What’s Next for the Cyber Safety Review Board? LawfareMedia.org article. Pull quote: “Few organizations, whether government or private sector, are structured in a way that allows a high-performing team to sit dormant for an unknown period of time. The overall comparison of the CSRB to the NTSB is loose, but here, the NTSB’s operations could provide some guidance. Between incidents, NTSB staff perform a variety of functions, including tracking the implementation of recommendations, accident trend analysis, and broader safety training. The administration should use this model as a template to identify ongoing, steady-state work for the CSRB support team.”
Scientists made a biological quantum bit out of a fluorescent protein. ScienceNews.org article. Pull quote: ““It’s a fancy demonstration with a lot of promise,” says biophysicist Romana Schirhagl of University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, who was not involved in the research. But, she says, its potential has yet to be proven outside of highly controlled labs. “There’s a lot of work still to be done for it to be actually useful.” Schirhagl worries the protein qubits might not be bright enough to stand out in a messy biological sample or might become dimmer with repeat laser blasts.”
Inside NATO’s Scramble to Shoot Down Russia’s All-Night Drone Raid Over Poland. WSJ.com article (free). Pull quote: “Unlike in previous incursions, the drones didn’t enter Polish airspace solely from Ukraine, but also came from Russian ally Belarus. The Belarusian Defense Ministry said the drones had lost track and veered into Belarusian airspace due to electronic jamming. Belarus’s military said it shot down some of the drones and at 11 p.m. had warned Warsaw that the unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, would soon be entering Polish airspace.”
How Big Can a Black Hole Be? ScientificAmerican.com article. Pull quote: “The disk can be so hot that material within it can actually be blown away by the intense radiation. Disks can have powerful magnetic fields that can also draw matter away. Together these effects limit how rapidly a black hole can feed: a glut of infalling material can cause the disk to get so big and hot that it repels any additional approaching matter. This is called the Eddington limit; think of it as how rapidly a black hole can eat without—and pardon the indelicacy, but an analogy is an analogy—vomiting it back out.”
At the Peak of Hurricane Season, the Atlantic Is Quiet. Here’s Why. ScientificAmerican.com article. Pull quote: “Rosencrans and Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, agree that the lull is primarily linked to a global atmospheric phenomenon called the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), which moves high-pressure air masses eastward around the planet every month or two. High-pressure air tends to be drier—hardly conducive to moisture-fueled hurricanes—and to sink, making it harder for a storm system to develop convection, the upward movement of warmth that feeds tropical storms.”
Photocatalytic process converts carbon dioxide into ethylene with 99% selectivity. ChemistryWorld.com article. Pull quote: “Luo’s team coated gold nanoparticles with titanium dioxide. When irradiated with near-ultraviolet light, electronic interactions at the gold–titanium oxide interface promote the selective dissociation of hydrogen molecules into reactive fragments. These dissociated hydrogen species readily reduce carbon dioxide into ethane. By combining this process in a flow reactor with an existing ethane dehydrogenation photocatalyst, the researchers created a system that ultimately converts carbon dioxide into ethylene with 99% yield and selectivity.”
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