Новости за 09.01.2024

Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 9, 2024
Asian markets enjoyed a much-needed bounce Tuesday after a dour start to the year, with Tokyo notching a three-decade high as traders tracked a rally on Wall Street. The advances came as traders try to ascertain the Federal Reserve's plans for interest rates this year, with focus firmly on the release this week of key inflation data. The outlook was given a boost by Monday's plunge in oi

Washington (AFP) Jan 8, 2024
Apple on Monday said it will release its highly anticipated Vision Pro mixed reality headset in the United States on February 2, in its first major release since the Apple Watch in 2015. Announced in June, the Vision Pro will cost a hefty $3,499 before tax, more than double the price of Meta's top-of-the-range Quest Pro headset. "The era of spatial computing has arrived," said Tim Cook,

Georgetown, Guyana (AFP) Jan 8, 2024
A US Defense Department official was due in Guyana Tuesday for a two-day visit as the South American country remains embroiled in a border row with Venezuela over the oil-rich Essequibo region. Daniel Erikson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Western Hemisphere, will meet members of the Guyanese government and military, as well as leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) blo

Amsterdam (AFP) Jan 5, 2024
Ikram Cakir hands over a multi-coloured blue and white blouse and selects a similar item, this time in hot pink. Welcome to Amsterdam's "fashion library". Billed as one of the world's only physical centres for renting used and new clothing, the "big shared wardrobe" in the Dutch capital is a response to clothes waste and fashion industry pollution. Hundreds of brightly coloured trousers,

Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Jan 5, 2024
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by half last year, according to figures released Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government bolstered environmental policing to crack down on surging destruction. However, the news was far less bright from the crucial Cerrado savanna below the rainforest, where clear-cutting hit a new annual record last year, rising by 43 percent fr

New Delhi (AFP) Jan 5, 2024
Squeezed between giant arch-rivals India and China, the landlocked mountain kingdom of Bhutan was long isolated by icy Himalayan peaks. But as Bhutan readies to elect a new parliament in Thimphu on January 9, China and India are watching the contest with keen interest as they eye strategic contested border zones, analysts warn. A "cooperation agreement" inked between Bhutan and China in

Buffalo NY (SPX) Jan 01, 2024
Travel deep enough below Earth's surface or inside the center of the Sun, and matter changes on an atomic level. The mounting pressure within stars and planets can cause metals to become nonconducting insulators. Sodium has been shown to transform from a shiny, gray-colored metal into a transparent, glass-like insulator when squeezed hard enough. Now, a University at Buffalo-led stud

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2024
NASA has officially announced the selection of 13 innovative concepts for its 2024 Phase I awards under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. This program is renowned for funding early-stage technology concept studies that hold the potential to radically transform future agency missions, as well as offering possibilities for commercialization. The awardees, hailing from diverse c

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2024
Diversified Technologies, Inc. (DTI), based in Bedford, MA, has recently announced the development of a new spacecraft engine that promises to significantly alter the dynamics of space travel. The Atmosphere-Refueling Magnetic Induction Plasma Engine (AR-MIPE) represents a novel approach in space propulsion technology, emphasizing the use of in-situ propellants to enhance in-space maneuverabilit

Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2024
German Escobar works on a model aircraft wing structure that has two long sides and bars in between, which resembles a mini ladder. He sands the rough edges, uses four vices to secure it, and uses a milling machine he programmed to make precision holes. Escobar is one of the Experimental Fabrication Shop technicians at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards California. The team m

Paris (AFP) Jan 8, 2024
A consortium of Brazilian, British, French and Chinese energy firms will test new technology aimed at capturing CO2 in an undersea oilfield off Brazil in an effort to reduce emissions, TotalEnergies said Monday. The pilot unit will separate oil from CO2-rich natural gas at the bottom of the ocean and reinject the gas directly into the reservoir, the French oil major said. TotalEnergies s

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 8, 2024 - The Department of Energy said on Monday that four more heat pump manufacturers have created prototype heat pumps that can operate without auxiliary heat in cold temperatures, a major step forward in the technology.

The so-called challenge initiative, which was launched in 2021, calls for heat pump prototypes to deliver 100% heating capacity without the use of auxiliary heat at 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Heat-pump technology is all electric and extracts heat from the air to heat and cool buildings. Читать дальше...

Binghamton NY (SPX) Jan 09, 2024 - When water vapor meets metal, the resulting corrosion can lead to mechanical problems that harm a machine's performance. Through a process called passivation, it also can form a thin inert layer that acts as a barrier against further deterioration.

Either way, the exact chemical reaction is not well understood on an atomic level, but that is changing thanks to a technique called environmental transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which allows researchers to... Читать дальше...

Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2024 - Ultra-intense ultrashort lasers have a wide-ranging scope of applications, encompassing basic physics, national security, industrial service, and health care. In basic physics, such lasers have become a powerful tool for researching strong-field laser physics, especially for laser-driven radiation sources, laser particle acceleration, vacuum quantum electrodynamics, and so on.

A dramatic increase in peak laser power, from th0e 1996 1-petawatt "Nova" to the... Читать дальше...