UK team seeking to put suitcase-sized satellite in orbit around moon in search for 21cm line radio frequency signal
Little is known about what was happening shortly after the big bang, but now researchers are hoping to shed fresh light on the matter by harnessing the dark side of the moon.
Scientists are hoping to put a suitcase-sized satellite into orbit around the moon, using the data it collects as it passes the far side to search for a radio frequency signal emitted by neutral hydrogen atoms in the early universe.
Continue reading...Utility company’s plant, which has only run five times, now has an estimated total cost of £500m
Thames Water is preparing the UK’s only desalination plant to restart operations later this year – but it will not be ready until the winter, long after the current drought is likely to have passed.
The utility company said that it was hoping to start operating its plant in Beckton, east London, “by the end of the year”, in order to help build up reservoir supplies over the winter for next summer.
Continue reading...The administrative work required to run an effective investment scam has been drastically cut by using merging technology
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Within days of clicking on an online ad for a cryptocurrency trading app, a 29-year-old Queensland man watched his dashboard soar with profits.
Making investment gains was as simple as downloading the slick-looking app and browser extension linked to his crypto wallet. So he invested more.
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Революционная миссия, которая исследовала Плутон и отдалённые объекты Солнечной системы с беспрецедентной детализацией, пробудилась от своего самого длительного «сна». Сейчас она находится на расстоянии 5,9 миллиарда миль (9,5 миллиарда километров) от Земли.
Космический аппарат НАСА «Новые горизонты» перешёл в запланированный режим гибернации 7 августа 2025 года и пробудился 23 июня с помощью команд, сохранённых в его главном компьютере.
Диспетчеры миссии из Лаборатории прикладной физики Университета Джонса Хопкинса в Лореле, штат Мэриленд, подтвердили, что «Новые горизонты» находится в отличном состоянии и готов передавать поток научных данных, собранных во время «спячки», со своего местоположения в области ледяных объектов, известной как пояс Койпера.
Плутон — самое крупное из тысяч замороженных каменных тел, называемых транснептуновыми объектами (ТНО), которые находятся в поясе Койпера на краю нашей Солнечной системы — это остатки её формирования, завершившегося по большей части 4,5 миллиарда лет назад.
В 2015 году «Новые горизонты» стал первым космическим аппаратом, совершившим детальный пролёт мимо Плутона и его спутников, изменив представления учёных об этой холодной карликовой планете. В 2019 году аппарат также провёл детальное исследование Аррокота — ТНО, имеющего форму снеговика.
С момента достижения этих важных вех аппарат «Новые горизонты» продолжает исследовать загадочный пояс Койпера — и делает удивительные открытия.
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Космический аппарат собирает данные о скоростях вращения, ориентации и формах ледяных объектов, путешествующих по орбитам в поясе Койпера.
Читать далееUK team seeking to put suitcase-sized satellite in orbit around moon in search for 21cm line radio frequency signal
Little is known about what was happening shortly after the big bang, but now researchers are hoping to shed fresh light on the matter by harnessing the far side of the moon.
Scientists plan to put a suitcase-sized satellite into orbit around the moon, using the data it collects as it passes the far side to search for a radio frequency signal emitted by neutral hydrogen atoms in the early universe.
Continue reading...From Maga to Hungary’s Fidesz and Australia’s One Nation, politics is returning to its oldest question: what makes a life worth living? And liberalism needs a credible answer
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Those of us who live in liberal democracies carry an image of what a decent state should do. It should protect rights, grow the economy, maintain order, uphold fairness and arbitrate disputes. But on life’s deepest questions – what makes a life worth living, and what sort of person one ought to become – it is meant to show restraint. The state should not privilege one vision of human flourishing, let alone promote it. That is for individuals, families and communities to decide. To borrow the Minnesota governor Tim Walz’s golden rule of politics: “Mind your own damn business!”
Consider birthrates. Across much of the wealthy world, they have fallen below replacement level. Fewer children mean fewer future workers, taxpayers and carers, and more pressure on pensions, health systems and aged care. Yet when liberal democracies encourage larger families, through baby bonuses or affordable childcare, they generally describe the goal as removing obstacles and expanding choice. Crucially, everyone should benefit: gay parents, straight parents, adoptive parents, biological parents, married parents, divorced parents – come one, come all.
