Wonders of Science 2024, November

How to kill a cancerous tumor - a problem that researchers around the world are trying to solve with varying degrees of success

A drug made from a rare Australian plant killed up to 70 percent of cancers in two weeks in mice

Science Translational Medicine publishes article challenging over 1,000 scientific studies of brain tumors

Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup founded by Elon Musk (read more about this story here), has submitted a request for permission to build a biological testing laboratory at a facility in San Francisco

What sets Elon Musk apart from others as an entrepreneur is that any venture he undertakes is born of a bold and inspiring vision for the future of our species

Most of us know what time is until we think about it. A ticking clock on the wrist, an alarm clock by the bed, empty calendar cells. It may seem that time is whole and one, and we all live in this flow, trying not to be late for work and pick up children from school on time

Interfaces that allow direct connection between the organic brain and the computer have long been a common theme in science fiction

Neurointerfaces - technologies that connect the brain and the computer - are gradually becoming a routine: we have already seen how, with the help of mental orders, a person can control a prosthesis or type text on a computer. Does this mean that the promises of science fiction writers who wrote about full-fledged reading of thoughts using a computer or even about transferring human consciousness into a computer will soon become a reality?

A group of American physicists were able to construct the so-called "crystal of time" - a structure, the possibility of which was predicted long ago. A feature of the crystal is the ability to periodically become asymmetric not only in space, but also in time

Russia faces the task of becoming one of the leading countries in the field of high technologies in the next decade

Australian scientists have confirmed that brain activity allows you to know the choice even before the person himself is aware of it

A new brain implant created at the Feinstein Medical Research Institute in New York may one day provide the ability to read human thoughts and vocalize them for those who are unable to speak on their own

XX International Scientific and Technical Conference "Neuroinformatics-2018", organized with the participation of the National Research Nuclear Institute "MEPhI" (NRNU MEPhI), gathered in Moscow the largest experts in the field of artificial neural networks

It is possible to temporarily change some properties of the psyche without powerful drugs or electromagnetic radiation. With regular water! People are often unhappy with themselves

In the now classic science fiction film "The Matrix", the main character Neo is proficient in all martial arts in a few seconds after all these skills are "loaded" directly into his brain

Vaccination with beneficial bacteria can have a lasting anti-inflammatory effect on the brain, increasing its resistance to the physical and behavioral disturbances caused by stress - - this conclusion was made based on the results of a study carried out

This year's discoveries confirm old "insights" about the brain from philosophers. Man is a "social animal," said Aristotle, and here you are: the polar explorers who have spent several years alone have decreased brain size. Scientists have challenged the boring idea that the brain has no field associated with the execution of biological functions

A strict vegetarian diet reduces brain volume. This is the conclusion reached by scientists at Oxford University. And if they had carefully read their own Darwinists, they would have known about it much earlier

Humanity is penetrating deeper and deeper into the secrets of the Universe, macro and microworld. But, despite the successes in many industries, people ask scientists the most riddles. We get to know the world. But how? What's really going on in our heads

A large yellow fish swims slowly along the waves of the shallow harbor near the city of Gijón in northern Spain, wagging its tail slowly. This calm swimmer is not flesh and blood, but metal and carbon fiber

The new gadget will become a transitional link between the uncontrolled viewing of dreams and the lucid reality of sleep, in which it will be possible to fly, sing and hit all the notes, go on dates with movie stars - to do everything that for some reason cannot be done in life

Every person has a fear, secret or overt. Someone is afraid of public speeches or bosses to trembling hands, someone - heights, high speeds or stuffy confined spaces. Phobias - common thing, but getting rid of them is not easy

With the help of tomography and computer analysis, Japanese scientists were able to almost correctly - in 60% of cases - determine the visual images that arise in a person in dreams. This is stated in an article published in the Indian journal Science Express

A modern person rarely gets the opportunity to sleep properly. Most of the day is occupied by vanity, and there is not much left to recuperate. Americans decided there was no time to waste

Scientists have identified the "sleepless elite" - a small group of people who are able to fully rest in 4-5 hours a day. Specialists from the University of California have identified a special genetic mutation that allows you to get enough sleep in a matter of hours

Japanese researchers have developed technology that is capable of implanting false visions in the brains of people. This trick changes the view of the world, and potentially even the way of thinking

Scientists at the University of San Antonio in Texas believe that frequent dreams, accompanied by vivid pictures, are inherent in psychiatric patients, or men and women with borderline disorders

A third of people were able to believe in fake memories. Adults are susceptible to false memories

Surely each of us has moments in life that we would prefer to forget for one reason or another. How about replacing them with something nice? Or even "invent" memories?

Human brain research - one of the most interesting, mysterious and exciting areas of modern science. Reports of discoveries in this area appear regularly

The secret of salamander regeneration is revealed - they grow new organs from memory. Instead of returning to an embryonic state, salamander cells remember the lost organ and reconstruct it exactly as it was before

Teleportation can be called an age-old dream of humanity. Imagine that you almost instantly get from one place to another … But teleportation of people is still only in the project, but objects … A team of German engineers led by Stefanie Müller from the Hasso Platner Institute has developed a technology for transferring inanimate objects through the Network.- S

Neuroscientists at Columbia University in the United States and McGill University in Canada have found a way to treat PTSD. According to scientists, bad memories are formed using specific neural processes

The processes of the formation of memory and memories are still one of the most poorly studied areas of human physiology

Neuroscientists have recently discovered that even though the same neurons are used in the formation of different types of memory, completely different processes occur in them

The American Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA is investigating the possibility of recalling memories using devices implanted in the brain, so that people who have lost their memory due to trauma and certain diseases can

Scientists have shown evidence for the theory that traumatic memories can be erased from the human brain. It turns out that the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" was prophetic

According to new research, past experiences can be forgotten by changing the context of memories

Coffee cools, buildings collapse, eggs shatter, and stars go out in a universe that is destined to shift to a gray monotony known as thermal equilibrium

Brian Kennedy, one of the leading experts in the study of human aging, spoke about whether there is a limit to human life, and explained why the fight against aging is today the main task for all countries of the world