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News Virgin Galactic launches 1st mother-daughter team and 1st Olympian to space on 2nd commercial flight
“Virgin Galactic just aced its second-ever commercial mission, setting a number of spaceflight records in the process. The company launched its “Galactic 02” flight today (Aug. 10), sending six people to suborbital space and back. Four of them were women …
“A rash of storms in Texas in recent years — from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to the deep freeze in 2021 — has put big chunks of the population in danger and left millions without electricity or water for long periods. These …
“Sandia invents method to integrate microscale optical devices on silicon microchips The laser is so small you need a microscope to see it properly. But it’s not just the size that scientists at Sandia are excited about. The buzz …
“Rice University physicists have shown that immutable topological states, which are highly sought for quantum computing, can be entangled with other, manipulable quantum states in some materials. “The surprising thing we found is that in a particular kind of crystal …
“Researchers observe an effect in the quantum world that does not exist in the macrocosm Many substances change their properties when they are cooled below a certain critical temperature. Such a phase transition occurs, for example, when water freezes. However …
“An Interface One / Microdrive Emulation for the ZX Spectrum This device plugs into the back of a 48K ZX Spectrum and provides the functionality of the original 1984 “ZX Spectrum Expansion System”. It emulates a ZX Interface One with 8 …
“Using a two-dimensional material to electrically connect to high-power semiconductor transistors improves device performance. Computers, despite all their apparent complexity, are basically just a large number of electronic switches, flicking on and off in the right order to process digital …
“The Big Data revolution has strained the capabilities of state-of-the-art electronic hardware, challenging engineers to rethink almost every aspect of the microchip. With ever more enormous data sets to store, search and analyze at increasing levels of complexity, these devices …
“Carrier multiplication effect driven by spin-flip transitions of manganese dopants may boost technologies including photoinduced chemistry, photodetection and solar cells. A new approach to developing semiconductor materials at tiny scales could help boost applications that rely on converting light to …
“HZDR team takes a closer look at special kind of quasiparticle Skyrmions are microscopic magnetic vortices that can form in certain materials. First detected in 2009, they are of interest to research because they could be harnessed for new forms …