moved, and i felt happy. We apologize for that technical error there. The h2a rocket took off from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern japan at 1 22 p. M. Local time. Officials say hayabusa2 reached its initial orbit in just under two hours. The probe is headed for an asteroid that may contain water and organic substances. The hayabusa2 is fitted with a device called an impacter. Its capable of shooting metal bullet at the asteroids surface at a speed of two kilometers per second. The impact will create an artificial crater to allow the probe to collect rock and sand. These materials could provide clues about h
Mortality rate in the world. And the first arab Space Mission to mars is preparing for lift off. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. We start with chinas ambassador to the uk denying reports that his country is carrying out a programme of sterilisation of uighur women in the western part of country xinjang. Reports and eyewitness accounts have accused china of trying to reduce the uighur population by forced sterilisation. The uighur muslims are the Largest Ethnic Group in chinas far west xinjiang region. China denies human rights abuses there, but theres evidence of mosques being destroyed as you see in these before and after pictures and uighurs say they are subject to intense state surveillance. Britains foreign secretary, dominic raab, said there were gross and egregious human rights abuses going on there and that he found it deeply troubling. It comes amid a rise in dipl