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‘You have to be careful, to go slow & fast’: Inside high-risk mission at International Space Station

Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Michel Tognini, former head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency. Tognini sees a spacewalk as a paradox of human spaceflight: from the ground, it can look almost effortless, but outside the space station, even the simplest movement takes place within an exceptionally unforgiving environment. Sophie Adenot’s EVA demands constant attention to…

‘You have to be careful, to go slow & fast’: Inside high-risk mission at International Space Station

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Why parabolas are crucial to cryptography

Cryptographers use points along a curve to crack especially tough codes

  • Quadratic functions, including parabolas, are unexpectedly used in cryptography.
  • Parabolas help visualize multiplication through a parabola calculator method.
  • Elliptic curve cryptography offers a more efficient and secure alternative to RSA.

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