Wonders of Science 2024, May

Many technologies and just things in our world appeared under, to put it mildly, strange circumstances. Other things have gained popularity under strange circumstances. In this article, we will give an example of how adult films were able to influence not only society, but also the standards that have been entrenched in our homes for decades

American physicists in their work confirmed the possible discovery of the fifth fundamental interaction. The study is published in Physical Review Letters and is briefly reported by the University of California at Irvine (USA)

This became known from the publication of the "Military-Industrial Courier", which took a joint interview with a group of leaders of the domestic "defense" of different ranks - mostly retired.It turned out that the Kvanton company, previously unknown to the general public, led by Vladimir Leonov, had successfully developed a "superunification theory" that seriously corrected the foundations of modern physics

Before us are distances that even light travels for many years. It is clear that the missiles we have now will not fly far. A dozen variants of the engines of the future have already been invented. It is interesting to see which ones are realistically done

Since ancient times, people have dreamed of learning to fly through the air, see distant objects, get medicines for all diseases, penetrate the secrets of the universe and defeat death. Science and technology at the present stage have provided humanity with most of what it so enthusiastically dreamed of

As science proposes to postpone death.When aging is recognized as a disease, what genes are associated with it, is there a limit to longevity and how dangerous biohacking is - in an interview with one of the winners of the “Discovery of the Year” contest, Alexander Tyshkovsky.- S

Clone mammoths - an old dream of scientists all over the world. This is interesting from a cognitive point of view. And it may be beneficial from the point of view of the national economy

Scientists from Harvard University made a sensational statement. They plan to recreate some species of extinct animals. The first candidate for resurrection is the woolly mammoth

The speed of light - this is the limit with which a material object can move in space, unless, of course, we take into account hypothetical wormholes, with the help of which, according to assumptions, objects can move in space even faster

Specialist in the field of facial reconstruction from the skull Curtis Duran from Great Britain, specially for the virtual museum of the Sterlitamak branch of Bashkir State University, recreated the appearance of two representatives of the ancient nomadic people from the skulls found by archaeologists, writes Ufa

In recent years, quite a few historical reconstructions of the appearance of people of the past have been carried out. This often leads to the question of whether the resulting image actually matches the appearance of the reproduced person

You need to have a very developed imagination in order to imagine a person in the form of a puzzle, which can be assembled with only separate parts of it in your hands

The collection of the exhibition includes busts of a Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon and other people who lived in different time periods. On January 26, the Museum in Brighton (UK) opened an exhibition dedicated to the faces of ancient people

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have figured out how energy can be extracted from a rotating black hole to accelerate particles to near-light speeds

Elon Musk is posting details about his secret Neuralink brain chip project, but he recently shared technology that could help cure addiction and depression. The billionaire shared the news on Twitter after a user asked if the implant could “retrain the part of the brain” associated with disease. “Ex

Digital holography is a way to register 3D information using digital cameras. Today it already has wide practical application, and in the future, scientists are sure, will be indispensable in a number of areas, from medicine to astronomy. About the present and future of digital holography

It should be admitted that robotics has made quite a step in recent years. The weapons created by defense companies are becoming smarter, artificial intelligence systems are connected to them, robots are gaining full autonomy, and so on. This means that a killer robot could become a reality sooner than we think

Technologies developed for the reconstruction of female charms will be used to create bionic amputated limb prostheses.When Angelina Jolie removed her breasts, she was 37 years old. She did this as a preventive measure, because due to a genetic predisposition (her mother, grandmother and several other relatives died from breast cancer), the probability of developing breast cancer in the actress was 87 percent

Plant physiologists try to create the world's first spicy tomato using the Crispr-Cas9 gene editing tool

Geneticists from the University of Nottingham have come up with a way to create tomatoes (Solanum Lycopersicum) with better taste and long shelf life. An article with the results of the work was published in the journal Nature Biotechnology

British geneticists have developed a new variety of transgenic tomatoes, whose pulp contains a large amount of resveratrol - a powerful antioxidant from red wine that can slow aging and the progression of Alzheimer's disease, according to an article published

Residents of Britain will soon be able to purchase a completely unique vegetable. The hybrid of potatoes and tomatoes has passed the latest tests of the food control organization and is ready to hit the shelves

Geneticists have been able to transform tomatoes into a versatile product that cleans blood vessels and keeps the heart in working order

In February, Israel will exhibit black tomatoes, pitted red lemons, and carrots that combine yellow, pink and purple at an agricultural exhibition

The Swiss gardener Markus Kobert managed to achieve what Michurin did not manage to accomplish: crossing apples and tomatoes. As a result, the breeder brought out a new kind of apples with red juicy pulp

As soon as the military got their hands on nuclear technology, the main task was the possibility of the earliest possible "delivery" of the charge to the enemy's territory. In the fifties, the necessary missiles were not yet available, aircraft were too vulnerable, and military engineers were forced to invent exotic superguns

We used to think that breeding is aimed at improving the quality of animals and increasing species diversity. However, when a person undertakes to independently reshape nature to suit his interests, reality can be cruel.Since then, as a man took a dominant position in nature, he does not stop playing with his "younger brothers"

Some technical devices created in the Soviet Union were far ahead of their time. Unfortunately, their introduction into mass production did not happen due to the inertia and sluggishness of the state planning system. A striking example is the history of the world's first mobile phone, which in 1957 was invented and assembled by the talented Soviet radio engineer Leonid Ivanovich Kupriyanovich

Scientists of Tomsk State University (TSU) during the study of Khasyrei - basins of former lakes, where shrubs and meadow plants begin to grow actively, they found out that such "oases" can be created artificially and

The fact that the attention of all mankind is now drawn to the fight against the threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic, other types of threats have not disappeared, although they have temporarily moved to the background. The very real threat of an asteroid hitting the Earth seems now to be something ephemeral, despite the fact that such a cataclysm can end all of humanity literally at one moment in time

Almost daily, new electric vehicles are advertised and advertised as a climate protection solution. Buyers are being lured in by subsidies and every effort is being made to make this new generation of vehicles attractive to drivers. Meanwhile, fuel cars are being demonized for CO2 emissions

The device allowed the patient to see the world as a pattern of luminous points. The resolution was low, but it was enough to distinguish between letters and people. Following the first patient, five more volunteers suffering from blindness will receive a bionic eye

People are sure they see the light. In fact, it's not that simple.So far, no one has been able to see the light by itself. Yes, yes, this is easy to prove. The human eye can only see the light source. If there is no light source, the human eye will not detect the presence of light in space

A team of scientists from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has developed a brain implant that allows the blind to "see" the shape of letters.The device transmits visual information from the camera directly to electrodes implanted in the brain

Today it is possible to correct almost any visual impairment from myopia and hyperopia to amblyopia. But what if the vision is completely lost?

World Health Organization data show that 285 million people around the world live with complete or partial loss of sight

The bionic eye, or Argus II, which was developed by British scientists, will help blind people see again. Back in 2009, the first tests of a revolutionary device began, which has the ability to return blind people "light in life"

The results show how natural tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) were extracted from a patient's tumor, grown outside the body to increase their number, and injected back into the patient to fight cancer. The patient had previously received several forms of treatment, including hormone therapy and chemotherapy, but none of them stopped the progression of the cancer

There are tumors that, unfortunately, are extremely difficult to treat, so they require a different approach. One of the options are modified viruses that do not harm humans, but affect the tumor

Salmonella - a genus of non-spore-bearing bacteria in the form of rods. It is these microorganisms that cause more than one million food poisoning every year, while about 400 people die