WASHINGTON — Defense contractor L3Harris announced Dec. 20 it has received approval from the Space Development Agency to move into…
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TAMPA, Fla. — Karim Michel Sabbagh has left megaconstellation startup E-Space to lead Space42, a proposed combination of regional satellite…
SAN FRANCISCO — A delegation from the French Space Agency CNES visited Colorado and Texas last week to expand ties…
Ian Randall reviews Communications Breakdown: SF Stories about the Future of Connection edited by Jonathan Strahan Modern apocalypse Communications Breakdown…
Social media platforms can be toxic environments at times, and tensions can spill over in the real world, as with…
A new frequency comb setup can capture the moment-by-moment details of carbon dioxide gas escaping from a nozzle at supersonic…
Green credentials: the UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, took place between 30 November and 12 December in Dubai, United Arab…
Careful selection: removing 10% of the oranges on the surface of this display could cause an citrus avalanche. (Courtesy: Sir…
Stable skyrmions: First-principles calculations of the skyrmion-stabilizing Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction in pristine (bottom) and oxidized (top) Fe3GaTe2-x enabled the team to…
Researchers from MIT and Northeastern University developed a liquid crystal elastomer fibre that can change its shape in response to…
(a) Droplets sliding down (l-r) a single fibre, a bundle of two fibres and a bundle of three fibres. A…
Simple setup: The iodine vapour cells used in Vector Atomic’s portable optical atomic clock. (Courtesy: Vector Atomic) Atoms are the…
Quiet conductor: scanning electron microscope image of a long nanowire made of the strange metal. The scale bar at the…
This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features a lively discussion about our Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2023. Physics…
Sky high: new research has shed light on how higher carbon dioxide levels in the stratosphere contributes to global warming.…
Espresso eruption: static electricity affects your cup of coffee. (Courtesy: iStock/radu984) What do volcanic eruptions and grinding coffee have in…
Hot topic: US climate envoy John Kerry announces a new international fusion plan at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP28,…
Cutting edge: NIRSpec being readied for the launch of the JWST. (Courtesy: Astrium/NIRSpec) Using a cutting-edge spectrograph on the James…