AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoSpace: ISRO’s GSLV-F18 rocket placed navigation satellite NVS-03 in orbit, strengthening India’s NavIC system with an added L1 signal and an indigenous atomic clock. Research Networks: A Japanese team moved research data at 750 gigabits per second between facilities in Kobe and Tokyo, reaching nearly 97% of the link’s capacity—a boost for moving large climate and AI datasets. Vision Science: Johns Hopkins researchers found that a vitamin A derivative works with thyroid hormones to help shape the retina’s sharp-vision center, challenging a long-standing account of eye development. Particle Physics: Oxygen-nucleus collisions at Brookhaven produced signs of quark-gluon plasma, the extreme matter thought to have existed just after the Big Bang. Wildlife Trade: A new study estimates that international trade involves more than 107,000 species—over twice the previously recorded total. Infectious Disease: Researchers used human skin organoids to trace how herpes simplex virus spreads between skin cells, offering a closer look at how infection progresses.
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