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Supernova could lead to mass extinctions on Earth
Two and a half and eight million years ago near us (astronomically speaking) broke out two supernovae that could lead to the depletion of the ozone layer of the Earth and the many undesirable consequences for life. In particular, a serious blow could be a supernova age of two and a half million years. Pliocene,…
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Robots from NVIDIA will be watching us, to become even smarter
Now in order to teach the robot something new, you often need to spend a lot of time and effort of people in the process of learning. But NVIDIA offers significantly change this approach. Their new system for deep machine learning will allow robots to learn on their own, just watching people. The new system…
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We make up only 0.01 percent of the mass of all living things, but still manage to destroy everything around
In comparison with the rest mass of all life on Earth for humanity have nothing at all. But despite this “insignificance”, the mark left by humankind on this planet, truly devastating for the rest. One of the main goals of biology as a science is the understanding of the mechanisms of functioning of the biosphere…
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What is the power consumption of bitcoin
At this point mining bitcoins requires a large number of attachments and a very specific equipment. For most it will be easier to buy the currency on the exchange, but this does not mean that mining has slowed down. For the production of this currency is more and more capacity. And what it takes to…
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Danish scientists have made chips from jellyfish
We are not accustomed to the use of jellyfish in food, and in Asia they are already considered a recognized delicacy. Probably for us, they are not so well suited as a food, but Danish scientists have taken to fix it. They found a way to quickly convert the soft tentacles of jellyfish in crispy…
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The ISS will create the coldest place in the Universe
With the help of the carrier rocket “Antares” Orbital ATK space Agency NASA sent to the International space station the equipment for the experiment on extreme cooling of matter. Project Cold Atom Laboratory (“Laboratory cold atom”, CAL) is designed to achieve a temperature that is 10 billion times lower than the temperature of vacuum. It…
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How many galaxies we will never see?
One of the biggest surprises for mankind was not the fact that space is expanding, and what expanding faster and faster. The farther the galaxy is from us the faster they are removed from us. At some point, as you might guess, these galaxies will move away from us faster than the speed of light,…
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In orbit of Jupiter, settled “interstellar immigrant”
Visited us last year, the asteroid Omwamwi, flown in from another system, forced scientists to think about how, not whether in the Solar system similar? Article researchers, recently published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggests that Omwamwi is not the first interstellar envoy. Moreover, the discovered object, in contrast to…
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In Intel found a serious vulnerability. Again
Not so long ago there was a story with a critical vulnerability in Intel processors during which the Corporation has refused to even release a patch for its processors. But some time ago, processors world-famous company was again in the spotlight. This time experts from Google and Microsoft discovered the error, whose correction may lead…
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Algae will help people to get rid of the blindness
To lose (or not have since birth) able to see very similar in life and sheer torture. After all, the man is deprived of one of the most important senses. Because scientists very long lead research to help people recover lost vision. And recently a group of researchers from the US have been isolated from…