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WASHINGTON — CACI International, a professional services and information technology company, has secured a 10-year contract worth up to $450 million to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC), the company announced July 31. The JNWC, a subordinate organization of U.S. Space Command’s Combined Force Space Component Command, serves as the Department of Defense’s center

Do quantum interactions help brain cells stay in sync? Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Nerve fibres in the brain could produce pairs of particles linked by quantum entanglement. If backed by experimental observations, this phenomenon could explain how millions of cells in the brain synchronise their activity to make it function. “When a brain is active, millions

Spins hop between quantum dots in new quantum processor – 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 — The U.S. Space Force has increased the value of its launch contracts with United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX by nearly $1.8 billion, citing a significant growth in projected missions under the five-year agreements awarded in 2020. This boost comes as a result of a surge in demand for launches under the National

Speed limits on a section of the I-24 in Tennessee are being managed by AI Daniel Dempster Photography/Alamy Drivers on a busy US freeway have been controlled by an AI since March, as part of a study that has put a machine-learning system in charge of setting variable speed limits on the road. The impact

Hannah Stern: how new materials are driving the quantum revolution – 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

Hannah Stern: how new materials are driving the quantum revolution – 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. — British financial advisor Citicourt & Co is looking to raise 100 million pounds ($129 million) in its first venture capital fund to invest in sustainability-focused space opportunities. “It’s been an interesting journey over the past several years helping to fund space companies in the U.K. and Europe,” Citicourt founder and CEO Jodi

Could drastic action help restore coral reefs? Serge Melesan / Alamy Corals are being hit so hard by global warming that the only way to save reef ecosystems may be to replace native species with more heat-tolerant ones from elsewhere in the world. That is the view of two coral researchers who are calling for

Shifting day-night cloud patterns may be making climate change worse – 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 — A Senate appropriations bill closely follows the administration’s request for NASA in fiscal year 2025 but with provisions about several missions the agency is seeking to cancel or curtail. The Senate Appropriations Committee released the commerce, justice and science (CJS) appropriations bill and report July 26, one day after the full committee favorably

A mission to the sun’s closest neighbouring star, Alpha Centauri, could be made faster thanks to a tiny light sail punctured with billions of tiny holes Read the original article here

X(3960) is a tetraquark, theoretical analysis suggests – 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’s Falcon 9 successfully launched a set of Starlink satellites early July 27 on the first flight of the vehicle since an upper stage anomaly 15 days earlier. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 1:45 a.m. Eastern. The company confirmed the successful deployment of its payload

Social media companies appear to be sensitive to criticism Shutterstock/easy camera Negative news stories about social media platforms appear to be highly effective at pressuring companies into changing their policies. Christian Katzenbach at the University of Bremen, Germany, and his colleagues analysed policy changes across Facebook, Twitter (now X) and YouTube between 2005 and 2021,

Physicist Rosemary Fowler honoured 75 years after discovering the kaon particle – 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

This is a customer submitted press release. Submit your press release. Denver, CO – July 26, 2024. SpaceNews is thrilled to announce the appointment of Clara Swan as our new Sales and Business Development Manager. Clara will manage advertising and sponsorship sales for clients, working closely with SpaceNews Director of Global Sales, Kamal Flucker, to

A test of the Super Heavy Booster for Starship’s fifth test flight SpaceX SpaceX is making final preparations for the fifth and most ambitious Starship test flight yet. While the four previous flights have all aimed for a splashdown in the sea, this test will be the first attempt to land back on the launch