Jet takes off from Florida to attempt world flight records

[ad_1] ORLANDO, Florida, July 9 (UPI) – A jet plane took off Tuesday morning from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to try to break global flight records around the Earth, above the North and South poles. Retired astronaut Terry Virts and a team of pilots from the British company Action Aviation will fly a business jet … Read more

The discovery of physicists could revolutionize the transmission of information

[ad_1] RIVERSIDE, California – Spread, electrons; it is time to make way for the trion. A research team led by physicists from the University of California, Riverside, observed, characterized and controlled dark trions in a semiconductor – ultra-pure monolayer diselenide tungsten (WSe)2) – an exploit that could increase the capacity and change the form of … Read more

The ancient Saharan Seaway shows how the climate and creatures of the Earth can undergo extreme changes

[ad_1] PICTURE: During the Early Paleogene and Upper Cretaceous, the shallow waters of the Trans-Saharan Seaway swarmed with aquatic species ranging from small molluscs to giant sea snakes and catfishes. view more Credit: © Carl Buell A new article to appear in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History integrates 20 years of … Read more

NASA satellites reveal a huge proliferation of algae in the Caribbean

[ad_1] NASA satellites have spotted thousands of kilometers of brown algae extending over the Atlantic Ocean. The latest satellite observations reveal that the Atlantic Ocean is now home to a carpet of brown seaweed that stretches 8,850 kilometers from the coast of West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. large proliferation of algae in the … Read more

"Connecting the dots" for quantum networks

[ad_1] Diagram of a nanoscale structure called a "photonic crystal waveguide", containing quantum dots that can interact with each other when they are set to the same wavelength. Credit: Chul Soo Kim, US Navy Research Laboratory Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have developed a new technique that could enable future advances in … Read more

Screening on the Washington Monument to score Apollo 11

[ad_1] At the end of July, for five nights, the Washington Monument will turn into a Saturn V rocket destined for the Moon. On Tuesday, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum unveiled plans for a dazzling "unique in its life" show at the National Mall to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 … Read more

"Deadly Dust" – The global storm killing the Mars mission

[ad_1] Posted on Jul 8, 2019 in Astronomy, NASA, News, Science On August 31, 2018, John Callas, Mars Opportunity Project Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said, "If we do not hear the answer after 45 days, the team will be forced to conclude that the dust blocking the sun and the Martian cold have … Read more