Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old settlement in Dagestan, Russia, revealing insights into the spread of early farming communities and cultural connections in the Caucasus Mountains during the Eneolithic period.
Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act: US law passed in August 2024 mandates ending Russian uranium imports by 2028. The US is heavily reliant on Russia for enriched uranium (20-25% of supply), but not for earlier fuel cycle stages. Current domestic production & planned expansions won't fully cover the shortfall, likely requiring increased imports from allies like the UK & France to meet demand.
A pair of landmark studies has identified the originators of the Indo-European family of languages in current-day Russia about 6,500 years ago, the Caucasus Lower Volga people.
>“We can see there was a small group of villages 5,700 to 5,300 years ago with just a couple thousand breeding individuals,” Reich said. “And then there was a demographic explosion, with these people going everywhere.”
>“We can see there was a small group of villages 5,700 to 5,300 years ago with just a couple thousand breeding individuals,” Reich said. “And then there was a demographic explosion, with these people going everywhere.”
From the former news policy lead at Google, an 'informative and often harrowing wake-up call' that explains the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the authoritarian regimes of China and Russia. Jacob Helberg, who led Google’s efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference, discusses the escalating technology cold war between democracy and autocracy, focusing on the control of software and hardware that shapes the world’s balance of power.
"...an onboard control unit failed to turn the engines off because it wasn't receiving the necessary data from one of Luna-25's accelerometers, devices used to detect and measure motion. The accelerometer unit was not turned on, "due to the possible entry into one data array of commands with different priorities for their execution by the device,"
