German physicist leading the Planetary Defense Office: "If necessary, we can build a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid in four years"
These are busy days at the ESA's Planetary Defense Office, led by veteran German physicist Richard Moissl. A department created in 2021 based in Frascati, Italy, dedicated to protecting humanity ...
Space on MSN4d
NASA captures stunning new image of shock waves from next-gen supersonic plane as it flies across the sun
New photograph captures breathtaking sight of history-making Boom Supersonic's XB-1 passenger plane as it hits supersonic ...
The Scientist1y
German Physicist Forms Group on Global Problems
WEST BERLIN—A West German physicist has begun a new effort to mobilize scientific and technical resources against some of the world’s most pressing problems. The idea of creating a Global Challenges ...
Greek Reporter5d
New Evidence Suggests Our Universe is Trapped Inside a Black Hole
Researchers propose that our universe rotates inside a black hole, raising new questions about cosmology and the structure of ...
Opinion
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Rediscovering the 'Forgotten Creators' of the German atomic bomb
Perhaps most importantly, Germany developed gas centrifuges, which are more efficient than calutrons and gaseous diffusion for uranium enrichment, and which therefore have now become the preferred ...
The Scientist1y
The First X-ray, 1895
At the end of the 19th century, while studying the effects of passing an electrical current through gases at low pressure, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays—highly ...
PBS4y
The Development of Radio
Maxwell also boldly postulated that such waves travelled at the speed of light. In the late 1880s, German physicist Heinrich Hertz tested Maxwell's theory. He succeeded in producing ...
Nature19d
A German Physics Reader
Unfortunately, the study of German cannot be omitted. If no more physics were published in German, it would still be necessary for many years that the physicist should at least 'muddle through' a ...