Everything Everywhere All at Once: could the multiverse be real?
The film Everything Everywhere All at Once has enjoyed critical acclaim and awards success. Ahead of the Oscars, where it ’s tipped to sweep the board, Ian Sample speaks to theoretical physicist and philosopher Sean Carroll about why we seem to be drawn to the idea of multiple worlds, and what the science says about how the multiverse might actually workClips: Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24), Independent Spirit Awards, Critics ’ Choice AwardsContinue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 9, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Ian Sample; produced by Madeleine Finlay and Eli Block; sound designed by Tony Onuchukwu, and executive produced by Ellie Bury Tags: Science Physics Everything Everywhere All At Once Source Type: news
FY23 Budget Outcomes: US Geological Survey
The 7% budget increase USGS received for fiscal year 2023 will leave many activities proposed by the Biden administration without funding, including in climate change research and resilience. However, supplemental funding has allowed the agency to accelerate certain priority mapping initiatives.wthomasWed, 03/08/2023 - 13:46 (Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News)
Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News - March 8, 2023 Category: Physics Authors: wthomas Source Type: news
FY23 Budget Outcomes: National Institutes of Health
In its fiscal year 2023 appropriation, Congress formally authorized the Advanced Research Project Agency for Health and provided $1.5 billion for the new agency, a 50% increase. It also increased the National Institutes of Health ’s budget by 6% to $47.5 billion.apetersonWed, 03/08/2023 - 12:01 (Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News)
Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News - March 8, 2023 Category: Physics Authors: apeterson Source Type: news
Our Relationship With Time Is Changing —Maybe for the Better
It wasn’t long after the pandemic began that people around the world started to notice something weird was going on. As the rhythms of daily life changed, some people’s days seemed to run together; others felt theirs stretched on indefinitely. The sense of what an hour felt like was corroding. News outlets filled with attempts to explain what was happening.
Ruth Ogden, an experimental psychologist who studies time perception at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K., says she had only ever gotten maybe one interview request before the pandemic, and has since received at least a hundred. And while the stud...
Source: TIME: Science - March 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Lily Rothman Tags: Uncategorized Psychology Source Type: news
Heidy Mader obituary
My colleague, mentor and friend Heidy Mader, who has died aged 61 of cancer, was an outstanding experimental scientist. She applied lessons learned in developing the Wispa chocolate bar as a research physicist at Cadbury to lead a revolution in understanding the flow of lava and magma as a professor at Bristol University.Heidy was born in Cosford, Shropshire, to Renate (nee Pitz) and Eric Mader. Eric was an officer in the RAF, and Renate, who came from Germany, went on to become a teacher. The family moved frequently within the UK, following Eric ’s postings.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Ed Llewellin Tags: Volcanoes Physics Chocolate Cadbury Source Type: news
How little green aliens are helping the space flight experts of the future
It may be just a game but some players have gone on to careers in physics, engineering and aeronautics. Now the team behind Kerbal Space Program 2 is working with the European Space Agency to make it even more realisticWhen Dr Uri Shumlack was contacted by a video game developer who wanted to discuss his work on interstellar propulsion, for a game about spaceflight, he was wary. A professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the University of Washington, he was a busy individual, and not exactly an avid gamer. He asked some of his engineering undergraduates whether they had heard of a game called Kerbal Space Program, only...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Keza MacDonald Tags: Games Culture Space Source Type: news
FY23 Budget Outcomes: DOE Applied Energy R & D
FY23 Budget Outcomes: DOE Applied Energy R&DCongress provided increases in the range of 7% to 8% for the Department of Energy ’s three main applied energy R&D offices in fiscal year 2023 and the department is gearing up to distribute billions of dollars appropriated through the infrastructure law enacted in 2021.wthomasFri, 03/03/2023 - 10:18 (Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News)
Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News - March 3, 2023 Category: Physics Authors: wthomas Source Type: news
Explaining of the experts' points of view about the types and importance of man-made hazards in Iran's process industries: a qualitative study - Farahi-Ashtiani I, Jahangiri K, Sohrabizadeh S, Gholamnia R, Rasouli MR.
INTRODUCTION: Process industries may have different hazards that can cause serious injury to humans, the environment, and the economy. Considering the importance of man-made risks in process industries, Experts' Points of View should be considered to apply... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 3, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Mixed-methods approach to describing Vision Zero initiatives in United States' municipalities - Evenson KR, LaJeunesse S, Keefe E, Naumann RB.
Vision Zero (VZ) aims to reduce fatalities and serious injuries from road traffic crashes to zero through a Safe Systems approach. Little is known about the extent of uptake of VZ in the United States (US), or the attributes and functioning of the initiati... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Research on steel rail surface defects detection based on improved YOLOv4 network - Mi Z, Chen R, Zhao S.
INTRODUCTION: The surface images of steel rails are extremely difficult to detect and recognize due to the presence of interference such as light changes and texture background clutter during the acquisition process. METHODS: To improve the accurac... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
News at a glance: Monkey shipments, a controversial visa, and support for geoengineering research
ANIMAL RESEARCH
Lab pauses monkey imports
Charles River Laboratories, one of the largest U.S. importers and suppliers of research monkeys, announced last week it is suspending shipments from Cambodia after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice. In November 2022, the agency indicted members of a smuggling ring that was illegally exporting cynomolgus macaques caught in the wild in Cambodia, labeling them as captive-bred. Charles River said the subpoena is related to several shipments it received from its Cambodian supplier. Charles River said the suspension was voluntary and motivate...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 2, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Exploring factors affecting crash injury severity with consideration of secondary collisions in freeway tunnels - Chung Y, Kim JJ.
Although there have been several studies conducted exploring the factors affecting injury severity in tunnel crashes, most studies have focused on identifying factors that directly influence injury severity. In particular, variables related to crash charac... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
GATR: a road network traffic violation prediction method based on graph attention network - Zhou Y, Wang Y, Zhang F, Zhou H, Sun K, Yu Y.
Prediction of traffic violations plays a key role in transportation safety. Combining with deep learning to predict traffic violations has become a new development trend. However, existing methods are based on regular spatial grids which leads to a fuzzy s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
FY23 Budget Outcomes: National Nuclear Security Administration
The National Nuclear Security Administration ’s budget increased by $1.5 billion to $22.2 billion for fiscal year 2023, with most of the additional money allocated to plutonium infrastructure projects. Congress also provided significant budget increases for inertial confinement fusion and nuclear nonproliferation.mambroseWed, 03/01/2023 - 16:42 (Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News)
Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News - March 1, 2023 Category: Physics Authors: mambrose Source Type: news
Back to the father: the scientist who lost his dad – and resolved to travel to 1955 to save him
After losing his beloved father when he was 10, Ronald Mallett read HG Wells and Einstein. They inspired his eminent career as a theoretical physicist – and his lifelong ambition to build a time machineProf Ronald Mallett thinks he has cracked time travel. The secret, he says, is in twisting the fabric of space-time with a ring of rotating lasers to make a loop of time that would allow you to travel backwards. It will take a lot more explaining and experiments, but after a half century of work, the 77-year-old astrophysicist has got that down pat.His claim is not as ridiculous as it might seem. Entire academic department...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Daniel Lavelle Tags: Science Physics Black holes Source Type: news
