Wonders of Science 2024, November

The tanks turned the tide of the battle. Armored monsters made trench warfare nearly impossible. The new rules of the game were: step on - or lose. But the technique did not achieve such success immediately

Researchers from Harvard University found that consuming large amounts of unsaturated fats, which are found in vegetable oils, is associated with a low probability of early death

Scientists from Stanford Medical School claim that subcutaneous fat - it is liquid gold for medicine, as it is the best source of stem cells. In addition, almost any person is ready to get rid of 2-3 kilograms

Researchers today are trying to recreate machines, technologies and even products that our ancestors used thousands of years ago

Scientists from Japan's National Institute for Polar Research have successfully brought the animal back to life 30 years after freezing

The flu reaps its sacrifices every year. Scientists and medical professionals save lives by regularly rolling out seasonal vaccines and deploying drugs to fight the virus and its secondary infections

The problem of life after death has occupied the minds of people throughout the history of mankind

A team of scientists from the University of Adelaide in South Australia and Queen Elizabeth Hospital is developing a DNA vaccine against HIV. The first test results were published in a specialized journal

This invention is widely covered on the Internet, many sites talk about its almost "magical" power, offer to buy … there are several options that differ in price and size. So what is it - "Mishin's coils", deception or a new, really working direction in alternative medicine?F

Pictures of the 072III-class Chinese amphibious assault ship Haiyang Shan, presumably equipped with a working prototype of an electromagnetic cannon, have circulated on social media, The Drive reports

Military installations for generating plasma formations similar to ball lightning have colossal capabilities: from intercepting missiles, to psychotropic effects on people and changing the Earth's climate

This is a bas-relief by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. On it, he depicted the goddess of the night flying in space. She has two of her sons in her arms: Sleep and Death. In ancient times, people did not share these concepts

Radio communication on a spin electromagnetic field Since the end of the last (XX) century, radio amateurs in many countries began to operate "very strange" antennas. These antennas are known as CFA, A or EH

Fountains - one of the most memorable sights of St. Petersburg

One anecdote is known: nuclear fusion will be in twenty years. Will always be in twenty years

It was 2016, physicists worked tirelessly. Four years ago, the LHC confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model. Everything went to the fact that the LHC must find other new particles - nature itself seemed to demand them

The US Department of Defense has published a roadmap for the development of military robots. This document describes the vision of what unmanned aerial vehicles, ground, surface and underwater robots should become by 2042

The Russian Ministry of Defense has approved a comprehensive target program "Creation of advanced military robotics until 2025," Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Pavel Popov said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper

Previously, only criminals and the military had to deal with lie detectors. Today everyone can undergo a polygraph test. But the detector can also be fooled. We will show you how to do this. Polygraph

A group of experimenters from Finland and Sweden received the first physiological evidence of the existence of hypnotic trance, having studied in detail the aspect of it that scientists had not paid attention to before

Attraction rays, also known as grasping rays, have been described in the works of several generations of science fiction writers

A group of American scientists created a synthetic molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid, which included four new nitrogenous bases in addition to the four already existing

On January 12, 1967, the first human cryopreservation was carried out The idea of cryopreservation, storage of organs and organisms at low temperatures with subsequent "defrosting", arose several centuries ago and was inspired, presumably, by observations of living

For the time being, the woman's body will be stored in a special vessel with liquid nitrogen Domestic information Internet portals, referring to the Chinese Xinhua news agency, unanimously reported that “Chinese scientists have produced the world's first cryogenic

Walter Elias Disney - American cartoonist who founded multimedia empire "The Walt Disney Company", according to official figures, died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966 in Los Angeles

Scientists from the Senger Institute (UK) have found that the use of the CRISPR / Cas system in human and animal cells, including mice, often leads to the appearance of extensive unwanted mutations

"Time machines" exist. In the world, or rather - in the USA and Russia, - there are already hundreds of them. The base of the Alcor company is located in the state of Arizona, the Crionics Institute operates in Michigan, in the Moscow region KrioRus is improving its capabilities

Nobody wants to die. All religions of the world are essentially built on this principle, promising a "continuation of the banquet" in the heavenly booths after the "boring official part" of life is over

NASA recently discussed plans to put astronauts in a state of temporary cessation of vital functions. A hospital in Pennsylvania managed to put patients in a similar state

Specialists from Stanford University have created an unusual technology that converts brain signals into typing on the keyboard and appearing on the monitor screen

While Han Solo was waving a converted Mauser in Star Wars, Soviet engineers were developing the most real space weapons that could be used right on the orbital station. Preparing to take over space? Quite possible

At the end of last year, Magic Leap showed, at last, one of the most anticipated devices - own AR headset

Mortar "Dictator" Mortar (net. Mortier) - artillery gun with a short barrel (usually less than 15 calibers in length) for mounted shooting

PSI-TERROR "Types of psychotronic generators" * infrasonic * UHF generators * microwave-EHF generators * microwave-EHF generators with a modulated low frequency signal * ultrasonic and X-ray emitters * torsion (radiation from

Inventors spend years of their lives innovating; refine and improve them until they are confident that their brainchild is ready to see the world

Hybrids have been produced in secret for the past three years to study possible treatments for a wide range of diseases. The truth became known as a result of a parliamentary inquiry

How did life manage to piece together myriads of parts? At the very least, the first life forms on Earth needed a way to store and reproduce information. Only then can they make copies of themselves and spread around the world

Understanding the nature of life is one of the most difficult and at the same time interesting mysteries for humanity. Over time, this mystery inevitably went beyond the question of whether life exists only on Earth, or whether it exists somewhere else in the Universe

A group of British scientists managed to find a new way to rejuvenate aging cells that contribute to the development of age-related diseases, reports the Science Daily portal

A new material that is very similar to leather was created by specialists from the University of Iowa from kombucha. So far, the resulting material, which is quite environmentally friendly, has a number of disadvantages