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NASA tested a parachute for landing on Mars
At the moment the American space Agency NASA have been preparing for the Mars 2020 mission. Through the planned series of tests recently completed the third (and final) stage of testing of the parachute system ASPIRE (Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment), which should help an aircraft to make a safe landing on the surface…
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Discovered structure, with a large regenerative potential than stem cells
Stem cells have long (and very successfully) used in the so-called regenerative medicine. However, as it turned out, there is in our body and better structures that will give a new impetus to the development of new technologies for the treatment of various diseases. These structures are called “extracellular vesicles” and it used to be…
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Alexa learned to speak in a whisper. And it looks weird
Various voice assistants are already pretty firmly entrenched in everyday life. However, despite the very advanced technology used in the creation of these programs, and sometimes quite funny cases. For example, this spring, the smart speakers from Amazon frighten their users terrible laughter. And now the voice assistant Alexa from the same Amazon learned to…
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Australian Cops Perform CPR on Drowning Kangaroo
A kangaroo, though likely not the one from this story.Photo: Chris Fithall (Flickr) I know very little about Australia, aside from the fact that it’s basically a weirder United States with a feral cat problem. But I’m familiar enough to know that Australian police resuscitating a drowning kangaroo with CPR at the beach is about…
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Dogs Can Sniff Out Malaria in Worn Socks
Freya, a Springer Spaniel trained to sniff out the scent of malaria.Image: Medical Detection Dogs New research shows that dogs can be trained to detect the malaria parasite in infected individuals using their keen sense of smell. In 2016, an estimated 445,000 global deaths were attributed to malaria, according to the World Health Organization. The…
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A Supervolcano’s Colossal Eruption Has Been Lying About Its Age
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What Will Become of Linux Giant Red Hat Now That It Sold Out to IBM?
Photo: Fabian Bimmer (Associated Press) As the New York Times reported yesterday, IBM is in the process of purchasing Red Hat, one of the largest corporate contributors to the Linux kernel. The news is great if you’ve got stock in either company or a passion to see a cloud computing services challenge Amazon (and Microsoft).…
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Twitter Says Bug Left Some Tweets Searchable by Location Even After That Data Was Deleted
Photo: Getty Earlier this month, Twitter says, it found a bug that left some tweets publicly searchable by location after users had opted to delete that info with Twitter’s privacy tools. The tweets remained in Twitter’s location-based search results “for up to seven days,” the company said, before it resolved the problem on October 12.…
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Astronomers Propose Huge New Telescope System to Understand the Most Energetic Particles Ever Detected
The famous blazar spotted this summer by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT).Image: NASA Goddard (Flickr) Astronomers have proposed a truly enormous telescope consisting of 200,000 radio receivers around the world, which added together would cover an area the size of Nebraska. They hope to spot incredibly energetic but difficult to detect neutrinos coming from…
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Google Pledges $25 Million for ‘Good’ AI, Totally Isn’t Trying to Make You Forget That Military AI Stuff