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Want to glamp at the world's first cosmodrome? That could soon be a reality
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (401+ words) Kazakhstan is turning decommissioned space sites into glamping spots, museums and family-friendly tourism hubs....
From Baikonur to Beijing: How Kazakhstan is carving out new space horizons
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (317+ words) Kazakhstan is emerging as a regional hub for space, sharing technology, expertise, and talent, launching the Di'er-5 nanosatellite with China, and preparing to launch the Soyuz-5/Sunkar rocket....
Russia launches new Soyuz-5 rocket from Baikonur in first test flight
6+ hour, 6+ min ago (297+ words) A new Russian medium-class launch vehicle Soyuz-5, was launched overnight on Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as part of its first flight tests, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said. According to Roscosmos, the Soyuz-5 is equipped with what…...
Why news publishers are blocking AI from accessing internet archives
9+ hour, 55+ min ago (617+ words) Around 245 global news organisations across nine countries are attempting to block the Internet Archive's crawlers. These are automated software bots that capture, display and archive content from web pages in the Internet Archive's public-facing interface, the Wayback Machine. The Archive…...
A 8, 000-year-old imprint in clay is rewriting the story of bread
11+ hour, 18+ min ago (496+ words) It's a staple food for many cultures around the world. But how did humans determine that grass seeds had the potential to become bread? A new study suggests that bread wheat likely emerged around 8, 000 years ago in the South Caucasus…...
Kazakhstan brings back its endangered Przewalski's horses
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (130+ words) A vanished species is returning to Kazakhstan's vast grasslands, symbolising a broader effort to restore the country's natural and cultural heritage....
Pluto should be classified as a planet again, says NASA's top official
19+ hour, 17+ min ago (338+ words) At a recent Senate hearing on NASA's 2027 budget request, NASA's Administrator Jared Isaacman made a comment that reopens a question many in the scientific community had considered closed: should Pluto once again be classified as a planet? Since its discovery…...
Czechia: A small country with big nuclear energy ambitions
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (840+ words) With just 10. 5 million residents and an economy much smaller than those of France or Germany, the Czech Republic seems an unlikely leader in Europe's nuclear revival. Yet, in Brussels and the Visegr'd region, Prague is influential, quietly assembling an ambitious…...
Valga-Valka: a hackathon bridging divided communities
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (559+ words) That is the problem Hack the Border was designed to address. But the choice of tool " a hackathon " might seem unusual for a community-building project. The word comes from the tech world. A hackathon is an intensive, time-limited event " typically…...
Google sets 2029 deadline to prepare for quantum cyber threat
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (386+ words) A new era of quantum computing could challenge the foundations of online security sooner than many expect, Google says. Cybersecurity experts have sounded the alarm for years about quantum computers becoming so powerful that they could break the public encryption…...