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Interplanetary Postal Service is an open-source game that lets you control a lunar lander module. The challenge is to land the module safely against gravity and winds. I had some fun time with it, and seeing how the physics of CFD was implemented is always great!
/e/ is a custom ROM for smartphones based on LineageOS 14.1 which aims for a privacy-focused user experience. It’s Android with no Google. The first beta is out!
China is rising globally in scientific achievement. China researchers are doing great!
A Japanese team of researchers from Shizuoka University will conduct the first run of their space elevator prototype this month.
Tell me about your world.
From CERN Media and Press Relations website:
Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks. The finding, presented today at CERN by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is consistent with the hypothesis that the all-pervading quantum field behind the Higgs boson also gives mass to the bottom quark.
The Standard Model of particle physics predicts that about 60% of the time a Higgs boson will decay to a pair of bottom quarks, the second-heaviest of the six flavours of quarks. Testing this prediction is crucial because the result would either lend support to the Standard Model – which is built upon the idea that the Higgs field endows quarks and other fundamental particles with mass – or rock its foundations and point to new physics.
This is just exciting news for the Linux community. From Valve: “Windows games with no Linux version currently available can now be installed and run directly from the Linux Steam client, complete with native Steamworks and OpenVR support.”
A look at Vim, a text editor for the ages