Wonders of Science 2024, November

For the first time, Count Zeppelin saw a balloon in 1863 in America, being there on duty and watching the course of the Civil War. He managed not only to examine the aircraft, but also to make an air flight on it over the Mississippi

In 1980, Granger Taylor, 32, disappeared without a trace

Scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles carried out a memory transplant from one sea snail to another through the injection of specific ribonucleic acids (RNA)

Scientists from Japan managed to create a miracle laser that can make the world a better place. It allows you to erase from memory disturbing memories, informs Science. Tests were carried out in rodents

Recently, robotic surgeons have been making headlines in the news and more and more purchased for operating theaters around the world

Although it is not known for sure, it is generally believed that 200,000 to 300,000 glad passed through Bugorsky's head. No human has ever experienced such a powerful stream of radiation. Usually a dose of 400 to 1000 glad is enough to kill a person

1. Organs for transplantation will be printed on a 3D printer A group of scientists from Imperial College London and King's College London have developed a new technique for 3D printing human organs and tissues

China is in the spotlight after replicating organisms and returning to our natural satellite. Here is the testament of the most famous theoretical physicist. Research rewriting the prehistoric period

The graphene material, created in the mid-2000s, has found its application in a variety of fields. But he never ceases to amaze with his unusual properties

As you know, there are creatures on our planet that have an incredible ability to regenerate, allowing you to regrow lost limbs and restore organs

Karl Wilhelm Scheele is considered one of the greatest chemists of all time, but he paid a terrible price for this status. People are gradually forgetting about the contribution that the scientist made to the development of the food, medical and dental industries

Another year is coming to an end, and it seems like it's time to sit down again, fold your arms, take a deep breath, and look at some of the headlines of scientific articles that we may not have paid attention to before

Authors of scientific discoveries - personalities, as a rule, are extraordinary and eccentric. And perhaps thanks to this, many scientific discoveries were made that allowed humanity to make a real breakthrough in various fields. 1

Most scientific discoveries occur as a result of painstaking, focused and insanely complex work, the purpose of which boils down to a single task - - make a breakthrough in one area or another

Scientists at the Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, together with colleagues from Belarus, have created transgenic animals that give milk with the human protein lactoferrin

Israeli scientists have discovered genetic tags that are left in the brain by our memories. They believe these markers can be used to extract memories from the brain - posthumously

One of the simplest and at the same time the most complex and strange objects is the Mobius strip. Despite all the originality of this figure, you can easily do it yourself and carry out all the experiments that are described in this article

Some fish and amphibians are able to regrow lost lobes of their brain, but is the human brain capable of this flexibility after its cells have died?

The government of the United States of America has given an official permission to Bioquark to conduct experiments on people whose brain has died. This is the first ever worldwide authorization for such medical research

This eerie but extremely important innovative method is used to solve crimes in the state of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which is famous for its high murder rate

American newspaper Houston Chronicle published material at the end of last week

It's a paradox, but despite the tremendous path that electronics has done over the past 30 years, all mobile devices are still equipped with lithium-ion batteries, which entered the market as early as 1991, when the usual CD player was the pinnacle of engineering in portable technology

Natural disasters in the world continue. Almost every winter, countries with traditionally temperate climates are trapped in snow and frost

The Peruvian physician claims that recent advances in neural chip technology are due to "secret, coercive and illegal experiments on humans," because without experiments on living brains, they simply would not have been possible.An article published in the Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine in 2016 stated that "covert, coercive and illegal human experiments" could be carried out in Latin America, where poor citizens are usually recruited for medical trials

The Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) intends to allocate six million dollars within the budget for fiscal 2011 to implement a project to create artificial living beings

Scientists from Duke University in Durham (USA) have developed a technique that allows partially restoring paralyzed disabled people the ability to walk independently. According to RIA Novosti, the device they created can, by receiving the necessary signals from the brain, control the work of the muscles in the arms and legs

Lizards can grow whole limbs. Flatworms, starfish, and sea cucumbers grow whole bodies. Sharks are constantly replacing lost teeth, often growing over 20,000 teeth over a lifetime

Dutch scientists have deciphered the DNA of the planet's main long-liver, who managed to live to be 115 years old. According to scientists, despite such a venerable age, the woman looked and acted as if she were at least half a century younger

Israeli researchers studied Ashkenazi Jews who lived to be at least 95 years old, and found that their diet and lifestyle are not much better than the rest of the world's population

Genetic scientists, conducting laboratory studies, have come to the conclusion that human life expectancy depends on epigenetic switches

Researchers from the US National Institutes of Health have shown that changing the activity of the mTOR gene prolongs life by 20%. Scientists published their observations in the scientific journal Cell Reports, news agencies report

Compounds in some food supplements prolong the life of nematode worms (Caenorhabditis elegans) by affecting cellular energy production and mimicking the effect of severe calorie restriction

Russian scientist Anatoly Brushkov from Moscow State University conducted a unique experiment on his own body. Professor of the Department of Geocryology drank the immortal bacteria Bacillus F from the permafrost of Yakutia, and stopped aging

Many people today use the services of cosmetic medicine to one degree or another in the hope of preserving their youth as long as possible. If you do not take into account plastic surgery, then even without them, thanks to the services of competent cosmetologists, you can remain young in appearance for a very long time

Russian biohackers see themselves as special. Their Western comrades do not use sugar and reduce blood pressure, while their Russians study biochemical parameters and test drugs

45-year-old American Dave Asprey is one of the most ambitious biohackers - people who, using advanced technologies, are trying to deceive nature: to rid themselves of diseases and to push back old age as much as possible

Scientists at the University of Sydney find that a low-protein, high-carbohydrate diet promotes long lifespan in mice

Scientists recently analyzed the DNA of a woman who was 115 years old. At the time of her death, she was the oldest and healthiest person in the world

Physicist Nigel Goldenfeld hates biology: "At least in the form in which I was taught it at school", - he says. “It was like a rambling set of facts. There was practically no precise quantitative analysis "

In the experiments of American scientists, it took baker's yeast only 60 days to start living in communities where all members of the group are united by a common good and are ready to sacrifice themselves to comradely interests