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September 27, 2021

Artist description based on research findings. The explosion was as powerful as 1,000 Hiroshimas. Illustration: Alan West and Jennifer Rice, CC BY-ND

A giant space rock destroyed a city near the Dead Sea about 3,600 years ago; Inspiration for the story of the destruction of Sodom and the destruction of the walls of Jericho

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One of the researchers responsible for the discovery tells how an asteroid similar to the one that caused the incident in Tungaska in Siberia in 1908, hit a city in Jordan northeast of the Dead Sea. The city was abandoned afterwards, and the echoes of the explosion hit other cities in the vicinity, including Jericho
Mars Rover Mars Day 193 - Navigation Camera: NASA's Mars Rover Ingenuity captured this image using its navigation camera on its 13th flyby on September 5, 2021 (Mars Day 193 of the Perspirans rover mission) at local solar time 12: 06:30.

NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter: Flying on Mars is getting more and more difficult

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The rotors of the first helicopter to fly on another planet were filled with dust, preventing them from turning
Laser heats extremely tiny silicon surfaces [Courtesy: Steven Burrows/JILA]

A solution that can prevent overheating in electronic components

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A team of physicists from the University of Colorado has solved the mystery behind a well-known phenomenon in the nanoscale: why extremely tiny heating sources cool faster if they are packed more tightly
An example of image and context analysis from Wikipedia for the Google AI WIT project. PR photo

Google AI announced WIT: a dataset linking images texts and context from Wikipedia

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The system designed for artificial intelligence training is available to the public and Google will even hold a WIT-based application competition together with the Wikimedia Foundation and the KEGGLE website
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