Wonders of Science 2024, November

Scientists from Harvard are going to conduct the first experiment in the field of solar geoengineering in 2019. Let me tell you right away: it's not about climate weapons, some secret projects and secret tests. It's about science

It is safe to say that the light bulb is one of the most important inventions in history. Most of us take these little glass balls for granted until they burn out. Then we just get annoyed

Let's remember, not so distant past - late 19th century Clumsy cars ran through the streets of the capitals. Horses and even pedestrians overtook them. The first controlled balloons took off

And today let me introduce you to Morton Heilig, famous for the fact that he is called the “father” of virtuality. And all because of the incredible Sensorama apparatus patented by him in 1962. The name comes from a combination of "sense" and "panorama" - panoramic sensitivity. And

Brain - it's not just a set of electrical signals

The command of the People's Liberation Army of China has announced a competition to develop a technology for obtaining magnetized plasma in artillery guns using the traditional method of firing shells

Almost all of its history, humanity has been looking for the secret of eternal youth, the first mentions of something like this appear already in Herodotus, who wrote about the source of eternal youth somewhere in Ethiopia

Decoding the human genome opens up real new horizons for science. This is a great opportunity to learn everything about the human body and by interfering with the human genome during embryonic development - improve the human race itself

Do you love complexity the way a watchmaker loves complexity? The more complex the watch mechanism, the more accurately and sophisticated they measure the time, the more skillfully the master who created them is considered and the more expensive and valuable they will be for the buyer

Which watch do you prefer? Vintage cuckoo or modern electronic? Do you wear a mechanical watch on your wrist or do you just use the watch built into your phone? Or are you a happy owner of an "eternal" watch?At all times, inventors have strived to create something that works on its own, endlessly and without human intervention

More than one novel has been written about the search for immortality or at least the extension of life, more than one film has been shot and a lot of scientific work has been carried out

From year to year, our reality more and more resembles the one that we recently saw in science fiction films. Here are 14 discoveries of the past year that can be safely called sensational. 1) Eternal storehouse Girls, do not rejoice - not for clothes

During World War II, the Nazis tried to create a new destructive weapon against which the USSR and the Allies could not oppose anything. One of these developments - huge guns "Gustav" and "Dora"

The US is beginning to consider biological procedures that, if successful, would allow the creation of genetically modified humans, Marcy Darnovsky, executive director of Center for Genetics an

Is a phenomenon called quantum entanglement really necessary to describe the physical world, or is some post-quantum theory possible without entanglement? In a new study that phys writes about

Rob Rhinehart feeds on diluted Soylent powder, which he invented himself. The startup is valued at $ 100 million. Rob Rhinehart has a great appetite for someone who wants to replace all variety of food with just one liquid

Researchers at Cardiff University have developed a way to find and destroy abnormal T cells that contribute to the highly aggressive form of blood cancer - T cell lymphoma

Safety. Rapidity. Cheapness. Only three words, but they accurately describe the requirements for the projects of inventors who tried to improve the railway mode of transport. Some may be outraged that developers are being pushed into the box

The resources of the human brain are enough to be quite successful with three hands

Over the past few years, robots have truly become part of our reality: they attend talk shows, clean apartments, serve for military purposes, and heal people. Let's take a look at the most impressive projects out there today. 1

The first documented experiments with "electricity" were experiments on the electrification of amber by the friction of Thales from Miletus in the 600s BC. And then mankind seemed to have lost interest in the study of this phenomenon, and until the seventeenth century, nowhere is such a "disgrace" mentioned in writing

The history of the development of the Bora and Samum missile carriers must begin from afar -; since the 60s of the last century, when both the USA and the USSR began building and upgrading their VM Fleets. Each state had its own vision of the development of naval forces

The US Army has the ability to train soldiers in specific, challenging environments, selectable at the push of a button. This is made possible by virtual reality technology

As part of a scientific initiative announced by Barack Obama aimed at studying the work of the brain, a project to study neural circuits in patients with mental disorders starts in the United States

For the first time, Russian scientists have created an anti-relapse treatment, a molecule that blocks the pleasure of taking heroin, morphine and desomorphine. This is reported by Izvestia

Scientists from the United States have invented a unique implant designed to treat people with drug addiction. Already in June of this year, specialists intend to introduce their development into programs for the treatment of drug addicts

A mixture of two drugs cured rats of cocaine addiction. Drug use in most cases leads to the formation of mental and in some cases physical addiction

A Swedish scientist explained why people feel pain in amputated limbs. This was made possible by a previous development by the same author - the way to treat such pain using augmented reality system

But the military is usually not deceived and do what they promised. But will they do it? A prototype of a new army exoskeleton called "Defender of the Future" was presented at the Army-2017 forum

Researchers at the University of London have developed a drug that forces the human immune system to fight off severe pancreatic cancer, which is fatal in almost 100 percent of cases

Scientists have made a sensational breakthrough in the field of medicine. For the first time in laboratory conditions, specialists managed to revive the paw of a dead rat

How so! How much I have seen everything on the Internet, but when I saw this model I thought that someone has a fantasy! It was necessary to make such a miracle boat from a fantasy film

Actually, we have already discussed the tragic story of the largest seaplane in the world, based on which the famous film was shot. But that was all a little later

545 years ago, the Polish astronomer, mathematician, mechanic, author of the heliocentric system of the world, which marked the beginning of the first scientific revolution, was born Nicolaus Copernicus

We are on the verge of an extraordinary breakthrough in synthetic biology. CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing technology discovered in 2014, is at the forefront of this breakthrough

Modern official physical science (abbreviated as - AlFizika) racks its brains over the phenomenon of mass and, it seems, finally broke it (its head)

Since 2016, artist and woodworker Larry Marley has been building and designing gravity machines. The design becomes more ambitious and thoughtful with each version

Until now, only Chinese researchers have reported manipulations with the genetic material of embryos. It is now known that such experiments were carried out in Portland - supposedly with fewer side effects

In Italy, a real scandal erupted around scientific publications telling about the dangers of genetically modified foods. Some experts believe that the data provided by the authors of the articles is falsification

Physicists from Switzerland claim that quantum physics, in principle, cannot consistently explain the behavior of objects in the macrocosm