Armed with Science DARPA Wants to ‘Pancake’ LiDAR TechnologiesSignal MagazineThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, put out a call for “pancaking the telescope” when it announced its Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks (MOABB) program. That’s fancy speak for…
DARPA Wants to 'Pancake' LiDAR Technologies – Signal Magazine
DARPA Wants to ‘Pancake’ LiDAR TechnologiesSignal MagazineThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, put out a call for “pancaking the telescope” when it announced its Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks (MOABB) program. That’s fancy speak for its challenge to…
Ceres reveals its salty secrets – and blurs the line between comets and asteroids – The Conversation UK
New Scientist Ceres reveals its salty secrets – and blurs the line between comets and asteroidsThe Conversation UKThey also suggest Ceres may have formed far away from its current location in orbit between Mars and Jupiter. This would be surprising…
Books in brief – Nature.com
Books in briefNature.comThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Europe’s particle-physics lab, CERN, has witnessed game-changing discoveries, not least the Higgs boson in 2012. Now, rival ideas for successors are evolving (see Nature 511, 394–395; 2014). In this forcefully argued …
Blocking the Sun Is No Plan B for Global Warming – Scientific American
Scientific American Blocking the Sun Is No Plan B for Global WarmingScientific AmericanThat’s the solution known as geoengineering—the large-scale manipulation of the planet’s environment, in this case the sky. As negotiators at the climate talks underway here spar over what…
Blocking the Sun Is No Plan B for Global Warming – Scientific American
Scientific American Blocking the Sun Is No Plan B for Global WarmingScientific AmericanThat’s the solution known as geoengineering—the large-scale manipulation of the planet’s environment, in this case the sky. As negotiators at the climate talks underway here spar over what…