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Feb 27, 2022

The 1,000-light-year-wide cosmic bubble around Earth

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The Milky Way is blowing a star-forming bubble, and we’re in the middle of it.


Think “bubbles,” and you may think “soap” or “gum.”

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Feb 27, 2022

Quick thread on the nuclear posture change

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Feb 27, 2022

Pentagon wants Moscow back channels to prevent nuclear escalation

Posted by in categories: military, mobile phones

“Now that Ukrainian airspace is in dispute and being contested and Ukrainian airspace runs right up alongside NATO airspace, we have conveyed to the Russians that we believe a conduit at the operational level is needed … so we can avoid miscalculation,” a senior Pentagon official told POLITICO. “And we have not received any response from them in terms of whether they agree, whether they are willing to set something up.”


As the U.S. and NATO rush weapons into Ukraine, DoD officials want more military channels to Putin’s top leaders. But Russia’s not picking up the phone.

Feb 27, 2022

NASA’s James Webb Telescope teases with one more preview of an enticing star

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Feb 27, 2022

Mriya: World’s biggest cargo plane destroyed by the Russian army

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Feb 27, 2022

Revisiting Bitcoin’s carbon footprint

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Feb 27, 2022

How cryptocurrencies could help Russia vitiate the U.S. sanctions

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Feb 27, 2022

China to fund infrastructure projects for a greener world

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Feb 27, 2022

Physicists get closer than ever to measuring the elusive neutrino

Posted by in category: particle physics

Scientists used a 200-ton “neutrino scale” to measure the elusive particles.

Feb 27, 2022

Developing Time Crystals for Use in Real-World Applications

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

Time crystals that persist indefinitely at room temperature could have applications in precision timekeeping.

We have all seen crystals, whether a simple grain of salt or sugar, or an elaborate and beautiful amethyst. These crystals are made of atoms or molecules repeating in a symmetrical three-dimensional pattern called a lattice, in which atoms occupy specific points in space. By forming a periodic lattice, carbon atoms in a diamond, for example, break the symmetry of the space they sit in. Physicists call this “breaking symmetry.”

Scientists have recently discovered that a similar effect can be witnessed in time. Symmetry breaking, as the name suggests, can arise only where some sort of symmetry exists. In the time domain, a cyclically changing force or energy source naturally produces a temporal pattern.