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In 2016, the American astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a 340-day stay aboard the International space station (ISS). Such extended space travel became a part of the program space Agency NASA to study the effects of long stay in space, as well as testing the limits of human endurance with a long stay…

Astronomers of the Spanish University of La Laguna undertook a study of the background galaxy NGC 1277, which stopped the formation of new stars. Researchers report that this system has not changed much over the last 10 billion years. The details of the observations, scientists announced in a press release posted by EurekAlert. The original…

It would seem, what is the relationship between Microsoft and the man shot out of a cannon? But the fact that the company decided in such a nontrivial way to advertise the release of the first in a long time exclusive for Xbox One and Windows 10 called the Sea of Thieves. Moreover, Microsoft threatened…

Specialized medical equipment is not just different machines and robots. It is also conventional computers. But for the conditions of the medical clinics conventional computer technology is not always appropriate. And recently Hewlett Packard introduced a line of specialized computer equipment, tailored to the specific needs of medical institutions. Materials computer devices created in such…

Swiss robotics at ETH Zurich, developed a four-legged robot ANYmal, trained his ward new tricks. The updated software of the machine allows it to dance to the music. The robot not only produces a predetermined course of action, it analyzes the tempo of the music and tries to synchronize with their movement. The robot ANYmal…

At the end of 2017 at the auction in Jerusalem was exposed to a sentence of thirteen words, handwritten in German by albert Einstein. In the city archives of Einstein, which he bequeathed before his death in 1955 the Hebrew University. The institution he helped to establish in 1920-ies. In the archives of albert Einstein…

The idea of transferring human consciousness into a computer, a long — time dream of many people. I wrote about this a fiction. About dreams futurist ray Kurzweil. However, a new startup, with the support of the business incubator Y Combinator (a venture capital Fund, investing in the development of new technologies) have expressed a…

The famous British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has died on 77-m to year of life, according to BBC radio broadcasting organization with reference to the representatives of the family of the scientist. In 1963, the doctors gave Hawking a disappointing diagnosis – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Experts believed that he left to live only two and…

While signals from extraterrestrial civilizations to reach Earth, it is likely that by this time all the aliens have long been extinct. To this conclusion came a group of American astronomers under the guidance of the Swiss researcher Claudio Grimaldi, decided to revisit the famous Drake equation, a formula designed to determine the number of…

The new Zealand startup Kitty Hawk, which is a co-founder of Google and head of Google, Larry page, began testing its Autonomous flying taxi Cora, according to local new Zealand newspaper New Zealand Herald. The vehicle can ascend and land vertically like a helicopter and fly like a plane. The development project lasted for eight…