Neuromorphic cameras, which only record data when a pixel’s brightness changes, may be advantageous for capturing extremely bright and dim objects in the same image and tracking fast-moving objects
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Measuring three-nucleon interactions to better understand nuclear data and neutron stars
Though atomic nuclei are often depicted as static clusters of protons and neutrons (nucleons), the particles are actually bustling with movement. Thus, the nucleons carry a range of momenta. Sometimes, these nucleons may even briefly engage through the strong interaction. This interaction between two nucleons can boost the momentum of both and form high-momentum nucleon pairs. This effect yields two-nucleon short-range correlations.
Experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have studied these pairs to learn how protons and neutrons preferentially pair up at short distances. However, short-range correlations involving three or more nucleons haven’t been detected yet.
Now, in a study published in Physics Letters B, researchers used data from a 2018 experiment in Jefferson Lab’s Hall A to measure the signature of three–nucleon short-range correlations for the first time.
Silicon Valley Startup Claims it Can Turn Mercury Into Gold
San Francisco, California-based Marathon Fusion is proposing a process that uses nuclear fusion to turn mercury into gold — something that has been sought by people for thousands of years.
“Unlike previous attempts, our method is massively scalable, pragmatically achievable, and economically irresistible,” Marathon Fusion said on its website.
The battery-powered Starlink Mini is here
Starlink is a life-changing Internet service that connects people and villages too remote for towers and cables to reach. My own Starlink Mini has been critical in helping me pursue life as a digital nomad from almost anywhere in Europe. And right now, Starlink’s the only game in town for relatively cheap and fast consumer internet that can be quickly deployed into data dead spots.
My overriding thought after using the PeakDo LinkPower for the last few weeks is this: why doesn’t SpaceX make one of these?
Mysterious object found dancing with Neptune
Astronomers have discovered a bizarre object in the outer solar system, 2020 VN40, that dances to Neptune’s gravitational beat in a never-before-seen rhythm. It’s the first of its kind, orbiting the Sun once for every ten orbits of Neptune, and could reshape how we understand the movement and evolution of distant cosmic bodies.