Wonders of Science 2024, November
The final version of the draft of the Russian Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 involves five scientific missions on the Moon
In NPO them. S.A. Lavochkin passed a council of chief designers on Russian lunar projects, which approved a strategy for the implementation of the domestic program for the study and development of a natural satellite of the Earth
Clay Wang took his kids to the California Space Center a few years ago to show them the space shuttle
Chinese scientist Jiankui He announced on Monday that the first genetically modified humans in history are already living among us: we are talking about the birth of twin girls who, using CRISPR technology, have artificially altered the gene responsible for perception
Russian nuclear weapons are several times more powerful than Chinese and American ones. This was discovered on the portal of former CIA and US Special Operations Forces SofRep
Physical phenomena that do not recognize any speed limits
In September 2011, physicist Antonio Ereditato shocked the world. His statement could turn our understanding of the universe upside down. If the data collected by 160 OPERA scientists were correct, an incredible
German scientists Gunter Nimz and Alphonse Stahlhofen said that in practice they managed to move an object faster than the speed of light
Every meeting with something unusual, unexpected, strange causes surprise. With something that does not fit in the head, - even if it is a strictly proven scientific fact. Evolution - not a gym or an institute for noble maidens
July 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the birth of the first cloned mammal - the famous Dolly the sheep, which became a genetic copy of its donor mother
Geneticists have discovered a piece of DNA that, when turned off, prevents the body from becoming a male. Now it has only been studied in mice
Around the mid-60s, the USSR government was already closely looking at near-earth orbit. Intelligence reported on the existence of the Americans project MOL
In a typical Los Angeles hospital, a young woman named Lauren Dickerson awaits her chance to make history
Like any technologically complex space project, the ISS has a long history, the duration of which is comparable to the total lifetime of the station
Modern science has reached incredible heights. Surprisingly, every day we learn more and more about the world around us and about ourselves. More and more new facts about our past, present and future are revealed to us by genetics
The food industry has made great strides in recent years. Thanks to the work of scientists from all over the world, almost any product can already be synthesized
10 breakthrough technologies that have not yet found widespread use but may become generally available in 2018. 1. 3D printing of metal 3D printing itself has been around for a very long time, but it was used mainly for working with plastic
Although from a scientific point of view, all this is completely justified, but from the ground you somehow treat the propellers in the form of a solar sail as some kind of child's play. Where is he good for? Where can you fly on it?
An artificial satellite, according to media reports, will appear in 2020 and will be nine times brighter than the real moon
This is a unique collider complex with a beautiful name "Nika", and scientists from the Dubna science city near Moscow, the largest Russian center for nuclear physics research, intend to launch it by 2020, that is, it is quite possible that
Announced the start of the $ 100 million Breakthrough Starshot project, during which the spacecraft must reach the closest star system to Earth, Alpha Centauri, in 20 years
Along with solar and wind energy, you can also consider using salt to generate clean electricity - molten salt, to be precise. Molten salt can produce energy at any time of the day
Apart from specialists, few people know that the Internet is not the only computer network. If anyone has heard of alternative networks, they associate them with the 90s, senior scientists in thick glasses, punch cards and dusty metal coffins, which are misunderstood as computers
In 2018, 96-year-old Arthur Eshkin became the Nobel Prize laureate in physics. He was awarded for the invention of the optical tweezers, which allows holding microscopic objects the size of DNA using laser light
A couple of years ago, in 2014, new series of drawings by Nikola Tesla were discovered. One of them shows an unusual "Multiplication Card" with a simple explanation. The drawings were found by the artist Abe Zukka in one of the antique shops in the central part of Phoenix in Arizona
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California have found a new way to reverse cell damage that builds up with age. It consists in removing mutated DNA from mitochondria
Cryogenics - it is the practice of quickly and deeply freezing recently deceased people (or even individual organs, such as the brain) in the hope of resurrecting them one day when technology becomes much more advanced
Fermi's controversial experiment to look for possible signs that our universe might be a hologram found nothing
Every time there are innovative production methods in the world, we hear: "No, this is not for Africa." But the introduction of biotechnology is extremely important for the fast-growing population of African countries
So what are genetic weapons? It is also called ethnic and is a kind of biological, and is intended to selectively target the population
American geneticists managed to develop a technique that allows you to program in advance a person's entire life
Surgeons from the Medical College of Wisconsin (USA) performed a unique operation to restore the tissues of the human esophagus. For a successful outcome, doctors and the patient had to wait four years
Neuroscientists are getting closer and closer to a method that will allow them to directly "connect" to human thoughts. And they - thoughts - nest in our special part of the brain - superior temporal gyrus. This part of the auditory system
A pig can be disassembled not only for fat and meat, but also for
On Tuesday at the Polytechnic Museum, Professor of the American Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics Michael Reimers gave a public lecture "The latest evolutionary changes in the human genome"
Chinese scientists were able to achieve a real breakthrough in science with the help of quantum teleportation through space. Now the re-roll of creation is not something transcendental and distant, but becomes more and more achievable
Some architects dream of their creations becoming part of nature. More and more attention is paid to the topic of ecology.An interesting creative experiment was presented as part of the "eVolo-2017" competition. This is a futuristic skyscraper designed by South Korean architects
Many scientific achievements have been made thanks to talented scientists and hard work. But no fewer discoveries were born due to luck, coincidences, intuition and other, not quite "scientific" and not quite "logical" factors
The biography of Soviet slot machines dates back to the 70s of the last century. Then the release of the first models was puzzled by completely non-core factories - enterprises of the military-military complex, since they had the most powerful and advanced technologies at their disposal
American scientists have described in detail the mechanism by which the popular dietary supplement glutamine controls the implementation of the genetic program in the cell