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The Pentagon commissioned SPACEX to build missile tracking satellites.

  THE PENTAGON COMMISSIONED SPACEX TO BUILD MISSILE-TRACKING SATELLITES 21 HOURS AGO__DAN ROBITZSKI__ FILED UNDER: HARD SCIENCE PIXABAY/VICTOR TANGERMANN Commissions Open! SpaceX just partnered with the U.S. military’s Space Development Agency (SDA) to manufacture four new satellites that the Pentagon will use to detect and track missiles from space. The $149 million contract is for four satellites,  according to  Reuters , which are scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2022. The actual missile-tracking sensors will be developed by a separate subcontractor and attached to the satellites later, but the military is hoping to piggyback on SpaceX’s recent success in ramping up satellite production for its  Starlink network . Growing Partnership SpaceX and the Pentagon  have worked together  in the past, and the Army  even proposed  adding a software update to the existing Starlink network to improve global navigation. But this is the firs...
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FAUCI: THIS COVID DRUG MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK

FAUCI: THIS COVID DRUG MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK "WHAT IT HAS PROVEN IS A DRUG CAN BLOCK THIS VIRUS." BY VICTOR TANGERMANN A coronavirus vaccine is likely still years out — but that isn’t discouraging research into potentially life-saving drug treatments for COVID-19 patients. One drug in particular is currently drawing the attention of experts. White House health advisor Anthony Fauci said yesterday that early trials of antiviral drug remdesivir, produced by Gilead Sciences, showed “quite good news,” as CNBC reports. The trial was conducted by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and involved 1,063 patients. Fauci told reporters that the NIAID trial showed a “clear-cut positive effect in diminishing time to recover.” But that doesn’t mean remdesivir is a miracle solve-all fix. The difference in the number of deaths of those who took it and in a placebo group “has not yet reached statistical significance,” according to Fauci. Mortality rate w...
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The Weirdness of water.

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Mast navigation SIGN IN REGISTER SUBSCRIBE Search our site Search our site SEARC SOSOUR © ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY/EFFECT: PHOTO LAB APP FEATURES The weirdness of water BY  RACHEL BRAZIL 6 APRIL 2020 Bookmark Can we explain the strange properties of water by thinking of it as two different liquids? Rachel Brazil dives into the ongoing debate Water, the most commonplace of liquids, is also the strangest. It has at least 66 properties that differ from most liquids – high surface tension, high heat capacity, high melting and boiling points and low compressibility. One school of thought is that water is not a complicated liquid but ‘two simple liquids with a complicated relationship’. For some, this statement contradicts the basic principles of physical chemistry; for others it explains just why water behaves in such an anomalous way. Over the last decade the academic arguments have reached boil...
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Scientists capture image of quantum entanglement for the first time

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Once described by Albert Einstein as "spooky action at a distance," today we understand quantum entanglement as when a pair of particles that cross paths and interact with each other can become connected and stay that way, even when spaced very far apart. Once intertwined in this way, changes to one particle can immediately shape the other, an odd scientific phenomenon that has been proven through experiments with atoms and molecules, and more recently through entangled objects of   even larger scales . In practical terms, quantum entanglement is a key part of quantum mechanics, which forms the basis for fields such as  quantum computing and  cryptography , so there is considerable interest in advancing our understanding of it. For scientists at the University of Glasgow, this led them to study a form of quantum entanglement known as Bell entanglement, described by late physicist John Stewart Bell in the 1960s. The researchers set up an experiment where a st...
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