Новости за 24.04.2023

Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Apr 21, 2023
Surely it has ever happened to you to shake an open bag of mixed nuts. Have you noticed that after such a procedure, the largest nuts in the mixture - Brazil nuts - float to the top? The phenomenon of large objects rising to the surface of a mixture of small objects, bearing the professional name of granular convection, is popularly referred to "the Brazil nut effect" and occurs commonly in natu

Paris (ESA) Apr 20, 2023
Now in its fifth year in space, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) remains a rousing success. TESS's cameras have mapped more than 93% of the entire sky, discovered 329 new worlds and thousands more candidates, and provided new insights into a wide array of cosmic phenomena, from stellar pulsations and exploding stars to supermassive black holes. Using its four cameras, TE

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2023
Even as SpaceX said its Starship "flight termination system" worked as designed, Thursday's spectacular launch failure in Texas also revealed another potential issue with the program locally: explosive debris. The SpaceX rocket launch explosion rained debris over a wide area, shaking homes and covering nearby Port Isabel with brown grime for miles. Rob Nixon of San Benito, who wa

Starbase TX (AFP) Apr 23 2023
Flying chunks of concrete, twisted metal sheets, craters blasted deep into the ground: the thunderous power of SpaceX's first test flight of Starship - the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built - inflicted serious damage on its Texas launch site. Repairing the damage from Thursday's unmanned test flight is expected to take months, potentially delaying further launch attempts and slow

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2023
The CAPSTONE mission team has provided an update on the spacecraft's operations since performing the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) insertion maneuver on November 13th, 2022. The spacecraft has spent 154 days operating in the NRHO, completing 23 NRHO revolutions, and executing six Orbit Maintenance Maneuvers (OMM) using approximately 1.8 m/s of fuel. Despite issues with a thruster valv

Paris (ESA) Apr 21, 2023
Making use of the very first resources of another world would be a major feat for our species, bringing us closer to living in space to stay. But reaching such a milestone will take sustained inventiveness and effort - so ESA invites your ideas to help make it happen. Making use of space resources will be crucial for sustainable space exploration, enabling us to reduce the costs and risks

New York (AFP) April 21, 2023
Tesla shares advanced Friday after the prior session's rout as investors digested the latest price changes at Elon Musk's electric vehicle company. Shares of the EV maker, which fell about 10 percent Thursday after its latest results, rose slightly as it lifted prices on its two luxury vehicles - the Model S and Model X - by around three percent in the United States. The move marked an

Khartoum, Sudan (AFP) April 23, 2023
Conflict-riven Sudan has suffered a "near-total" internet blackout, a web monitor said Sunday, as fighting between the army and a paramilitary group entered a second week. "Real-time network data show a near-total collapse of internet connectivity in #Sudan with national connectivity now at 2% of ordinary levels," tweeted NetBlocks, a London-based organisation that monitors web access around

Hong Kong, China (AFP) April 21, 2023
Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, has been made an honorary professor of business at a top Hong Kong university, the school announced Friday. The appointment comes weeks after the billionaire made a rare public appearance in China following his fall from grace during a government crackdown on the tech industry over two years ago. Ma has kept a low profile since late 2020, w

Hong Kong, China (SPX) Apr 24, 2023
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are considered a promising candidate for next-generation photovoltaic technology with high efficiency and low production cost, potentially revolutionizing the renewable energy industry. However, the existing layer-by-layer manufacturing process presents challenges that have hindered the commercialisation of this technology. Recently, researchers from City University

Boston MA (SPX) Apr 24, 2023
Tandem solar cells are made of stacked materials - such as silicon paired with perovskites - that together absorb more of the solar spectrum than single materials, resulting in a dramatic increase in efficiency. Their potential to generate significantly more power than conventional cells could make a meaningful difference in the race to combat climate change and the transition to a clean-energy

Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 24, 2023
Freshwater is essential for human life and the scarcity of freshwater is a critical issue in parts of the world today. In recent years, scientists have put great efforts into developing desalination technologies so that clean water can be produced from seawater. Interfacial solar evaporation (ISE) is a technology that holds promise for helping to relieve worldwide freshwater shortages. A team of

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2023
NASA has demonstrated a breakthrough in 3D printable high-temperature materials that could lead to stronger, more durable parts for airplanes and spacecraft. A team of innovators from NASA and The Ohio State University detailed the characteristics of the new alloy, GRX-810, in a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Nature. "This superalloy has the potential to dramatically im

Boston MA (SPX) Apr 24, 2023
In the vast, expansive skies where birds once ruled supreme, a new crop of aviators is taking flight. These pioneers of the air are not living creatures, but rather a product of deliberate innovation: drones. But these aren't your typical flying bots, humming around like mechanical bees. Rather, they're avian-inspired marvels that soar through the sky, guided by liquid neural networks to navigat

Urbana IL (SPX) Apr 24, 2023
Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is found everywhere from the dust filling most of outer space to the cores of stars to many substances here on Earth. This would be reason enough to study hydrogen, but its individual atoms are also the simplest of any element with just one proton and one electron. For David Ceperley, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois Urbana

Paris, France (SPX) Apr 24, 2023
Quantum computers will need to be interconnected for maximum performance, and will make current encryption technology vulnerable. But what exactly is quantum communication, and how is it useful? Here is a quick guide to demystify the quantum world. Sensitive information is now frequently encrypted and delivered via the internet, through fibre-optic cables, telecommunication satellites and

Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 24, 2023
In the arid regions of the American Southwest, an unseen world lies beneath our feet. Biocrusts, or biological soil crusts, are communities of living organisms. These industrious microbes include cyanobacteria, green algae, fungi, lichens, and mosses, forming a thin layer on the surface of soils in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. Biocrusts play a crucial role in maintaining soil health and

Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2023
China has approved a major surge in coal power so far this year, prioritising energy supply over its pledge to reduce emissions from fossil fuels, Greenpeace said Monday. The world's second-largest economy is also its biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases driving climate change, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), and China's emissions pledges are seen as essential to keeping global temperature

Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 24, 2023
Search and rescue efforts following disasters like the massive earthquakes in Turkey and Syria are a race against time. Emergency response teams need to quickly identify voids or spaces in building rubble where survivors might be trapped, and before natural gas leaks, water main flooding or shifting concrete slabs take their toll. Advanced technology plays a vital role in these recovery op

Watch highlights as third-placed Aberdeen beat second-top Rangers to record a seventh straight victory. (UK only)

The LIV gold Adelaide tournament took place last week and the spectacle saw Sam Horsfield, who withdrew from the event injured, and last-placed Sihwan Kim scoop huge cash prizes

Professors in the Lone Star state are about to lose their job protections. The Texas Tribune reports that the Texas Senate has voted along party lines to do away with tenure for new faculty at the state's public universities. The effort was led by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, who last year vowed to end tenure protections for university professors who he said "indoctrinate" students with left-wing concepts like critical race theory. 

The South Korean government is trying to encourage isolated young people to "re-enter society" by offering to pay them a monthly stipend. The number of young recluses in the country is of grave concern to South Korean leaders amid other issues plaguing the population.

The perennial question on the existence of aliens has been circulating anew. Some evidence suggesting there is life outside of Earth, including from the Perseverance rover on Mars, have been found, but many unanswered questions remain. If aliens really exist, how could we find them? 

The Dubai-based company, which uses “direct air-to-water technology,” is merging with a special purpose acquisition company led by Isabelle Freidheim.