Wonders of Science 2024, November

Biometric authentication is believed to be a more secure alternative to traditional passwords. Fingerprint authentication is currently the most common form of biometrics and is used in smartphones, laptops and other devices such as smart locks and USB drives

Independent drive four-wheel quarry front-end loader.- Salik.bizThe hefty bucket of the LE TOURNEAU loader is 7.2 m wide. Two limousines stacked on top of each other can easily fit in.nTechnical characteristics of the LeTourneau L 2350 loaderPower -1715 kW

No, there is no need to “cut off the face” from a person. Geomiq wants you to grant rights to your face for this …Geomiq is ready to pay $ 125,000 if you agree to bequeath your face to the robot.- Salik.bizGeomiq, a London-based startup, has announced that it is looking to make money on its own by officially selling it to a robotics company. No, t

There are many risks involved in driving a car. Fortunately, most trips usually go without any problems, but there are times when the road is really unlucky. Tire punctures are one of these real headaches. But thanks to Michelin and General Motors (GM) announcing a joint effort to improve airless tire technology, the problem could soon become a thing of the past

Aubrey De Gray - a researcher working in the field of regenerative medicine with the support of businessman Peter Thiel - believes that someone from modern people will live up to a thousand years, and wonders why his confidence is perceived with distrust

A supersonic "flying saucer" capable of vertical take-off and landing was decided by engineers from Romania. According to New Atlas, enthusiasts have already made a flying prototype of their experimental apparatus

On America's west coast, the world's most valuable companies are trying to make artificial intelligence smarter. Google and Facebook brag of experiments using billions of photos and thousands of high-performance processors

Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who previously shocked the world community with his statement about the successful results of altering the DNA of the embryo, said at a conference on Wednesday that he was proud of his team's achievement

This question can be understood in different ways. Therefore, there are different answers. Is there a different speed of light in air or water? Yes. Light slows down in transparent substances such as air, water or glass

A robot can look like any person.Imagine, go to the museum, and there - Alexander Pushkin reads poetry. At home, your favorite actor or singer wonders how the day went. This is not fantasy, but reality. The Perm company "Promobot" has begun the serial launch of twin robots

Our scientists have completed the installation of a chamber for experiments on controlled laser thermonuclear fusion.The record installation was assembled at the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics, which is located in the city of Sarov

On the pages of our website, we have already repeatedly informed you that this or that company is starting the production of artificial meat

A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the University of Zurich have found a new way to prevent water from starting to turn into ice crystals even at very low temperatures. During the experiments carried out by these scientists, the structure of water continued to correspond to the liquid phase even at a temperature of -263 degrees Celsius

Sberbank may replace some jobs with robots to increase employee productivity, Albert Efimov, head of the Sberbank robotics laboratory, told RIA Novosti. “This cannot but be, it will definitely be so

Doctors-microsurgeons of the clinical medical-surgical center in Omsk performed a five-hour operation, during which they sewn the cut off fingers to the man, the center said

Let's be objective: a nuclear war between at least two countries will lead to unpredictable world cataclysms. And the Americans' obsession with the "local use of nuclear weapons" is sheer nonsense and utopia. This is, figuratively speaking, like throwing a glass of water in the face of an opponent, from whose side a strong wind is blowing

SHTFPlan: The Russian military is building a huge 'cloud' to serve as a backup internet in case of war. The cloud will be ready in two years and will allow Russia to survive in wartime, even if they are completely disabled

Mankind has been developing weapons for many centuries. And the more technology developed, the more powerful and dangerous it became. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that today we already have a whole arsenal of weapons that can rightfully be called deadly

Facebook launched a project with free internet access called Discover. So far, it only works in Peru and provides very little free traffic, but this in itself means that the social network has returned to its long-standing idea of the Internet for everyone. Dis

Scientists have mastered the technology of creating genetically modified cows using genomic editing.Since the birth of Dolly the sheep (she was born in 1996), cloning methods have gone a long way. This is already a commercial technology by which pet owners can obtain a complete genetic copy of their deceased pet

