NASA is leveraging its expertise and enhancing its test facilities to help address a rare but persistent aviation hazard: icing that occurs when aircraft encounter unusually large, very cold water droplets in clouds. The problem, known as “supercooled large droplet icing,” occurs when aircraft fly through clouds containing unusually large drops of water that are
A festival launching Oct. 11 at Manhattan’s SVA Theatre is positioning itself as an answer to the flattened, stereotyped picture of Muslims Western media often traffics in. The New York Muslim Film Festival (NYMFF), billed as the city’s first for Muslim filmmakers, wants them telling their own stories. Hassan Babar, the festival’s artistic director, said
When a rocket launches a payload into orbit, the overwhelming majority of its weight at launch is just fuel. After decades of space travel, a company called Longshot Space hopes to unlock a more efficient way to launch satellites into orbit. The plan: Shoot satellites into space with the world’s biggest gun. To accomplish this,
The audience that gravitates to games on PlayStation has become notoriously difficult for advertisers to reach. Until now. Sony Pictures Television on Monday unveiled “Live TV on PS5,” an offering of more than 100 free ad-supported video channels that can all be accessed via the PlayStation 5 console. The service is initially available in the
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. A worker assembles a huge impedance-matched Marx generator, which will be used to send powerful electrical pulses to the heart of Pacific Fusion’s machine.Credit: Pacific Fusion A company called Pacific Fusion has started to build a
Los Lunas, New Mexico A company has started to build a fusion machine that it hopes will be the first to generate more energy than it consumes, thanks to the use of immense pulses of electricity to squeeze capsules of hydrogen fuel. The billion-dollar facility, which will sit down the road from a major US
