We report light-driven levitation of macroscopic polymer films whose bottom surface is engineered to maximize the thermal accommodation coefficient. Specifically, we levitated centimeter-scale disks made commercial 0.5-micron-thick mylar film coated with carbon nanotubes on one side. When illuminated light intensity comparable natural sunlight, disk heats up and interacts incident gas molecules...

Multi-sensor Remote Sensing of Forest Dynamics in Central Siberia K.J. Ranson, G. Sun, V.I. Kharuk and J. Howl 4 1 NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 923, Greenbelt, MD, USA, [email protected] 2 Department of Geography University of Maryland, College Park, USA, [email protected] 3 V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Academgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, [email protected] Sigma Space Cor...

background: sun protection materials have been one of the major concerns in pharmaceutical industry since almost one century ago. various materials have been found to have such an effect but there are still many unknown substances that have not been discovered. objective: to introduce a novel mineral-based sun lotion with considerable uv absorption properties compared to commercially available ...

The properties and dynamics of magnetic fields on the Sun’s photosphere and outer layers – notably those within solar active regions – govern the eruptive activity of the Sun. These photospheric magnetic fields also act as the evolving lower boundary of the Sun-Earth coupled system. Quantifying the physical attributes of these magnetic fields and exploring the mechanisms underlying their influe...

We study in detail the ability of the nominal configuration of the IceCube neutrino telescope (with 80 strings) to probe the parameter space of the Constrained MSSM (CMSSM) favoured by current collider and cosmological data. Adopting conservative assumptions about the galactic halo model and the expected experiment performance, we find that IceCube has a probability between 2% and 12% of achiev...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) operates a Japanese space forecast center for the International Space Environment Service (ISES). Information on space weather is exchanged daily among the space weather forecast centers all over the world. Researches of space weather need data on large areas of space from the Sun to the Earth’s upper atmosphere. It is n...

the main sources of all natural light are the sun, the moon and the stars. in other words, the principle source of illumination is the light as mediated by atmosphere. according to some philosophers, spiritual or holy light includes not only material and quantified aspect, but being non-physical properties it treats as a spiritual connector between god and man. the light is the main part of exi...

The hippocampal formation (HF) plays a crucial role in amniote spatial cognition. There are also indications of functional lateralization in the contribution of the left and right HF in processes that enable birds to navigate space. The experiments described in this study were designed to examine left and right HF differences in a task of sun compass-based spatial learning in homing pigeons (Co...