Melting time: Kae Nemoto looked at the melting of discrete time crystals. (Courtesy: iStock/William Potter) Researchers in Japan have developed a new mathematical technique to explore the characteristics of time crystals. The team, led by Kae Nemoto at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, used a combination of graph theory and statistical mechanics to
Month: November 2020
The practical and straightforward aerial bridges or Rainforest Canopy Bridges have become a useful tool for underpasses and overpasses of terrestrial wildlife worldwide to connect them across fragmented landscapes. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)The simple and practical aerial bridges or Rainforest Canopy Bridges have become a useful tool for underpasses and overpasses of terrestrial wildlife all over the globe,
Americans love pickup trucks. Pickups accounted for 20% of all vehicle sales so far this year, according to Edmunds, and they are outselling sedans for the first time ever. At the same time, there is an electric revolution taking place. “It’s a really exciting time for the automotive industry. I compare it to the start
WASHINGTON — A critical test of the core stage of the Space Launch System is facing another delay, this time because of a combination of weather and technical issues that may push back the test to the end of the year. NASA announced late Nov. 6 that it was delaying the final phases of the
Companies often struggle with building community trust as they navigate between profit-making and authentically engaging on climate change and environmental justice matters. Last week at GreenBiz Group’s virtual conference and expo on stimulating the clean economy, VERGE 20, community leaders and businesses from across the country came together to network, share insights and explore solutions
The logo of Toyota Motor is displayed at a company’s car showroom in Tokyo on February 6, 2019. Kazuhiro Nogi | AFP | Getty Images During a Toyota Motors earnings call on Friday, executives answered questions about how they plan to compete in the expanding field of electric vehicles, and took a potshot at Tesla’s
As things look now, the US presidency of Donald Trump will soon be in the rear-view mirror, but the damage his administration leaves behind will require a sustained effort to repair. That’s especially true when it comes to restoring competency and trust in federal research agencies. President-elect Joe Biden needs to do this as soon
The new generation of military GPS circuit cards are low power and about the size of a silver dollar. WASHINGTON — Raytheon Technologies, L3Harris’ Interstate Electronics Corp. and BAE Systems collectively received $552.5 million in contracts to develop and produce integrated circuit cards for military GPS receivers. The contracts announced Nov. 6 by the U.S.
Oil tanks at an oil processing facility of Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian state-owned oil and gas company, at the Abqaiq oil field. Stanislav Krasilnikov | TASS via Getty Images DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Aramco’s net profit fell 44.6% in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the same period last year, reflecting
Concerns have been raised over the analysis that pointed to phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL) Doubt has been cast on the supposed discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus after several papers were published on the arXiv preprint server, challenging the result. The discovery had been announced in September when a
Cities in India notoriously have heavy air pollution, specifically PM2.5, and sadly, the same is true for their countryside regions. The rural residents of India have been exposed to the same level of harmful pollutants in their atmosphere that city residents endure every day. The harmful PM 2.5 pollutant Some of the particles that pervade
WASHINGTON — A key senator says she will continue to push for passage during a lame-duck session of a NASA authorization bill that supports the Artemis lunar exploration program, but not necessarily the agency’s goal of return humans to the moon by 2024. In a talk Nov. 6 at a conference organized by the University
Whatever your political leanings, the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States increases the odds of bringing America back into the community of nations addressing the climate crisis. “Increases the odds” is the key phrase in the above sentence. There’s a lot of work to do, and not just by our elected
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, speaks to a group of Amazon employees that are veterans during an Amazon Veterans Day celebration on Monday, November 12, 2018. Leonard Ortiz | Digital First Media | Getty Images Tech CEOs and Silicon Valley luminaries congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris after their victory
Our blue sphere: a photograph of Earth, taken by the Apollo 17 mission. (Courtesy: NASA) In case you were not convinced by our immensely popular article “Fighting flat-Earth theory” by Rachel Brazil, the physicist and round-Earther Steven Wooding has created an online calculator that suggests a few fun experiments that you can do to prove
A68a is the largest iceberg globally, and it is about to collide with South Georgia, one of the BOT or British Overseas Territories. Danger to the ecosystem This iceberg may anchor and ground to the wildlife-rich island and may become a threat to the local seals and penguins. Their foraging routes may get blocked and prevent them from
Joe Biden is set to become the 46th president of the United States.Credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Joe Biden will soon be president of the United States, and scientists the world over are breathing a collective sigh of relief. But concerns remain: nearly half the country voted for President Donald Trump, whose actions have repeatedly undermined science
