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Huge fault-tolerant quantum computers on the agenda at Commercialising Quantum 2024 conference – 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

Join our expert panelists as they dive into the growing race for moon resources. With nations and companies now vying for water, metals, and minerals across the lunar surface, will NASA’s commercial strategy prove effective? And can countries coexist in this new frontier?  Panelists Douglas TerrierAssociate Director for StrategyNASA Johnson Space Center Yao SongCo-CEO, Co-founderOrienspace Blaine CurcioFounderOrbital GatewayConsulting Namrata GoswamiAuthor, Professor, Founder Moderator David

Two types of fusion reactor called tokamaks and stellarators both have drawbacks – but a new design combining parts from both could offer the best of both worlds Read the original article here

Could the answer to the Antikythera astronomical device emerge from a Manhattan basement? – 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 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is turning to the commercial satellite imagery industry for help monitoring objects in Earth’s orbit. The agency on June 12 released a request for information seeking input from companies in the emerging non-Earth imagery (NEI) market. NEI refers to imaging spacecraft, satellites, and space debris in orbit. It’s a

The malaria drug artemisinin is derived from the plant sweet wormwood FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images A medicine already used to treat malaria could also work as a treatment for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). In a small trial of 19 women with PCOS, the widely used drug artemisinin improved the regularity of their menstrual

The Kavli Prize in Astrophysics: meet the 2024 laureates David Charbonneau and Sara Seager – 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

HELSINKI — European-Chinese cooperation in lunar exploration could come to an end despite successful collaboration in the ongoing Chang’e-6 mission. ESA provided a payload for China’s Chang’e-6 complex lunar far side sample return mission which launched May 3. The mission aims to gather and return samples from the lunar far side, providing unprecedented insights into

Martin Rees at the 2017 Hay Festival of Literature in Hay on Wye, UK Alamy Stock Photo The Oscars. The Booker prize. The Nobels. The award ceremonies that punctuate our year are all inherently backward-looking, celebrating past achievements. But there is another type of award, one that looks to the future – the challenge prize.

An investigation into battery thermal runaway initiation and propagation – 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. — Kongsberg NanoAvionics hopes to significantly expand its government business after appointing national security specialist Atle Wøllo to lead the Lithuanian small satellite builder. The company appointed Wøllo as CEO June 10 to replace Žilvinas Kvedaravičius, who held the position on an interim basis following the departure of co-founder and former CEO Vytenis Buzas last

adbobe stock/Erika Eros/Alamy/collarge ryan wills Deep inside a black hole, the cosmos gets twisted beyond comprehension. Here, at some infinitesimal point of infinite density, the fabric of the universe gets so ludicrously warped that Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which describes how mass bends space-time, ceases to make sense. At the singularity, our understanding

The route to ‘net zero’: how the manufacturing industry can help – 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. — Yahsat ordered a pair of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites from Airbus amid a $1.1 billion program for its next two geostationary broadband spacecraft, the Emirati operator announced June 10. The companies said the LEO satellites would be based on Arrow, a satellite platform derived from the 150-kilogram spacecraft Airbus helped build for

Two juvenile elephants greet each other in Samburu National Reserve in Kenya George Wittemyer Elephants may be the only animals besides humans to come up with arbitrary names for each other, according to an analysis of recordings using machine learning. The analysis found that some calls from African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) seem to contain

It’s official: United Nations declares 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology – 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 Space Development Agency is pushing prime contractors to line up secondary and tertiary suppliers for key satellite components amid fears of supply chain shortfalls that could delay the agency’s ambitious schedule for deploying a new proliferated architecture in low-Earth orbit. Col. Alexander Rasmussen, chief of SDA’s Tracking Layer program, said the agency

High temperatures hit Joshua Tree, California, on 5 June 2024 Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Mexico has been experiencing a severe heatwave due to a massive heat dome that has been affecting the country for weeks. Now this system has extended northwards into the southern US, causing extreme temperatures across a large region.