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NASA opened a container with samples of the asteroid Bennu after several months of attempts and showed a photo of the filling. The image shows the rock that the OSIRIS-REx probe took from the asteroid. According to OSIRIS-REx team member Lindsay Keller, the scientists examined the samples almost at the atomic level. The asteroid Bennu, […]
Ukrainian archaeologists told about an amazing cemetery recently discovered, where the dead were buried with unusual objects. The cemetery, located about 80 kilometers from Kyiv, contains 107 graves, most of which are burials in wooden coffins, according to say archaeologists from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. There are both men and women buried […]
Instagram has introduced a new feature aimed at shaping the conscious consumption of content among teenagers. If a young user stays up late watching short videos in the Reels section or chatting in the personal messages section for more than ten minutes, Instagram will offer to close the app and go to bed. These “Nighttime […]
On Friday, Chinese private company LandSpace completed a series of tests of the reusable Zhuque-3 methane-powered rocket. This is the second privately developed reusable rocket in China that uses environmentally friendly fuel. Earlier, iSpace conducted a series of lifts of the Hyperbola-2 rocket. Thus, while SpaceX is trying to successfully launch the giant Starship rocket, […]
On the evening of January 20, a Russian Falcon 10 business jet with six people on board disappeared from radar in Afghanistan. Later it became known that the plane crashed into a mountain in Badakhshan province. This was reported by Aamaj News. According to them, the plane crashed due to a technical malfunction. Representatives of […]
The project to create the Nah- and Nächstbereichsschutz air defense system, which is difficult to classify in the usual criteria, was approved despite a fivefold increase in the budget, but this is the price for the strategic mistake of 2005, when all MIM-23 Hawk, Gepard and Roland were cut without replacement. The development of a […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the company plans to develop powerful artificial intelligence on par with human intelligence and open source (AGI). This approach will allow any developers and the public to work with such technology, customizing and adapting such systems to their tasks. Zuckerberg’s statement alarmed the public – in fact, it is […]
The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Russian radar station “Fara” using a drone. This was reported by the Command of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the military, while conducting reconnaissance in the southern direction, the crew of the 73rd Marine Center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces discovered […]
Researchers from the University of Washington have presented two mini-robots inspired by insects. They became the smallest, lightest, and fastest fully functional robots in history. Devices inspired by the beetle and the water meter can be used in a variety of fields, such as artificial crop pollination, search and rescue operations, environmental monitoring, micro-manufacturing, and […]
The research vessel of EYOS Expeditions managed to get close to the world’s largest free-floating iceberg and take breathtaking footage. This was reported by CNN. The photos show the arches and cavernous hollows that have formed. The footage also shows the huge size of the ice block. The iceberg gradually breaks up as it moves […]