Southampton Science

75-mile canyon dug in desert where £800,000,000,000 futuristic city will be built Mammoth excavation work is ongoing on the 75-mile long city.

Nuclear fusion enters ‘new era’ after major breakthrough for limitless clean energy US lab achieves repeated ignition for the first time using laser beams, diamond and gold

World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up The world's largest and most advanced tokamak fusion reactor has gone online as the EU/Japanese 370-tonne JT-60SA reactor was fired up for the first time during an inauguration ceremony in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60312633

Oxford's JET lab smashes nuclear fusion energy output record The European JET facility takes a big step towards harnessing the energy source of the stars.

This is what Earth looks like from the moon's south pole (video) NASA hopes astronauts will see this for real, later in the decade.

How modern mathematics emerged from a lost Islamic library Centuries ago, a prestigious Islamic library brought Arabic numerals to the world. Though the library long since disappeared, its mathematical revolution changed our world.

Ten Greatest Women Physicists A look at the contributions of greatest women scientists in history.

In search for dark matter, new fountain design could become wellspring of answers You can't see it. You can't feel it. But the substance scientists refer to as dark matter could account for five times as much "stuff" in the universe as the regular matter that forms everything from trees, trains and the air you breathe, to stars, planets and interstellar dust clouds.

Physicists Observe Trippy 'Vortex Rings' in a Magnetic Material For The First Time Wherever you have fluid, there you can also find vortex rings.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE :
The speaker for next week has cancelled due to Covid19 concerns. I was
intending to go to
https://www.sotsef.co.uk/
tomorrow to grab speakers , perhaps a short-notice speaker for next
week, but that is cancelled.
And as the other local scicaf
http://www.wincafesci.org.uk/
has also cancelled, I'll assume the concensus opinion is
audiences/attendees for such events will not be taking avoidable risks
in attending .
For some unpredictable amount of time, but at least March and April
2020 the projected peak of the UK part of the pandemic , the Soton
sci cafs are cancelled .

pp Nigel

Sotsef - Home Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (SOTSEF) is the University of Southampton’s award-winning annual science festival that allows everyone to explore and discover what the world of science and engineering has to offer.