A new ultrastable adhesive identified through ESA research could be a key to assembling rock-solid structures for space,
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This cylindrical projection global map is one of six new color maps of Saturn's midsized icy moons, constructed using 10 years of image data from the Cassini spacecraft. Discovered by Cassini (the astronomer) in 1684, Dione is about 1,120 kilometers across. Based on data extending from infrared to ultraviolet, the full resolution of this latest space-age map is 250 meters per pixel. The remarkable brightness difference between the tidally locked moon's lighter leading hemisphere (right) and darker trailing hemisphere clearly stands out. Like other Saturn moons orbiting within the broad E-ring, Dione's leading hemisphere is kept shiny as it picks up a coating of the faint ring's icy material. The E-ring material is constantly replenished by geysers on moon Enceladus' south pole. Lighter, younger surface fractures also appear to cross the dark, cratered trailing hemisphere.
LHC 1, digital print (Image: Lucy McKenna)
This week the exhibition Action at a distance: the life and legacy of John Stewart Bell opened at the Naughton Gallery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Bell’s theorem. The exhibition, which runs until 30 November, celebrates the life of one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, John Stewart Bell.
Among the eight artists exhibiting work is Lucy McKenna from Ireland, who took part in the 2012 Tweetup at CERN. A tweetup is a social media event where visitors come for a special tour and use the social media platform Twitter to talk about their experience in real time. During her visit to the control room of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, McKenna took a photograph of a scrap of paper showing a hand-drawn diagram. The shapes and symbols in the diagram include numbers, arrows and a graph relating the LHC. "I’m particularly interested in the apophenia that occurs from mirroring the data, giving rise to shapes appearing to the human eye that aren’t actually there," she says.
John Stewart Bell formulated a theorem that physicists, philosophers and historians now consider to be one of the most significant developments in quantum theory. His proof of non-locality, which was published on 4 November 1964, revolutionized the understanding of quantum theory and the nature of the physical universe.
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For the first time, U.S. researchers were able to observe and measure the dynamic deflection and failure of
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have obtained the first direct observations of
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