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Photo: Seth Wenig (AP) Continuing her post-truth crusade of alternative facts, Kellyanne Conway is now claiming that the misleading video edit shared by Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders last week of an interaction between CNN reporter Jim Acosta and a White House aide was “not altered,” just “sped up.” Responding to Wallace’s question about the…

Screenshot: Rocket Lab U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab completed its first successful commercial launch on Saturday, sending seven spacecraft including “six tiny satellites and a drag sail demonstrator” into orbit aboard a relatively small Electron rocket designed primarily for smallsats and cubesats, Spaceflight Now reported. According to the report, the two-stage, $5.7 million Electron rocket…

November 11, 2006 Sony released the PlayStation 3 in Japan. The launch of a gaming platform took place in stages, in the US, the console went on sale a week later in Europe on 23 March 2007, and in Russia – 20 April 2007. The PS3 was positioned as a gaming device, but as a…

Despite the fact that prior to the first mission to Mars is still far away, and colonization of the red planet while we can only dream of, scientists have been developing various options of how to equip the fourth planet from the Sun. The main problem with Mars is the lack of oxygen. To solve…

Carbon atoms can form a link in many different ways. Pure carbon can occur in different forms including diamond, graphite, nanotubes, molecules in the shape of a soccer ball or honeycomb grid with hexagonal cells, known as graphene. This exotic, strictly two-dimensional material conducts electricity, but a superconductor is not. Perhaps soon it will change.…

Just recently, scientific paper authored by two scientists from Harvard University made some noise: they said that the cigar-shaped stone flying through our Solar system, may be sent by aliens. Scientists have noted that it is “exotic scenario”, but “Omwamwi can be fully functional by the probe sent to Earth by aliens”. Omoloi, the first…

A Customs and Border Protection truck leaving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Los Fresnos, Texas.Photo: David J. Phillip (AP) The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have put an “undisclosed number of covert surveillance cameras inside streetlights” across the country, according to federal procurement documents obtained by Quartz. It’s…

“What is it made of space-time?” asks physicist Aron wall from the Stanford Institute for theoretical physics. In the past there is no physics in different ways trying to make sense of the riddle of space-time, treating it not just as an empty background on which unfolds the history of the Universe, but rather as…