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Piotr Kosek on Technology — predictions scored

Piotr Kosek on Technology — predictions scored

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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 27.02.2026
! Misleading
"The turning point, however, proved to be the turn of the millennium, when the Australian National Scientific Agency CSRO decided to launch a powerful observational instrument, the Askap telescope in Western Australia. It consists of an impressive 36 individual radio dishes, each with a diameter of 12 m. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 27.02.2026
True
"The project is set to significantly conquer these known and observable radio sources from 2 million up to a gigantic 70 million. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 25.02.2026
? Unverifiable
"The European Association of Distribution System Operators has carried out appropriate analyses, which show that by 2030 even 80% of household energy demand will be generated by direct current power systems. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 22.02.2026
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"And such a procedure does not make the singularity magically disappear from the equations, but it ceases to be the ultimate end for the quantum state of a particle, and we get rid of the information paradox. In this clever way, information is simply not destroyed. But where does it go then? You ask, and rightly so. Well, according to these physicists of ours, it flows backward in time to a parallel universe. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 22.02.2026
True
"This is the oldest light in the universe, a faint microwave echo left by the Big Bang. By observing the cosmic background radiation, we are looking at a map of matter density just 380,000 years after the cosmos was formed. According to this new hypothesis or theory, we should also see a certain asymmetry in the pattern of cosmic background radiation. And most interestingly, physicists emphasize that the predictions of their model actually fit our current observations of the cosmos. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 22.02.2026
True
"In a singularity, space and time come to an end, and with them, absolutely everything ends. When a particle falls into a black hole and hits the singularity, its quantum state is erased from existence. It simply disappears. And that is why black holes can destroy information, or at least seem to be able to destroy information, and that is why they are considered to be completely incompatible with quantum physics, which simply does not allow for this. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 16.02.2026
True
"Type three minus is capable of manipulating molecules and molecular bonds. This means we are already at this level, because we can break DNA chains and attach new ones to them. Of course, we don't take scissors and cut, but almost, we use enzymatic scissors that are able to, well, CRISPR-Cas9, those are such scissors, we are already able to very precisely insert and remove various things. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 16.02.2026
True
"at the fourth level, it talks about the ability to manipulate individual atoms to create nano nanotechnological structures at the atomic level. Mhm. Look, we are actually able to manipulate individual atoms, because we are able, and we were able a long time ago, to make the IBM logo out of individual atoms or create a stop-motion film of a boy with a ball, where by moving individual atoms, I think carbon atoms, on that substrate, it was something, something heavier, you know, or something like that. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 13.02.2026
True
"The team used a technique that can be compared to cosmic archaeology. They dug through data from two sky surveys, separated by a technological and temporal gap. The first source was the IRAS satellite, Infrared Astronomical Satellite, launched in 1983. It was an absolute legend. The first telescope that mapped the entire sky in infrared, working above the atmosphere, which normally blocks this radiation. Its sensors were cooled with liquid helium to a temperature of just 2.5 degrees above absolute zero. Thanks to this, IRAS registered 350,000 infrared sources. The second element of this puzzle was the Japanese satellite Akari, which means light in Japanese. It operated in 2006 and had much better resolution. So we have two datasets separated by 23 years, and this is where the real detective work begins. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 09.02.2026
True
"Ultimately, from one tera per hour, we are left with several gigabytes per hour, right? So, several hundred times smaller volume is written to disk, and that's our thing, and it's the same with other instruments. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.02.2026
True
"NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon-rich disk surrounding the world called CT Cha b, which is located 625 light-years away from Earth, is a possible construction yard for moons, although no moons are detected in the Webb data. The young star the planet orbits is only 2 million years old and still accreting circumstellar material. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.02.2026
True
"Webb's observations also confirmed that comet 3I/ATLAS remains unusually rich in carbon dioxide, releasing far more carbon dioxide relative to water when compared to typical solar system comets. Both these findings point to a very different formation environment and chemistry than the vast majority of comets that formed within our solar system. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.02.2026
True
"We all associate it with a blue planet, but through Webb's lens, Neptune looks completely different. It's dark, even eerie. Why? Methane in its atmosphere absorbs almost all infrared radiation, so the planet doesn't reflect light back to the telescope. But thanks to the planet's dark disk, Webb could capture something that usually gets lost in the glare incredibly clearly. Dusty rings and faint moons are the most accurate images of Neptune's rings we've had in decades. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.02.2026
True
"We have an exoplanet candidate in the Alpha Centauri A system. A Saturn-sized gas giant orbiting in the habitable zone. It itself probably wouldn't sustain life, but its presence suggests there might also be smaller, rocky worlds and their moons. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.02.2026
True
"The James Webb Telescope looked into the abyss just 300 million years after the Big Bang and saw something that seemed absolutely impossible. It saw an object so bright and so massive and so mature that, according to the laws of physics we use, it should not have existed. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.02.2026
True
"The James Webb Telescope is changing the rules of the game in star birth research. In the Sharpless 2284 region, Webb observed a protostar with a mass of 10 suns, which in the process of formation shoots out powerful gas jets, creating Herbig-Haro objects. These are narrow streams of matter moving at hundreds of kilometers per second, which collide with the surrounding gas and dust, creating bright shock waves. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.02.2026
