KATHMANDU, March 20 — The American Physical Society’s (APS) Global Physics Summit wrapped up in Nepal on Thursday, bringing together scientists, researchers and policymakers to discuss advances in physics and their role in addressing global…
Technological progress alone won’t stem resource use
[caption id="attachment_11353" align="alignright" width="639"] An MIT-led study finds that technological advances alone will not bring about dematerialization, or the reduction of the amount of materials needed to produce goods and services.Image: MIT News[/caption] Are humans…
E.DEORBIT GRABBING DEBRIS
[caption id="attachment_11306" align="alignright" width="624"] Scenario 2[/caption] ESA’s proposed e.Deorbit mission, shown left, using a robotic arm to catch a derelict satellite – the baseline capture method for what would be the world’s first active space…
NASA, NOAA Data Show 2016 Warmest Year on…
Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees…
CERN experiment reports sixfold improved measurement of the…
18 January 2017, Geneva, CERN In a paper published today in the journal Nature Communications, the BASE collaboration at CERN reports the most precise measurement ever made of the magnetic moment of the antiproton, allowing a…