There are two famous Pinocchio features coming out this year, which is at least one more than any reasonable person could have expected. The version at hand, Robert Zemeckis’ live-action-slash-CGI creation, comes straight from Disney’s Magic Castle conglomerate and will be contrasted by Netflix with a stop-motion tale by Guillermo del Toro (coming to a …
On Thursday, SpaceX performed a static fire test of a Starship prototype rocket, in which all six raptor engines were engaged. The eight-second test seemed to be fine, aside from the troubled fire that followed. The prototype of spaceship 24 is currently being tested at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX is preparing …
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Schemes of the optofluidic force induction scheme (OF2i). (a) The particles are immersed in a fluid and are pumped through a microfluidic channel. A weakly focused Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam with an OAM propagates in the same direction as the flow of the particles and exerts optical forces on the nanoparticles. By monitoring the scattered light …
