Wonders of Science 2024, November

Science constantly shows us interesting things. As we move into a brighter future, scientific advances begin to border on magic. Science is constantly trying to make the impossible possible and is certainly making steady progress

At all times in Russia there were enough inventors, whose creations were widely used all over the world

It seems that smart tattoos in the coming years will become, if not an ordinary thing like smart watches, then certainly a fairly popular trend in the IT field

American scientists have proposed to monitor health conditions using smart ink applied under the skin. Tattoos have gone through an astounding evolution

The appearance of tanks on the battlefield created a furor. Fully revealed their potential and demonstrated themselves in all their glory, these are combat vehicles in World War II. At the same time, the process of rapid evolution of anti-tank weapons was launched

The researchers got their energy from semi-artificial photosynthesis - the process by which water in plants is split into hydrogen and oxygen. The new method allowed them to increase the amount of energy produced

Small drones are increasingly entering our lives as a means of looking at something from a height or just for entertainment. But they still have a serious flaw - - low battery capacity

This is an understandable problem. A lot of things have been invented for the military, both in the form of drones and in the form of wearable gadgets, but, as always, batteries remain the weakest point

Scientists have created living drones American specialists from Draper have created equipment that allows you to control live dragonflies

Did you know that the world's first personal computer was created not by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the Palo Alto garage, but by a simple Soviet designer Arseny Anatolyevich Gorokhov at the Omsk Research Institute of Aviation Technologies?

It looks like we are heading for a new era of eugenics, and in the not too distant future, instead of choosing our partner based on feelings of love, we will choose one based on the compatibility of our genes, leading scientists warn

The world that we saw in the films and the Star Trek series, - this is the world of the distant future. While we're still waiting for warp drives and transporters, some of the technologies featured in the beloved Star Trek have already become reality

Experiments using laser light and fingernail-sized pieces of gray material may offer clues to a fundamental scientific puzzle: what is the connection between the everyday world of classical physics and the hidden quantum world that

In ancient times - it was almost 80 years ago, at the dawn of computing technology - memory of computing devices was usually divided into three types. Primary, secondary and external

Researchers at MIT, Rockefeller University and Boston University have developed a new way to create liver tissue from the "seeds" of the future organ, implanted into the patient's diseased liver

Researchers at the National University of Australia conducted a quantum experiment and found that reality does not exist until it is measured. Reported by Nature. The theory is relevant for very small scale objects

The rise in the price of bitcoin has made people think seriously about the devastating environmental consequences of this unique financial phenomenon. They were talked about back in 2013 by Australian environmental sustainability analyst and entrepreneur Guy Lane

A bit of archeology "… Here at this place, on the territory of present-day Russia, about 4000 years ago, teenagers ate dogs or wolves to become warriors", - reported by ScienceNews (07 Aug, 2017) in an article on discovered

The world's first "hotel of robots" has laid off half of its robot employees due to the fact that they did not cope with their duties

This engine, one of the simplest and most unpretentious (at first glance), has been discussed for a long time on the forums of the Internet communities of alternative energy enthusiasts

In 1987, the story of the "bully pilot" Matthias Rust, who landed right in the middle of Moscow, shocked the whole world. However, this incident was not the only unusual episode in Soviet aviation. A couple of years later, a fighter "escaped" from the USSR

The development of new types of weapons and self-propelled vehicles in the XX century in the USSR was assigned a special role. And today I want to talk about a truly unique development - an underground boat, a subterrine known by the code name "Battle Mole"

Scientists are confident that trees can produce gasoline, or more precisely, not the fuel itself, but the basis for it

One of the sources of energy that can replace the exhaustible resources of oil and natural gas is right under our feet - - warmth of deep rocks

Russian chemists and molecular biologists have discovered that junk DNA at the ends of chromosomes contains instructions for synthesizing a protein that helps cells not die from stress. Their findings were presented in the journal Nucleic Acids Research

On July 27, the St. Petersburg State University will host a press conference dedicated to the XXI International Conference on the Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy (IPS-21), which is being held for the first time in Russia from July 25 to July 29

The first factories producing animal feed from natural gas went into operation this fall. This means that cutlets made from piglet meat, which are given such food, are in a sense derived from methane

Dumbbells and barbells, swimming and running - ways to "build" muscles, strengthen bones and achieve an excellent body condition are known. But how do you get the same out of your brain? Just meditate

Quantum computer - is a computing device that uses the phenomena of quantum mechanics to transfer and process data

On the eve of World War II, the USSR and Germany were actively developing new weapons - combat subterins (underground boats), designed to strike at strategically important enemy targets literally from under the ground

Since the beginning of February, off the coast of Florida, it has been conducting a comprehensive AUG exercise led by USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), where there have already been or, as it were, some incidents

The blackest building in history has appeared in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang. In the truest sense of this expression

It looks like making artificial food - this is a trend that will gain momentum over the coming years. For example, we recently reported that the United States approved the production of artificial meat

In order to prevent and reduce work-related injuries, the Japanese company Innophys has released a compact exoskeleton with a carrying capacity of up to 30 kilograms. The robotic suit was first shown at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo

Parallel, intersecting, branching and re-converging worlds. What is it - fiction of science fiction writers or reality, not yet realized

It would be more correct to give our planet the name "Water", since most of its surface is occupied by oceans. But only 2% of the world's reserves are potable

British scientists Michael Kosterlitz, David Thouless and Duncan Haldane received the Nobel Prize in physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"

According to the journal Nature, the research agency DARPA funded the development of a system for automatic control of human mood, which in real time scans brain activity and, if necessary

The biographies of great people are often drawn according to the same scheme: in childhood, the future great person already begins to have extraordinary abilities that delight relatives and friends, then a triumphal march to fame follows, and in conclusion - a calm old age in the circle of loving grandchildren and followers

DNA has been preserved, which means making a copy of - only a matter of time. And not so big on the scale of history - years 10. Let's imagine that it succeeded. What's next? For the head of the museum "Moika, 12" - Galina Sedova this year was a triumph