April 20, 2023

The moment the Starship spacecraft exploded during a test flight on 20/4/2023. From the live broadcast of Spice X on YouTube

SPACEX's Starship spacecraft exploded four minutes after launch on its first full test flight

Apparently the thrust of the first stage was not strong enough and the spacecraft was unable to separate from it. This is still an unmanned test flight and it seems that now the manned experiments will move away * This is the prototype
V838 Monocerotis A red variable star in the Monocros group. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Cosmic dust factories: variable stars and the origin of life

It was found that stars with variable light intensity influence the production of the interstellar dust and its enrichment in heavy elements from which life was created
ChatGPT. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Covert bias in the English language affects everyone – even AI chatbots

New research reveals that a linguistic bias in the English language, which encourages us to "improve" things by adding to them instead of subtracting from them, is so common that it's even been incorporated into artificial intelligence chatbots