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Researchers who have examined whether Einstein's theory of gravity works on the largest possible scale claim that there are deviations that need to be checked and corrected similar to those at small distances that can be answered using quantum theory
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Scientists have created a robot that empathizes with humans and can laugh with them. The researchers hoped to use their system to improve natural conversations between robots and people. However, apparently the ability of robots to understand
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The United Nations declared November 15th as the date when the 8 billionth person will be born.* How should we as humanity avoid the kind of crises that have wiped out civilizations that overexploited their environment only this time it's all of us?
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The newly discovered 2022 AP7 orbits the Sun every five years, and currently crosses Earth's orbit when Earth is on the other side of the Sun from it. In the end his movement
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A "dirty bomb" is a dispersal device containing a radioactive material - possibly uranium, but more likely low-grade materials such as cesium-137 or other radioactive materials commonly used in less medical facilities
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The first basic principle is that tyranny is defined by the distribution of power within the state and not by ideology or behavior * The second basic principle is that power corrupts and the distribution of power determines behavior
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New technologies could enable the discovery of technological markers from intelligent beings on distant planets
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Researchers examine how the ancient viral DNA in the human genome plays a role in disease and human development
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The discovery also has value in a completely different field - the search for life on planets outside the solar system
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Thomas is a locomotive and his movements are determined by the shape of the track, his operation as a locomotive and the railway workers. So is his free will just an illusion? And what does this mean about humans in reality?
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The collapse of the Amazon forests, the melting of the glaciers and frozen lands, the death of the coral reefs - these are some of the factors that may lead to irreversible changes * Some of them are happening at an alarming rate
How fake science websites hijack our trust in experts to hinder the fight against the climate crisis
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The deniers of the climate crisis can't get into scientific journals, so they try their luck using websites that pretend to be such journals. A communication researcher explains how to identify such sites
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Many pregnancies are terminated at the stage when the fetus is implanted in the uterus and begins to develop. The discovery will make it possible to investigate this phase in detail
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The Drake equation is not a law of nature, but an educated estimate of the number of intelligent civilizations we can discover, but it is enough to stimulate the imagination.
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The mission, whose launch is scheduled for Monday, August 29, 2022, is a test flight - without a crew - of the launch system into space and the Orion crew compartment. NASA hopes it will pave the way for routine exploration of
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Dragons are an almost universal symbol for many cultures. Scientists have tried to come up with explanations for the dragon myth, but the legends' continued existence is a testament to their narrative power and mystery.
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A seminal 2006 article in Nature claiming that beta-amyloid protein was primarily responsible for Alzheimer's was found to be partially fabricated. Long years of attempts to develop medicines were lost in vain * Twenty more articles are now being examined
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If the Russian government is able to build the laser, it will be able to protect a large part of the country from observation by satellites with optical sensors. Technology also sets the stage for the more threatening possibility
Landsat 50 years old: how satellites revolutionized the way we see - and protect - the natural world
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On July 23, 1972, the Landsat satellite was launched, which changed our attitude to the environment. Since then the satellites have been perfected and now NASA is developing the Landsat 10 satellite, which will be able to reveal more details about the destruction of the Earth
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In fact, the environment in these oceans is very similar to the environment of the earth at the time when life began
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A researcher combines psychological theories of human behavior and the field of information science to reach insights. These findings have implications for the way to combat wrong information distributed on the net
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While silicon computers have changed the face of society, they are still dwarfed by the brains of most animals. For example, a cat's brain stores and can use 1,000 times more data than an average iPad
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Reader's question: I am 59 years old, and in fairly good health. Is it possible that I will live long enough to put my brain into a computer? Richard Dixon.
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Researchers in the US have made the intriguing claim that the DALL-E 2 model may have invented its own secret language to understand descriptions of objects.
