An anonymous reader sends us to the site of Science Magazine for news that’ll interest those who have followed experiments to slow and stop light. Research groups in Canada and Japan have succeeded separately in storing a special kind of vacuum — a “squeezed vacuum” — in a puff of gas and then retrieving it a split second later. Such experiments might lead to advances in quantum encryption. At the very least they’ll help to illuminate the boundary between quantum and classical realms.
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erik.martino brings us a story about the European Space Agency’s successful launch of a new type of cargo ship to resupply the ISS. The first Automated Transport Car (ATV), named after Jules Verne, is the “very first spacecraft in the world designed to conduct automated docking in full compliance with the very tight safety constraints imposed by human spaceflight operations.” Among other things, it carries water, oxygen, and propellant to help boost the ISS to a higher orbit. We recently discussed NASA’s need for a new cargo transport system. Quoting: “Beyond Jules Verne, ESA has already contracted industry to produce four more ATVs to be flown through to 2015. With both ESA’s ATV and Russia’s Progress, the ISS will be able to rely on two independent servicing systems to ensure its operations after the retirement of the US space shuttle in 2010. It incorporates a 45-m3 pressurised module, derived from the Columbus pressure shell, and a Russian-built docking system, similar to those used on Soyuz manned ferries and on the Progress re-supply ship. About three times bigger than its Russian counterpart, it can also deliver about three times more cargo.”
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Brian Stretch sends us to the National Review for an interview with Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig. Lessig speaks about money, politics, money in politics, and his decision not to run for an open seat in Congress. From the interview: “Lessig hates corruption. He hates it so much, in fact, that last year he announced he’d be shifting away from his work on copyright and trademark law… to focus on it… ‘One of the biggest targets of reform that we should be thinking about is how to blow up the FCC.’”
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modernphysics writes “Canada’s non-profit and independent Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is now providing a free in-class, educational resource for high-school science teachers to help guide students through interesting topics in modern physics. The first module on ‘The Mystery of Dark Matter’ can be viewed online and features a 25-minute video, teacher’s guide with hands-on demonstrations, and student activity sheets in Word format that can be edited to suit individual classes. This resource helps fulfill the number one request from the hundreds of high-school teachers who attend the popular EinsteinPlus Workshops on Modern Physics at PI each summer — to have access to enrichment materials for students in grades 11 and 12 in a flexible, comprehensive, and easy-to-use format that makes abstract ideas visual and shares the joys of research and discovery.”
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