Wonders of Science 2024, November

There are several popular anecdotes about the rubber bomb, but there is some truth in every joke … Back in 2008, on the "popular mechanics" there was an article about the development of a US rubber bomb: Reportedly, such a bomb in the minds of Amer

On March 14, 1945, the British Air Force first used the Grand Slam seismic bomb. Let's remember what kind of ammunition it is

We have already told you something about the SOVIET NUCLEAR MORTAR. Of course, the United States did not lag behind us in this direction

For the most part, people - extremely lazy creatures who find it easier to wrinkle their nose, looking at their gained pounds in the mirror, rather than decide to go to the gym and try to get in shape

It is possible that soon, instead of spending hours in the gym, devoting them to grueling workouts, you can just take a "exercise pill"

Scientists from Duke University, USA, led by Professor Andre Bejan, conducted a study and found out why black runners perform better than whites

In the hottest periods of nuclear confrontation, the adversary countries wanted to learn how to make the most compact nuclear weapons, reducing them to the size of small bombs, artillery shells and even cartridges for firearms

Do you know who David Edward Hugh Jones is? Or maybe you've heard of his "alter-ego" Daedalus of DREADCO (Daedalus Research Evaluation and Development Corp)? Not?And yet this is a very interesting person, he was a research chemist and inventor

It's not easy being an inventor. It happens that the inventor is visited by a brilliant idea, but it is so unusual that others cannot appreciate it. Sometimes inventions are ahead of their time, and therefore turn out to be invaluable

Each passenger arriving at the capital's Sheremetyevo airport or taking off from there, when approaching and ascending from the eastern side, probably paid attention when looking through the window at a truncated four-sided pyramid, towering in the Moscow region

EMR - an electromagnetic pulse, which knocks out all electronics and automation, seriously puzzled the military. And in the 1970s, the Americans built a colossal testing laboratory … You've probably heard about the electromagnetic pulse for a long time

The Peresvet laser complex has been on alert since December 2019, Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov told the foreign military attaché not long ago. The general of the army was stingy with details. He only noted that the "Peresvet" service will be held in one of the "positional areas of mobile ground missile systems", and its task will include "covering their maneuvering actions."

Isabelle Dinoir, a Frenchwoman, died this week after undergoing the world's first face transplant in 2005. She died of cancer after 11 years after transplant

University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Ali Seireg was known for his research in biomechanics, or treating the human body as a machine. Among his achievements was the development of a mathematical model of the entire human musculoskeletal system, showing how muscles and joints work and interact

Since their inception, lasers have come to be seen as a weapon with the potential to revolutionize combat. Since the middle of the 20th century, lasers have become an integral part of science fiction films, weapons of super soldiers and interstellar ships

The perpetual motion machine (lat.perpetuum mobile) occupies a special and very prominent place in the history of science and technology, despite the fact that, according to modern science, it does not exist and cannot exist

Perpetual motion technology has attracted people at all times

From one Chinese, quanta will flow into another … and the difference? Sensation, however! The world's first experiment on quantum teleportation at a distance of more than 1.2 thousand kilometers will soon be carried out by Chinese scientists

An international team of physicists was able to measure the interaction of a nickelocene molecule on a silver substrate with the same molecule at the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope.The work, published in the journal Science, could have an important impact on the field of quantum information science and magnetic storage devices

Physicists at the University of Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a gadget that can extract water from the dry air of California and other arid regions of the world using only the energy of the Sun, according to the article published

Australian and British scientists have created a quantum analogue of a drum that vibrates and is silent at the same time, similar to how Schrödinger's cat is alive and dead at the same time, according to an article published in the New Journal of Physics

There is a legend about how people first saw a mobile phone. It happened in the USA on April 3, 1973. The director of the mobile communications department of Motorola, Martin Cooper, walking around Manhattan, defiantly called his mobile phone, which was very surprised by passers-by who saw this

The State Alliance for Scientific and Applied Research (CSIRO) in Australia has announced that their Parkes Radio Telescope at Parks Observatory is now part of the Breakthrough Listen program, the largest

The Nauka TV channel and the Institute of Modern Media (MOMRI) have learned from the Russians in which areas humanity needs scientific inventions and discoveries most of all and what they personally expect from modern science

China wants to reach a whole new level of renewable energy production. Chinese scientists plan to build the first ever space solar power plant in near-Earth orbit

Green energy has been developing quite rapidly in recent years. China built the world's largest solar power plant last year (5 times the size of Manhattan). Solar energy is also growing well in Russia.But counting that our future will consist entirely of solar power plants, we must not forget the following …- Salik.bi

Swedish physicist Kasper Mott-Poulsen calls his invention "solar thermal fuel". It is a liquid that stores energy like a battery, but uses direct sunlight instead of electricity

The chicken egg served as a muse. What do you eat for breakfast? German architect Andre Brossel prefers boiled chicken eggs. Thanks to this, he came up with an incredible solar power generator

More than seventy years ago, in 1941, Isaac Asimov wrote a story in which the energy of the sun was transmitted through microwave rays to neighboring planets using a space station

Pilot Stephen Ptachek waved his farewell hand and headed for the English Channel. After 5 hours and 23 minutes, covering a distance of 370 kilometers, the aircraft landed at a British Air Force base in the city of Manston on the southwest coast of Britain

In 1986, a power surge during a safety check at the Chernobyl reactor caused a catastrophic explosion. Thirty-one people died on the spot, more died from the effects of the release

The history of renewable energy efforts is fascinating indeed. For example, our today's story, about the works of Auguste Mushaud and his assistant Abel Pifre, those people who were the first to make and try to use solar thermal concentrators (CSP Solar Thermal Power) in life

Understanding a new idea: will it make alternative energy popular and will it help save electricity? MIRACLE TILES Elon Musk announced the start of accepting orders … for solar tiles

Scientists have described the phenomenon of the apokamp, discovered and reproduced by them in laboratory conditions, - formation of blue and red plasma jets arising at the discharge bend in gases

CNN Business: Ford, world renowned for its cars, is experimenting with something completely new: a parcel-carrying robot.The automaker announced on Tuesday that it is testing a robot that will deliver goods from self-driving Ford vehicles to a customer's door

The US Department of Defense is working on the JNLWP program, the main goal of which is - creation of a laser installation with unlimited potential, simulating sounds and flashes of light

Every now and then we tell you about the breakthrough scientific discoveries, thanks to which medicine is able to defeat previously incurable diseases. All this, of course, is wonderful, but only as long as it does not come to the cost of such miracle drugs

While the armies do not yet consist of android robots and cyborgs without feelings and emotions, the Pentagon is developing medical drug technology that affects the brain and with which a soldier can be turned into immorality

How do we repair a car today? That's right, at best we dig a tunnel under it, laying masonry, at worst stele a jacket and just try to slip under the car. But in the past they did this: I want to emphasize, the bus is double-decker

The beginning of the 20th century can truly be called the time of electricity. In a relatively short period, it penetrated absolutely all aspects of human activity, and by the end of the 30s it was already impossible to imagine humanity without it