True
"One such galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0 (shown in the pullout), was determined to be at a redshift of 14.32 (+0.08/-0.20), making it the current record-holder for the most distant known galaxy. This corresponds to a time less than 300 million years after the big bang. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 02.02.2026
Fulfilled
"A space detector is planned, where we will have arms perhaps less precise, but much, much longer, and here it will be possible to detect waves that vary in the range of seconds or even minutes. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 30.01.2026
True
"Quantum mechanics with all these strange phenomena like superposition or quantum entanglement is incredibly delicate. We know that to maintain a quantum state in a quantum computer, we must isolate it from the environment. We often have to freeze it to temperatures close to absolute zero in some types of quantum computers, of course, and protect it from every, even the smallest, vibration. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"Hawking radiation is an effect resulting from the nature of quantum fields that fill space. In empty space, the waves of these fields usually cancel each other out. However, the gravity of a black hole acts on space like a pinch of a string, blocking the possibility of some waves existing. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"The universe has a finite age, about 14 billion years. This is a large fact, but still less than infinity. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"Hawking radiation is predicted to be extremely faint and is many orders of magnitude below the current best telescopes' detecting ability. For astronomical black holes, the evaporation time is prodigiously long — about 10^61 times the age of the Universe for a 30 solar mass black hole. Since the universe contains the cosmic microwave background radiation at 2.7 K, no stellar black holes can evaporate: they are colder than outer space. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"A singularity is a place where the curvature of spacetime becomes, at least in our calculations, infinite, and the density of matter reaches values that our physics cannot describe. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"According to general relativity, time slows down in a strong gravitational field. The closer the matter of a collapsing star is to the event horizon, the slower it appears to move from the perspective of an external observer. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"The larger the black hole, the smaller its average density. The Schwarzschild radius, i.e., the event horizon radius, grows proportionally to mass, but the volume grows with the cube of the radius. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"For typical stellar masses, evaporation cannot prevent collapse. A horizon will simply form. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 23.01.2026
! Misleading
"We photographed an interstellar object from the surface of another planet. When the comet passed only 28 million km from Mars. Quite a "mere". The entire Martian fleet was put on alert. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probe, which can spot a coffee table with a Gerbera on the surface of the Red Planet from orbit, unfortunately disappointed us a bit, because the photos came out blurry, showing only a gaseous envelope with a diameter of about 1500 km. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
Pending
"The biggest sensation of recent weeks is the discovery of a mysterious substance that we have never seen before in any meteorite. Scientists from NASA ASIMs Research Center have identified a material that resembles a polymer in structure. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"Bennu is a B-type asteroid, rich in carbon, very dark, which reflects only a handful of sunlight. It is a relic from the time when our solar system was just forming, over 4.5 billion years ago. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"What's more, ribose was found there. It's a simple sugar that forms the backbone of the RNA molecule. Notice, not deoxyribose as in DNA, but ribose. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"In October 2020, Ozirus Rex attempted to collect a sample in a Touch and Go maneuver. The probe did not land in a traditional sense and its task was to graze the surface with a long robotic arm. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"Ozyis Rex after dropping the capsule on Earth did not retire. It started its engines and sped towards its next target. Now the mission is called Ozyis Apex, and its target is the asteroid Apophis. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"This evaporating gas takes away huge amounts of heat, moving it away from the ship. It's a kind of material sacrifice for the good of the cargo. Thanks to this, even though the outside temperature was around 2700 degrees C, the samples inside remained cool, below 75 degrees. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"Chemical analysis showed the presence of glycine, alanine, and other amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which are the foundation of all life on Earth. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
Pending
"A nitrogen blast, which was supposed to stir up a bit of dust in microgravity conditions, threw up 6 tons of material. It was a powerful debris explosion. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
True
"Researchers led by biologist Andrea Crisanti used CRISPR/Cas9 to generate a mutant gene that leaves female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes unable to reproduce but allows males to continue spreading the female infertility mutation to offspring. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
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"In November 2018, media from all over the world reported that two twin girls had been born with modified genes to make them HIV immune. [...] However, according with analysis done to Jiankui's work, 'neither Lulu nor Nana possessed the 32-base pair deletion desired in the CCR5 gene, and each embryo instead expressed variants of various lengths. These novel mutations have not been previously shown to prevent HIV infection and may even be harmful.' "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
! Misleading
"It has been developed. Usually, these are studies conducted on tomatoes, lettuce, but also on bananas. And in this way, it has been possible to develop in laboratory conditions vaccines against polio-tuberculosis, cholera, hepatitis B, and even research on such vaccines against HIV is being conducted. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
True
"There were also laboratory studies conducted on laboratory animals, which showed that CRISPR can be used to remove, for example, the HIV virus, yes, from infected animals. They would even no longer be carriers, such specimens. Yes, even so. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 09.01.2026
True
"After burning, we are left with waste that will be radioactive for tens of thousands of years. And here comes thorium, an element named after the Norse god of thunder. There is three, or even four times more of it in the Earth's crust than uranium. "
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