Wonders of Science 2024, November

Russian scientists are developing a drug for immersing astronauts in "winter hibernation" for long interplanetary flights, Professor Anatoly Kovtun, head of the project group of the Advanced Research Fund (FPI), told RIA Novosti

American scientists claim that man can now live forever! Thanks to the new invention, special nano heating pads, they were able to completely restore a living organism after a long freeze. Have we finally found a recipe for immortality?

Six years ago, the father of 55-year-old Florida resident Debbie Fleming was placed in a cryogenic capsule after his death and frozen

The words from "The Ballad of Going to Paradise" by Vladimir Vysotsky are remembered by many: "… How we all want not to die, but to fall asleep"

Scientists from the European Space Agency put forward the idea of immersing astronauts in a state of daze, similar to the hibernation of animals. It is believed that such a procedure can harm the body

Following the food industry's successes in making artificial meat for burgers, artificial pork and even artificial chicken, the technology is ready to move on. Of course, the "factory" production of artificial meat still has room to grow, but the technology is ready to become available to the widest consumer

After we were surprised yesterday looking at Mallet's Mortar and some time ago we were surprised at the DICTATOR, I wondered, what is the largest-caliber weapon in the world? And here is what I found about this

At the beginning of this year, Apple and the FBI again had a reason for conflict: law enforcement officers again needed to hack the criminal's iPhone, and Cupertino refused to help.The fact is that in December 2019, a shooting took place at the US Navy base (in Florida, in the city of Pensacola)

The owner of one of the first British sex doll rental services is going to release dolls for widowers that resemble their dead wives. Reported by The Sun

Recent research shows that the sex technology market is currently spending over $ 30 billion to develop realistic sex robots

In the midst of the crisis around the Boeing-737 Max, it still remains a mystery: how the company, renowned for its careful approach to design, made, apparently, childhood mistakes in software development, which led to two disasters with fatalities

The first computers were mechanical machines built using gears and levers.Parts or components of these could be moved and connected in a way that simulated the relationship between different variables in a mathematical equation. By moving a gear or pulling a lever, these variables could be changed, and the results of such actions could be seen in another set of gears, the new positions of which gave the answer that the operator was looking for

Now everything is gradually going online. This is not a secret to anyone, and much of what previously could be done only by coming to some place is now being done on a computer or even from a smartphone. Managing your bank account, ordering statements, paying utility bills, buying food, getting advice and much more has become much easier

More than 12 years ago, DataArt engineers began to collect their own museum of rare and simply interesting obsolete devices.When the material in the development center in St. Petersburg had accumulated more than one exhibition and the collection required professional cataloging, the museum project got its own curator

At a depth of more than 100 meters near Geneva, on the border of Switzerland and France, there is a 26-kilometer Large Hadron Collider

A modest girl proved that women can be mathematicians, invent new things, and even created the world's first steam computer program

Modern computers are terrible brakes, I wrote about this. Well, a simple example: there are no air battles of pilots with electronic pilots, auto races of people and robot drivers. Even in cycling, robots cannot compete on a par with humans

An international team of scientists from Australia, Japan, and the United States has created a prototype of a large-scale quantum processor made entirely of laser light.The concept of such a processor was developed a little over ten years ago, this processor has a scalable architecture that allows increasing the number of quantum computing nodes, consisting of light, almost to infinity

The heavily armored vehicles with laser cannons will be deployed by the US Army over the next three years, according to a Pentagon official.Each of the future weapons systems generates enough energy to power several homes and can shoot down drones, helicopters and incoming missiles

Quite by accident, an interesting photograph came into view. Therefore, the photo could not fail to interest, especially since there is very little information about it on the Internet - mainly only images in collections of old photographs.However, if you dig deeper, you can find a couple of printed materials about this interesting mechanism

Cybersecurity - one of the most important issues in the digital age. Everyone from households to businesses and governments has a stake in data protection - the greatest value of our time. The question is how to achieve this

Libella Gene Therapeutics is looking to sell life-prolonging gene therapy. Her representative told about this to the portal OneZero. Patients will be injected with a viral vector with a telomerase gene. This experimental therapy will be part of a clinical trial, but will cost the participants a million dollars

Why are our technologies developing in a straightforward manner and in a certain spectrum? For some reason, many discoveries and inventions do not advance to a higher level, and yet they may well give humanity a new round of development.- Salik

The first patent for a magnetoplane, or as such devices are more often called - maglev (short for "magnetic levitation"), was obtained by Hermann Kemper in 1934, but his device existed only on paper. But starting from 1969, when engineers from the non-existent country of the Federal Republic of Germany, magnetoplanes began to be built and used

By the beginning of the 20th century, black powder was already obsolete and was massively replaced by smokeless compositions. But this time was at the same time the peak of the perfection of the old recipe - there was probably no greater variety of compositions in the entire almost thousand-year history of this substance

With the beginning of perestroika, the government proposed the AZLK plant in the capital to develop a "car of 2000", that is, to predict what the cars will be like in 15 years

The Russian company offers clients to freeze deceased relatives or themselves in liquid nitrogen, in order to bring them back to life later using new medical technologies. Scientists criticize the company and call it pseudoscientific. It is also called an expensive ritual agency

For months not to see the sky overhead and to live according to a routine adjusted to seconds, constantly feeling the invisible presence of a potential enemy and a colossal burden of responsibility - the service of crews of nuclear submarines is considered one of the most difficult and prestigious in the Russian Navy

Me.163 without exaggeration can be called one of the most unusual fighters of the Second World War. In addition to being the smallest aircraft of the Third Reich, Me

As the World Wide Web celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, a linguist expert at Wired magazine reflects on the present and tomorrow of programming languages, noting that even very large languages with a long literary tradition have not become the basis for widespread source code. You

Everyone has special numbers in life: birthday, phone number, pin codes … But few think about the numbers common to all of us, our planet and the entire Universe

Thousands of people in Sweden have implanted special chips that use RFID technology into their hands. Implants can replace a passport, bank cards and even apartment keys

Wallet - the thing is inconvenient, the card can be lost, the keys can be forgotten somewhere. But money, keys and passes can be encoded on a chip and implanted under the skin. As they do in Sweden

Scientists from Aarhus are using an anti-cancer drug to detect HIV by making it visible to the immune system. New research shows that this method can be used to destroy cells affected by the virus

Solein is a groundbreaking experimental product designed to replace conventional food. Not to be confused with another "miracle food" under the similar name Soylent.Solein is trying to promote Solar Foods, a Finnish startup based in Helsinki, emphasizing that the product is very high in protein and therefore suitable even for vegans

What will we eat if meat-eating becomes impossible for environmental reasons, and there are not enough fields to feed a growing population? A coup awaits us, comparable in scale to the emergence of agriculture

In the last days of July, ITAR-TASS officially announced the beginning of NASA's trials of a flying saucer to deliver astronauts to Mars. The object, really similar to a classic UFO, had to develop the required speed, fly up to the Red Planet, and then make a landing and braking

1. P.N. Yablochkov and A.N. Lodygin is the world's first electric light bulb2. A.S. Popov - radio- Salik.biz3. V.K. Zvorykin (the world's first electron microscope, television and television broadcasting)4. A.F. Mozhaisky - inventor of the world's first airplanen5

Modern scientists do not believe in ether, but they believe in dark matter - a hypothetical form of matter that does not emit electromagnetic radiation and is not detected at all, but at the same time occupies almost the entire space of the universe

Remove helicopters and landing craft and screw on the sonars! Despite criticism of the LCS project, the Americans continue to order littoral - or coastal - warships for their fleet. What is wrong with these ships and what they can fit in - now we will tell you