Wonders of Science 2024, April

The Russian engineer made a loud statement that he was able to unravel the secret of antigravity. The discovery is not officially recognized. Scientists question the work done and the flying device itself

Kilowatts will travel long distances almost unhindered.New Zealand startup Emrod has developed a way to securely transmit power wirelessly over long distances that does not require the use of copper wire. One of the country's largest energy companies, Powerco, is already planning its implementation

The US Central Intelligence Agency has published documents on the Aquiline project, during which it was planned to create bird-like scout drones. They were intended for long-term flights over the territory of the USSR, Cuba and China, for which drones were proposed to be equipped with a nuclear power source

A brilliant scientist who claimed to have received signals from Mars, developed an apparatus for capturing voices from the past and from the other world …Guillermo Marconi Jameson showed an interest in science and technology in his youth. A

In the endless Internet, I found beautiful images created on the basis of a 3D model, a unique Soviet project of the Flying Submarine. The project was born back in 1934 by a cadet of the Naval Engineering School. Dzerzhinsky by Boris Ushakov

The result was generally expected, although the error rates are quite impressive.The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has launched a series of studies aimed at finding out how well face recognition algorithms work under mask mode

Fantasy works teach us not to interfere in the course of history if we suddenly happened to be in the past. Perhaps for classical physics the “butterfly effect” rule really works, but in the case of quantum physics, reality is surprisingly more stable.In

Japanese engineers from the Gundam Global Challenge project tested the movements of an 18-meter robot in the port of Yokohama.A recent video shows how the mechanism, not yet equipped with a head, takes its first tentative steps. The footage in the video is shown at an accelerated pace, so it is not known how long the procedure actually took

Bald's Leechbook (or Medicinale Anglicum) is a medieval medical book held in the UK National Library. Presumably it was written in the 9th century and only exists in one copy. Scientists at the University of Warwick have found that the book's medical recipe is effective against five strains of bacteria that cause biofilm infections

In 2016, Chang Ji-sen's youngest daughter Nyon passed away from a blood-related illness. But in February, a mother reunited with her daughter in virtual reality. Experts modeled an electronic version of her child using motion capture technology for the documentary

Soon everyone will be able to grow new teeth, even in 3 rows! Professor Jeremy Mao from Columbia University has proposed a revolutionary new technology that will allow you to forget about drills, implants, dentures and other dental joys.The problem is that the installation of implants requires repeated visits to the doctor and is often accompanied by pain, discomfort and inflammation … But Professor Mao went the other way

How many years people have been at war with each other, as many dream of becoming invisible to the enemy. From time immemorial, there have been such army attributes as camouflage, camouflage and other military tricks aimed at remaining unnoticed

According to the inventors of SFedU, the protective effect is achieved due to the application of copper nanoparticles to the material.Scientists at the Southern Federal University have proposed their project to maintain human health in the face of the coronavirus pandemic

The 1901 Nobel Prize was awarded to Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen for the rays invisible to the eye, which he discovered in 1895 and called X-rays. Roentgen published only three scientific articles on the properties of the rays he discovered. The research was done so thoroughly that over the next 12 years, researchers were unable to add anything new

The Soviet automobile industry is full of curious examples worth knowing about. However, among them there are those whose size would not allow them to be invisible on the road, but really few have seen them. But if these units, impressive in their dimensions, went beyond the experimental prototypes, they could turn out to be breakthrough in their fields

Scientists at the University of Vermont have created xenobots - living robots that can move and repair themselves. The xenobots got the name in honor of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis, from which scientists took material for their development

The patent is registered by the United States Secretary of the Navy and assigned to the Department of the Navy.The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by the government or for the government of the United States of America for government purposes without paying any royalties for it or for it

The American researcher in his presentation talked about a new look at the concept known as the Alcubierre Bubble.Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre is known, among other things, for his idea, which allows the creation of a spacecraft that could reach superluminal speed

The man turned his prosthesis into a device that allows him to transform thoughts into music without using fingers - neither real nor artificial.Musician Bertolt Meyer, who was born without a part of his left arm, showed a unique prosthesis on his YouTube channel

