Wonders of Science 2024, May

The development of an international team of scientists will allow studying the work of individual cells and then creating devices for connecting the brain with a machine. The main difference from analogs is that the probe that reads the activity does not damage cells

Japanese inventors have created improved piezoelectrics - transparent crystals that will be useful in the development of new generation technology.Some crystalline materials have ways of changing their shape when they are struck by an electric shock

One of the most spectacular technologies that we have seen in science fiction films, but have not yet been able to bring to life - holograms. However, British and Japanese scientists were able to bring the future closer: their device uses ultrasound to create tangible color volumetric images

Back in 1961, physicist and Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner outlined a thought experiment that demonstrated one of the least known paradoxes of quantum mechanics

The US military discloses Project Super Soldiers, which says it has received $ 65 million in funding for a program to develop a "brain-computer interface" that will allow participants to connect to a computer like the Matrix movie. No, this is not science fiction, this is the future that MIC wants to create for its soldiers

The current level of technology development allows the implementation of scientific ideas that until recently seemed fantastic, related to the distant future. Thanks to scientific progress, humanity has come closer to translating the ideas of transhumanism into life

Defense scientists are wondering what happens if a fly is controlled from a distance by the pathogens of cholera, anthrax, or another deadly disease? But what if the rumor goes not about one fly, but a whole fly swarm?

Esquire met with a British biohacker who wants to give humanity a new feeling with the help of a chip.On December 14, 2016, two people stood in a London apartment, bending over a tiny - the size of a postage stamp - a microchip wrapped in biocompatible silicone

The line between humans and machines is blurring. Scientists from the Tokyo University of Industrial Sciences have created a biohybrid robot - a robotic device containing living tissue - who worked for over a week

The average height of men is 172 cm, of women - 159 cm. The heart, on average, manages to make about 2.7 billion contractions in a lifetime. Statistics know everything about everyone, but it will not say anything about an individual concrete person: you can only know yourself on your own

Today, human bodies are merging with technology in ways we could not have imagined a few decades ago. Superhuman strength, agility and senses are no longer the lot of science fiction - all this is already available to an ordinary person

Imagine a frightening picture from the near future: a mouthless police robot with black eyes, collecting evidence and calculating the criminal

Technological advances, changes in society and the desire to reduce the damage that the fashion industry does to nature all motivate scientists, inventors and designers to come up with new ways to make clothes. Now, having entered the store of any brand, it is difficult to imagine that our grandchildren will buy completely different things

Open source software is a common thing in the 21st century. An organization called the Open Source Initiative was founded back in 1998, although examples of open source development have been numerous before. As the name implies, the main difference between such developments and closed (proprietary) software is that the code of the former is publicly available and any developer can either inspect it or change it at his own discretion

Researchers from the University of Durham in the UK and the German Fraunhofer Institute have created Proteus material that cannot be cut. The description of the development was published by the scientific journal Scientific Reports.When trying to cut through "uncut" material, it emits waves that destroy saw blades or knives

Temperatures are breaking records this summer. It is simply impossible to be on the street, but at home you want to open the window as soon as possible. However, the noise of the streets and the hum of cars can interfere with a comfortable stay in an apartment, which is why scientists have developed a special active noise cancellation system

Flocks of drones, which are indistinguishable from pigeons from afar, are already flying over the Chinese steppes - and, possibly, over cities; Chinese military and intelligence services are keenly interested in Dove program

The great American futurist Alvin Toffler gives the countryside a chance. His prediction is that the countryside will be covered by a network of "biotransformers" where biomass waste is converted into food, feed, fiber, bioplastics and other goods

From the words of Richard Nixon it follows: Apollo 11 flew to the Moon, but did not return to Earth.“Fate has decreed that the people who went to the moon in the name of peace will remain on the moon to rest in peace,” President Richard Nixon, President of the United States, said 51 years ago on television. The

Peter glanced at his watch and realized that he needed to hurry - there was only half an hour left before the meeting. He quickly finished his coffee, grabbed his briefcase and, kissing his wife goodbye, jumped out onto the fenced concrete area of the penthouse. How

