Wonders of Science 2024, November

What Vladimir Vysotsky, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, Head of the Department of the KNU named after T. G. Shevchenko, does not fit into the usual scientific framework

Many people dream that in their lifetime they will find a way to stop aging. Now you can stop dreaming. Real life has surpassed science fiction

Paul Davis has a lot on his mind - or rather, in the mind

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) - organisms whose genotype has been artificially modified using genetic engineering methods

In the United States, local doctors were able to partially restore vision to a blind woman thanks to the introduction of injections of stem cells. This information was shared by the news edition The Baltimore Sun

Using 3D printing technology, scientists from the University of Minnesota create an array of photoreceptors on a hemispherical substrate

Many fantastic works paint us pictures of the future, in which bionic parts of the body measure the real for a person. Sometimes it seems that this will not come to our world soon, but this is not at all so

Open Bionics has begun testing its prostheses in Bristol Hospital with the UK National Department of Health

As part of the MWC 2019 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Kaspersky Lab experts demonstrated the vulnerability of cybernetic prostheses to hacker attacks for the first time in the world

Doctors from Kazakhstan announced a successful operation to implant a mechanical heart pump charged from a wireless network by an Israeli device

In Russia, for the first time, an operation was performed to implant a bionic retina, as a result of which a person who lost his sight 25 years ago will be able to see the world. True, not like healthy people

First bionic eye transplant performed in UK

For a French tattoo artist, the phrase "work is an integral part of my life" is not just empty words

Cancer - the most costly disease in the world, each year it leads to a drop in global growth rates of about 1.5%

When it comes to the need to somehow accumulate energy, many immediately start thinking about the battery. Of course, what else could it be. Nevertheless, there is another method that is not used very often, but at the same time has very good prospects

If our eyes were able to pick up infrared radiation, we could easily distinguish any objects in the dark

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are one step closer to creating microbots to treat various diseases

There are reasons to call graphene a "supermaterial". Although it's just a one atom thick film of carbon, it's super strong, super flexible, and super light. It also conducts electricity and is biodegradable

First aid for various diseases and injuries can save a person's health and even save his life. But sometimes it happens that if a person is not helped in the first minutes - changes will be irreversible

While Google is thinking about what to do next with its Glass glasses, and Microsoft is trying to reduce the cost of the incredibly expensive HoloLens AR headset, the American ophthalmology company Omega Ophthalmics has developed a very interesting platform with the help of

The concept of using stem cells for transplantation has become a truly practical reality: a Japanese man with age-related macular degeneration underwent the first stem cell transplant from another donor

According to The Japan Times, a group of Japanese scientists from the Riken Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, located in the city of Wako, managed for the first time in the world to transplant cells grown from dono to a patient with age-related macular degeneration of the retina

In 2005, American Tanya Vlach lost her left eye in a terrible car accident. Since she was a fairly well-known artist, the loss of an eye could cost her career and she was very worried about this

As you know, a Wi-Fi signal can pass through any (well, almost any) obstacle, and German scientists were able to use this property to learn to "see" through walls

Any materials (including biological) that are not created by our body are in any case foreign and will be rejected

Implantation of organs and tissues - a thing in science is far from new. The so-called cortical kits have been around for several days. These are artificially grown brain cellular organelles, which are, in fact, a "piece of the brain in miniature"

Fitness trackers, ECG sensors and other useful sensors have only one (but quite significant) drawback - mdash; you can simply forget to put them on your hand or charge them. What if you put the device inside the human body?

Recently, a research project, funded by the US Army, was completed, the main task of which was to increase and strengthen human memory. Research results are encouraging

American scientists, acting on the brain of a paralyzed person, were able to simulate sensations close to natural in paralyzed limbs

In early 2016, at the Austin Convention Center, I placed my hand on a thin, sterile sheet of paper and let a kind, tall man place a chip between his thumb and forefinger

It is known that sound waves slow down greatly under water, which makes it impossible to hear what is happening on the surface of the water without special devices

Imagine a map with every star in the galaxy. The map is so detailed that it shows what each star looks like, what it consists of, with which other star is connected by the great laws of the physics of space

Study of the nervous system of higher animals - an extremely difficult task. Especially when it comes to researching the human brain. It is very rare to get the required material

Whether we like it or not, as we age, our body gradually loses its ability to produce blood - this is why immunodeficiencies, leukemias and other blood diseases become more likely with age

32-year-old American entrepreneur and high-tech specialist Sam Altman paid 10 thousand dollars for scientists to kill the body and extract its brain

Bioquark is about to begin trial to try to bring brain-death patients back to life using stem cells

A group of American scientists working at the University of Michigan conducted extensive research, with the help of which they managed to develop a new technology that allows the restoration of bones

An algorithm has been developed that determines the author of a painting by the characteristics of the strokes in it, and is also able to distinguish between real paintings and fakes painted by other artists

Modern sciences, using logic as a tool of cognition, often come across theoretical contradictions or contradictions between the consequences of theory and the verbalized results of experience, experiment

Scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology in Daegu, Korea have discovered substances that can reverse the aging process