Every discovery, innovation and breakthrough in the world of science and technology continues to shape the understanding of the universe and open horizons by revealing the unknown aspects of the universe.
We have compiled the most important scientific developments and discoveries from February in our news.
Alper Gezeravcı has successfully completed his space journey
The Dragon capsule carrying the Ax-3 crew, including Turkey's first astronaut Alper Gezeravcı, was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 18 at 4:49 p.m. US time (January 19 at 12:49 a.m. Turkish lira). .
Gezeravcı, who worked on 13 different scientific experiments during space travel, successfully completed the trip and returned to Earth on February 9.
Italian astronaut Colonel Walter Villadei, who was part of the Axiom-3 team, stated that working with Gezeravcı was an extraordinary experience.
Developments in space technology have increased competition
China took major steps to advance space technology in February, sending the world's first commercial “hypersatellite” with artificial intelligence into orbit.
China also launched a secret communications test satellite, ostensibly for military intelligence purposes.
China said the satellite, settled at the planned location in geostationary orbit, will be used in experiments on multi-band and high-speed communications technology, and also announced new spacecraft it will use in manned lunar missions it plans to launch 2030.
On the other hand, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the new rocket “H3 No. 2” with observation satellites from Kagoshima in the southwest of the country.
When the rocket reached its planned orbit, it successfully deployed microsatellites with the 2.6 tons of artificial payload it carried.
SpaceX sent the lunar lander called “Odysseus” into space as part of the “IM-1” mission of the US company Intuitive Machines.
Odysseus landed safely on the moon near the south pole.
Developments in the field of artificial intelligence have accelerated
San Francisco-based technology company OpenAl introduced Sora, an artificial intelligence model that can create realistic and creative scenes using text commands.
Sora, an artificial intelligence model that produces various works such as versions of DALL-E, one of the artificial intelligence tools, aims to offer quality far beyond well-known artificial intelligence video production models.
The model, which is still in the testing phase, can currently create high-quality videos of up to one minute with near-perfect, realistic animation videos.
Sora can provide video samples with a size and quality of 1920 x 1080 pixels on a wide screen and 1080 x 1920 pixels vertically from both written commands and a photo, can complement both the continuation or background of existing images, and photos with a resolution of 2048 x 2048 create pixels.
Mind controlled computer mouse
Elon Musk, the founder of the American neurotechnology company Neuralink, announced that a person who has a chip called “Telepathy” manufactured by Neuralink implanted in his brain can control a computer mouse through thought.
Musk said: “The patient appears to have made a full recovery, as far as we know, with no side effects, and is able to control the mouse. He can move the mouse on the screen just by thinking,” he said.
On the other hand, the artificial intelligence application GigaChat, developed by Russia's largest financial institution Sberbank, has successfully completed a test for medical school graduates.
While GigaChat achieved an 82 percent success rate in the 100-question test, it also completed the oral exam on three separate cases in the areas of surgery, gynecology and obstetrics.
20 technology companies, including Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAl, TikTok and
The problems caused by climate change were also on the scientific agenda
Scientists observed that polar bears that had difficulty hunting due to melting glaciers in the Arctic Ocean were at risk of starvation.
The researchers emphasized that due to climate change, sea ice melts mainly in late spring and early summer, polar bear hunting season, and noted that after swimming for hours, this species is too tired to eat the prey it finds.
On the other hand, researchers from Germany and the Netherlands warned that the impact of nitrogen pollution on drinking water resources could triple by 2050.
Researchers said that the number of sub-basins suffering from a lack of clean water due to nitrogen pollution could triple worldwide by 2050, and the impact of this situation could be particularly felt in southern China, central Europe, North America and Africa.
An international study found that almost half of the Amazon rainforest could disappear by 2050 due to drought, deforestation and fires.
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