A prototype of a new complex, which allows secretly and non-stop inspecting people, is planned to be created in 2021, said Kirill Makarov, Deputy General Director of RTI JSC for Intelligence and Information Systems.The institute, he said, is already receiving technical requirements from customers

On May 1, 2020, the US Department of Defense will announce a tender for the development and deployment of a satellite data exchange network that will use a mesh topology. According to C4ISRNET, it is planned to select the tender winners in August, and in the summer of 2022, the military intends to launch the first segment of the network, consisting of 20 spacecraft

The Kola superdeep well has been drilled for two whole decades. They started on May 24, 1970, and by 1990 they reached a record depth of 12,262 meters.At the first stage, drilling was carried out using a serial Uralmash-4E rig. It took 4 years to reach a depth of 7

Thomas Trawoger shows a fairly simple device of a homemade capacitor and two homemade coils. This device, located in the geometric center of a metal pyramid and launched by a magnet, produces a significant amount of electricity, enough to run a small 12 volt fan

A group of American researchers from Carnegie Mellon University recently conducted an extremely interesting experiment: they were able to regulate the movement of cars not with the help of traffic lights familiar to everyone, but with the help of an automatic signal between cars

Literally on Friday, the US authorities agreed on how to regulate foods cultured from animal cells. This paves the way for so-called "test tube meat" in American plates

A joint team of Russian and American helminthologists encountered an incredible find while studying soil samples from permafrost. Zoologists discovered ancient nematodes

According to some neuroscientists, human-made organelles are capable of experiencing "endless horror" at the realization that they exist separately from the body. And this needs to be stopped urgently.Over the years, scientists have worked to create perfect cerebral organelles - simplified versions of human brains that can then be used to test new pharmaceuticals or treatments

Yes, you read that correctly. Scientists have indeed grown small brains, which are cellular structures that emit brain waves. To capture the neural activity, they were placed in a spider-like robot that was sent into space. These small brains are tiny cellular structures with specialized functions

American scientists conducted an eerie experiment with the brains of dead pigs removed from the body, which were kept alive for 36 hours. Technology Review reports on this strange experiment

Schizophrenia - severe mental illness that affects 1% of the population. Memory impairment, hyperactivity, auditory and visual hallucinations and other neuropsychiatric symptoms occur due to disturbances in the rhythm of neurons

The University of Utah (USA) has developed a spray that heals burns using … the patient's stem cells. The first experiments showed remarkable results. The role of the test was performed by a certain Kay Adkins, suffering from diabetes

Tell me honestly - how do you imagine robots? Perhaps, in someone's imagination, huge mechanisms with strong arms with built-in machine guns immediately appear. In reality, most robots look extremely boring, but they are capable of much more than banal firing from weapons

An international team of scientists from China, the UK and France discovered that the substance homocharingtonin (HHT) induces remission of myeloid leukemia

An extensive long-term study has confirmed that antiretroviral therapy completely suppresses HIV transmission. This is reported by The Guardian with reference to a scientific work published in The Lancet.The study involved about a thousand homosexual couples, where only one of the partners was HIV-positive and took antiretroviral drugs

All modern drugs only transfer the disease from the active phase to the chronic one. A new medicine can completely cure a person.Life is full of paradoxes. The cure for the disease of the century, which 1.5 million patients are waiting for in our country alone, is being created jointly by Russian and American scientists

For a very long time, scientists from all over the world have been trying to find a way to defeat the insidious HIV, which has already claimed many lives

Scientists from the UK transplanted stem cells into a man known as the "London Patient" and infected with HIV, as a result of which the patient got rid of the deadly infection - viruses are no longer detected in his body

At the end of November, MIT Technology Review told an amazing story: the story of the birth of the first children who went through gene editing as embryos

Experts from the pharmaceutical company Lynda have published a study of a new form of delivery of antiretroviral drugs - tablets based on a polymer matrix. Such a system will allow HIV-infected people to take medication only once a week