Quasi-ternary dextran-water-polyethylene glycol (D-W-PEG) systems can undergo a segregative phase transition from a homogeneous to two-phase state with one phase enriched in dextran, the other in PEG, ...

A replica of Sputnik 1 , the first artificial satellite in the world to be put into outer space. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Many Americans did take Sputnik very seriously at the time, and the ...

Addis Ababa, February 22, 2025 (ENA)—Russia’s news agency, having launched an African media hub in Addis Ababa, has reaffirmed its commitment to play a pivotal role in the efforts to resonate ...

Addis Ababa, February 19, 2025 (ENA) – Sputnik International, the Russian news and radio broadcasting service, has officially launched its African bureau in Addis Ababa. The launch ceremony was ...

Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958. A quick response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1 ...

This is why venture capitalist Marc Andreessen referred to it as “AI’s Sputnik moment.” In 1957, the USA’s hubris regarding the space race was punctured when Russia got the Sputnik 1 satellite into ...

US-listed shares of tech giants Nvidia, TSMC, and others are gaining some lost ground after China's DeepSeek rattled stock markets.

Charles Deehr, an emeritus professor at UAF’s Geophysical Institute, created this image of Dexter Stegemeyer, perhaps the first man in North America to see the Sputnik 1 satellite in October 1957.

Caption Figure 1 Schematic diagrams of two superconducting flux qubit circuits. The conventional qubit (a) requires an external magnetic field to operate optimally, while the new flux qubit (b ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race. Sputnik 1 was the first human-made object to orbit the Earth, and it set off a wave of fear and ...