HELSINKI — Chinese rocket firm Galactic Energy successfully sent a small satellite into orbit Saturday with the first launch of its Ceres-1 launch vehicle. The Ceres-1 four-stage solid rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near the Gobi Desert at 2:12 a.m. Eastern Saturday. First indications of launch came from spectators posting footage
The words “classic American car” might conjure memories of massive sedans, flourishes like tailfins, big engines and in many cases bench seats. The front bench seat was once a standard feature of American cars, but over time it disappeared, in part due to changing tastes and safety regulations. Its disappearance actually says a lot about
WASHINGTON – Joe Biden is projected to win the U.S. presidential election, according to NBC News, a watershed moment in a deeply divided nation that is facing multiple crises. The call in the race came four days after Election Day, and during close counts in multiple battleground states. President Donald Trump’s campaign has mounted several
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An artist’s impression of Rashid, the UAE’s first lunar rover, which will include high resolution cameras, a thermal imager and a Langmuir Probe. Credit: MBRSC The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced plans to send a compact rover named Rashid to study the Moon in 2024, marking an intensification in the small nation’s space-faring ambitions.
HELSINKI — The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully carried out its first launch since the COVID-19 outbreak Saturday sending the EOS-1 Earth observation satellite and nine smaller payloads into orbit. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C49 (PSLV-C49) lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the Indian island of Sriharikota at 4:42 a.m. Eastern Nov. 7
Traditional accounting methods do not fully capture the externalized costs of economic activities in the food and agricultural space, and this shortcoming is becoming more apparent because climate change is intensifying the focus on sustainable development. Against this backdrop, some industry officials think that true-cost accounting for food offers a better way forward. True-cost accounting
Amazon Flex Driver CNBC | Katie Schoolov Amazon is launching a rewards program for its legions of Flex delivery drivers that gives them a leg up when it comes to the app’s competitive shift selection process. The company quietly added a section to the Flex website and an app on Apple’s App Store that advertise
The flow of optical power in and around the seven-nanoparticle “gear” of the optical matter machine. Courtesy: N Scherer A new device that converts laser light into mechanical work could be used to manipulate nano-scale objects for applications in nanofluidics and particle sorting. The device, which is based on a self-assembled hexagonal array of nanoparticles
Ants ingest their formic acid to disinfect their bodies against bacterial infection. This was the finding of a study by a research team from the University of Bayreuth and MLU or Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. The research The research team has found that the formic acid secreted by ants can destroy harmful bacteria present in their food, which reduces the possibility of
India’s PSLV-C49 carrying its latest earth observation satellite EOS-01 and nine customer satellites lifted off from the spaceport here on Saturday. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C49/EOS-01) blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 3:12pm at the end of a 26-hour countdown. The lift off was originally scheduled for 3:02pm but
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here China is heading back to the Moon later this month.Credit: NASA/SPL Chinese spacecraft, Chang’e-5, will depart later this month on a mission to gather rocks from the Moon. If successful, it will be the first material
SAN FRANCISCO – Maxar Technologies plans to launch its first two WorldView Legion satellites as early as September 2021 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. “We continue to make progress on the integration, assembly and test of all six spacecraft and instruments, and we expect to go into
The Crystal, in Newham, London, opened in 2012. Pawel Libera | LightRocket | Getty Images The Greater London Authority (GLA) is set to swap its riverside headquarters in the middle of the U.K. capital for a development that boasts a range of sustainable design features and connected technologies. Also known as City Hall, the GLA
Peter Thiel, co-founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies Inc., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir, the data analytics software company co-founded by Peter Thiel, one of President Donald Trump’s former top allies in Silicon Valley, just wrapped up its best
100 not out: the Institute of Physics celebrates its centenary When the Institute of Physics (IOP), which publishes Physics World, was founded in 1920, it was to serve as a voice for the fledgling physics community in the UK. Before then, physics had mostly been conducted by a tiny band of elite researchers at a
Wombats have unique bum: unlike other mammals with soft rumps, theirs are hard as a rock as it is used for defense, burrowing, fighting for their territory, and mating. Wombats (Vombatus ursinus) are large, stocky marsupials found in Australia and adjacent islands. A wombat baby is born as tiny, undeveloped young, crawling into a pouch of
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here An artist’s impression of Rashid, the UAE’s first lunar rover, which will include high-resolution cameras, a thermal imager and a Langmuir Probe. Credit: MBRSC With its orbiter Hope on its way to Mars, the United Arab
Airbus U.S. Space and Defense filed its protest Oct. 28. Raytheon’s protest was filed Nov. 3. WASHINGTON — Airbus and Raytheon have filed protests with the Government Accountability Office challenging Space Development Agency contracts awarded to L3Harris and SpaceX last month for eight missile-tracking satellites, putting the projects on hold until the dispute is resolved.
