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How NASA plans to mine minerals on Mars?
The year 2038. After 18 months living and working on the surface of Mars a team of six researchers sits back in the spacecraft and returned to Earth. On the planet there is not a single living soul, but the work here never stops for a minute. Autonomous robots continue the extraction of minerals and…
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At MIT developed a two-dimensional material, which will bring the creation of quantum computers
In the past, scientists often conduct research in the field of creation of two-dimensional materials. And is the graphene is not the only one in this list. For example, we recently wrote about a new modification of phosphorus, which could oust the carbon material. However, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently demonstrated…
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Developed a tractor beam from Star wars
Surely even if you haven’t seen Star Wars, you know that in various works of fiction there is a special tractor beam that can immobilize a space ship (or person) and move him anywhere you want. As with any technology that is described by science fiction, this one had a very logical rationale and recently…
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Danish physicists have questioned the detection of gravitational waves
The first direct detection of gravitational waves was revealed to the world on 11 February 2016 and has generated headlines around the world. For the opening in 2017 of physics received the Nobel prize and launched a new era of gravitational astronomy. But a group of physicists from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark,…
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iPhone Lockscreen Exploit Discovered in Apple’s Latest iOS Update
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One of Sonos’s Most Anticipated Features Is in Purgatory
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Immigrants to the U.S. Rapidly Gain a New Microbiome
Bacteroides is a genus of bacteria commonly found in humans intestinesImage: CDC/Dr. V.R. Dowell, Jr. When people immigrate to the United States, their microbiomes quickly transition to a U.S.-associated microbiome, according to research published today in the journal Cell. Changes to their internal population of bacteria start to occur within nine months, and the longer…
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The Quest to Build the Impossible Laptop
The Compaq Concerto.Photo: Gizmodo Perhaps the earliest attempt at creating a 2-1 was the Compaq Concerto, which was released in 1993. The Concerto was one of the first PC-like devices to have both a keyboard and touch display. It had a big hinge-handle to prop up its large body, and an ugly 640 by 480…
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Russian Space Agency Releases Video of Failed Soyuz Launch
The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan on October 11. Photo: Getty Images Russian space agency Roscosmos has tweeted a new video of last month’s failed Soyuz rocket launch that forced an emergency landing for the two-person crew. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin were traveling to the International Space Station when…
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Sorry, But Your iPhone 5 Just Became Obsolete
Photo: Gizmodo Sometime in the flurry of news surrounding the new iPad Pro and the new MacBook Air, Apple quietly added the iPhone 5 to its list of “vintage and obsolete products” in the United States. There it sits, alongside the Apple III, the Newton MessagePad, and the first four generations of iPhone, as a…