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Sliding ferroelectrics offer fast, fatigue-free switching – 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

SAN FRANCISCO – Cosmic Shielding Corp. is supporting the upcoming launch of a radiation-hardened edge computer from San Francisco startup Aethero. The computer, scheduled to fly July 10 on the SpaceX Falcon-9 Transporter-11 rideshare from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, includes Nvida’s Jetson Orin NX graphics processing unit. “It’s going to be the fastest

Little changes in average facial temperatures can reveal your age and whether you have certain medical conditions Zhengqing Yu and Jing-Dong J Han If your cheeks are subtly warmer than is usual, it could be a sign of rising blood pressure that could be detected by artificial intelligence. Little changes like this in the heat

New titanium:sapphire laser is tiny, low-cost and tuneable – 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 — Turion Space, an Irvine, California-based startup, has secured a $1.9 million contract from SpaceWERX, the U.S. Space Force’s technology arm, to develop an autonomous spacecraft docking and maneuvering system. The contract aims to advance technologies for engaging uncooperative space objects and facilitating the deorbit of inactive satellites. Ryan Westerdahl, Turion’s co-founder and CEO,

Cans of Sky Wtr, produced by solar-powered hydropanels, will go on sale later this year in the US Madeleine Cuff Canned water distilled from the air will be available to buy in the US later this year, in an effort to promote solar-powered “hydropanels” that provide an off-grid method of producing drinking water. The panels,

Satellites burning up in the atmosphere may deplete Earth’s ozone layer – 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

Hausjärvi, FINLAND — A rocket stage test firing by Chinese commercial company Space Pioneer ended in catastrophic failure and a dramatic explosion Sunday. Space Pioneer conducted what was intended to be a static-fire test of the first stage of its Tianlong-3 launch vehicle at a test facility in Gongyi country, Henan province, Sunday, June 30. 

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in January 2022, days before the eruption Maxar via Getty Images Most of the nearly 150 million tonnes of water vapour launched into the air by the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in 2022 remains there, setting record concentrations in many parts of the atmosphere. “It’s really

Bringing the second quantum revolution to the rest of the world – 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 — European weather satellite operator Eumetsat has shifted the upcoming launch of a weather satellite from an Ariane 6 to a Falcon 9, a move that surprised and frustrated European space officials. In a statement late June 28, Eumetsat said the Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) geostationary weather satellite will now launch on a

With lunar exploration ramping up, NASA has been tasked with defining a time zone for the moon. New calculations show that time is ever so slightly faster on the lunar surface, which can affect navigation Read the original article here

Mitigating tokamak plasma disruption bags Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Outstanding Paper Prize – 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 — U.S. Space Command on June 28 sent out a reminder that it will closely monitor the controlled deorbiting of approximately 100 Starlink satellites, an operation that SpaceX announced in February. The decision to deorbit these early version 1 Starlink satellites came after SpaceX identified a potential issue that could increase the risk of

Semaglutide is an injectable weight loss medication sold under the name Wegovy Michael Siluk / Alamy As the number of weight loss drugs on the market has increased, so has confusion about the appropriate time for doctors to suggest someone begins using them – especially when it comes to children. Now, conflicting advice offered by

Ask me anything: Catherine Phipps – ‘Seeing an aircraft take off and knowing you contributed to the engine design is an amazing feeling’ – 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 Russian inspector satellite known as Luch 2 is on the move again, continuing its pattern of unusual maneuvers that have raised eyebrows in the space intelligence community, the space tracking firm Slingshot Aerospace said June 27. Slingshot reports that the satellite, which has been in orbit for just over a year, has

An artist’s impression of the last woolly mammoth Beth Zaiken Around 10,000 years ago, a handful of woolly mammoths found themselves stranded on an island in the Russian Arctic, off the Siberian coastline. In the following millennia, this tiny herd, perhaps as few as eight individuals, grew to a stable population of between 200 and