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Goodbye Lenna. Scientists have been banned from using an iconic 1972 Playboy photo to illustrate articles

A fragment of the digitized portrait of the Swedish model Lena Forsen, depicted in the centerfold of Playboy in November 1972, was widely used in scientific papers to test and illustrate image processing algorithms. Last week, the Computer Society IE...

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The Event Horizon Telescope has for the first time detected the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy

Since the 1980s, physicists have claimed that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, but its first "photo" was obtained only two years ago (and another one now) — thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This time, as...

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The Event Horizon Telescope has for the first time detected the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy

Physicists have been claiming since 1980 that in the center of the Milky Way there is a supermassive black hole, but its first "photos" were obtained only two years ago (and one more now) - thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This time astr...

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Catapult on steroids. Chinese railgun will launch crewed ships into space

To deliver astronauts into space requires an incredible amount of fuel (for example, the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo mission carried 770,000 liters of kerosene, as well as liquid oxygen as an oxidizer), so researchers have long been expl...

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Internal monologue: artificial intelligence has been taught to think (was it possible to do that?)

A new study shows that giving artificial intelligence systems an "inner monologue" significantly improves their performance. Essentially, artificial intelligence has been taught to think before responding to queries, much like how humans think about ...

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A rare "Blazing Star" will become visible in the night sky this year. How and when can it be seen?

The anticipated light show in the sky is the result of an "explosive interaction" between two neighboring stars, which occurs every 80 years. This star is located in the constellation Northern Crown (and has the corresponding official name - T North...

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A rare "Blazing Star" will become visible in the night sky this year. How and when can it be seen?

The anticipated light show in the sky is the result of an "explosive interaction" between two neighboring stars, which occurs every 80 years. This star is located in the constellation of the Northern Crown (and has the corresponding official name - ...

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Interlune wants to mine Helium-3 on the moon by 2030 - it's a potential fuel for nuclear fusion

Among the founders of the company are former employees of Blue Origin and an astronaut from the "Apollo-17" mission. Interlune plans to become the first company to extract natural resources on the Moon and sell them on Earth. Initially, the startup w...

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"Voyager 1" briefly made contact and offered hope for the resumption of NASA's historic mission

A month ago, it was believed that the 46-year-old space probe was "lost" due to a memory error. In fact, there was communication with the spacecraft, but it was meaningless - its messages were in gibberish. In early March, the spacecraft "Voyager-1"...

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Starship reached orbit for the first time, but could not "land" in the ocean - SpaceX lost it on approach

The third test flight of the Starship heavy rocket (mission IFT-3) by SpaceX ended with partial success today - actually, the team managed to "go further than ever before." The launch was broadcasted live on SpaceX's X/Twitter account. Starship's Th...

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Starship reached orbit for the first time, but could not "land" in the ocean - SpaceX lost it on approach

The third test flight of the super-heavy launch vehicle Starship (IFT-3 mission) by SpaceX ended with a partial success today (greater than previous ones) - in fact, the team managed to "go further than ever before." The launch was broadcast live on ...

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Startup Aethero aims to become the Intel or Nvidia of the space industry

Satellite sensors collect an incredible amount of data, but computational constraints in orbit hinder operators from processing them in space. Aethero, founded a year ago, plans to change that. Aethero is developing peripheral computers with radiatio...

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Startup Aethero aims to become the Intel or Nvidia of the space industry

Satellite sensors collect an incredible amount of data, however, computational constraints in orbit hinder operators from processing them in space. Aethero, founded a year ago, plans to change that. Aethero is developing peripheral computers with ra...

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How to watch SpaceX Starship's third test launch live

SpaceX is preparing for the third test flight of Starship. The 122nd rocket will launch from the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, at around 14:00 Kyiv time on March 14th. A 110-minute launch window will open at that time. The launch will be liv...

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How to watch SpaceX Starship's third test launch live

SpaceX is preparing for the third test flight of Starship. The 122nd rocket will launch from the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, around 14:00 Kiev time on March 14. This will be the opening of a 110-minute launch window. The launch will be liv...

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