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A new book by American researcher Eve Darian Smith describes how around the world, many countries are becoming less democratic. This retreat in democracy and "creeping authoritarianism," as the US State Department put it, is supported
Researchers in the United Kingdom: severe morbidity in Corona is equivalent to twenty years of aging
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More precisely a cognitive decline such as that which occurs between the ages of 50 and 70, which is also equivalent to ten IQ points
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An expert in space law and international relations says that even the entry of commercial companies will not solve the problem because they are subject to the laws of the country in which they are registered
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While SETI (the search for extraterrestrial radio signals) has long since become part of mainstream science, METI, or the transmission of messages to intelligent extraterrestrial beings, has been a less common field. Now we are going on a second journey
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Nuclear fusion reaches a milestone thanks to better reactor walls - this engineering development leads to the reactors of the future, say researchers following a successful UK experiment
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Long before shots were fired, a linguistic power struggle was underway in Ukraine, explains a linguistics expert
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A new brain imaging study found that participants who had even mild corona showed an average decrease in the size of the entire brain.
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The first casualty of war, says historian Ronald Sonny, is not just the truth. Often, he says, "but what's left out." He explains why Russian President Putin is not accurate in the statements he gave as a pretext for war
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A British philosopher believes that we must change economic thinking from the short to the long term, but avoid using the same technological utopias that brought us the climate crisis
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Many species of moths, which are the favorite prey of many bats, have developed all kinds of tricks to avoid being eaten. Some have developed a sense of hearing at the appropriate frequencies and others, lacking the ability to hear, have developed camouflage solutions
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The World Health Organization now defines it as a species under investigation. This is not the first version to have sub-dynasties. Late last year, the Delta "Plus" or AY.4.2 was widely reported and then came Omicron
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The corona epidemic has many consequences beyond the medical aspect - mainly the disruptions in business and the world of work. Leaders at every level - from company managers to the decision makers in the government under conditions of uncertainty
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"It is not clear whether Bezos' company will succeed in helping to extend the human life span, but what is clear is that by studying aging new and exciting discoveries may emerge" writes Prof. Daniel Davis
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Vaccine technology based on DNA and RNA has already been in development for about thirty years, it happened to be ready to help develop a vaccine for Corona, but its potential is much higher, says a British researcher
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This is what a British medical microbiologist warns based on comprehensive studies from all over the world. She calls on the decision makers not to shorten the isolation and release into the environment people who may be infected * Her finding is also relevant to Israel
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Astronomers rarely use their telescopes just to take pictures. The images in astrophysics are usually created by a process of scientific inference and imagination, the visual expression of which is sometimes an artist's impression of what emerges
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It seems that leumicron has the ability to bypass existing immunity, either from a vaccine or in convalescents. However, it appears to be more difficult to cause severe disease in those vaccinated with the booster shot and therefore
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By Matthew Druckenmiller, Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Rick Thoman, Alaska Climatologist, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Twila Moon,
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The routine will return sooner or later, but it will be a new routine than the one we are used to until March 2020. This is according to an ongoing survey of the people of Great Britain, who were initially optimistic and thought that the epidemic would end within
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The main concern is the weakening of the response of the vaccines to the Omicron variant is due to the appearance of 32 mutations in the spike protein. To reduce the risks of creating new dangerous variants, the researchers suggest increasing production
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The omicron variant contains many mutations in the spike protein, which facilitate the penetration of the virus into cells
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We are a team of medical and public health professionals at the University of Pittsburgh. We have extensive experience researching vaccine misinformation on social media and working with community partners to address those who are hesitant to get vaccinated, prevent
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Hunting for variants requires a concentrated effort. South Africa and the United Kingdom were the first major countries to implement national genomic surveillance efforts for SARS-CoV-2 as early as April 2020. Scientists in South Africa are sequencing the virus and studying
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The agreement signed in Glasgow was weak. And still companies and countries can cheat in the carbon market. However, there is a chance for some improvements next year in Egypt, and public pressure is needed to prevent investments from the energy companies
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Like all the elements that exist on Earth, fluorine also has a cosmic origin. Now, an article published long ago in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy sheds some light on this
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Many news reports covering Shatner's trip failed to mention his comments about the fragility of the Earth's atmosphere: comments that could easily have been aimed at the heads of state attending the climate change conference in