For the first time, physicists have detected rare and ghostly particles produced by a strange type of fusion within the sun. The particles, called neutrinos produced by CNO, traveled from the sun to a detector buried deep in a mountain in Italy. This discovery takes humans one step closer to …
Read More »Researchers using ultraviolet lasers make unprecedented measurements of nanomaterials
A graph showing how reducing a material to a thickness of a few nanometers can alter its atomic bonds. Credit: Kapteyn / Murnane Group / JILA Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have used ultrafast ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner …
Read More »NASA reveals what the Mars Helicopter will actually do
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is obviously the star of the Mars 2020 mission. The rover is designed to be the most capable piece of hardware ever sent to the Red Planet and will have the ability to take samples from the Martian soil, look for evidence of ancient life and …
Read More »Ethiopia’s Oromo tensions erupt into violence over Abiy – Quartz Africa
Oromia, one of the ethnically constituted regions of Ethiopia and the most populous region in the country, is also the political constituency of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Unfortunately, the region is the country’s biggest security challenge. Ahmed’s efforts to tackle the simmering ethnic conflict in Ethiopia have been largely successful. …
Read More »The Trump team circular firing squad goes after Fauci (opinion)
That is what happened on Tuesday when Peter Navarro attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci on USA Today, writing that Fauci “has been wrong about everything I have interacted with.” That’s Peter Navarro with a Ph.D. in economics who is President Donald Trump’s top business adviser. Navarro’s skeptical views on free trade …
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