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Protecting phone screens with non-Newtonian fluids – 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. Air Force is gearing up for a demonstration next year of a satellite communications network that can seamlessly integrate government-owned and commercial constellations on a single, secure military terminal. The demonstration is a key milestone in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet, or DEUCSI — a

In female mammals, genes on one copy of the X chromosome are usually inactivated vchal/Shutterstock Female mammals have a higher risk of developing autoimmune conditions such as lupus because extra copies of genes that are supposed to be permanently turned off get reactivated as they grow older, a study of mice suggests. The findings are

In real-world social networks, your enemy’s enemy is indeed your friend, say physicists – 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 SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a pair of Maxar Intelligence imaging satellites May 2 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.  The Falcon 9 lifted off at  11:36 a.m. Pacific carrying Maxar-1 — the company’s first two WorldView Legion high-resolution Earth observation satellites, each carrying powerful cameras capable of capturing precise images of small

Rakus the orangutan with an injury on his face, before he applied leaves to the wound Armas An orangutan has been seen applying the leaves of a plant commonly used in traditional medicine to a cut on its face, seemingly to hasten healing. It is the first case in the scientific record of a non-human

Bilayer of ultracold atoms has just a 50 nm gap – 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

An editorial recently published on SpaceNews took the position that my company’s Luna Memorial Spaceflight service should not be permitted on the Moon because the Navajo Nation views the Moon as sacred. In essence, the author is arguing that lawful space missions should be subject to the religious test of a single culture. The heart

Some people have heart attacks during moments of anger smolaw/Shutterstock Getting angry – even for just a few minutes – can change the functioning of your blood vessels, which may make heart attacks and strokes more likely. The finding could explain why some people experience these events during emotional outbursts. This result comes from a

Cryptic quantum-physics word search: the solution – 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 — Millennium Space Systems, a subsidiary of Boeing, won a $414 million contract from the Space Development Agency to produce specialized satellites aimed at detecting and tracking hypersonic missile threats, the agency announced April 30.  Under the agreement, Millennium will build eight satellites equipped with advanced infrared and optical sensors, provide the ground system

The Madygen formation is one of the world’s richest Triassic fossil beds – but few people have heard of it. GeoExplorersClub Around 235 million years ago, in what is now central Asia, a small reptile fell into a freshwater lake and settled in the soft mud at the bottom. The creature – named Longisquama, meaning

Missing gamma rays cast doubt on cosmic-ray origins – 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 – Finnish startup Kuva Space will provide hyperspectral data to the European Space Agency under a 1.8 million euro ($1.93 million) contract announced April 29. Kuva Space will develop onboard data processing and rapid communications links to support Finnish government agencies focused on border security, wildfires and landslides. The three-year research and development

Dark matter halos (yellow) form around galaxies Ralf Kaehler/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Delicate might not be the first word that springs to mind when you think of the Milky Way. But when Mariangela Lisanti started tinkering with the recipe for our galaxy, she found it surprisingly fragile. Lisanti, a particle physicist at Princeton University, was simulating

Bolometer measures state of superconducting qubit – 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 Falcon 9 successfully placed into orbit a pair of Galileo navigation satellites April 27 in a launch that was unusual in several aspects. The Falcon 9 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 8:34 p.m. Eastern, carrying the Galileo GM25 and FM27 satellites. The European Union Agency for

Bowheads feel the impacts of commercial whaling 100 years later Doc White/Nature Picture Library/Alamy Commercial whaling of bowheads ended about a century ago, but the industry’s footprint could threaten the species’ future. Before people sought their blubber for oil and their baleen for tools and clothes, bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) flourished. This was despite drastic