Wonders of Science 2024, November

Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero conducted an experiment on mice and a dog before a human head transplant

Doctors of the Shumakov Transplant Center have awarded the Prize for the first Russian lung transplant for a child from an adult donor, RIA Novosti reports. "See how many people got up

Polish surgeons from the University Hospital of Wrocław (Uniwersytet Medyczny we Wrocławiu) talked about the world's first successful limb transplant to a person who was born without it. A 32-year-old patient named Piotr has lived without an arm

Reflections on freedom in the scientific field, and indeed about the freedom to do what you want and not be subject to public censure

We are already organizing music lessons for our children, putting braces on them and arranging additional classes with teachers. Why not give them the best genes? - the author is interested. Most countries have banned the creation of "children by design"

Megaprojects have a mega prefix for a reason. The implementation of such tasks requires huge funds (more than $ 1 billion), resources (millions of man / hours) and time costs

Experts are working to bring the vaporizers from Skywalker's farm on Tatooine into real life. Scientists are developing technology that will allow you to get water in the style of "Star Wars"

Three collaborating teams of scientists from different parts of the world have developed the latest technology for recording and storing information that will increase the storage density on optical disks by a million times

It is believed that DNA will save us from computers. Thanks to advances in silicon transistor replacement, DNA computers promise to provide us with massive parallel computing architectures not currently possible

The last century for most people is associated with the triumph of technological progress

Just imagine: you accidentally swallowed an electric battery, and to remove it, you need to take a pill that turns into a robot

Aubrey de Gray set himself a "simple" problem. 54-year-old co-founder of SENS Research Foundation wants to end biological aging forever

Molecular biologists at Yale have uncovered the three-dimensional structure of the aging-delaying hormone Klotho and found it to be unexpectedly linked to the real mechanism of cell rejuvenation, according to an article published in the journal Nature

Physicists have already succeeded in demonstrating the acceleration of light rays on flat surfaces, where the acceleration caused the rays to follow curved paths. However, a new experiment has pushed the boundaries of what can be shown in the laboratory

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have found a way to stabilize super-hot plasma inside fusion chambers, similar to what occurs in the bowels of stars

Physicists at MIT have modified the work of conventional WiFi transmitters so that they can now be used to see people through walls and even measure their heart rate

200 million years ago there was only one supercontinent on Earth - - Pangea. Then it split into separate parts - prototypes of modern continents

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature presented to our method of observation," wrote the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who was the first to understand the uncertainty inherent in quantum physics

The Greek inventor Archimedes is said to have burned the ships of the attacking Roman fleet by focusing and directing sunlight with mirrors. However, a study by Italian scientists proves that he used steam cannons and fireballs instead.A legend spread throughout the Middle Ages tells how Archimedes, during the siege of Syracuse, a Greek colony in Sicily, from 214 to 212 BC used mirrors concentrating sunlight as a defensive weapon

Pyramid Shimizu 2004 (eng. Shimizu TRY 2004 Pyramid) - a project to build a huge pyramidal structure, running along Tokyo Bay in Japan.It is estimated that the structure will be 12 times taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza and will house 750,000 people

Another high-profile event took place in the history of human cloning. American geneticist Panayotis Zavos obtained exact copies of many human embryos. Some of them have already been transplanted into female volunteers

Who does not know that there are a lot of people living in China, which is why false information is even spread in Russia that the PRC is sorely lacking its own lands, and therefore the Chinese are looking longingly at the Far East of our country

By combining the achievements of robotics and animatronics, researchers at Engineered Arts have created very realistic "artificial people" who can act in films, play the role of moving "wax figures" and generally entertain people in every possible way

With the help of the experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), which is called China's "artificial sun", physicists were able to heat the plasma to 100 million degrees Celsius (which is 6 times the temperature of our star's core) and reached

We are used to trusting what smart people in lab coats say and do, whom we call scientists

Flexible, controlled "robotic skin" modules can be attached to any suitable object, obtaining an obedient robot to perform the required tasks

Oxford has successfully tested the technology of psychotherapy for fear of heights using virtual reality games. The technique does not require the presence of a psychotherapist

British scientists who have experimented with the so-called "acoustic traction beam" are a little closer to making a person levitate

For the first time, Chinese scientists managed to create directed mutations in monkey embryos. This technology will help find cures for many diseases. It is also possible that in the future, gene modifications will guarantee the birth of absolutely healthy people

For the first time in the world, doctors were able to carry out the most complex operation of interspecies organ transplantation from one animal to another - from a representative of the artiodactyl family to monkeys

An international team of scientists from the UK and Germany has identified 24 new drugs that potentially stop aging and prolong life. Research preprint published in the bioRxiv.org repository

If you ask the question: "without what would the great construction projects of the first five-year plans be impossible?" in fact, they would have been physically impossible (at least in a comparable time frame) without steam excavators, which made it possible to accelerate the pace of excavation tenfold

Scientists at the prestigious Salk Institute say they have been able to map the molecular structure of the CRISPR enzyme, which will allow scientists to more accurately manipulate functions in the cell

An international group of researchers led by scientists from University College London found that limiting the activity of the enzyme RNA polymerase III (Pol III), which occurs in all animals, including humans, can prolong life

Scientists at Northwestern University in the United States have come up with a way to treat any form of cancer. It is based on the property of small RNA molecules, called interfering ones, to block the activity of genes and the synthesis of proteins important for a malignant cell

In the novel by A. Belyaev "The Head of Professor Dowell" the scientist created a solution with which the human head can lead a relatively full life. He is convinced that his discovery will bring benefit to people - life extension

Fantastic, frightening for many stories about interference with the human genome for many years remained just fantastic

American scientists said they raised an animal? chimera! 85% it is a sheep, and 15% - person. Outwardly, this is in no way invisible: its head, body, legs and tail are the same as those of ordinary sheep, but the liver is mainly composed of human cells

The attempts of modern scientists to create animals with human organs were preceded by many years of research, and just about these plans will begin to come true

Biologists from the USA, Spain and Japan have created chimeras - pig and human hybrids. The study was first published in the journal Cell, briefly reported by Nature News. Hybrids were produced as follows: