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Feb 27, 2022
Pentagon wants Moscow back channels to prevent nuclear escalation
Posted by Sergio Tarrero 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
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space
Feb 27, 2022
Mriya: World’s biggest cargo plane destroyed by the Russian army
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: transportation
Feb 27, 2022
How cryptocurrencies could help Russia vitiate the U.S. sanctions
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: cryptocurrencies, economics
Feb 27, 2022
China to fund infrastructure projects for a greener world
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: policy
Feb 27, 2022
Physicists get closer than ever to measuring the elusive neutrino
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: particle physics
Feb 27, 2022
Developing Time Crystals for Use in Real-World Applications
Posted by Genevieve Klien 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.
Feb 27, 2022
Biologists successfully hatched gene-edited ticks for the first time
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
A five-year experiment to genetically modify deer ticks, or black-legged ticks, using CRISPR/Cas9 ends in success, marking a first in biology.