Wonders of Science 2024, November

In cartoons, animals very often talk and behave like people. But what will happen if you and I really understand what our four-legged friends are telling us

When someone says that they are planning to “break the vacuum,” it probably means that they are parents trying to clean up a room normally occupied by a teenager … unless they are physicists

The People's Republic of China intends to create a reusable spacecraft that will use a nuclear power plant by 2040

Scientists from Germany have come up with the idea of using a graphene solar sail as brakes for an interstellar ship traveling at a speed of 13,800 km per second. Their calculations are published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, ScienceAlert reports

The agency has selected 13 projects, the implementation of which can change the existing scientific architecture. NASA plans to convert the asteroid into a spacecraft

The new idea of British physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner became known last week. The Breakthrough Starshot project from the Breakthrough Initiatives series will cost Milner $ 100 million

A nuclear-powered spacecraft can fly to Mars in one to one and a half months and perform many maneuvers

At the beginning of the 20s of the last century in Germany, an article was published by the associate professor of the University of Königsberg T

The Scientific and Technical Council of NPO Energomash will prepare a project to create an electrodeless plasma rocket engine. This was reported on Wednesday on the website of the state corporation "Roscosmos"

Scientists at the University of Central Florida and Honeybee Robotics have developed a prototype spacecraft, World Is Not Enough (WINE), which can extract water from asteroids and comets and use it as fuel for a reaction

"Mr. Sulu, set a course, warp speed is two" - these words, perhaps, are known to every fan of science fiction. They belong to James Kirk, captain of the Starship Enterprise from the legendary Star Trek series

RSC Energia specialists have patented a system for storing and supplying iodine for a promising electric rocket engine (ERE)

Quantum engines are not an abstract concept or the distant future of physics. This is the business of today. Now many countries are conducting research in this direction, but only a few successes have been achieved: Russia, jointly China and the United States, as well as Germany

Scientists at Harbin Polytechnic University (China) have improved the design of a cylindrical Hall effect engine

NASA specialists tested the new X-3 ion engine developed by researchers from the University of Michigan. The device broke several records, including reaching the maximum power, thrust and operating current at the moment

How to fly to Mars in a month? To do this, you need to give the spacecraft a good boost. Alas, the best fuel available to man - nuclear gives a specific impulse of 3000 seconds, and the flight stretches for many months

Health claims for an EmDrive motor that allegedly violates Newton's third law may be hasty

Briton Roger Scheuer, inventor of the EmDrive engine, patented a new version of the unit. The operation of the device has not yet been explained in terms of conservation laws

Ever since NASA announced the prototype of the controversial EM Drive (resonant cavity radio frequency motor), criticism has not dwindled, and any reported experimental results have sparked heated debate

NASA documents have leaked to the network confirming the performance of the EmDrive engine, which is capable of running without fuel. The principle of its operation has not yet been explained in terms of conservation laws

Already in 2017, a new type of ion engine will be tested at the International Space Station

The ALPHA collaboration has conducted the most accurate experiment ever to measure the behavior of neutral antimatter in a gravitational field. Depending on the results, it could open doors to incredible new technologies

Russian physicists have created a prototype of a lamp, similar in principle to a TV picture tube, possessing characteristics of reliability, durability and luminous intensity that have not been achieved by anyone else in the world. The "recipe" for its assembly and the first results of the check were presented in the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology

History of Scientific Experiments: From Brain Removal to Head Transplant

American scientists have found that vitamin C is effective in fighting leukemia. A related study published in the journal Cell, briefly reported by New Scientist

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a biohybrid robot. This mechanism, interacting with living tissue, was able to work for more than a week. Research materials published in Science Robotics

The phrase "Death Star" is well known to fans of the "Star Wars" series. We are talking about a space battle station equipped with super-powerful laser weapons capable of destroying entire planets

Martin Archer, a plasma physicist at Queen Mary University of London, told how the famous spaceship from the "Star Wars" saga could function

A GM salmon breeding company has received a permit to operate in Canada. Canada's first commercial genetically modified salmon farm receives environmental approval on Tuesday

Fish, mosquitoes, cows Many genetic tests are already being carried out on animals to improve the efficiency of livestock breeding and create new medicines

Vacuum, or thermobaric bomb in its power is practically not inferior to nuclear weapons. But unlike the latter, its use does not threaten with radiation and a global environmental catastrophe

Genetics - one of the sciences, whose rapid development expects humanity in the coming years

Denser clouds over the sea, repainting of the Earth in a different color, saturation of the upper atmosphere with particles. Geoengineering is suddenly on a horse as a climate change tool, an important element in the fight against the climate crisis

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) prepares genetically modified organisms for the purpose of terraforming Mars - transforming it into a more habitable and Earth-like planet

The Sina portal reported that scientists have developed a drug that is able to suppress the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 7 days. This discovery was made by scientists from the Yu-An hospital, which is located in the capital of China, Beijing

Is it possible to build a home with a full living room, kitchen and hallway in less than 1 day?

A researcher from the University of Aarhus, along with his colleague from the University of Copenhagen, both based in Denmark, decided to use microorganisms to help the astronaut on Mars

In 2024, the Russian Federation may send its own independent expedition to explore the surface of Mars. Information about this was provided yesterday by the press service of Roscosmos

Have you heard of such a super train? The history of the creation of this futuristic train is uncomplicated, but at the same time interesting. In the late 1970s, the largest American television company NBC relied on two large-scale projects

In 2018, doctors plan to transplant a head to a living person, and astronomers promise to grow potatoes on the moon, dive into the sun and find a second Earth. At the same time, space can become a tourist