When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn’t generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory. That’s largely because Gaia doesn’t capture gorgeous images of celestial objects like other telescopes. Instead, Gaia was an astrometry mission.
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Excitons, bound states between an electron (i.e., a negatively charged particle) and a hole (i.e., the absence of an electron) in materials, are a key focus of condensed matter physics studies. These bound states can give rise to interesting and uncommon quantum physical effects, which could be leveraged to develop optoelectronic and quantum technologies.
Researchers have discovered similar Kufic characters in Central Asian tomb mosaic dating back to the same period of history. Kufic, which is the oldest form of Arabic calligraphic script dates back to the seventh century. Scientists concluded that this could be an important piece of evidence that the ancient Vikings of the ninth and 10th centuries were greatly influenced by Islam. According to experts, the presence of Arabic script invoking the name of “Allah” in ninth- and 10th-century Norse burial clothes indicates that Islamic afterlife beliefs had great spiritual significance to ancient Norseman who were buried in the clothes. This, in turn, directly suggests that some of them were Muslims who practiced the Islamic faith or even may have held afterlife beliefs that they identified with the beliefs of the Islamic faith. “In the Quran, it is written that the inhabitants of Paradise will wear garments of silk, which along with the text band’s inscriptions may explain the widespread occurrence of silk in Viking Age graves,” said Annika Larsson, an expert in textile archaeology at Uppsala University’s Department of Archaeology and Ancient History. However, it is noteworthy to mention that this is not the first time that Islamic artifacts have been discovered at Norse archaeological sites. Archaeologists have long insisted that the Islamic artifacts found at various Norse archaeological sites could be have been the result of loot obtained during raids. Some experts maintain that some items directly linking the Norse to Islam may have been procured through trade. “That we so often maintain that Eastern objects in Viking Age graves could only be the result of plundering and eastward trade doesn’t hold up as an explanatory model,” Larsson added. “The inscriptions appear in typical Viking Age clothing that have their counterparts in preserved images of Valkyries.” Featured image credit: Nejron Photos/Shutterstock Source: The man said he was going to walk to a gas station, but got “lazy” and decided to borrow his roommate’s daughter’s toy car instead
Purgatory, a group affiliated with The Com, which is a loose network of online threat actors, has been linked to some of the recent swats
A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key step toward forecasting dangerous conditions in near-Earth space, a requirement for protecting Artemis astronauts traveling through the region on the way to the moon or on future trips to Mars. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23.
The first model of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) reusable rocket demonstrator Themis is standing at its launch pad in Kiruna, Sweden.
Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first time how gas flows from vast distances toward the disk surrounding a nascent massive star in the process of star formation.
In a collaboration showing the power of innovation and teamwork, physicists and engineers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a mobile muon detector that promises to enhance monitoring for spent nuclear fuel and help address a critical challenge for quantum computing.
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, together with international collaborators, have developed a new electron microscopy method that has enabled the first-ever imaging of vibrations, or phonons, in specific directions at the atomic scale.
In quantum mechanics, particles such as electrons act like waves and can even interfere with themselves—a striking and counterintuitive feature that defies our classical view of reality. We know this kind of interference happens in space, where different paths can overlap and combine, but what if we could take it further? What if we could control quantum interference in time, where electrons created at different moments interfere?
It is believed that Bharadwaja made approximately 500 guidelines describing in details aviation and other technologies, present on earth thousands of years ago. However, the authors note that the current manuscript features only between 100 to 120 guidelines. Experts are convinced that foreign rulers who invaded India stole many of these manuscripts, studying them to produce many of the technologies we see today on Earth.
These reports seem to back the Vaimānika Śāstra, an early 20th-century Sanskrit text said to describe in great detail aerospace technology claiming that ‘Vimānas’ mentioned in ancient Sanskrit epics were in fact advanced aerodynamic flying vehicles, similar to modern-day rockets capable of interplanetary flight, as suggested by the popular Ancient Astronaut Theory. The texts were revealed in 1952 by G. R. Josye and contain 3000 shlokas in 8 chapters. The propulsion of the Vimānas, according to Kanjilal (1985), is by “Mercury Vortex Engines,” a concept similar to electric propulsion. The authors said the aircraft the sage described is capable of traveling between countries, continents, and planets. According to the authors, this proves the aviation system in the ancient world was very advanced, more so than what exists today, and that most of the technologies that existed on Earth thousands of years ago, before the rise of ‘modern civilization’ are now completely gone, missing not only from society but from history books as well. What the authors presented from the manuscript is mindboggling. Many scientists at the conference were marveled. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mumbai, Rajan Welukar said: “there is no reason to believe in what they say about the Vedas, but it is something that is worth studying.”  Interestingly, many studies have offered contradictive results when studying the feasibility of ‘ancient flying machines’. in 1974, a study by the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore found that the heavier-than-air aircraft that the Vaimānika Śāstra described were aeronautically unfeasible. But despite this fact, there are still many authors and scholars who are convinced that these ancient machines were in fact blueprints of highly advanced flying machines. Some of these researchers and scholars encourage aggressive inquiry into ancient books discussing technology that may surpass our very own today, in the 21st century. Captain Anand J Bodas is quoted by the Mumbai Mirror as saying “modern science is unscientific” because it considers things it does not comprehend as not possible. He is further quoted as saying, “The Vedic or rather ancient Indian definition of an airplane was a vehicle which travels through the air from one country to another country, from one continent to another continent, from one planet to another planet.” “In those days, airplanes were huge in size, and could move left, right, as well as backward, unlike modern planes which only fly forward.” Detective Sgt. Cody Becker, Detective Mark Baker and Detective Isaiah Emenheiser were killed when the suspect opened fire as they entered a residence
The Modesto Police officer fired several shots as the suspect approached; the suspect fled after hitting the officer, and was later taken into custody after being spotted by a drone
Detectives Isaiah Emenheiser and Mark Baker and Detective Sgt. Cody Becker were shot at close range by a gunman lying in wait as they entered a home to serve a warrant
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