Wonders of Science 2024, November

Today Tesla's transformer is called a high-frequency high-voltage resonant transformer, and many examples of striking implementations of this unusual device can be found on the network. A coil without a ferromagnetic core, consisting of many turns of thin wire, topped with a torus, emits real lightning, impressing the amazed onlookers

According to studies conducted by specialists from the University of California at Berkeley, 4,000 human lives every day - this is a monstrous "tribute" that the Celestial Empire is forced to pay for its places in world economic rankings and the pace of industrialization taken

The Arctic, with its gigantic hydrocarbon reserves, is rapidly turning into an arena of confrontation between Russia and the collective West. The United States is threatening to turn the Northern Sea Route into a common one, implying an American one, and is training its fleet to operate in the Far North

On March 6, 1869, Dmitry Mendeleev presented to the Russian Chemical Society a method of organizing chemical elements

Alan Aitken of the University of St Andrews in Scotland discovered a roll with the periodic table of Mendeleev's chemical elements, which is estimated to be 133-140 years old. It is currently the oldest known table

Quantum physics governs everything around us

Some time ago, the publication Communications Physics published a scientific article "Harnessing ferroelectric domains for negative capacitance", the authors of which were Russian physicists from the Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don) Yuri Tikhonov and Anna Razumnaya, physicists from the French Jules Verne Picardy University Igor Lukyanchuk and Anais Sen, as well as materials scientist from the Argonne National Laboratory Valery Vinokur

The new "biological weapon" is ready for human testing.An artificial virus that kills cells of malignant tumors was created by specialists of the Australian biotech company Imugene, having modernized the cowpox virus.- Salik.bizThe "construct" that is lethal for tumors was named CF33

Russian scientists have begun to create a quantum computer, said Sergey Garbuk, Deputy Director General, Head of Information Research at the Advanced Research Fund (FPI)

The race is in full swing

The consumption of meat in food is unethical towards animals and leads to a significant increase in harmful emissions into the atmosphere, which affect global climate change. Can this situation be changed? It is unlikely that all people on earth will become vegans, but meat can be grown artificially from animal stem cells

In December 2018, a bill was introduced to the State Duma that would isolate the Russian Internet from foreign servers. It is expected that in this way the inhabitants of the country will be maximally protected from data leakage

Australian doctors have successfully brought three dead hearts back to life and transplanted them to their patients using a new technique that they say will soon be applied everywhere

Part 1Do not be surprised, reader, at the title of my next opus and do not smile ironically. I was also taught at school and university that there can be no perpetual motion machines. And I believed that for a long time. Until I ran into those phenomena of potential and kinetic energies, which I wrote about in my very first article

What do you imagine if you miss the term "artificial neurons"? Surely something like sheathed wires that are regularly shown to us in science fiction films. However, in life, everything looks different. Although, admittedly, it is no less futuristic and interesting

Scientists collaborating with Altai State University announced the creation of a new drug

On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, there were reports that Chinese researchers had performed germline editing in an attempt to remove a gene responsible for a common blood disorder

Marco Andradi and Juliu Adamovski from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and Anna Bernasso from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (Scotland) conducted an acoustic levitation experiment

Physicists said they had almost learned how to teleport objects. This is reported by the dailymail website, the information website rsute.ru.co.uk noted

In recent years, the Western press has reported many times about various anomalous phenomena observed in different parts of our planet. Today we will tell you about the most interesting ones

The new Russian development will soon be able to outshine all visible bright stars. Scientists plan to launch a satellite called Mayak equipped with solar reflectors. It should start in mid-July

Since its inception four decades ago, genetic engineering has become a source of great hope in healthcare, agriculture and industry

The complex, worth 150 million yuan ($ 22 million), accommodates up to 60 people and is available for visiting not only for Chinese astronauts (taikonauts), but also for ordinary tourists

This unusual tractor was built by Fowler in 1877. The huge, eye-catching 12-foot (3.66 m) wheels were designed to reduce ground pressure and improve traction in soft ground. These wheels also served as a reduction gear, "helping" the not very powerful steam engine to pull the clumsy tractor

Humanity goes beyond the boundaries - reasonable or possible? .. And thunder struck, as Bradbury would say

The experiments that are being carried out today in research centers will confuse an inexperienced person in medicine. And the sophisticated, perhaps, will also be surprised

In 1914, a very entertaining car was shown in London - it was designed for four people, under the hood was a gasoline engine, which was gaining popularity, but there were only two wheels under the car. They were located like a bicycle - longitudinally to the car

Sometimes, when watching a good sci-fi movie, or when you're stuck in a traffic jam or failing to brew the perfect cup of coffee, you complain that we don't have futuristic technology at the moment. But the future may be closer than you think

Zeppelin LZ 127 The Graf Zeppelin was built in Germany in 1928 and was at that time the largest and most advanced airship in the world.LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin" 1927: Scaffold workers work on a huge steel structure.- Salik.bizThe airship got its name in honor of the German pioneer of rigid airships, Count Zeppelin

Articles about the manufacture and use of home weather stations are published regularly on Giktime. I decided to keep up with the trend and also write a story about the weather station that hangs outside my window - about the stormglass.In short, a stormglass is a flask with a camphor solution used to monitor the weather in the 19th century

The Americans were the first to land on the moon (or maybe they didn't), but the Soviet Union was the first to send a man into space

During the Cold War, space weapons were dreamed of not only overseas. The USSR was also actively developing projects designed to become a weighty response to the US defense initiative. Naturally, this part of the Union space program was hidden from citizens

Today our life is so full of all sorts of miracles of technological progress - smartphones offering communication-Internet photo-video anywhere in the world, recycling plastic into containers-clothes-cars-whatever, and much, much more - and we sometimes

In Geneva, on Monday, August 27, talks by a group of government experts from 70 countries under the auspices of the UN on lethal autonomous weapons systems start

What can a quantum physicist, geologist, and mathematician have in common? Of course, the desire to solve the riddle of the universe! Scientists have found that observing the behavior of the Earth's oceans will help explore even the distant corners of the galaxy

Laureate of the Russian Government Prize in Science and Technology Vladimir Leonov, a researcher in the field of antigravity, announced the discovery of a quantum (quantum of space-time) and the creation of a prototype of a quantum engine

Research in new fields and the construction of weapons of unprecedented impact held a special place in Nazi Germany. We have already written about it earlier, but there were other projects, no less odious, and no less disastrous in the end.Today we will tell you about one more superweapon that was not destined to appear on the battlefield

Not so long ago, the Internet project Alert-5 raised a small information tsunami. Reporters who were broadcasting from the China Helicopter Exposition (which was held for the fifth time in Tianjin, China, where the headquarters of the state aviation corporation AVIC is located), reported on the prototype of the "flying saucer" presented here

September 23, 1980 at the shipyard of the city of Severodvinsk, on the surface of the White Sea, the first Soviet submarine of the Akula class was launched

Losing (or not having at all from birth) the ability to see is very similar not to life, but to sheer torment. After all, a person loses one of the most important sense organs