Innovative Starships and Missions Paving the Way for Interstellar Travel
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This week in science, a design for a 400-year trip to Alpha Centauri was proposed, AI models were found to transmit potentially malicious secret messages, life may exist on icy worlds beyond traditional habitable zones, ancient cranial modifications in Europe were discovered, and new deep-sea creatures were filmed in extreme ocean depths. Additionally, concerns about reduced funding for mRNA vaccines and other scientific discoveries were highlighted.
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- Science news this week: A 400-year trip to Alpha Centauri and the malevolent AI that may make us consider it Live Science
- Proposed spacecraft could carry up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri Live Science
- How to build a ship for interstellar travel The Economist
- Beam me up, jellyfish: experts unveil spaceships to take us to the stars The Guardian
- 36-mile-long cigar-shaped starship could take humans on first interstellar trip Interesting Engineering
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