Mathematics of percolation, experiments in quantum gravity, lunar surface technology call for proposals, a singularity in Navier-Stokes, variations on triboelectricity, drugs as the catalyst for civilization, and textured electrodes for better batteries.
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter – 202609.05
Roman Space Telescope launch, Martian asymmetry explained, a possible dark matter particle detection, and NASA selects Blue Origin for Martian telecommunication.
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter – 202608.29
Nuclear fusion updates, ancient Egyptian pigments, and photonic crystals for computer networking.
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter – 202608.22
Chinese rocket reuse, SWIFT rescue fails, indigo light effects on myopia, irregular CME geometry modeling, a TENG pacemaker, and hot hydrogen damage to Ni alloys.
Ideas and Innovations Newsletter – 202608.15
Air breathing satellites, deployable launch platforms, mapping the mantle with neutrino emissions, rescuing LINK's rescue mission, flying with sound, ceramic piezoelectric devices, and forecasting solar weather with machine learning.
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Counting Languages
Far from being a modern phenomenon, the declining diversity of language owes more to broad, civilizational factors, like the onset of agriculture and settlement of large city-states, than it does to the dominance of English in the current international system.
Tracing 3I/ATLAS’ Formation
The authors were able to determine what the ancient solar system from which the comet originated might have been like.
Impact Enclaves
This was no secret cavern full of dinosaurs lasting long past the demise of the rest of their kind. Rather, the paper explores how the energy associated with asteroid impacts generates hydrothermal environments which are ideal for the sustainment of life.
An Update on Fusion Challenges
The timing of the release is deliberately designed to build excitement and a surge in momentum for a project. It goes hand-in-hand with what is probably an unrealistic timeline.
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