Wonders of Science 2024, November

The tree is, without a doubt, a good building and decorative material, but its use is associated with a lot of not very pleasant moments, starting with the cost and harm to the environment due to massive deforestation and ending with a high

Every day people die all over the world. They are dying while waiting for organs for transplantation. They just do not have enough donors - demand is too big

British media panic over "Frankenstein meat" from genetically modified pigs specially created in the laboratory

A unique clinical trial is underway right now at the Massachusetts General Hospital (USA). Doctors transplanted genetically modified pigs into six patients with severe burns. The first operations were carried out back in October, and the final results of the experiment will be reported in July

Chinese and British scientists have created genetically modified piglets that are low in subcutaneous fat. Research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Live Science reports

For the ancient Greeks, the chimera was a sinister creature - partly lion, partly goat and partly snake

Despite significant advances in the field of cloning and, in general, the promise of this technology, it still has not received widespread acceptance. Nevertheless, research and experimentation continues

Frightening footage of mutant pigs with "double" muscles, which are raised by a farmer from the Cambodian province of Banteaymeantey, have been leaked to the Web. A man sells not only meat, but also the seeds of genetically modified animals

Nuffield Bioethics Council (UK) initiates a series of consultations on the acceptability of intervention in the human brain

The expert spoke about research on the revival of extinct animals.Mammoths appear as the first candidate for the "resurrection". Humanity has certain moral obligations to them. Yet this is the first species of animals that were exterminated by people

In the UK alone, over 100 thousand people are infected with the HIV virus, of which about 600 people die every year

China has successfully cloned five monkeys from a genome-edited macaque with circadian rhythm disorders. This is the first case of cloning multiple monkeys for biomedical research using an individual with an edited genome

European experts have discovered another Wi-Fi vulnerability. Moreover, such that it potentially threatens not only routers, but in general all gadgets that use Wi-Fi. But this is - just one of the imperfections of wireless

Successful experiments were conducted by biologists from Kindai University. They transplanted the nuclei of cells into the eggs of mice, which they extracted from the bone and muscle tissue of a mammoth named Yuka, who had been lying in the permafrost for 28 thousand years

Is it possible to resurrect extinct animals? The first who asked himself this question, most likely, was the ancient Neanderthal, who hunted mammoths in order to obtain valuable fur and meat under the conditions of the ice age. Naturally, he failed to revive the mammoth, but after a couple of thousand years his distant descendant, man, wants to do this

Researchers from Russia and South Korea have found liquid blood in the remains of a foal found in permafrost in Siberia. The foal died about 42 thousand years ago and belonged to the now extinct breed of Lena horses.It is already recognized that this is the oldest blood found in the remains of ancient animals

In 1993, Steven Spielberg's famous film Jurassic Park, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, was released. It argued that genetic engineers are one step away from bringing back the dinosaurs from oblivion

Bringing extinct species back to life is no longer science fiction, even if the technology isn't quite ready for it. Much of the hype on this topic has been raised by renewed constant attempts to bring woolly mammoths back to earth

In Yakutia, it was proposed to create a World Mammoth Center Paleontologists representing the North-Eastern Federal University reported that they, in cooperation with colleagues from South Korea, are actively working on cloning mammoths

A group of Harvard researchers announced that they are on the cusp of a unique scientific discovery. Scientists are preparing for the revival of a long-extinct animal species - large mammoths

Cloning, DNA sequencing and cell reprogramming technologies enable the resurrection of extinct animal species

The dream of the revival of dinosaurs, mammoths and other extinct animals constantly pops up in the press, although the vast majority of scientists are very skeptical about this idea. Will people ever be able to walk in a park of any period?

Looking at the old magazines, you can find truly wonderful and incredible designs of devices and mechanisms, moreover, actually built. Not models, but you can say - prototypes

This was to be expected from the very moment when scientists learned to download digital information inside deoxyribonucleic acid macromolecules

It is reported that the UK may start growing chimeras. We are talking about sheep and pigs with human organs. It is assumed that this will solve the problem of the lack of donor organs

There is an opinion that in the near future this technology will make it possible to get rid of donor organs by completely replacing them with "printed" ones. Only today there is one significant problem with 3D printing of organs. And it lies in the printing technology itself

Science draws inspiration from everywhere for a breakthrough. A sticky plate with bacteria gave us the first antibiotic - penicillin

This has never happened in our country. Scientists of the Institute of Bionic Technologies and Engineering, recently opened at the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov, are now actively working on an artificial circulatory system for newborns

Scientists from Israel have discovered a chemical mechanism that can take the process of obtaining hydrogen fuel from water to a new level of efficiency. Material dedicated to the scientific breakthrough appeared on the pages of the publication Nature Communications

Modern knowledge and equipment have made it possible to accomplish the almost impossible in the "world of electric motors". The nano-engine is just one molecule, which includes another sulfur atom. And, nevertheless, it is practically a complete electric motor

Well, happy Science Day, fellow citizens. Let's move our glasses and drink something tasty and healthy for scientific and technological progress

Everyone knows that metals are a rather heavy class of substances that have a high density and (if we are not talking about special alloys or ultra-thin sheets like foil) often sinks in water. However, researchers at the University of Rochester have been able to create a metal that simply refuses to sink

Quantum mechanics, which is the most mysterious and little-studied branch of physics, has more than once amazed scientists with its new and new properties, which do not agree well with the traditional macroscopic world. Where exactly is the border between him and the quantum worlds, still remains an unsolved mystery

During the Cold War, the whole world went crazy. What tricks did the ideological opponents use to find out about each other's plans

Scientists have digitally reconstructed a woman's face based on skeletal remains that were found in 2002 at Tam Lod Rock in northwestern Thailand. The remains included skull bones and teeth

British company Improbable, which specializes in software development for simulation of virtual worlds, recently received a grant of $ 502 million from the Japanese corporation SoftBank

Plague. A terrible disease that has claimed tens of millions of lives. Plague has accompanied our civilization since its inception

Modern seismographs are very sensitive and react even to the weakest tremors. Now all over the world thousands of devices are in constant service, which can record seismic activity with high accuracy

Israeli geneticists conducted a curious "investigative experiment" that showed that the identity of an arbitrary US citizen can be established from one DNA sample in 60% of cases, using private genomic databases

American scientists have announced the timing of the possible recreation of mammoths, which became extinct thousands of years ago