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Before the firing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, several of the company’s in-house researchers sent a letter to the board of directors regarding a breakthrough in artificial intelligence that could threaten humanity. This was reported by Reuters, citing its own sources. According to journalists, sources cited this letter as one of the factors that led […]
A recent study conducted at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has shown that lidocaine, a common local anesthetic, has cancer-fighting properties. The study shows the ability of lidocaine to cause cancer cell death by activating bitter taste receptors, in particular through such unique mechanisms as mitochondrial calcium ion overload and […]
SpaceX launched 23 more Starlink Internet satellites into orbit from Florida on the morning of November 22, Space reports. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida at 09:47 Kyiv time. The rocket’s first stage landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas automatic platform in the Atlantic Ocean in about […]
Ukrainian employees of the Akademik Vernadsky station showed footage of “white nights” in the Antarctic. It is late spring and a very long day in the station area. This was reported by the National Antarctic Research Center. It is noted that in Antarctica, daylight hours are now 19 hours and 32 minutes, and their duration […]
A group of Chinese scientists has created a new sensor system that mimics the tip of a human finger. A sensor that mimics the pad of a human finger can detect the texture of an object it touches in real time. Over time, the scientists hope to reach a new level and allow people with […]
An unidentified object called WE0913A, which collided with the back of the Moon in March 2022, turned out to be part of a Chinese Long March launch vehicle. At first, it was mistaken for a part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Then the object attracted the attention of scientists from the University of Arizona, […]
Jupiter-3 EchoStar, the world’s heaviest commercial communications satellite, is operating as expected after placing solar panels and antennas in geostationary orbit. Maxar Technologies built a nine-ton Ka-band satellite and supplied solar panels for it. L3Harris Technologies has manufactured antennas for Jupiter 3. The satellite, which entered geostationary orbit on July 28 on a SpaceX Falcon […]
Researchers from the American Space Agency have achieved impressive success in optical communication, transmitting messages from the Psyche spacecraft to Earth from a distance of 16 million kilometers. The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) system used a near-infrared laser encoded with test data to transmit a message from Psyche to a distance 40 times the […]
This is due to a scientific phenomenon known as solar conjunction: the period during which the Sun shields Mars and Earth from each other This was reported by Science Alert. “Like dancers on either side of a huge bonfire,” NASA says, “the two planets are temporarily invisible to each other. Earth and Mars experience a […]
Scientists from the University of Barcelona have designed and manufactured 35 kilobots equipped with tiny legs, LED lights, and an infrared light receiver. This discovery is a significant step in the development of swarm robots. These bots were programmed to perform dance moves similar to those used by scout bees. In the experiments, each robot […]