The National Interest magazine has listed five submarines capable of destroying the world in 30 minutes. Three of these military vehicles are Russian, the other two are American.The author of the article compiled a list of nuclear submarines that are already in service with the Russian Navy and the US Navy or will soon be put into service

Russian Academy of Sciences President Alexander Sergeev called for the launch of a national brain research project in 2019. We figure out why it is needed and what it will give to the common man

The sky has seen a lot of strange aircraft, and the American designer Charles Zimmerman deserves not the last place on this list. Some names for him are worth something: "flying pancake", "flying skimmer" or even "frying pan that flies."The inventor began work on this apparatus in 1933

In 20-30 years, the secret of immortality will be revealed, says Jose Luis Cordeiro, founder of the University of the Singularity in Silicon Valley. In an interview with RT, the scientist and futurologist told what scientific discoveries brought humanity closer to eternal life

Death can be delayed by uploading a person's consciousness to a computer or by connecting the brain to an artificial neural network during life. Scientists have been fighting this problem for ten years

Among the unique developments of the genius scientist and inventor N. Tesla, whose discoveries are still based on all traditional electrical engineering, his developments in the field of wireless energy transmission deserve special attention

Russian scientists have developed a highly efficient wireless power transmission system. With its help, you can create rooms where mobile phones and tablets will be charged automatically, "from the air"

Oil, gas and coal will sooner or later run out: their reserves on the planet are limited. What to do next?As a substitute for hydrocarbon fuels, mankind is offered sources that are usually called alternative or renewable. First of all, this is the energy of the sun, wind, ebb and flow, as well as the bowels of the Earth

At the beginning of the 20th century, the scientist Nikola Tesla, a native of Croatia, then working in New York, developed an innovative method of transmitting electrical energy over long distances without wires, using the phenomenon of electrical resonance, the study of which the scientist paid special attention to

Scientists have created an efficient system for transmitting energy at a distance. It allows you to charge electronic devices regardless of the distance between the device and its power source. This is stated in a study by scientists from Stanford University, published in the journal Nature Electronics

The law of the interaction of electric currents discovered by André Marie Ampere in 1820 laid the foundation for the further development of the science of electricity and magnetism. 11 years later, Michael Faraday experimentally established that a changing magnetic field generated by an electric current can induce an electric current in another conductor

I am very passionate about topics related to technology and energy. Because of this, it is in my interest to have various materials devoted to free energy. In particular, generators running without fuel, perpetual motion machines, and so on

One of the main "taboo topics" in official science is alternative energy in the sense of new breakthrough technologies of cheap energy. Any mention of "anti-gravity" and "anti-gravity engines" is subjected to especially strong pressure from the servants of the world parasitic "elite"

Russian physicists from the A.F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute in St. Petersburg described ionic processes of heat transfer in a spherical tokamak. The results of the study, which brings scientists one step closer to solving the problem of thermonuclear fusion, are published in the journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Sensors play a key role in the Internet of Things, but they have one clear limitation: they need a battery or some other power source to operate. However, in the near future, they may be able to receive energy from the air

RSC Energia tested a laser installation that transmits a beam of electricity over one and a half kilometers A unique experiment on wireless energy transmission over a distance of 1.5 kilometers in the atmosphere took place on Friday evening at 19:00

How to get energy from what cannot beIn any category of knowledge, there are topics that they try not to raise for wide discussion, this is almost bad manners. In the field of alternative energy, such areas include everything that can be interpreted as a perpetual motion machine

I have never even thought about such a topic, and therefore it all looks quite interesting and strange. It turns out that systems for transferring mechanical energy over a distance, similar to those used hundreds of years ago, are still used to this day

Vivo will release a smartphone that can be charged at a long distance from the charger up to 4.5 meters by air

All of us who studied in Soviet schools were hammered into our heads that our people saw electricity for the first time, with the arrival of the Bolsheviks.We learned by heart the GOERLO plans and Lenin's grandfather's statement about the "electrification of the whole country