Continue reading...While some of the event’s 5,000 attenders arrive sporting full bodysuits and ready to compete, others are gearing up for their first tattoo
At the Sydney tattoo convention, the city’s historic town hall fills with the buzz of tattoo machines, the comforting aroma of hospital-grade sanitiser and the timeless tunes of Linkin Park.
The convention’s founder and managing director of Thirteen Feet Tattoo studios, Katie Bailey, says it wasn’t easy to secure the 137-year-old venue. When she pitched it to Sydney council for their first event four years ago: “at first they were nervous about it, they had people everywhere checking in on us, but after that first event, they thought it was amazing. Tattooing and town hall just go together.”
Continue reading...Five years after the fall of Kabul, the former Afghan soldier is stuck in the middle of a new American war
War is Abbas’s* earliest memory.
As a child, the first iteration of Taliban rule forced his family to flee – with nothing but the clothes on their backs and what food they could carry – for the relative safety of far-distant hills.
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Continue reading...Marine conservationist says deliberate attack would be ‘act of extreme cruelty’ against endangered population
Spanish officials have launched an investigation after the matriarch of an orca pod known for jostling and ramming boats off the Iberian Peninsula was spotted with wounds suggesting she had been shot by a pellet gun.
On Friday, Spain’s environment ministry said Toñi, the oldest living member of the pod, had been seen swimming in the Strait of Gibraltar with markings on her dorsal fin that were “consistent with shots from a pellet gun”.
Continue reading...Marine conservationist says deliberate attack would be ‘act of extreme cruelty’ against endangered population
Spanish officials have launched an investigation after the matriarch of an orca pod known for jostling and ramming boats off the Iberian Peninsula was spotted with wounds suggesting she had been shot by a pellet gun.
On Friday, Spain’s environment ministry said Toñi, the oldest living member of the pod, had been seen swimming in the Strait of Gibraltar with markings on her dorsal fin that were “consistent with shots from a pellet gun”.
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Первое время нейросеть вызывала восторг, вот это помощник! Пока модель собирает источники, ты открываешь вторую задачу, пока пишет черновик, занимаешься третьей. Через час уже у тебя лежит объем работы, на который раньше ушел бы день. Ключевое слово — лежит.
Нейросеть старательна, но в одной ее ссылке пересказ, в другой описание смежного рынка. Два правдивых факта модель соединила причинной связью, которой в источниках не было.
И в этом есть занятная асимметрия: ИИ резко снизил стоимость подготовки черновиков и ответов, но не снял вопрос, почему им можно доверять. Хорошо, когда ответ проверяет человек, иногда тест или программа, а если нет?
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Lawmakers want answers from the Pentagon chief and the U.S. Navy about living conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona.
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В статье мы рассмотрим настройку маршрутизации на основе политик (Policy Based Routing, PBR) для управления трафиком от сервера в Интернет в зависимости от IP-адреса источника. Опишем шаги по конфигурации PBR на сервере c Ubuntu и маршрутизаторах Juniper MX.
Читать далееDefense team file motion to dismiss state murder case on double jeopardy rules after Mangione tells Manhattan court ‘I shot Mr Thompson and he died’
at the courthouse in Manhattan
Mangione’s legal team is helmed by Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo. The team has scored several major legal coups in Mangione’s federal and state cases.
Continue reading...Move will be one of first large-scale foreign investments in country since US ousted leader Nicolás Maduro in January
BP has answered Donald Trump’s call for oil companies to help rebuild Venezuela’s fossil fuel industry with new plans to develop a large offshore gasfield.
BP will partner with two oil firms with close links to the Trump administration to develop the second phase of the Loran gasfield, in one of the first large-scale foreign investments in Venezuela since the US ousted its leader Nicolás Maduro in January.
Continue reading...Nigel Farage has won the Clacton byelection he triggered by resigning from the seat because he wanted to allow voters to ‘stick two fingers up at the entire establishment’. The Reform UK leader’s political finances were under investigation at the time. That process has now resumed, posing the risk of another byelection if Farage is found to have broken the rules. Has his party emerged stronger or weaker as a result of the byelection? And what next for Reform UK and its leader? Alexandra Topping and Rowena Mason discuss the fallout, and what it means
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From inflation, to credit card debt, to who's actually doing the spending: These are key takeaways from this week in economic news.
