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Satellites are increasingly spoiling the view of the Hubble Space Telescope

Satellites are increasingly spoiling the view of the Hubble Space Telescope

An endless black sky, countless stars and a thick white streak. This is what the Hubble Space Telescope sees when another satellite flies over the image. Crowds in space are increasingly obstructing the telescope’s view, scientists wrote on Thursday Nature. The photos can then become unusable. Hubble orbits the Earth at an altitude of more than 500 kilometers. This counts …

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It’s time for a smaller, more powerful UPS for Edge Computing sites

It’s time for a smaller, more powerful UPS for Edge Computing sites

As compute, storage, and analytics needs increase, available rack space in data centers becomes increasingly tight. This leaves little room for a backup power supply, a UPS (Uninterruptible power supply). The problem is that the more capacity placed in a rack cabinet, the more powerful the UPS must be. This challenge is particularly great in advanced computingLocations. Here, computing is …

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The brilliant Christiaan Huygens needed glasses

The brilliant Christiaan Huygens needed glasses

He was perhaps the greatest Dutch scientist of all time. Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) made important contributions to mathematics and physics, he invented the pendulum clock, discovered Saturn’s moon Titan and explained why this planet looked so strange through the telescope . Saturn had no handles as, for example, Galileo thought. According to Huygens, it was a ring. Together with his …

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Judgment 202204865/2/R3 – Council of State

Judgment 202204865/2/R3 – Council of State

202204865/2/R3.Judgment date: March 1, 2023 DEPARTMENTADMINISTRATIVE LAW Judgment of the urgent applications judge of the administrative litigation section of the Council of State on a request for interim measures (article 8:81 of the general law on administrative law) in the dispute between: [verzoeker]residing in Benthuizen, municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn, And the municipal council of Alphen aan den Rijn, …

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Measure the sweat you can’t see

Measure the sweat you can’t see

About the episode Sweat biomarkers can tell doctors more and more about our health. Only, not all the sweat could be measured so far. What you see forming on the skin after a few vigorous workouts isn’t a problem for existing sensors, but there is another kind of sweat. The variant that leaves the skin in the form of water …

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Scientists sharply divided over sci-fi-like technology against climate change

Scientists sharply divided over sci-fi-like technology against climate change

Dust as the moon between the sun and the earth is shot, or sulfur dioxide balloons that explode in mid-air and reflect sunlight. Scientists are increasingly at odds over whether governments are studying this kind of solar geoengineering‘ – tinkering with nature to dim sunlight – should stimulate or prevent. In the international debate, Dutch scientists are prominent advocates on …

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it’s just the tip of the iceberg

it’s just the tip of the iceberg

Just outside our solar system – no more than 30 to 35 light years from Earth – not only is it teeming with red dwarfs, but there are also many worlds to explore. The first dataset of the CARMENES project has been published. It contains data from about 20,000 observations of 362 nearby red dwarf stars. Spanish and German scientists …

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