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‘Spy ship’: Russian oceanographic research vessel Admiral Vladimirsky during a military parade off the coast of St.Petersburg in 2020. Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

Russian ‘spy ship’ in North Sea raises concerns about the vulnerability of key maritime infrastructure

A new documentary has tracked a Russian vessel apparently collecting data on energy and communications infrastructure in the North Sea and Baltic.
Reading is a pleasure. And watching someone else read, too. Paul Bence / Flickr

Why do we find someone reading sexy?

Reading is “sexy”. Maybe it’s because watching someone read exerts a fascination on the beholder, be it St. Ambrose or Marilyn Monroe.
Jupiter has more than 80 moons, the largest of which were discovered by Galileo. Many will be studied in depth by the scientific instruments of ESA’s JUICE mission. ESA, NASA, JPL, ATG, DLR, University of Arizona, University of Leicester

Scientists launch JUICE mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moons

One of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, could contain more water than the Earth.
‘Les Demoiselles d'Avignon’, by Pablo Picasso, 1907. MoMA / Wikimedia Commons

How even the young Pablo Picasso was already foreshadowing cubism

In various sketches and pencil sketches that Picasso made during his formative years, the most important plastic, perceptive, communicative and expressive revolution of the 20th century was being foreshadowed with absolute clarity: Cubism.

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