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Researchers cut to the chase on the physics of paper cuts – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

WASHINGTON — SpaceX resumed launches of its Falcon 9 rocket early Aug. 31 after the Federal Aviation Administration ended a brief grounding of the vehicle. One Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 3:43 a.m. Eastern, placing 21 Starlink satellites into orbit. It was followed at 4:48

Polarised light can make messages encoded in a quantum hologram disappear Hong Liang, Wai Chun Wong, Tailin An, Jensen Li 2024 A quantum disappearing act could make it possible to embed secure messages in holograms and selectively erase parts of them even after they have been sent. Quantum light signals are inherently secure information carriers,

LUX-ZEPLIN puts new limit on dark-matter mass – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

TAMPA, Fla. — Real estate investor Hines plans to start building a large industrial complex on Florida’s Space Coast this year to help ease strained infrastructure at the world’s busiest launch hub. Hines aims to construct up to three rear-load buildings totaling 60,000 square meters by the end of 2025 under the first phase the

Mpox commonly causes lesions that can blister and scar CDC/Associated Press/Alamy Mpox cases are surging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and several of its neighbouring countries. The DRC alone has reported more than 15,000 cases and more than 500 deaths, already exceeding its 2023 total, which itself was a record. Other infections can

Gold nanoparticles could improve radiotherapy of pancreatic cancer – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

TAMPA, Fla. — Verizon is launching satellite-enabled emergency text and location services this fall for compatible Android smartphones in the United States at no extra cost for customers. The telecoms giant announced a partnership Aug. 28 to deliver the service with Skylo, which has developed ground infrastructure enabling L-band geostationary satellites to reach devices using

Polyethylene plastic bags are challenging to recycle Robert Sanders/UC Berkeley Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new process is a big step towards a truly circular economy for plastic. Around

The Wow! signal: did a telescope in Ohio receive an extraterrestrial communication in 1977? – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

LITTLETON, CO. – The common saying that “space is hard” may need redefinition, given the increasing use of softgoods to fashion inflatable structures from airlocks to habitats for future lunar and Mars missions. Here at the Waterton Canyon facility of Lockheed Martin, the company is testing inflatable structures that offer advantages over all-metal hardware. An

Boeing’s Starliner capsule won’t shuttle astronauts home from space this year NASA It’s official: Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are staying on the International Space Station (ISS) until at least February. This is a major setback for Boeing’s Starliner, the capsule that brought them there, but it doesn’t spell doom for the US space programme.

Metamaterial gives induction heating a boost for industrial processing – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

WASHINGTON — Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander was unable to make it to the moon because of a failure of a single valve, leading to work to redesign the valve and overall propulsion system on the company’s larger Griffin lander. Astrobotic released Aug. 27 a report by a failure review board that examined the Peregrine Mission

“I have really modest goals. I want to have the largest impact on human suffering of anyone, ever,” says Lou Reese, co-founder of biotechnology company Vaxxinity. He might just pull it off. If everything goes to plan, by 2030 the firm will offer a new drug that will revolutionise our approach to one of the

Sunflowers ‘dance’ together to share sunlight – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

WASHINGTON — Despite the creation of the U.S. Space Force and increased attention on space as a critical domain for national security, the U.S. military is struggling to innovate in the crucial area of space domain awareness (SDA), experts said Aug. 26. SDA, which encompasses the monitoring, tracking, and identification of objects in Earth orbit,

We can enjoy music because of our ability to recognise musical boundaries NDAB Creativity/Shutterstock We may finally know how the brain processes a beat drop: people use two distinct brain networks to anticipate and identify transitions between segments in a piece of music. Musical boundaries, the moments when one section of a composition ends and