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Giancarlo Elia Valori

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off carrying the NASA/German Research Centre for Geosciences GRACE Follow-On spacecraft from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S., May 22, 2018.

The Race to the Stars. The current state of missile technology

An in-depth review of the performance and technical levels of liquid-propellant rocket engines, looking at how they have developed over the years and affected the global powers’ space race

The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula, data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team/Handout via REUTERS

How can asteroids be reached?

Between technology and international law. Projects and limits. Analysis

Illustration showing a giant asteroid collision between Mars and Jupiter that occurred 466 million years ago and produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth. Don Davis/Southwest Research Institute/Handout via REUTERS

Considerations on asteroids and dangers near and far

The dangers of asteroids striking earth are mainly earthquakes, tsunamis and environmental disasters caused by very high velocity impacts. Earth-threatening asteroids are continuously discovered through sky-tracking observations

Illustration. BIGSTOCK / Copyright: Jaunn

Cyberspace and Artificial Intelligence

An attempt to understand the prerequisites for the epic clashes for the conquest of space - towards which AI today stands as an alternative of sharing responsibility for the downward curve of resources still available on planet Earth

North Bund in Puxi, Shanghai, China. Archive photo. Yu shenli via REUTERS

The essence of Chinese modernization

The establishment of the People's Republic of China has created the basic social conditions for the modernization of the country, which combines the fundamental principles of Marxism with Chinese characteristics typical of the specific reality of China and its traditional culture. Analysis