Wonders of Science 2024, November
We have every reason to believe that gravity is inherently a quantum theory. But how do we prove it once and for all
No one in this world understands what quantum mechanics is. This is perhaps the most important thing you need to know about her. Of course, many physicists have learned to use laws and even predict phenomena based on quantum computing
Physicists from CERN claim that they managed to accidentally create at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a quark-gluon plasma, the matter of the Big Bang. The results of these experiments were published in the journal Nature Physics
In the amazing world of physics, the impossible, although not immediately, but still becomes possible. And lately, scientists have managed to achieve really super impossible things. Science is progressing
A resident of the United States, who wants to keep his name a secret for now, claims that he managed to open a real spatial portal, and he did it right in his house above his own bed
During surgery, in addition to anesthesia, people are given sedatives to relieve emotional stress. According to Belgian scientists from the Erasmus Hospital of Rotterdam, to calm patients down, you can just as well use virtual reality, which seems to hypnotize a person and give calmness
Apple's new patent has gone public. Apparently, the famous consumer electronics manufacturer is about to create a special headset for augmented reality. However, unlike existing technologies on the market, it will capture the owner's face entirely and then broadcast it into the virtual space
Virtual reality technology, which was considered absolutely fantastic a decade ago, is gradually becoming a part of everyday life. Virtual attractions and virtual helmets are getting cheaper and are being produced in more and more massive quantities
What do you know about the Faroe Islands? I didn’t know anything until today. If you are the same, I report: this is a group of 18 islands (17 of which are inhabited), which are located in the North Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Iceland, are part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but at the same time, since 1948, they independently solve almost all issues, with the exception of defense, justice, police, common currency and foreign policy. A
The first site in the Russian segment of the Internet was created a quarter of a century ago.The .ru domain was registered on April 7, 1994. For 25 years, the Runet, like the entire Internet, has turned from entertainment for enthusiasts into a profitable industry with strict laws
After 14 years of research and investment worth nearly a billion dollars, the Convair Model NX2 nuclear-powered aircraft in 1961 was ready to step off the drawing boards and enter the construction and testing phases.In the January 1961 issue of Science And Mechanics, a long article was published revealing some of the secrets behind the development of this ultra-modern and sophisticated aircraft
Livestock is one of the most carbon-intensive industries with greenhouse gas emissions that drive global temperature change
What would have changed if there were not only three spatial and one temporal dimensions? Imagine, if you can, the ability to move in an additional direction: besides up-down, north-south, west-east
The sensitive method that the U.S. military is currently using to remotely monitor air to detect potentially life-threatening chemicals, toxins, and pathogens has begun development
You would like to change the genes of your future children to make them smarter, stronger or more beautiful
I have already told you in detail on the example of a "heart" what a pumped storage power plant is. Let's continue this topic
Machines need an exact digital copy of our world if we are going to create accurate augmented reality applications or allow robots to deliver food. If tech optimists are to be believed, in 10 years there will be self-driving cars everywhere, drones will deliver our packages, and robots will deliver food
Huge sums are spent every day on lighting city streets at night, and in the interests of economy and ecology, it would be nice to reduce these sums. But to reduce the quality of lighting or the number of lights is not reasonable from a safety point of view
The end of "Cassini" in the atmosphere of Saturn, unmanned trucks in Moscow, the fall of the Chinese orbital station and a new supercomputer - this and much more awaits us in the coming year. Well, or at least planned
Could anyone have suspected on September 15, 1916, that on that day many books on military theory were out of date at once? Because the first tank received the baptism of fire. And the cry of a nameless German "The devil is coming!" proclaimed the appearance of a new king of land war
Did you know that the most expensive substance in the world is antimatter? According to official NASA figures, one milligram of positrons of this rare substance is worth approximately $ 25 million! At the same time, it is hardly possible to obtain antimatter in laboratory conditions due to the fact that all previous attempts to create a unique source of energy have failed
The Institute of Living Systems of the Baltic Federal University named after Kant recently completed work on a neurodevice called "Balalaika", designed to register various electrophysiological parameters
What seemed inconceivable literally ten years ago does not cause genuine amazement among people today. This is the planned development of modern science
American experts admit that Russian hallucinogenic weapons can exist and be effectively used
When the effects of X-rays were not known, it was used wherever possible. It turns out that it was even used in the selection of shoes. We somehow got acquainted with the fashion for radiation and other oddities from the recent past. But let's find out why it was so fashionable to irradiate your feet with radiation in order to choose the right pair of boots or shoes
A 32-year-old woman, who received a uterus from an unknown dead donor, safely carried and gave birth to a baby. This is the first case in the world and doctors say that the precedent can be a real salvation for infertile women
The HoloLens augmented reality glasses devkit has already become available to software developers for "symbolic" $ 3000. And Microsoft continues to delight us with more and more new pictures of future technologies
Forensic odorology - this is a very unusual direction in science, which deals with the study of odors, and more specifically - their carriers. This case has its ultimate goal: the exposure of a person of a crime
Although no country in the world officially recognizes that it possesses geophysical weapons, one thing is indisputable - and ndash; this weapon exists and has incredible crushing power
The idea of a vacuum train was first expressed by Robert Goddard in 1909 in Scientific American. He proposed to organize the movement of cars in a vacuum tube based on magnetic levitation
Gamma ray bursts, powerful flashes of light, - these are the brightest events in our Universe, which last no longer than a few seconds or minutes
An exact copy was made for parents from Moscow. Have you ever wanted to get to know your child before he was born? Technologies do not stand still, and in Yekaterinburg they are sometimes used more than in the capital
One of the developers of the CRISPR / Cas genome editing technology, Feng Zhang and Emmanuelle Charpentier, as well as their colleagues from seven countries, called for a global moratorium on the use of genetic editing of viable human embryos
It is known that the engineers of the Westinghouse company developed the wonderful machine. Of course she is best known as a large American electrical engineering company
Scientists managed to determine the area of creation of the "Antikythera Mechanism" - the oldest (known to science) computer in the history of mankind, and possibly its creator
Nazhip Valitov, a professor at Bashkir University, used to be very far from theology. He is a world-renowned chemist; all his life he has dealt exclusively with problems of science. And did not expect that spiritual leaders would be interested in his discoveries
On Monday, a group of Japanese researchers at a technology symposium in Berlin demonstrated a new chewing gum that shocks the tongue and whose taste never ends
Recently, robots are increasingly entering our lives
In which country was radio invented? And the helicopter? Russia's contribution to world progress is greater than it seems
About 60 years ago in Semipalatinsk, the USSR tested the first RDS-6s hydrogen bomb. The letter "s" meant "puff" - the coded name of one of the key ideas submitted by physicist Andrei Sakharov, who was not yet known to the world. Eight years after Semipalatinsk, in 1961, the 50-megaton hydrogen bomb, the most powerful explosive device ever developed and tested on Earth, was tested on the Novaya Zemlya islands in the Arctic Ocean