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Shrinivas Kulkarni: 2024 Shaw Prize in Astronomy winner talks about his fascination with variable and transient objects – 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 — United Launch Alliance will fly an inert payload and instrumentation on its second Vulcan Centaur mission after concluding that Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser would not be ready in time for a launch this fall. At a June 26 media briefing, Tory Bruno, chief executive of ULA, said that the upcoming Cert-2 mission, now

Neanderthal reconstruction at the Museum of Natural History Vienna in Austria Neanderthals/Alamy Stock Photo A Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome survived until at least the age of 6, if interpretations of a fossilised ear bone are correct. The find adds to the evidence that Neanderthals, far from being brutish and unfeeling, routinely showed compassion for other

When the world went wild for uranium: tales from the history of a controversial element – 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 is moving forward with plans to deploy smaller, cheaper GPS satellites based on commercial designs to add to its current network of larger military satellites.  The Space Systems Command earlier this month issued a solicitation through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) for the Resilient Global Positioning System (R-GPS) program,

Transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (teal) within an infected cell NIAID Urgent action is needed to try to contain the spread of a new strain of mpox transmitted mainly by heterosexual sex that has caused more than 1000 cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, say health experts dealing with the outbreak.

Battery boss: physicist Martin Freer will run UK’s Faraday Institution – 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 is preparing for the possibility of Russia targeting American satellites in orbit, according to the command’s top general.  Gen. Stephen Whiting, head of U.S. Space Command, commented on recent reports indicating that Russia has deployed “co-planar” spacecraft positioned to monitor U.S. satellites. Speaking June 24 at the Mitchell Institute for

Quantum states can be surprisingly energetic David Wall/Getty In quantum mechanics, the whole can be much greater than the sum of its parts, according to new calculations. They suggest that several low-energy quantum states could be combined into a state containing regions that are dozens of times more energetic than any of the constituent components.

Why optics is critical to meeting society’s grand challenges – 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 — Japanese radar imaging company Synspective has raised 7 billion yen ($44 million) in a Series C round intended to fuel the expansion of its satellite constellation. The Tokyo-based company announced June 20 it raised the Series C round led by Japan Growth Capital Investment Corporation, managed by Nomura SPARX Investment, Inc., as well

Jupiter’s red spot as captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstad/Sean Doran ? CC NC SA Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be younger than many astronomers thought. It is commonly accepted that the enormous storm was first observed by Giovanni Cassini in 1665, but it turns out that the spot Cassini saw was probably a

Speed of sound in quark–gluon plasma is measured at CERN – 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 Chinese launch of the joint Sino-French SVOM mission to study Gamma-ray bursts early Saturday saw toxic rocket debris fall over a populated area. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 3:00 a.m. Eastern (0700 UTC) June 22, sending the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) mission satellite

Houses in Texas surrounded by floodwater from Tropical Storm Alberto in June 2024 Brandon Bell/Getty Parts of Texas and Mexico were hit by flooding this week driven by Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of what is forecast to be an extremely active Atlantic hurricane season. While overall damages weren’t especially severe, the long-term

Linking silicon T centres with light offers a route to fault-tolerant quantum computing – 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 — Northrop Grumman announced June 21 it delivered two satellites to Space Norway for the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) that seeks to provide internet connectivity in the challenging northern polar region. The satellites, ordered in 2019, are set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California

The 2000-year-old wine found in a Roman tomb in Carmona, Spain Juan Manuel Román/University of Cordoba A reddish liquid found in a 2000-year-old Roman mausoleum in Spain is the oldest known liquid wine in existence, a chemical analysis has revealed. “I was surprised and full of disbelief,” says José Rafael Ruiz Arrebola at the University