Wonders of Science 2024, November

In January 2015, the world's longest container ship, the CSCL Globe, made its maiden voyage from China to Europe. It was built at the South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries and is owned by the Chinese company China Shipping Container Lines

BelAZ has created the world's largest dump truck BelAZ-75710 with a carrying capacity of 450 tons, which is equivalent to three hundred Ford Focus, 37 double-decker buses or two and a half blue whales

In Moscow, at the Frunzenskaya metro station, the police detained a man who was on the wanted list and hiding from the investigation for over a year

Remote surveillance for intelligence gathering faces many challenges. For example, with weather conditions or various interference

Recently, the Chinese government launched a fairly advanced facial recognition system to identify offenders. And, like any promising technology, this one has a lot of analogues in other countries

The object that you see in this video, you can make yourself. Thus, having seen with his own eyes that flying vehicles without combustible fuel and generally without any rotating parts have long been created. These objects move independently of the ground, i

Almost 3,000 missing children have been identified by Indian police in just four days after the start of the experiment using facial recognition technology

The homemade device takes a photo of the pet and then sends a notification to the owner. The system allows you to let a cat named Bobis in from the street without making the pet wait in the cold

In orbit, the Chinese satellite Mo-Tzu has successfully transmitted data to Earth for the first time in the world using quantum cryptography, which eliminates the possibility of hacking. The attention of scientists from all over the world is riveted to the quantum satellite "Mo-Tzu"

You go up the stairs and enter the elevator. He knows which floor you need to go to. The doors to the apartment open themselves in front of you. The computer and phone "recognize" you and do not require a password

British scientists managed to create the smallest engine in the world

Based on the report of the adviser to the head of NPO Energomash, Georgy Kostin, it became known about the details of the creation of a new quantum engine. The device is being developed by domestic specialists under the guidance of scientist Vladimir Leonov

Physicists from Austria and Australia describe Einstein's principle of equivalence in the framework of quantum mechanics

Quantum suicide - a thought experiment in quantum mechanics that was independently proposed by Hans Moraveca in 1987 and Bruno Marshal in 1988. Expanded in 1998 by Max Tegmark

Over the past few years, some materials have become proving grounds for physicists. These materials aren't exactly made of anything special - ordinary particles, protons, neutrons and electrons. But they are more than just the sum of their parts

Much is unknown about the nature of the universe itself. It is the curiosity inherent in humans that leads to the search for answers to these questions that drives science forward

The most mysterious quantum experiment, which served as the starting point for the beginning of a new physics, is as follows. When an electron passes through two slits, it, like a wave, creates an interference pattern on the screen

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in the USA prove the effectiveness of a new vaccine against melanoma in experiments on mice

Professor of physics at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, one of the pioneers of quantum teleportation, Eugene Polzik, explained to RIA Novosti where the border is between the "real" and "quantum" world, why it is impossible to teleport a person and how he managed to create mothers

Biologists have developed a model to determine the effect of synonymous codons on the synthesis of the encoded protein, reports the journal Nature

Last month billionaire Yuri Milner and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking announced Breakthrough Starshot: an incredibly ambitious plan to send the first human-made spacecraft to another star system in our galaxy

Anna PismennaEducation Science Av. Quantum physics - it is a new branch of science that points to something much more than the materialistic world, which, according to our assumption, is the basis of human existence

Australian scientists were looking for a drug to protect against insulin resistance and suddenly discovered a substance that effectively deals with obesity

It is more and more difficult for a modern person to cope with the processing of ever-increasing volumes of information. Memory and attention today - most valuable resource

Men conceived through artificial insemination are less likely to reproduce (fertility)

Scientists from The University of Western Australia have developed a substance based on several biological compounds that will prevent the formation of scars even with very deep wounds and cuts

Scientists at the University of Albert (Canada) have found a drug that significantly slows down the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, which British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking suffered from

Scientists at the Cancer Research Institute in the UK have found that the sugar mannose, which is used as a dietary supplement, can slow the growth of malignant tumors and enhance the effect of chemotherapy in mice suffering from various types of p

Scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Research Institute (USA) have identified molecular targets in malignant cells of two aggressive and almost unresponsive forms of cancer. This was reported in a press release on MedicalXpress

Modern sedentary lifestyles prevent people from getting enough vitamins and minerals, said an Oxford scientist who has endorsed a new super supplement that is said to dramatically improve health

A team of researchers in Singapore managed to combine several drugs to create a cocktail that slows down aging

Larch wood contains a volatile substance that can block the action of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), which causes many diseases of the heart and blood vessels, Russian researchers have found

Experiments with rodents accustomed to nicotine have shown that the artificial protein NicA2-J1 makes it possible to keep its blood content under control - - and defeat a bad habit

The human body produces many peptides that help the immune system resist attacks from pathogens. And, as it turned out, there are candidates for the role of powerful antimicrobial drugs among them

Scientists at the University of Exeter have developed compounds that inhibit the aging of the cells lining the inner surface of blood vessels. This was reported in a press release on MedicalXpress

The flu is rampant this year. In the future, it will be possible to stop the spread of the virus with a new fast-acting drug

Scientists from the US National Institute of Bioimaging and Bioengineering have developed a nanovaccine to fight cancer. A compound that causes immune cells to attack the tumor is delivered to the lymph nodes by the protein albumin

Over the past few years, scientific medical publications every day inform us about some unrealistic and incredible breakthroughs in the field of life extension, after which the news is picked up by the widest press

The US Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves Atryn, a product made from the milk of genetically modified goats (animals injected with human protein)

The renowned biochemist Vladimir Skulachev gave a lecture in Yekaterinburg about how octopuses and rodents helped scientists almost solve the problem of death. Is a chemical named after you? But in honor of Vladimir Petrovich named