Wonders of Science 2024, November
The future of technology lies not only in the constant growth of processing power of processors or the transition to quantum computers, but also in the evolution of storage devices
The growth in the volume of digital information prompts scientists to look for more compact ways of recording and storing it. And what could be more compact than DNA?
On Friday, August 1962, Warren Thomas, director of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City, shot at an elephant named Taxco - pulling the trigger, he accurately hit the croup
The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language professionals and native speakers to create a public digital library of human languages
The world is experiencing a shortage of free space for storing digital data. This problem has existed for several years, but ordinary people hardly ever think about it
In 1818, a 20-year-old woman named Mary Shelley published her first novel entitled Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus. The book told about a mad scientist who was able to reanimate a corpse and create a monster
To find out how a living organism works, scientists sometimes go to unthinkable experiments. Animals often fall victim to their scientific frenzy. Some guinea pig has to accept certain death in pain in the name of science
Scientists at Tomsk State University (TSU) have developed a security system with artificial intelligence that can identify a person by gait, face, fingerprints, gadgets, and microchips embedded under the skin. The system is planned to be implemented in the universities of Tomsk in accordance with the project for the integration of all Tomsk universities into a single "Big University", the head of the "Digital Economy" laboratory of TSU Alexander Ilyin told TASS
The ideas of the outstanding Russian scientist Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky entered the theory and practice of modern cosmobiology. Alexander Leonidovich was a very versatile person, as they say, both a physicist and a lyricist.He later transferred his research in the study of solar activity to the study of the historical process
"LITMUS TEST"There is a very simple and unmistakable way to judge how promising a particular technological idea is, about which the entire world press suddenly begins to trumpet. To do this, it is enough to assess how great the interest in the new product is among the military and the heads of the special services
Over the past few years, autonomous power plants with gas piston engines have become increasingly popular in Russia and abroad. These units are easy to maintain and consume less fuel than traditional diesel units. In addition, on the basis of a gas piston engine, it is possible to assemble a combined station that simultaneously generates heat and electricity
Bone tissue regeneration is a slow process. In addition, it is difficult not only for the human body, but also for the team of doctors and the patient himself. After all, it is necessary not only to correctly match the bone fragments, but also to securely fix them for a long time
This is the so-called staff of Asclepius, the Ancient Greek God of Medicine. According to legend, relying on him, the healer went to the palace of the Cretan king Minos to resurrect his deceased son
It is unknown if we will live to see the creation of cyborgs, but our children are likely to be. Scientists knowingly create more and more detailed brain map, it's time to find it more than a diagnostic application.There is already nanoelectronics that looks, moves and works like real neurons
Maud Julien seemed like an ordinary woman, perhaps a little reserved. For many years she did not reveal to anyone the secrets of her childhood, which her father turned into hell: he wanted to make a superman out of his little daughter
An international group of researchers presented the first generalized data on a unique mountain range, which no one has ever seen with their own eyes and is unlikely to see it in the foreseeable future
Engineers from the University of California have developed a technology for identifying a person behind a wall (or any other similar obstacle) using a conventional video camera (or rather a video recording of a person) and signals emitted by … Wi-Fi transmitters. O
"If you just 'shove' DNA into a human cell, nothing will work. The cell would need to be implanted with DNA correctly packed into a chromosome, but we cannot pack it yet," said Nikolai Yankovsky, director of the RAS Institute of General Genetics
The world's leading geneticist is looking for a female volunteer willing to bear and give birth to a Neanderthal child. Professor George Church is confident that this fantastic plan can be realized
Evolutionary psychology expert Gordon Gallup claims that scientists from the United States successfully crossed humans and chimpanzees 100 years ago. But the scientists who were born "humanze" killed
Chinese scientists have created a new catalyst based on iron nanoparticles, capable of "forever" converting ordinary carbon dioxide and hydrogen into a mixture of hydrocarbons, similar to gasoline, according to an article published in the journal Nature Communications
These words in the headline could serve as the motto of biological weapons developers around the world. For many years, all materials on this topic were classified as "secret"
Harvard chemist Daniel Nocera made a rather interesting statement during his speech at the Chicago Energy Policy Institute
Despite the fact that we literally bathe in them, the chemicals do not have a good reputation. Some of them can be useful, but almost all will be poison under certain conditions
In addition to dark matter and dark energy unknown to science, the Standard Model of Particle Physics also faces difficulties in explaining why fermions add up to three almost identical sets
With the exception of computers, humanity has virtually ceased to evolve since the 1960s. Former PayPal CEO and co-founder of Palantir taught at Stanford in the spring
Since ancient times, it has been known that after friction, small objects are attracted to each other or, conversely, are repelled. Centuries ago, scientists discovered that electrical charges were responsible. But physicists still argue about why rubbing bodies are charged
Surely, when watching the movie "Terminator 2: Doomsday", almost every viewer was delighted with the T-1000 cyborg made of liquid metal. At the moment, the creation of such a robot, of course, is impossible, but scientists are slowly moving towards this goal
Weather oddities necessarily and always lead to reflections on whether and not "shelling" us from climate weapons. Such thoughts are also suggested by this summer, which seems to have changed places with autumn.The first conspiracy theory of conspiracy was expressed by State Duma deputy Alexei Zhuravlev
"The hyperboloid of engineer Garin", known to everyone thanks to the famous work of Alexei Tolstoy, had its own real prototype.According to some sources, at 37 Zhukovskogo Street he lived, was engaged in scientific activities and died a scientist, who was later made immortal by Alexei Tolstoy
More than 70% of Russians are unable to name a single scientific achievement of the country over the past decades - these are the results of a sociological study by VTsIOM, carried out on the occasion of the Day of Russian Science
Russia has no other path of development than the path of scientific and technological progress, Vladimir Leonov is sure
London & North Western Railway 2-2-2 # 3020 Cornwall is the most amazing surviving steam locomotive. The history of this locomotive deserves our story.In the 1840s, many express passenger train projects focused on locomotives with large drive wheels - 2
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there were mammoth-like creatures in the Middle East, spreading steam and thirsting for water. It may sound surprising, but in the 1940s, Iraqi railways were at the forefront of design. Don't believe me? Look then
I came across an interesting photo on the Internet, I had to climb through the archives …Such a super train was illustrated by Doug Rolfe in 1948 in the April issue of Mechanix Illustrated. Science fiction, you say, has not become reality.n
Looking through the archives of photographs of train building at the beginning of the 20th century, a thought struck me: what if some trains of that time were running on batteries? After all, a similar engine system was used in electric cars (remember, Thomas Edison's iron-nickel batteries recharged from steam engines)
Although calling Breitspurbahn just a train is the same as calling the Mona Lisa just a portrait, it seems correct, but does not reflect the essence in any way. This project was planned to be implemented in Germany before World War II. These huge high-speed trains were supposed to have a 3-meter spacing between the rails, along which trains the size of a house would move at a speed of 250 km / h
In 1979, thousands of Americans were introduced to the Supertrain, a nuclear-powered, hyper-speed passenger express that resembles a cruise ship in its configuration: it had a swimming pool, cinema, discos and a shopping center on board. The trick is that the train was created in order to make a TV show out of it - the most expensive and most disastrous in Hollywood history
In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers first tested balloons. And soon, their pilots began to notice the most obvious shortcomings of these aircraft
A vacuum airship is a rigid airship, inside the shell of which a technical vacuum of a given depth is created and maintained, as a result of which, in accordance with Archimedes' law, an aerostatic lifting force arises as the difference between the Archimedes force and the weight of the apparatus as a whole