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American nonprofit organization Planetary Society, working on projects in the areas of astronomy, planetary science and space exploration, is going to spend this summer testing LightSail 2 – a new version of the solar sail, which can later be used in other scientific missions. A similar version of the sails you plan to use in…

And again in the center of the tragic accident turned out to be Tesla, but the company is in the focus for safety reasons. Driver Model X died after his electric SUV collided with a guardrail on the 101 freeway in mountain view and met with two other vehicles. The incident resulted in half of…

The annual “Earth Hour” is an initiative of the world wildlife Fund. The aim of the campaign is to draw attention to the problems of our planet. During the campaign, WWF calls on all concerned to turn off their electricity for one hour. Turning off the lights is symbolic and not aimed at saving electricity.…

In June last year, gaming company Atari has announced a new retro-gaming console Ataribox, and after some time went on IndieGoGo to collect enough money to implement the idea. Eleven months later, it became known that the new console, whose design is inspired by the classic Atari 2600, called the Atari VCS. Unfortunately, details about…

This week, the Chinese government has adopted all necessary documents for Chinese search giant Baidu to begin testing Autonomous vehicles in the vicinity of Beijing, writes Reuters. China intends to compete with other countries that are actively implementing and testing unmanned systems transport control, so the government of China actively supports the development of such…

When you were young, everybody told you that you are unique and individual. The idea of individuality has been around for many centuries, but the more we learn about our bodies, the more biologists suspect that the microorganisms within us means that we are rather a collection of trillions of organisms, rather than individual personality.…

Scientists from Saratov state technical University named after Y. A. Gagarin (Saratov state technical University) together with their foreign colleagues created neural network can doubt at the moment of decision-making, writes RIA “Novosti” with reference to the journal of the American Institute of physics. Having modeled the uncertainty of choice at the moment of making…

Indian space research organization began to study inexpensive, but practical ways of living built the lunar module. Previously, the team of scientists participating in the project had developed interplanetary space module that went to Mars and successfully entered its orbit. The development team spent almost ten times less than NASA in the implementation of similar…

The mass action “Delete Facebook” (#deletefacebook) continues to gain momentum. Dissatisfied with the large-scale leak of personal data of users of the social network urge everyone to boycott Facebook. The action is supported not only ordinary people, she is joined by more celebrities. One of the most famous people who supported the flash mob at…

The scandal with the leak of data from the social network Facebook does not subside, and various analysts and security experts are not tired to talk about how to deal with it, simultaneously offering their own methods of solving problems. So, on one of the press conferences at RBC Mitch Stevens told CNBC that he…