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Apr 19, 2022

NASA’s supersonic aircraft X-59 successfully completes its critical ground tests

Posted by in category: transportation

Apr 19, 2022

SpaceX and NASA will launch Crew-4 to the International Space Station

Posted by in category: space travel

Apr 19, 2022

Video shows Ukrainian soldier allegedly taking apart a Russian drone and discovering its regular camera

Posted by in categories: drones, military, surveillance

With some parts held together by duct tape.

In the raging battle between Russia and Ukraine, Russia’s small drones have been reported to be taking a deadly toll on Ukrainian forces. A new video, however, is revealing that the highly efficient precision drones are not as advanced as one might expect.

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry shared a video on Sunday that shows a soldier allegedly dismantling a Russian military surveillance drone and pointing out several highly unsophisticated features. In fact, seeing what the whole drone consists of it seems like something a schoolchild could put together.

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Apr 19, 2022

The French town where the lighting is alive

Posted by in category: futurism

These lamps are alive. Glowee, a French startup, has transformed the small town of Rambouillet in France into the subject of an odd yet breathtakingly gorgeous lighting experiment.

Apr 19, 2022

Google Maps’ satellite images reveal the full scope of Russian military assets

Posted by in categories: mapping, military

The world seems to have taken notice of the level of details services like Google Maps offer on an everyday basis. A Twitter account supporting the Ukrainian forces recently shared some images of Russian military establishments that were in public view on Google Maps.

⚡️GOOGLE MAPS ВІДКРИВ ДОСТУП ДО ВІЙСЬКОВИХ ТА СТРАТЕГІЧНИХ ОБ’ЄКТІВ РОСІЇ. Тепер кожен може побачити різноманітні російські пускові установки, шахти міжконтинентальних балістичних ракет, командні пункти та секретні полігони з роздільною здатністю близько до 5 метра на піксель. pic.twitter.com/i75wR8Efwo — Armed Forces 🇺🇦 (@ArmedForcesUkr) April 18, 2022

As the caption reads, Google has opened access to Russian military and strategic facilities. The tweet was probably an attempt at virtue signaling that Google had taken a stance against Russian aggression. However, as a Google spokesperson told The Verge, the information was available in the public domain well before the Ukraine conflict.

Apr 19, 2022

Twitter reveals ‘poison pill’ strategy to avoid Musk’s takeover. What will he do next?

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Apr 19, 2022

7 Programming Languages to Use in Data Science

Posted by in categories: business, evolution, science

With the constant evolution of data science, you need to be skilled in cutting-edge technologies in the field. In this article, we will look at the top programming languages used in data science.

Data has become enormously valuable in the last decade.

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Apr 19, 2022

M.R.I.s Are Finding Connections Between Our Brain Activity and Psychology

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

How might we leverage knowing that a particular neurological feature makes someone more vulnerable to autism or Alzheimer’s or more likely to achieve academically?

Apr 19, 2022

100 Million-Year-Old Fairy Shrimp Reproduced Without Sex, Rare Fossils Reveal

Posted by in category: sex

Cretaceous period fossils indicate female fairy shrimp had no need for males.

Apr 19, 2022

The first ever photograph of light as a particle and a wave

Posted by in category: particle physics

Circa 2015


Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the same time. Now, scientists at EPFL have succeeded in capturing the first-ever snapshot of this dual behavior.