Swinburne and CSIRO researchers have successfully made iron under Mars-like conditions, opening to door to off-world metal producti
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Explaining a quantum oddity with five atoms
Matter gets weird at the quantum scale, and among the oddities is the Efimov effect, a state in which the attractive forces between three or more atoms bind them together, even as they are excited to higher energy levels, while that same force is insufficient to bind two atoms.
At Purdue University, researchers have completed the immense quantum calculation required to represent the Efimov effect in five atoms, adding to our fragmented picture of the most fundamental nature of matter.
The calculation, which applies across a broad range of physical problems—from a group of atoms being studied in a laser trap to the gases in a neutron star—contributes to our foundational understanding of matter and may lead to more efficient methods for confining atoms for study.
Family Space Camp
An adventure the whole family can enjoy! Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles are all invited to bring your future astronaut, engineer or scientist and explore everything Space Camp has to offer!
This camp is designed to be an experience for at least one adult and one child between the ages of 7 to 18.
NASA to launch IMAP, Carruthers, and SWFO with support from Astrotech’s commercial facility
NASA is gearing up for a landmark late-September launch featuring three pivotal spacecraft: the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO-L1). The missions are being prepared at Astrotech Space Operations, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary in Titusville that has become one of the nation’s premier spacecraft processing hubs.
Astrotech regularly integrates spacecraft for NASA, the Department of Defense, and commercial providers, and recently hosted media for a rare look inside its cleanroom facilities.
Under the leadership of Principal Investigator David McComas, professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, and built by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, IMAP continues the legacy of NASA’s 2008 IBEX mission.