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Today's selection of Science and Technology news.

Risk of collapse with unpredictable consequences in various sectors threatens some GPS systems on 6 April due to a calendar error on computers.
Experts pointed out at the RSA conference 2019 security in San Francisco that older GPS systems could be affected by a Y2K-like virus - the so-called "millennium virus", which many expected that due to the transition to the calendar 01-01-00 would reset all computer clocks-. Something similar, expected to occur on older GPS receivers due to GPS Week Rollover, with the result that the calendars of these devices are reset to zero, as they will have "run out" of time ending their counters.

"Science does not kill God"

To the Brazilian theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, this year's Templeton Prize was awarded, recognizing the great scientist's contribution to "affirming the spiritual dimension of life".
O Marcelo Gleiser, professor at Dartmouth College had stated the 1991, that "science does not kill God".
“My mission is to give to science and to people who care about science, this dimension of mystery, for people to understand that science is only one way of dealing with the mystery of who we are". Gleiser stated and added : "You may not believe in God, but no method can prove scientifically that God does not exist", he said in an interview with Scientific American

Science answers: There is a "female" and a "male" brain;

Every now and then scientific studies appear that claim to find differences between the "female" and "male" brains. At times, also, comes the counterargument that the brain is "unisex" and that any neurobiological differences between men and women are of minor importance.
Such a passionate demystification is attempted by the new book "The gendered brain: The new neuroscience that dispels the myth of the female brain» (ed. The Bodley Hand, 2019) by cognitive neuroscientist Gina Ripon, professor at the British University of Aston, Birmingham.
Her main message, who also presented it with her article in the British Telegraph, is that "a gendered world will produce a gendered brain". Moving along the same wavelength as two previous books, by Cordelia Fine («Delusions of Gender», 2010) and Angela Saini («Inferior», 2017), Ripon aims to eradicate neurosexism.
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The Higgs boson "runs" in the auditoriums of the Planetarium

Columbia University Physics Professor Michael Tuts speaks to the audience Thursday 27 April 2017 and time 19:30 at the Eugenides Foundation Amphitheater.
At the invitation of the Columbia University alumni association in Greece, professor Michael Tuts will give a single talk with a central axis three questions:
-Why are we interested in the Higgs boson?;
-How they discovered it 6.000 scientists at CERN;
-What is the next step;
Professor Michael Tuts' research focuses on High Energy Experimental Physics.
He headed the US research team that participates in the ATLAS experiment, one of the 4 main experiments implemented at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
In addition to theoretical research, Michael Tuts reaches out to the general public and explains abstract and difficult scientific concepts in an understandable way.
This will be followed by the screening of the digital show: "Phantom of the Universe" in the New Digital Planetarium. There will be two performances (by Dimitra Papanastassopoulou is published by Dioptra Publications 20:45 and 21:30).
From the 'speed race' of protons at the world's largest particle accelerator at CERN to the Big Bang and the 'emerging' Universe, but also the descent to’ a basement in South Dakota, almost 1.500 m below the Earth's surface, the show will introduce viewers to the multifaceted research on dark matter.
Entry to the event is free.