Heading into today s closely watched payrolls report which as we reported earlier was expected to show a sharp improvement in the labor market, it seemed that stocks were faced with a lose-lose dilemma: a strong number would boost inflation fears further, sending yields higher and crashing stocks; a bad number and the recovery narrative would be hammered as virus fears returned, hammering stocks.
So as traders were busy navigating this tricky mind maze, moments ago the BLS reported that as expected, in February the jobs picture improved dramatically, with the US adding a whopping 379K jobs, nearly double the 198K consensus estimate!
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IMAGE: The solar corona viewed in white light during the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017 from Mitchell, Oregon. The moon blocks out the central part of the Sun, allowing. view more
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WASHINGTON About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, theorized why the chemical composition of the Sun s tenuous outermost layer differs from that lower down. His theory has recently been validated by combined observations of the Sun s magnetic waves from the Earth and from space.
His most recent scientific journal article describes how these magnetic waves modify chemical composition in a process completely new to solar physics or astrophysics, but already known in optical sciences, having been the subject of Nobel Prizes awarded to Steven Chu in 1997 and Arthur Ashkin in 2018.
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IMAGE: Matthew Kerr, Ph.D., a research physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, was part of an international team of astronomers and astrophysicists recognized by the 2020 American Association for the. view more
Credit: Matthew Kerr; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
WASHINGTON Imagine living in a large city. New York City, Los Angeles, or Washington. One morning you hear a siren off in the distance. You know the direction and that it was far away since it was just loud enough to hear. You wonder if it s an emergency. What type of siren was it? Police, Fire, EMS? But you never hear it again. Time passes, then one night you hear another siren, then another, eventually hearing sirens all the time. So what does this have to do with science?
By By Paul Cage, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications WASHINGTON, – Imagine living in a large city. New York City, Los Angeles, or Washington. One morning you hear a siren off in the distance. You know the direction and that it was far away since it was just loud enough to hear. You wonder if it’s an emergency. What type of siren was it? Police, Fire, EMS? But you never hear it again. Time passes, then one night you hear another siren, then another, eventually hearing sirens all the time. So what does this have to do with science?
Researchers with the Department of Defense successfully harvested solar energy from space using a solar panel that could one day beam energy to any place on Earth. Called the Photovoltaic [.]