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PM urges people not to risk lives and homes by starting fires as military brought in to help deal with wildfires
Downing Street has issued a temporary GB-wide ban on the sale of disposable barbecue and brought in the military to help deal with wildfires as Andy Burnham urged people not to risk lives in “tinderbox” Britain this weekend.
The prime minister spoke from Stourbridge in the West Midlands, where at least 19 people have been taken to hospital during eight fires that have ripped through several homes.
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Saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the current Taliban rule in Afghanistan. They've had a devastating impact on girls' education. A lesser told story is their impact on the education of boys.
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ИИшечка уже пишет приложение за вечер. Но чтобы выложить его в интернет, мы все еще зовем девопсера.
Тут начинаются докерфайлы, CI/CD, DNS, TLS, секреты, логи и контейнер, который десятый раз перезапускается.
В начале лета мы решили проверить: а можно ли научить AI не только писать код, но и самостоятельно доводить его до прода?
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It's been 33 years since the enduring cinematic masterpiece that is Jurassic Park first hit theaters in June 1993. Since that fateful summer, Steven Spielberg's sci-fi survival thriller has reigned supreme as the undisputed king of dinosaur films. Now, The End of Oak Street is proving a dino blockbuster that serves up prehistoric horror with a side of genuine pathos is still a worthy endeavor.
Based on Michael Crichton's 1990 novel, Jurassic Park not only delivered some of the most memorable creature-feature scares in movie history, it was also a sharp cautionary tale about scientific hubris and the illusion of man's control over nature that was anchored by stellar performances from its core cast. But over the course of numerous sequels and reboots, the franchise largely shifted away from resonant character drama in favor of high-octane action sequences and increasingly monstrous beasts. Outside the Jurassic universe, there haven't been many successful attempts to reinvent the dinosaur wheel, so to speak.

Cue the release of The End of Oak Street, now in theaters. Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell (It Follows, Under the Silver Lake) and produced by J.J. Abrams (Cloverfield, Super 8), Oak Street follows the Platt family—husband and wife Greg (Ewan McGregor) and Denise (Anne Hathaway), their two children Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery), and their rambunctious dog Starbuck (played by two different pups named Brisket and Buzz)—after a mysterious cosmic event transports their 1980s suburban Michigan neighborhood back to a primitive era. What follows is a brutal fight for survival against aggressive, hungry, and carnivorous dinosaurs who quickly turn the community's previously idyllic streets into their own personal feeding ground. There's an absurd scientific explanation for these events, but the movie doesn't spend too much time on it, which is mostly for the best within the bounds of its sub-100-minute run. Instead, The End of Oak Street is a thriller about suburban unease and domestic tension, with a primeval twist.
"I’m just calling back that feeling I had as a kid, where I could be in the yard looking over to the dead-end street nearby, looking down into the woods," Mitchell told the AU Review of what inspired Oak Street's vintage vibe. "There was this old brick or rock wall, and it was just imagining what’s in the shadows, you know? What’s beyond the chain-link fence? As a kid, just thinking about the films that I had seen, the stories I’d read, and imagining those things in my own suburban world, and then as an adult trying to remember that feeling. I do think it’s a little bit burned into my brain, that feeling."
The Platts and their neighbors must contend with a relentless pack of Velociraptors, a roving Allosaurus, and a behemoth of a snake that gets its jollies from sneaking up on its prey, among other predators. But Oak Street doesn't just spotlight the perils of man-eating dinosaurs. It also delves in the simmering marital friction that's threatening to tear the Platts apart from the inside.

While Greg is struggling to hold down a consistent job and drinking to cope with the anxiety surrounding that strain, Denise is channeling her domestic frustration into writing a secret novel about a housewife who leaves her family behind for a new life in New York City. "She’s the kind of woman who grew up in a time when many women went from their father’s home to their husband’s," Hathaway told Time Out of her character's mindset. "I wanted Denise to seem like the last person in the world you’d expect to be able to take on a Titanoboa with a knife."
