Wonders of Science 2024, November

“There are also Soviet projects of an aerospace aircraft. So, one of the leaders of work on the creation of MTKK "Buran" G.Ye. Lozino-Lozinsky proposed for consideration a reusable system, the first stage of which will be the carrier aircraft "Mriya"

The 20th century was rich in events of a global nature, from world wars and revolutions to the conquest of space. It was a century of bold decisions, as well as crazy ideas, projects and experiments

The beginning-middle of the last century amazes with the flight of technical thought and faith in technical progress. The new, unknown attracted and attracted people. I came across some interesting material that is almost 90 years old: the article was published in the October 1931 issue of Modern Mechanix

Railway transport has always occupied a special place in the transport infrastructure of any country. In the XX century, trains could not oust planes or cars that were gaining in popularity at a terrible pace from the market for the transportation of passengers and goods

By 2020, several Japanese robots may appear on board the International Space Station at once, which will do the dirtiest and most dangerous work, while the real ISS crew will be able to devote themselves entirely to more complex and

The state corporation Roscosmos wants to create a high-quality satellite network covering the whole world. The corresponding project of the global high-speed Internet access system will be presented on May 22, according to the announcement of the state corporation

Roscosmos, together with a private investor, is working on an updated digital model of the entire surface of the planet

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the separation of the project to create a global satellite Internet system "Sphere" into a separate targeted program

For the past twenty-five years, the national cosmonautics has been worn like a fishing boat in a storm. A classic story - with attempts to create new missiles. In 1994, they began to design "Angara"

Modern science dreams of space colonies. Sooner or later, Mars, the Moon and other planetary objects in our solar system will be inhabited by humans. You can not doubt it

On the small spacecraft "Yubileiny", Russian scientists are conducting an experiment to overcome gravity using a fundamentally new engine called "gravicapa", said the director and scientific director of the Scientific Research Institute of Space

Evgeny Podkletnov, in collaboration with the Italian Giovanni Modanese, in 2001 published an extremely interesting article on the successful experimental demonstration of the antigravity effect

In November 2013, several photos caught the attention of many netizens. The accompanying text told them about the Brazilian company from Porto Alegre, which announced the development of a revolutionary engine, unusual in that it will work only on the force of gravity and will be able to generate pure and endless energy

Remember when we talked about the simplest magnetic V-Gate motor? (if not, go here: Simple but working V-Gate Magnet Motor).Muammer Yildiz with his magnetic drive.- Salik.bizMuammer Yildiz, a Turkish inventor, built his own version of such a motor and conducted several demonstrations in 2015 for staff and students at the University of Delft in the Netherlands

I want to note right away that an inertioid is an engine that repels from the environment, as it is written in Wikipedia and not otherwise. As the ancients said, “no body can set itself in motion” and on these words it is worth putting a fat point. In

As with any technology that can turn the world around, the Stanley Meier cell (or water fuel cell) is still talked about. Some claim it is almost like a perpetual motion machine, others argue that this is a pure fraud. Some even prophesied the Nobel Prize for the creator of this miracle

Would you believe in an electric motor that is made almost entirely of plastic? What can run on airborne power? And "drag" free electricity directly from the electric field of the Earth? Consider one entertaining article from the magazine "Popular Science" as early as April 1971

The Tower Spherical engine was unique in the rotary steam engine market. It was not cylindrical like most of these engines, but actually spherical. The engine was at one time quite widely known, described in detail in magazines in the UK and France, and positively evaluated by experts

Many deny the possibility of creating simple gravitational engines, or dream of such options that can be realized only in the distant future

Modern robotics is already pretty well developed. It is enough to look at least at the latest successes of Boston Dynamics or remember that a plant is already being built in China, where robots will create other robots

Victor Stepanovich Grebennikov is an enthusiast-entomologist, his area of interest is insects

"May beetle does not know the theory and therefore flies." Victor Stepanovich Grebennikov, a person without higher education, but a recognized scientist in the field of entomology and apiology, a member of several Russian and international environmental organizations, a writer

Today supercomputers are used for a wide range of tasks: from various mathematical calculations and data processing to modeling pharmaceutical compounds and artificial intelligence

Since at least the 12th century, people have dreamed of building a perpetual motion machine - a device that will continue to run indefinitely without any external power source

Cryonics is considered one of the most controversial areas of practice, in which many refuse to recognize science. The technology of keeping a person in a state of deep cooling radically changes the concept of death

The so-called thermal noise is inherent in any conductors of electric current that have active resistance. This is due to the chaotic movement of charge carriers

The European Space Agency reports on the first test of a ramjet ion engine using air from the surrounding atmosphere as fuel

In the mid-1950s, de Lackner privately developed a rotorcraft called the DH-4 Helivector, later renamed the HZ-1 Aerocycle, which looked like a cross between a helicopter, an outboard motor, and a motorcycle

Scientists around the world continue to seek confirmation of various theories, one of which suggests the presence of the fifth dimension

Hurricane in Florida or volcanic eruption in Iceland, flood or forest fires. Whatever disaster happens, the terrible word HAARP will surely sound nearby. The American radio complex and its counterparts from other countries are endowed with the most fantastic abilities to manipulate the weather, earthquakes, and even human consciousness

I invite everyone who has not yet heard about the amazing invention of the scientist-entomologist Viktor Grebennikov to familiarize themselves with his discovery, from his own words. Everything that you have to learn could be called fantasy - it will seem so unlikely, if not for two very significant but …First, this is a chapter from Viktor Grebennikov's autobiographical book "My World", published with money from an international scientific foundation in a meager print run wit

For the first time in the world, synthetic blood created in a laboratory from stem cells will be tested on humans, according to Scotsman

Scientists used an artificial atom to show the possibility of keeping Schrödinger's cat alive for an indefinite period, as well as accelerating the onset of its demise

Indeed, fusion reactors, if they ever really work, will become inexhaustible sources of clean energy resulting from nuclear fusion processes like those that go only internally

The Chinese were the first to use cellulose fibers to produce a lightweight analogue of metallic money. Paper is used for the same purpose today

Virtual reality (VR) technologies have already "learned" quite well to deceive our brain, eyes and ears, forcing them to think that we are really in some other world and are the main character of this or that game

The young boy injured his spinal cord with a fracture of the cervical vertebrae and was completely paralyzed until recently. Scientists from the United States were able to restore the mobility of his arm using a microchip implanted in the brain

Scientists working at the University of Bremen in Germany told how you can decode words encoded in thoughts in brain signals. This will require a speech recognition system

It would seem, at first glance, it is impossible to "recode" the flow of light into sound waves, because from the point of view of physics there is not so much in common between them. But scientists do the impossible time after time

The demonstration that turned the great Isaac Newton's ideas about the nature of light was incredibly simple