Astronaut Suni Williams Prepares for Crew Flight Test
Source: NASA Authors: Monika Luabeya Published Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 19:18:33 +0000 Summary: NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Suni Williams gives a thumbs up during a mission dress…
Solving physics puzzles with coloured dots
Source: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich / ETH Zurich Authors: Oliver Morsch Published Date: 2024-05-08T15:00:00Z Summary: In a similar way, Eugene Demler and his coworkers at ETH Zurich study complex quantum…
By Their Powers Combined
Source: NASA Authors: Monika Luabeya Published Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 17:42:38 +0000 Summary: On April 20, 2024, all six radio frequency antennas at NASA’s Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex…
First Prize for Outstanding Science Communication
Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft / Max-Planck Society Authors: Max-Planck Society Published Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 16:00:00 +0200 Summary: The Informationsdienst Wissenschaft prize honors press releases for high craftsmanship, news value, and…
Digi, Nano, Bio, Neuro – or why we should care more about converging technologies
Source: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich / ETH Zurich Authors: Prof. Dirk Helbing Published Date: 2024-05-07T08:00:00Z Summary: Our research examines the impact of digitalization on society and democracy, particularly the convergence…
Tech Today: NASA’s Ion Thruster Knowhow Keeps Satellites Flying
Source: NASA Authors: Andrew Wagner Published Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 16:01:29 +0000 Summary: Satellites in low Earth orbit face atmospheric drag that slows them down over time, necessitating thrusters…
AI for control rooms
Source: symmetry (joint Fermilab / SLAC publication) Authors: David Krause Published Date: 2024-05-01T07:19:42-0500 Summary: Early AI developments, like a chess-playing computer from the 1950s, set the stage for modern AI,…
A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence
Source: symmetry (joint Fermilab / SLAC publication) Authors: Laura Dattaro Published Date: 2024-05-06T08:00:00-0500 Summary: In 2017, Savannah Thais attended the NeurIPS machine-learning conference and learned about bias in machine-learning algorithms…
Tomorrow’s physics test: machine learning
Source: symmetry (joint Fermilab / SLAC publication) Authors: Laura Dattaro Published Date: 2024-05-07T09:20:19-0500 Summary: Radha Mastandrea, initially skeptical of machine learning during her undergraduate years at MIT, now uses it…
Accelerator Report: Keeping cool and adapting to challenges
Source: CERN Authors: Rende Steerenberg Published Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 08:41:47 +0000 Summary: On 29 April, the LHC team achieved a full machine with 2352 bunches per beam. The…