Researchers see Kelvin wave on quantum 'tornado' for first time
College Park MD (SPX) Mar 25, 2014 -
Draining the water from a bathtub causes a spinning tornado to appear. The downward flow of water into the drain causes the water to rotate, and as the rotation speeds up, a vortex forms that obeys the laws of classical mechanics. However, if the water is extremely cold liquid helium, the fluid will swirl around an invisible line to form a vortex that obeys the laws of quantum mechanics.
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Hunt for an unidentified electron object
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Mar 25, 2014 -
Researchers have developed a new mathematical framework capable of describing motions in superfluids - low temperature fluids that exhibit classical as well as quantum behavior. The framework was used to lift the veil of mystery surrounding strange objects in superfluid helium (detected ten years ago at Brown University).
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Comet-probing robot to wake from hibernation
Paris (AFP) March 26, 2014 -
A fridge-sized robot lab hurtling through the Solar System aboard a European probe is about to wake from hibernation and prepare for the first-ever landing by a spacecraft on a comet.
The delicate operation, starting Friday, marks the next phase in the European Space Agency's billion-dollar mission to explore one of these ancient wanderers of our star system.
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Dust in the wind drove iron fertilization during ice age
Princeton NJ (SPX) Mar 24, 2014 -
Researchers from Princeton University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have confirmed that during the last ice age iron fertilization caused plankton to thrive in a region of the Southern Ocean.
The study published in Science confirms a longstanding hypothesis that wind-borne dust carried iron to the region of the globe north of Antarctica, driving plankton growth an ...
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LockMart Taps General Dynamics For Network Element On GPS 3 Birds
Fairfax VA (SPX) Mar 25, 2014 -
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems was recently awarded a $26 million contract from Lockheed Martin to support the U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) III Network Communications Element (NCE).
The Air Force's next-generation GPS III satellites will improve position, navigation and timing services and provide advanced anti-jam capabilities yielding superior system secu ...
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Mutualink Obtains Key NATO Certification
Wallingford CT (SPX) Mar 25, 2014 -
Mutualink has announced that it received certification from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for its secure interoperable communications and real time multimedia solution. With this certification, Mutualink can be deployed globally on NATO's Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems (BICES) Network, enabling anywhere, anytime secure interoperable communications in ...
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US's old satellites cannot track Malaysian airplane, as war drones suck funds dry
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Mar 25, 2014 -
The US's old satellites cannot track the missing Malaysian airplane as money is being spent on war drones instead. As the world grows obsessed with drone imagery, it comes at the expense of ignoring satellite radar technology. In today's day and age, high-resolution image satellites are capable of snapping very detailed photos of small locations.
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