Since the late 19th century, sauropod dinosaurs (long-necks like Brontosaurus and…
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What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body
A 2014 study by the US military has also found that exposure to tear gas and pepper spray make people vulnerable to respiratory infections in the week following exposure compared with the week before exposure. Army recruits exposed to CS tear gas…
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Laser Focused: Keith Barr Leads Orion’s Lunar Docking Efforts
Keith Barr was born only months before the historic Apollo 11 landing in 1969. While he was too young to witness that giant leap for mankind, the moment sparked a lifelong fascination that set him on a path to design technology that will carry…
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IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028
IBM intends Starling to be able to perform computational tasks beyond the capability of classical computers. Starling will have 200 logical qubits, which will be constructed using the company’s chips. It should be able to perform 100 million…
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‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US
Unlike a linear taper, which involves reducing the dose of a medication by the same amount each time, a hyperbolic taper gradually slows the rate of reduction—cutting smaller and smaller amounts as it goes—so that the final doses are…
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Searching for a New Force
• Physics 18, s73
A hypothetical fifth force could be detected by its effect on the optical transition frequencies of an element’s different isotopes.
Graphics Design at PTB
Among the…
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Muon Experiment Calls It a Wrap
• Physics 18, 116
The final results from the Muon g − 2 experiment agree with the latest predictions of the muon’s magnetic properties—letting down hopes that the particle would upset the standard model’s applecart.
US Navy’s new weapon to turn helicopters into sea mine killers
To strengthen airborne mine countermeasure capabilities, the US Navy has awarded a $10.5 million firm-fixed-price contract modification to BAE Systems.
The contract, announced this week by the US Department of Defense, funds the delivery of…
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Amazon announces $20B nuclear-powered data center expansion in US
In what happens to be the biggest investment in the history of Pennsylvania, ecommerce giant Amazon has pledged a whopping $20Bn dollars to build two large data center complexes.
One of these complexes is already under construction near a…
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Ukraine destroys hypersonic missile-armed fighters at Russian airbase
Ukraine has launched another audacious raid on a Russian airbase, reportedly destroying over £82 million ($110.5 million) worth of assets. Of the destroyed hardware, a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31 K and a Sukhoi SU-30/34, both of which are critical…
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