Wonders of Science 2024, November

Science has advanced so far that the incredible becomes apparent. In their laboratories, scientists manage to create what only Mother Nature could do

"Incredible Mechanisms" have already written about the secret complex of a tracked transportable nuclear power plant TPP-3 (you can read it here). But it turns out there was a project for such a station and a car chassis. Its name was Pamir-630D floating power plant

The fifties of the twentieth century - the time when people "tamed the peaceful atom." Electricity obtained from the energy of nuclear decay appeared almost simultaneously with us and the Americans. At the same time, bold projects of "large" nuclear power plants, nuclear submarines and icebreakers were born

Military developments regularly serve as one of the main engines of scientific and technological progress. States are inventing more and more devices for causing damage to their opponents, or even for their destruction

Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have determined the optical properties of ultra-thin films of gold, updating data that have not changed since 1972

In science fiction (like Star Trek), teleportation - the usual thing. But how much time and effort will it take to send the data necessary to teleport a person

Zbigniew Bzezhinski, being a professor at Columbia University, wrote in one of his books that the results of ongoing research on the study of the human brain are needed to control the psychology of people: “Political strategists would like to use re

The biologists who created the world's first hamburger made from artificially grown meat reported on improving its taste and appearance, and also promised to reduce the cost of production of this dish, which now costs 300 thousand US dollars, at a conference

Porto Flavia - sea harbor in Iglesias, famous for its beautiful shingle beach, spruce forest and picturesque cliff views, including the imposing 133-meter limestone rock in the Pan di Zuccher

A ship-vehicle equipped with three or four pairs of large empty "wheels" that not only keep the craft afloat, but also work to move it … Robert Freire was the first to try to put this into practice in 1880. A fairly primitive model was built, equipped with triangular wheels and oars as a propeller. O

Soviet scientist Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) developed several types of both serial and promising thermonuclear weapons

Wind and solar farms are known to have localized effects on heat, humidity, and other factors that can be beneficial - - or harmful - for the regions in which they are located

Canadian engineers have created an unusual laser soldering iron that allows you to glue together parts of recently damaged nerve cells, which potentially opens the way to the creation of devices for repairing a torn and partially damaged spinal cord

Once on a desert island, modern Robinson could indulge in the pleasure of using a player, smartphone or pocket flashlight, provided that he could extract electricity from coconuts and bananas

Despite bold predictions from several tech companies about the future of neural interfaces, the science of brain expansion is still in its infancy. What do scientists think about all this hype that comes from Silicon Valley?

Three years ago, the American Katie Stubbfield shot herself in the head with a gun. Katie was a very attractive girl. She was in her senior year when a series of troubles began in her life

The world we live in could have been different … Everything that surrounds us today was once a brilliant invention. For example, the same ordinary light bulb

Recently, an increasing number of scientists have expressed their opinion on artificial intelligence, and robotics has gone so far in creating humanoid robots that some robots externally (but not internally) are not much different from

Research engineers at Cornell University are opening up new opportunities for scientific and technological progress in the field of robotics. In their project, the researchers followed the path of creating a new material with the characteristic features of a living organism

Mindfulness meditation can be a substitute for pain relievers, while not using neuropeptides, - natural regulator of pain sensitivity of the human body

Dossier: Sergei Viktorovich Siparov. Doctor Phys.-Math. Sci., Professor of the Department of Physics at the University of Civil Aviation (St. Petersburg), developed the so-called anisotropic geometrodynamics, generalizing general relativity)

It's amazing how quickly everything is changing in the field of Russian military electronics, electronic warfare and similar means in the Russian army. Some time ago, it was only said that in Russia they use only the groundwork accumulated in the Soviet Union

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What is this strange and terrible plane that everyone is so afraid of?

Chinese scientists have developed a new way of delivering DNA to animal and human cells for genetic modification. To do this, they use nanoparticles, called artificial viruses by the authors of the study

Many years of research have passed since Benjamin Franklin conducted his kite experiments in 1752, but we still raise many myths about this amazing form of energy

Spanish biologists have discovered a gene chain linking the growth genes and the "bioclock" of plants, and changed its work in the DNA of the cabbage relative in such a way that it began to grow throughout the day and night, according to an article published in the journal Current Bio

The Second World War was not only the largest military conflict in the history of mankind. It also became the largest testing ground for the creation and introduction of new types of weapons. Much of what is used in modern armies was tested and put into service in those troubled years

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading the draft law "On ensuring the stable operation of the Russian segment of the Internet in the event of disconnection from the global infrastructure of the World Wide Web"

There are two versions of the origin of this unusual device. The first one says that the mechanism was seized from the Japanese military in Manchuria by Soviet troops in 1945

There are factories for the production of robots in many countries. The intention to launch a project to create combat mechanisms in 2017 was announced even by representatives of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research

"Nerve cells don't regenerate." This saying is very popular among the people, but it cannot be considered 100% correct. It has long been proven that if the nucleus of a nerve cell is not damaged, its processes (axons) can be restored

Russian neuroscientists from Novosibirsk State University and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have identified a gene inherent in cruel and cold-blooded killers

China continues to amaze the world with its dreams of artificial celestial bodies

The development of robotics and automation is undoubtedly necessary for the transition of humanity to a new technological level. But, like in any other high-tech area, there are risks here

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a device capable of generating electricity from the atmosphere. This is reported on the website of the institute

The information about what happened to this person and the mechanism he created is so bizarre and incredible that it sounds like a fairy tale. But she has a lot of listeners: several books have been written about a person, a fairly popular and visited site has been created, and ufologists around the world consider the created device (no matter how fabulous it may sound) one of the proofs of the existence of alien civilizations

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the United States of America have built an atomic clock with record precision. The device, physicists hope, will reveal some of the deepest secrets of the universe

Scottish reenactors have recreated the appearance of a woman sentenced to be burned at the stake in the early 18th century on charges of witchcraft

No other country claims to invent a snowmobile, leaving priority to Russia. They appeared with us almost simultaneously with the planes and, among other things, became stands for fine-tuning and adjusting aircraft engines