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NASA officially announced Friday that SpaceX's Falcon Heavy would launch in 2024 the Europa Clipper, agency's most important Solar System exploration mission of the 2020s.

Microsoft is warning customers about the LemonDuck crypto mining malware which is targeting both Windows and Linux systems and is spreading via phishing emails, exploits, USB devices, and brute force attacks. If left unchecked, it can turn every resource from USB devices to emails into cryptocurrency mining slaves.

The 45-year-old real estate Japanese businessman Kazunori Takishima from Tokyo spent £30,000 purchasing 197 tickets tickets to the Games and was very dissapointed when spectators were banned due to Covid-19. „It breaks my heart that we cannot watch the Games live in person," he said

China started exploitation of a bullet train that can reach speeds of 600 kilometers per hour (373 miles per hour). It has made its debut in Qingdao. The world's fastest train is named „maglev”, an abbreviation of "magnetic levitation."

„We are on the threshold of a new era of planetary science and discovery," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, in a statement. The history of Mars can be told by the minerals and chemicals trapped within rocks on its surface.

The WHO planned to audit laboratories in the Chinese area where the Covid-19 virus was first identified but in answer, Zeng Yixin, deputy health minister, said this showed "disrespect for common sense and arrogance toward science". Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Mr Zeng said he was extremely surprised by the WHO proposal because it focused on alleged violations of China's laboratory protocols.

A solution provided results: the cloud seeding operation, which uses electrical charges to prompt rainfall. The drones release an electrical charge into clouds, prompting them to coalesce and create rain. No chemicals are used.

Dennis A. Perry, 59, a man who spent two decades in prison for a 1985 double homicide during church bible study has been exonerated after new discovered DNA evidence.

Russian aircraft makers on Tuesday unveiled a prototype of a new fighter jet that features stealth capabilities and other advanced characteristics, at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon, which opened in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow.

Bad weather manifested worldwide this season. Henan province in China, twice the size of Austria with a population of 94 million, has been hit hard by heavy rain in recent days resulting in flooding that has affected more than a dozen cities. But the worst thing happened on Tuesday when Zhengzhou's entire subway system was forced to close.