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FAST, the world’s largest radio telescope, has opened in China The world’s largest radio telescope, FAST, has been commissioned in a mountainous region of southwest China. The telescope has a diameter of 500 metres and is 195 metres larger than the largest telescope ever built in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

A 30-ton meteorite was unearthed in Argentina The find was made over 1000 kilometersóin the póNorth-westód from Buenos Aires in a place perforated by craters after a meteorite rainów. The boulder is part of an asteroid, whichóthat hit the Earth about 4,000 years ago. Its fragments have been found before and one of them named…

Temperatures at the North Pole near melting point The current situation is not normal. Already last month, the temperature was reaching alarming levels. We wrote about it in the text Disturbing changes in the Arctic. It is 20 degrees warmer. Celsius. However, back in November there was a shadow of a chance that properly negative…

Mysterious radio signals from outside our galaxy In March, mysterious, recurring and short-lived radio bursts were detected. Source located outside the Milky Way. Now scientists are reporting more signals from the same place.

Changes are coming to the Polish science The Minister of Science and Higher Education has announced far-reaching changes in Polish education and science. A National Agency for Academic Cooperation is to be established, science buses are to be sent to schools, research universities are to be selected and universities of the third age are to…

Swedish company implants chips in its employees In a high-tech office building in central Stockholm, all it takes is a hand on a reader to open a door. It is an experiment of one of the companies located there, which implants a chip under the skin of the palm of the hand of its employees,…

Stephen Hawking: mankind has no future if it does not escape from Earth Hawking has been suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for yearsóre leading to paralysis of almost his entire body. However, this does not prevent it from actively participating in the public debate on the condition of humanity. During his recent lecture at Oxford…

Rosetta probe on collision course with comet 67P/Churyov-Gersimenko These are the last moments of the Rosetta probe. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission has entered a decisive phase. Probe, after 12-year mission, will hit comet 67P/Churyov-Gersimenko. Scientists admit that this could be one of the most interesting moments of the entire mission.

The OSIRIS-REx probe will study the asteroid Bennu OSIRIS-REx will reach the asteroid in August 2018, and returnót to Earth is scheduled for 2023. Bennu was discovered in 1999. Its mass is estimated to be around 85 millionóin tons, and a diameter of about 500 metersów. An asteroid, according to scientistsóin, is over 4 billion…

Smog so big that you can see it from space To the things that are the work of human hands and that are visible from space, in addition to such well-known ones as the Great Wall and the pyramids, we must now add smog. In the area around the Indian capital New Delhi, air pollution…