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1st image of Milky Way’s ‘black hole heart’ has errors, study claims
The first ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way may not be as accurate as it initially seemed, a new study claims.Located 26,000 light-years from Earth, Sagittarius...
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Ethereum Prepares for Quantum-Resistant Future Amid Security Push
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Ethereum’s roadmap, led by co-founder Vitalik Buterin, includes “The Splurge,” a strategic phase focused on building defenses against future quantum computing threats to ensure blockchain security remains intact.
New upgrades, like lattice-based cryptography and...
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Black holes could be driving the expansion of the universe, new study suggests
Astronomers may have found tantalizing evidence that dark energy — the mysterious energy driving the accelerating expansion of our universe — could be connected with black holes.Dark energy makes up roughly 70% of our...
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Stare into the ‘blood-soaked eyes’ of 2 spooky galaxies in new Hubble, JWST images (video)
Two of the world's most powerful space telescopes have spied a "spooky pair" of galaxies in deep space, staring out like a pair of "blood-soaked" eyes — and just in time for Halloween.The James...
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Xiphera and Crypto Quantique Partner for Quantum-Resilient Security in IoT Devices
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Xiphera and Crypto Quantique have partnered to combine Xiphera’s nQrux® Hardware Trust Engines and quantum-secure cryptographic IP with Crypto Quantique’s QDID PUF (Physically Unclonable Function), providing quantum resilience and immutable device identity for...
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Father-daughter team decodes ‘alien signal’ from Mars that stumped the world for a year
A father-daughter team has decoded a mock "alien" message after a year of trying. Now, citizen scientists are trying to figure out what the decoded missive truly means for Earth.According to the European Space...
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Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.Loizos Heracleous is a Professor of Strategy at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.SpaceX...
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One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort consisted of two theoretical physicists, one computer scientist, and what appeared to be a normal person....