David Szondy

2 weeks ago | newatlas.com | David Szondy

Airbus Defence and Space has taken the wraps off its fighter cockpit of tomorrow that it's helping to develop as part of Europe's Enhanced Pilot Interfaces & Interactions for Fighter Cockpit (EPIIC) project to build interfaces for next-gen warplanes. It's 2035 and somewhere in the skies one of Europe's 6th Generation fighter aircraft is on patrol.

2 weeks ago | newatlas.com | David Szondy

If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be interested to know that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have shown that it's 28 seconds longer than previously thought. If you really want to annoy an astronomer, ask them to figure out how long a day is on Uranus. On planets like Earth or Mars, calculating how long they take to rotate on their axis is relatively easy.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | David Szondy

9 hours agoLast month, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collective reported that dark energy is evolving—specifically weakening—and it could help provide the first observational evidence of string theory. While a new preprint reports that cosmological models using the string theory framework …

2 weeks ago | newatlas.com | David Szondy

Looking for life on Saturn's largest moon Titan may be trickier than first thought. New computer simulations suggest that if life exists, there may not be a lot of it about. In fact, the mass probably wouldn't amount to much of anything at all. If life exists anywhere in the solar system outside of Earth, Titan sits close to the top of the list.

2 weeks ago | newatlas.com | David Szondy

Britain's Ministry of Defence, with the help of the United States, has achieved what is being billed as a major hypersonic propulsion test of a new engine design that could power a cutting-edge hypersonic cruise missile for UK armed forces by 2030. With their ability to fly at speeds in excess of five times the speed of sound, hypersonic missiles have the potential to revolutionize warfare in a way not seen since the sound barrier was cracked in 1947.