One of the main candidates for the theory of everything is string theory or its more generalized version - M-theory. But she makes one prediction that we’ll hardly ever be able to verify, - hidden, compactified measurements

According to quantum mechanics, vacuum is - not just empty space

Quite often, a photo of an unusual eight-wheeled car comes across on the Internet. The photo is old, 1928, but there is very little information about the miracle machine. But, after wandering and digging, you can find something.- Salik.bizSo, the photo

The mysterious Fibonacci number equal to 1.618 has been exciting the minds of scientists for several millennia. Someone considers this number the builder of the universe, someone calls it the number of God, and someone, without further ado, simply applies it in practice and gets incredible architectural, artistic and mathematical creations

“The whole world is reflected in numbers. Whose secret did the priests keep? Examples were offered earlier, but they came to the width and the circle. These Arabic numerals - spine of study. And someone else's soul, apparently, with them

“You can look at numbers for years and centuries and they will be dead. But sometimes, as if from a breath of wind, these numbers come to life like strings on which no one has played for a long time. And so they started talking … " -Vladimir Khlebnikov Planks of Fate

Pi is an endless chain of unpredictable numbers that do not contain any mathematical logic. That is why it is an ideal tool for testing people's memory volume when memorizing it

Pi is one of the most popular mathematical concepts. They write pictures about him, make films, play musical instruments, devote poems and holidays to him, seek him and find him in sacred texts. Who discovered the pi

On Monday, March 14, 2016, the progressive community will celebrate a holiday - Pi Day. After pancakes - pies In scientific terms, the number "pi" is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter

PI, number is a mathematical constant denoting the ratio of the perimeter to the diameter of the circle

Almost all articles and books about the history of the submarine fleet begin with a mention of the fact that Alexander the Great, who lived in the 4th century BC, was the first to dive under water in a vessel. The authors of these articles and books are based on paintings from the Middle Ages, which depicted this process

As many of you know, in the fall of 2019, Google and IBM began to wage a real confrontation with each other: when Google representatives declared their "quantum superiority" due to the successful completion of quantum computing, IBM unexpectedly took up the baton, demonstrating the ability of their new supercomputer to perform calculations almost with the same speed and much more precision than Google's quantum computer

American experts have embarked on experiments on anti-aging gene therapy. The treatment costs a million dollars. For this money, they promise to rejuvenate the body for 25 years. According to doctors, two patients - 79 and 90 years old - will have their first injections in the coming days

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a way to lift and accelerate objects using light alone, creating special nanoscale patterns on their surfaces

Leafing through the pages of old science fiction or referring to modern science fiction literature, we constantly come across a wide variety of machines and mechanisms, with interest watching their actions and reactions and watching how they contact

Xiaomi has started preliminary tests of the 6G network. The founder and CEO of the company, Lei Jun, spoke about this in an interview with the Chinese news agency Xinhua. According to Jun, the manufacturer of smartphones and home appliances is interested in mastering the next generation communication standard

On April 12, 1943, the famous Laboratory No. 2 began its work in the USSR, whose scientists participated in the fight against the enemy who came to our land on a par with the soldiers of the Red Army. On account of these selfless people - the creation of armor technology for Soviet tanks, mine protection of ships of the Navy and military equipment, the first radar reconnaissance systems to protect the skies of Moscow and Leningrad

The test of the "small spacecraft", which was announced on the eve of the Russian Ministry of Defense, was an important step in ensuring the country's defense capability, said Oleg Ponomarenko, an expert at the Center for Strategic Conjuncture

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found an explanation for a 35-year-old mystery about why quark momenta are distributed differently inside the nuclei of atoms than in free protons and neutrons

American scientists have found that the rate of accumulation of genetic mutations can predict how many years a person will live. In women, this method can also predict fertility. The research results are published in Scientific Reports.It has long been known that DNA damage occurs constantly throughout life, but the body has repair mechanisms that prevent the accumulation of harmful mutations

It is known that during the operation of any computing system in its depths there are unwanted delays associated with the need to transfer data blocks or program code from one place to another