Azora says its portable optical ground receiver latched onto Artemis II's Orion capsule at 240,000 miles, working from a California parking lot. The result shows a drivable terminal can pick up a signal at lunar range, though buyers will want its data rate and price before signing up for a pilot.
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University of Glasgow physicists turned a laser's frequency into the rotation of a camera image, where a 1 MHz shift moves the pattern almost 6 degrees. Its sub-megahertz resolution still trails the kilohertz-level precision of the best existing frequency measurements.
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An international collaboration added more than 8,000 predicted viral protein pairs to the AlphaFold Database, spanning about 2,800 human-infecting viruses. The models stop at pairs and leave out the sugar coats, so trimeric targets like the coronavirus spike are largely absent.
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The Evidencing the Social Value of Public Libraries project logged more than 27,000 visits and almost 33,000 loans at St Ninians in Stirling, then used observation and interviews to describe the support work going on around those two counts.
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A Glasgow-led genome reconstruction in the Eurasian common lizard traces the switch from eggs to live young to selection spread across many regulatory regions, not a single leap.
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