Wonders of Science 2024, November

For the first time in the history of science, Japanese researchers managed to grow eggs from stem cells and, by fertilizing them, to achieve the birth of absolutely healthy offspring in mice in laboratory conditions

A joint team of scientists from the Japanese universities of Osaka, Hokkaido and Chiba has made significant progress towards learning how to prevent aging and ensure permanent youth

Sergei Medvedev: When I was a child and a young man, I remember how the newspapers constantly trumpeted: something is about to happen when the human genome is deciphered, when all these blocks and bricks become clear … And now the human genome has been decoded - what's next?

In Italy, a 3D image of Jesus Christ based on the Turin Shroud was presented. Its author Giulio Fanta, who teaches measurement methodology at the University of Padua, has studied the Turin Shroud for several years

Scientists from Italy have proved for the first time that kidneys grown in a laboratory can function successfully in animals. This is a major achievement on the path to growing and transplanting human organs

Yes, it is chemistry, not physics! Although according to the official views of geology, granites, syenites - these are plastic rocks crystallized in the depths of the Earth under high pressure and temperature (physical process)

Experimenters have reproduced an analogue of the Big Bang in the laboratory. To do this, they used an exotic quantum state of matter known as the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)

Half a century ago, scientists were going to permanently clear the Arctic of ice - - and enjoy the warm climate throughout the Northern Hemisphere, while relaxing in the resorts of Chukotka and the Kara Sea. Think big - it is always a great temptation

Many people have heard this expression, but perhaps not everyone understands even its simplified meaning. Let's try to figure it out without complicated theories and formulas

Many over the hill are sure that everything that is in any way necessary and useful in the world has been created by the Americans and Western Europeans. And they don't believe their ears when they find out that 80% of all world inventions belong to the Slavs (and above all to the Russians)

One of the projects that can be attributed to the space development of the Third Reich was the construction of the ultra-long-range cannon "V-3" ("V-3"). "Centipede", "Buddy", "Hardworking Lizchen", "English Cannon" - this project is known under these names

Magic - it's just science. Another science dealing with the problems of energy management, still unknown to people (c) I think many have heard of the so-called

This person could have made the USSR, and therefore Russia, a computer superpower, thereby possibly preventing the collapse of the Soviet Union and turning the history of our state in a different, more prosperous direction. But it wasn't meant to come true

In the near future, Russian banks will introduce retinal customer identification technology. VTB Group is going to apply this method as early as 2018, and B&N Bank plans to use it in the next few years

Scottish geneticists have found in human DNA a kind of brain aging program that controls its development throughout life and is associated with the development of schizophrenia. This is stated in an article published in the magazine eLife

Man is such a creature who constantly invents something to improve his life. Some of the things that talented engineers create seem incredibly strange from the outside. Moreover, the field of application of these devices is not always immediately clear and obvious

EarthNow - this is a new company, which, according to its founders, will be able to shoot from orbit anywhere in the world and provide video with a second delay, that is, in fact, you can see what is happening anywhere in the world

Science fiction films show us a near future in which holographic interfaces and communications will be ubiquitous

What does it take to prepare a meal? Naturally, the products! In fact, after a few years the answer may not be so unambiguous

Every year brings more and more different innovations

To succeed in life, there is little desire and talent. We still have to be born under a lucky star. Or, more simply, to be at the right time in the right place

The brain - the most complex and poorly studied organ. The slightest violation in it can disable the whole person, turn off consciousness. Is it possible to create a "prosthesis" for a damaged brain?

In the 1920s, physicist Thomas Brown was conducting experiments in the laboratory of Professor Paul Biefeld when he discovered a very interesting phenomenon. The man experimented with the Coolidge tube and found that if it is located on a balance with a positive electrode on top, then the weight of the instrument becomes less, with a negative charge - more

The United States currently does not have the ability to defend against hypersonic weapons that Russia and China are developing, according to the report of the American Accounts Chamber

The Second World War gave impetus to the development of new, highly effective experimental weapons projects. Among them, there were resounding successes, as well as highly comical failures. The latter include "Panjandrum", also known as "Great Panjandrum" (Great Panjandrum) The name was chosen as a reference to the poem of the same name by Samuel Foote

Ecology of consumption. Science and technology: The Searl Effect, developed by John R.R. Searl, is a novel method of energy release

A professor from the University of Arizona is working on a system that can translate in English the sounds made by animals

Pacemakers are used to stimulate a regular heartbeat when the body's natural electrical pacing system stops working or is not working properly. For many years, the best "batteries" have been sought for pacemakers.In the 1970s, before the use of lithium-ion batteries to power pacemakers in the United States, batteries were used that draw energy from the alpha decay of plutonium-238

On February 11, 1953, the Canadian newspaper Toronto Star published a sensational report that a fantastic vertical take-off and landing aircraft was being built at the Avro Canada plant in Molton, at the request of the military, with a speed of up to 2400 km / h

For some time now it has become fashionable to fight genetically modified foods. But this hardly stopped their development. 1. "Frankenfish"

On February 8, Russia celebrates the Day of Russian Science

Scientists have proven that words can revive dead cells! During the research, scientists were amazed at how powerful the word is. And also the unthinkable experiment of scientists on the effect of creative thought on cruelty and violence

If you remember what the houses were like in the 1950s, then you can see that even then there were many things that exist now - washing machines, vacuum cleaners, TVs, cars. But if we go back 50 years more, to 1900

What is life? For most of the 20th century, this issue did not concern biologists much

MSU biologists have discovered a "molecular timer" - a special mechanism for regulating protein synthesis, which prevents the formation of abnormal molecules by stuck ribosomes

Teleportation, or the ability to instantly move people and objects from one place to another, can easily change the direction of development of civilization and the whole world in general

In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the Enterprise's crew captures a Klingon battle cruiser

Openwater, founded in mid-2016 by Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen, former CEO of Facebook and Google, is developing a device that can allow people to see in great detail what is happening inside their brains or other organs

Scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can determine what a person is looking at and how it controls their brain activity

American scientists were able to get two people to read each other's thoughts at a distance. The participants of the experiment successfully played a game of "question-answer": one of them asked a series of questions, and then guessed exactly what object the other was thinking