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Topics: Cellular Service, Moonbase, NASA, Space Exploration, Spaceflight Telecom equipment supplier Nokia will use a $14.1 million grant to build the moon’s first wireless network as part of NASA’s plans to establish a human presence there. NASA is investing the money in Nokia-owned American research company Bell Labs, which will build the 4G-LTE network, it said onContinue reading “4G on the Moon…”

Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Existentialism, Fascism, Human Rights Farmers feed their pigs slop, a messy, wet mix of various leftovers—and when they do, they can say they slop the pigs. A derogatory way to talk about food that doesn’t look very tasty is to call it slop. And you can call sticky, overly sentimental music, writing, or films slop as well. Source:Continue reading “Pig Slop…”

Topics: Alternate Energy, Internet of Things, Materials Science, Solar Power Photovoltaic cells made from cadmium telluride (CdTe) – already widely used in solar energy generation – also excel at harvesting ambient light indoors, making them an excellent energy source for the fast-growing Internet of Things (IoT). This is the finding of researchers at the MassachusettsContinue reading “CdTe and IoT…”

Topics: Cryptography, Quantum Computer, Quantum Mechanics A “quantum secret sharing” scheme that allows 10 parties share information securely – the highest number so far – has been developed and demonstrated by researchers in South Africa. The protocol involves each party performing quantum operations on the photon without measuring its state and the team says it could helpContinue reading “Quantum Hush…”

Topics: Biology, Diffusion, Quantum Dots, Quantum Mechanics Quantum dots diffuse within living cells in a nearly two-dimensional fashion. This result, which was obtained using a new 3D microscopy technique that can track single particles, sheds fresh light on intracellular diffusion – a process that is critical for moving molecules around the cell and for mediatingContinue reading “Quantum Dots and Diffusion…”

Topics: Bioengineering, Optical Physics, Nanorods, Nanotechnology Even in the dark, rattlesnakes and their fellow pit vipers can strike accurately at small warm-blooded prey from a meter away. Those snakes, and a few others, can see in the IR—but not with their eyes. Rather, they have a pair of specialized sensory organs, called pit organs, locatedContinue reading “Blind Mice Seeing…”

FILE PHOTO: Dr. Benjamin Tee, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS), demonstrates how his device can detect the texture of a soft stress ball at a lab in NUS, Singapore July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell Topics: Bioengineering, Materials Science, Robotics, Star Wars The device, dubbed ACES, orContinue reading “ACES…”

Topics: COVID-19, Coronavirus, Pandemic I have friends who insist on seeing their friends during a pandemic, playing the equivalent of Russian Roulette (apropos, as they are capitalizing on our hubris), flaunting safety concerns and wearing masks “when they think about it” and selectively reading any materials I might send them. Well, I’ve attended at leastContinue reading “Lingering Effects…”

Because of the recent changes in my previous platform, I am discontinuing https://www.physics4thecool.blogspot.com and continuing on WordPress. What follows is the post I meant for Blogger. I will miss it. Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, COVID-19, Existentialism, Fascism, Human Rights The current first Tuesday of November came into law in the year 1845, when America wasContinue reading “Gaming This Out…”