Wonders of Science 2024, November

The favorite topic of science fiction writers of the 20th century was certain complex equations of mathematicians, by solving which one can predict future reality. It is possible that MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has made some breakthrough in this area

A person may not be a mathematician. Moreover, he may not even know this science at a minimal level, but it is hard to deny - a person sees mathematics almost everywhere

Will the creation of a genetically modified person stop aging or turn us into monsters? Scientists all over the world are sure: to stop the aging of the human body and restore youth to it - really

A team of scientists from the collaboration of LIGO and Virgo found no signs of "leakage" of gravitational waves due to hypothetical extra dimensions

On July 12, 2018, scientists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory announced the discovery of high-energy neutrinos. This discovery once again confirmed the correctness of the most famous physicist of the twentieth century

We have already written about the disasters associated with the American Space Shuttle program. This program worked quite successfully from the early 80s to the noughties, but later, due to the same accidents and other problems, the Space Shuttle was closed

Is teleportation (instantaneous movement in space) possible in principle? Only well-read science fiction, fools and scientists who do not follow their authority can in response to this rhetorical question not say confidently: "Never!"

The US Army is testing a military version of Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality goggles equipped with a night vision system. The gadget is planned to be used to train soldiers and increase their effectiveness in combat. The development was named IVAS (The Integrated Visual Augmentation System) and is part of the 480 million contract between the Pentagon and the tech giant, which Microsoft signed in early 2019

Scientists suggest erasing negative memories to heal mental trauma. And, on the contrary, you can fight depression by introducing pleasant impressions. All these methods are associated with an active effect on the brain with drugs or implanted electrodes, it is very laborious and ethically questionable

Researchers believe that if Leonardo da Vinci had at his disposal modern materials, mankind would have received many useful inventions several centuries earlier: hang gliders, apparatus for finding under water, self-propelled

IBM has proposed using a measure of "quantum volume", which should double every year - and it will be equivalent to Moore's Law, which is observed in traditional computer computing

The history of mankind knows not so many people who could compare in intelligence with the Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci. Scientists of the genetic laboratory "Boyalife Group" decided to create a clone of genius

Wireless cars, humanoid robots and a primitive computer: what else can Leonardo da Vinci surprise us with? The London Science Museum hosts an exhibition dedicated to the great genius

He advocated humanism and the peaceful use of science, but earned his living as a military engineer. In his arsenal there are sketches of a sickle chariot, a tank and even a machine gun

Surprisingly, the fact is - mankind does not reliably know what one of its brightest representatives looked like, an Italian architect, painter, sculptor, naturalist, anatomist, inventor, musician, writer and just a universal person, Le

Painter, sculptor, architect, anatomist, naturalist, inventor, engineer, writer, thinker, musician, poet

Only recently it was reported that Microsoft's neural network created an abstract picture of the Dawn track. Now there is information that British developers have created a humanoid robot artist named Ai-Da. And soon there will be an exhibition of his works

A living brain floating in a transparent jar, surrounded by tubes and wires, and at the same time capable of feeling and thinking - this is the imminent future that the headlines of scientific sites drew to us last week. Still, after all, every second popular science publication reported that "the mouse brain was able to live a month outside the skull", and some even talked about "reviving the brain

Margarita Gracheva from Serpukhov, Russia, whose hands were cut off by a jealous husband in December 2017, were made by German specialists with bionic prostheses. According to the woman, one prosthesis is more functional, and the second is simpler, for rough work

When in the fall of 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of the first twins with edited DNA to the whole world, American scientist Dietrich Egli harshly criticized him, calling the work of the Chinese "genome vandalism."

Art hides many secrets, and until recently, most of them remained unsolved. But scientists with their new methods of physics, chemistry and biology are finding explanations for an increasing number of secrets

What does this mean for future donation? Can we "print" the perfect heart ready for transplant?The concept of "printing" organs, which until recently could only be seen in science fiction films, arose from two parallel scientific breakthroughs

Researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge announced the creation of a method that will allow encrypted data to be stored in DNA molecules, as well as rewritten. Scientists talked about this in the journal Nano Letters

UK Health Secretary Matthew Hancock announced plans by the country's National Health Service to begin sequencing (reading) the DNA of every child born in Foggy Albion. The pilot project will cover 20 thousand children. However, not all experts support this idea and do not believe that there is a real need for such screening

The US Air Force has released a report revealing that countries such as the United States, Russia, Iran and North Korea have currently developed powerful advanced electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons

The doctor who created "the first cyborg in the world", the first case of human communication through the "brain-computer" system, almost fell victim to his new experiment. The article tells about his new experiments with the human mind and the first results

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore argued that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every couple of years

Oleg Gritskevich, Soviet engineer and inventor, began his career in the Far East, graduating from the eponymous Polytechnic Institute

The mechanics of moving small particles are part of many natural phenomena, from landslides to volcanoes, and many industrial processes, from pharmaceuticals to carbon capture. In many ways, a bulk substance resembles a liquid (for example, dunes, avalanches and quicksand), but the physics underlying its characteristics is not so transparent

To travel from coast to coast of the American continent by rail in 24 hours, literally traveling by air? “It's possible!” Says inventor William Boyette of Atlanta, Georgia, introducing his invention in the 1930s: a railroad locomotive that runs almost entirely in the air.Air

Watching movies about Spider-Man or Batman as a child, did you want to become a superhero? Gaining superhuman capabilities after a spider bite is unlikely to work, but creating a suit that will make you much stronger and more agile than ordinary people is quite possible

When the American designers and developers faced the need to create "their own American" tank, at first the task did not look difficult or super difficult. After all, most of the European (except for German) tanks used in the world were built on the basis of the American Holt tractors by Benjamin Holt

The technological and economic advantage of the United States can be realized in space, the militarization of which is a reliable way to devalue the nuclear potential of Russia and China, Deputy Director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies Konstantin Makienko told Expert

It is already clear that the Starlink satellite network is a purely military project under the guise of a civilian one. Accordingly, it falls under the category of objects that will be hit in the first place. This system radically changes the nature of modern combined arms combat

I remember when I was a teenager I watched some Hollywood movie, and there this helicopter famously shot and destroyed everything around. Well, just a unique weapon of the unique American army.What happened in reality?- Salik.bizThe idea to create a new helicopter originated in the minds of the American military in the early 80s

EMP - an electromagnetic pulse that knocks out all electronics and automation - seriously puzzled the military. And in the 1970s, the Americans built a colossal testing laboratory …You have probably heard about the electromagnetic pulse for a long time. T

In the future, it will be possible to collect "invisible" objects and materials from them.A real breakthrough in science was made recently by an international group of physicists. They opened up new possibilities for controlling light - and at the nanoscale

Movies like Rise of the Planet of the Apes are bold hints at how dangerous genetic experimentation with animals and human DNA can be.But fantasy is one thing, and real science is another, thought Chinese scientists and conducted their experiments by transplanting the human gene MCPH1 into rhesus monkeys

Last November, news broke that a Chinese scientist had secretly altered the genes of the embryos of a pair of Chinese twins and shocked the world. However, while the use of advanced technology to alter the human gene pool was premature, it was a harbinger of how genetics will change our health care, how we treat children, and ultimately how we treat ourselves and our species

Today we invite our readers to look into the future. We will tell you about scientific experiments that may change our lives for the better in the coming decades. Very soon we will be able to enjoy the fruits of this scientific research.- Salik