Solar has become a staple of the U.S. power generation mix in the last decade. Now that the industry is maturing, it’s time to have a tough conversation: The solar industry needs to improve its circular practices. Like any industry, the solar industry has unique machinery and equipment; specifically, its photovoltaic (PV) cells have silicon, metal, glass
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is following the lead of the software company he helped create and moving his venture firm out of California. Earlier this year, Londsdale relocated his family from the Bay Area to Austin, Texas. He’s now doing the same with his firm, 8VC, though he told CNBC he’ll keep its San Francisco
Artistic representation of OSIRIS-REx over the asteroid Bennu. NASA/GODDARD/University of Arizona. In 2016, the OSIRIS-REx probe left Earth but unlike most other probes on their journey out to space, OSIRIS-REx does intend to return home. If all goes well, OSIRIS-REx will return to its home in 2023 carrying a precious sample. As of 2018, OSIRIS-REx
Credit: Louis Monier/Gamma-Rapho/Getty In the mid-1970s, Mario Molina helped to predict that global emissions of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) could deplete stratospheric ozone. A decade later, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey reported that a vast hole had appeared in the ozone layer over the South Pole. Molina’s tireless advocacy and scientific diplomacy helped to bring about
HELSINKI — China’s main space contractor is developing launch vehicles capable of learning and adapting as well as multiple technologies for recovering and reusing rockets. China will develop a first launch vehicle capable of vertical takeoff, vertical landing by 2025, Wu Yansheng, a senior official with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), said
Clerkenwell | Vetta | Getty Images Socially responsible, or sustainable, investing — investing in ways to make the world a better place — continues to surge, driven by increasing consumer demand and the recognition that sustainable funds provide returns comparable to traditional funds in addition to lower risk. The first half of 2020 saw a
Taken from the November 2020 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. The Institute of Physics was created in 1920 to champion a new generation of professional physicists working in industry, academia and the government, as Susan Curtis describes (Courtesy: IOP Publishing/Mat
A new study found that the forest’s largest trees capture much more carbon and dominate its carbon storage. Massive capacity to store carbon The older trees in the forest, those with the larger diameters, have been found to disproportionally store larger quantities of carbon compared to the smaller trees. This finding gives these trees a newly recognized importance in
Most black holes are formed by the collapse of stars. The inside of a collapsing star is unimaginable. There are temperatures and pressures that we really don’t have good numbers for. We will need new, undiscovered physics to explain what goes on inside a black hole. | http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/how-the-universe-works/ Catch new episodes of HOW THE UNIVERSE
The mobile-messaging application WhatsApp is displayed on an Apple iPhone Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp will let users in India send money through the app starting Friday, as long as they have a bank account and debit card in India. India is one of the largest markets
Genoa Warner’s children became experts at parentwearing.Credit: Genoa Warner In 2015, while we were both in graduate school, my partner and I decided we were ready to start a family. I meticulously planned the last year of graduate school around my pregnancy, hoping to defend my thesis just before giving birth and then take three
SAN FRANCISCO – EchoStar Corp. plans to launch the Jupiter 3 broadband satellite in the first quarter of 2022 but has not yet selected a launch provider, company officials said during a Nov. 5 earnings call. EchoStar originally planned to launch the 500 gigabit-per-second Ka-band satellite in 2021 to expand broadband capacity over North and