After being catapulted hundreds of millions of years into the past, Greg and Denise are forced to simultaneously reckon with both the dangerous realities of being dropped in the center of a primordial jungle and the hidden truths fracturing their relationship. Of course, the rampaging dinosaurs are a bit more of an immediate issue. And Mitchell doesn't waste any time making the life-or-death stakes of the Platts' predicament abundantly clear. Those going into Oak Street blind should be prepared for a few gasp-inducing surprises.
Once the carnage gets going, Mitchell never really take his foot off the gas. And while the film's ending ultimately requires some logic-bending buy-in, the journey to get there is equal parts thrilling, fun, emotional, and ferocious. Harking back to its Jurassic forbear, The End of Oak Street channels everyone's favorite '80s Amblin classics, but with a far more vicious bite.
Incident near Essex town of Wickford happens day after two passengers seriously hurt in East Sussex derailment
The UK’s fifth heatwave of the summer has “presented exceptional challenges to the railway”, Network Rail has said, after two trains derailed in less than 24 hours.
On Friday, British Transport Police (BTP) confirmed the rear carriages of a Greater Anglia train derailed “in an upright position” at Wickford railway station in Essex, adding that there were no reported injuries. On Thursday, two people were seriously injured when several Southern train carriages left the track near Lewes in East Sussex and ended up on their side, trapping passengers onboard.
Continue reading...Всем привет, добро пожаловать на подкаст Mindscape. Я ваш ведущий, Шон Кэрролл. Время! Оно не останавливается, несмотря на все психологические последствия жизни в условиях локдауна. То, как мы воспринимаем время, зависит от обстоятельств, но само время неумолимо движется вперед. Если, конечно, путешествия в прошлое вообще невозможны, как это изображается в бесчисленных научно-фантастических сюжетах. Но имеет ли это смысл? Разве в таком случае мы не смогли бы изменить прошлое, причем настолько радикально, что сами никогда не появились бы на свет? В этом сольном выпуске подкаста я говорю и о физике путешествий во времени, и об их изображении в фантастике. Я объясняю, что законы физики, возможно, допускают путешествия во времени, и рассказываю, как именно это могло бы работать, хотя на самом деле мы пока этого не знаем. А еще я пытаюсь разобраться в некоторых не самых логичных вариантах путешествий во времени, которые показывают в кино. Придумать непротиворечивую теорию, способную объяснить происходящее в «Назад в будущее», совсем непросто, но подкасты - занятие не для слабонервных.
Я хотел бы рассказать тем из вас небольшую историю о том, как мне самому удалось, пусть и совсем немного, повлиять на массовую культуру. Возможно, вы слышали о фильме «Мстители: Финал». Скорее всего, слышали, ведь на тот момент это был самый кассовый фильм в истории. И важную роль в нем играет идея путешествий во времени. Я не собираюсь раскрывать сюжет фильма, но до него был другой фильм, «Война бесконечности», в котором произошли довольно неприятные события, и герои «Финала» хотят исправить их, отправившись в прошлое. А если вы хотите ввести в фильм путешествия во времени, вам приходится принять определенные решения о том, как именно они работают. В реальном мире путешествий во времени мы пока не наблюдали, поэтому существует несколько разных теорий о том, как они в принципе могли бы происходить. И в какой-то момент Пол Радд, актер, который играет Скотта Лэнга, он же Человек-муравей, вместе с остальными героями обсуждает путешествия во времени и говорит: «То есть вы хотите сказать, что “Назад в будущее” - это полная чушь?»
Читать далееIncident near Essex town of Wickford happens day after two passengers seriously hurt in East Sussex derailment
The UK’s fifth heatwave of the summer has “presented exceptional challenges to the railway”, Network Rail has said, after two trains derailed in less than 24 hours.
On Friday, British Transport Police (BTP) confirmed the rear carriages of a Greater Anglia train derailed “in an upright position” at Wickford railway station in Essex, adding that there were no reported injuries. On Thursday, two people were seriously injured when several Southern train carriages left the track near Lewes in East Sussex and ended up on their side, trapping passengers onboard.
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