Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 85. Sunrise is 6:56 and sunset is 6:30, for 11 hours 34 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 91.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1957, Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
Wisconsin soybean farmers are enjoying a bumper crop, but are caught in the middle of a trade war with Trump administration tariffs on China and shifting global markets that are seeing sliding prices.
This is a new type of parachute designed using the principles of kirigami – the art of transforming paper into 3D designs with cuts and folds. It starts as a flat disc, then deploys into a spring-like 3D cone as air flows through it. Instead of being buffeted by the wind, multiple slits allow the kirigami parachute to fall more accurately than conventional designs. The team behind it think that the simplicity of its construction will allow it to be cheaply mass produced, while its accuracy could make it especially useful distributing humanitarian aid. Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158…
