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Teaching nuclear physics using data rather than models, recovering helium from party balloons – 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

SPACEPORT AMERICA, N.M. — Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane conducted its final commercial mission June 8, taking a Turkish researcher and three private astronauts on a suborbital spaceflight. VSS Unity, attached to its VMS Eve mothership aircraft, took off from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico at 10:31 a.m. Eastern. Unity released from Eve at

SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket on the same day that Boeing’s Starliner craft made its first crewed flight, a sign that the space industry is hotting up Read the original article here

A love of triangles, the physics of spin, volcanic science and Pascal’s papers: micro reviews of the best recent books – 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. —  Planet’s first hyperspectral satellite is ready for launch to help push the Earth observation operator to profitability by early next year. Tanager-1 has arrived at California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of a SpaceX rideshare mission that could take off as soon as July, the operator said June 6 amid earnings results.

Two teeth, viewed from multiple angles, from the newly identified ancient ape Buronius manfredschmidi Böhme et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 A tiny, vegetarian great ape may have lived in western Europe 11.6 million years ago. Smaller and lighter than any other known great ape, the newly discovered 10-kilogram primate was a skilled climber

Equal1 wins IOP’s qBIG Prize for quantum innovation – 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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on its first crewed flight June 6 after working through problems with the spacecraft’s thrusters. The spacecraft docked with the forward port on the station’s Harmony module at 1:34 p.m. Eastern, nearly 27 hours after its launch from Florida on the

The domestication of horses began on the Eurasian steppes Lina Shatalova/iStockphoto/Ge​tty Images Ancient breeders dramatically shortened the natural generation times of horses starting about 4200 years ago, according to a genetic study of hundreds of ancient horses. This intensive breeding led to a massive expansion of those bloodlines across Eurasia within a few centuries, says

Silverstone racetrack hosts Institute of Physics summer festival – 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 us for an engaging session to explore how both the United States and Japanese space agencies and industry are approaching the challenges of space sustainability. Why do both countries feel it is a priority? How have the government and space agencies taken action to support solutions? What innovations is the industry pursuing and why?

Starliner launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 5 June Joe Raedle/Getty Images Boeing has successfully launched its Starliner spacecraft with a crew aboard for the first time, on the third attempt. The milestone launch means that NASA now has two commercial options for getting astronauts to space: Boeing and SpaceX. Starliner launched from Cape Canaveral

Simple equation predicts how quickly animals flap their wings – 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 — K2 Space, a two-year-old startup developing large spacecraft buses, will launch its first satellite this year as it attracts interest from government and commercial customers. In an interview, Karan and Neel Kunjur, the cofounders of K2 Space, said their first spacecraft is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-12 rideshare mission, planned for October.

Having a positive mindset can result in unexpected consequences DEEPOL by plainpicture/Anja Weber-Decker Are you struggling with low self-esteem? If so, you may have been told to repeat phrases such as “I am a loveable person, I am a loveable person, I am a loveable person”. Positive chants like this, known as self-affirmations, are said

Nuclear physicists tame radius calculation problem – 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 once highly-classified ability to detect and pinpoint the locations of radio frequency (RF) emissions from space is rapidly transitioning to the commercial sector — giving companies new powerful capabilities for all sorts of surveillance and intelligence gathering. Interest in RF monitoring from space has soared in recent years as geopolitical conflicts disrupt

For an experiment designed to reverse time, the apparatus was surprisingly simple: little more than a tank of water. With a puff of air to disturb the surface, Emmanuel Fort created a set of ripples moving outwards in concentric circles. Then, as the waves spread, he gave the tank a practised jolt – at which