Wonders of Science 2024, May

The rehabilitation process can be faster and the implantation safer.The Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (MIET) is developing a technology that will improve the growth of cells on the surface of implants: for dental prosthetics, bone healing, fractures

According to the World Health Organization, every adult faces tooth decay at least once in their life. Treatment is generally expensive - in most developed countries, it accounts for about five percent of all health care costs. In poor countries, the demand for these services, in principle, exceeds the capabilities of national medicine

At the current level of development of robotics and mechanics, it is, of course, difficult to make a moving robot, but a modern person no longer sees anything unusual: how many of this has already happened.However, back in 1770, a moving mechanism, which could not just move, but also write handwritten text, created a stir

If you don't feel like going to the dentist, you are not alone. Most people have concerns about visiting these specialists

In an attempt to understand the evolutionary processes of tooth change, British biologists discovered a molecular signaling pathway in the dental bone tissue of rodents and used genetic methods to grow a new generation of teeth in mice

It would be great if dental fillings had an unlimited lifespan. Unfortunately, due to the pressure of chewing and the damaging effects of microbes, they can only last 7-10 years

If made of them masks, then they will be 100 times more reliable than ordinary respirators.Due to the coronavirus pandemic, you will not find medical masks in pharmacies during the day with fire. Despite the fact that the pharmacists began to supply protective dressings, just a couple of hours after the opening - in the shop windows with a rolling ball

Sewing clothes for doctors from such material will help them in the fight against coronavirus.The Institute of Catalysis of the SB RAS announced a development that can help doctors who are on the front line in the fight for the life and health of people diagnosed with COVID-19

The latest generation neural networks are partly replacing scientists: they conduct experiments, diagnose diseases, reveal patterns, put forward and test hypotheses. They are used where data volumes exceed any human capacity

A group of American researchers led by Michael Levin, a biologist at the Allen Research Center at Tufts University, invented a device with which they were able to grow new limbs in an experimental frog.Many species of fish, amphibians, and also lower organisms have the ability to regenerate

In two-layer graphene rotated through a "magic" angle, a rare linear dependence of the electrical resistance on temperature near absolute zero was found. This feature makes double-layer graphene related to an unusual class of substances called strange metals

Scientists from the University of Colorado have created a unique invention that can help the buildings of the future to self-repair after any mechanical or natural damage. In addition, "living concrete", teeming with photosynthetic bacteria, can behave much like a living organism, according to the news portal sciencealert

Despite the fact that shape memory materials have a very good potential for use in a wide variety of applications, many of them have one feature: in order to change their shape, they require heat. This, in turn, can be a problem for their use in temperature-sensitive environments, such as the human body

"Modern sound insulators - literally thick walls ", - say researchers from the team of Boston University professor Xin Zhang

German scientists from the Max Planck Institute have created what are called micropropellors, or microbots. These tiny tadpole-like objects are 200 times smaller than a human hair

The most global and one of the most terrible problems that the Earth is facing right now is - it's an abundance of plastic waste

Recently, scientists are increasingly developing in the field of creating two-dimensional materials. And the already mentioned graphene is far from the only one on this list

What you see on the left is not a painted over spot in Photoshop or a cut out hole in the photo. This is exactly the same figurine as on the right, but covered with a special material.Several years ago I told you about the blackest material in the world, and now they start trying to use it

Some clothing manufacturers equip their jackets with health sensors and other electronics

Very often in fantastic works you can see some kind of high-tech materials that, after damage, tighten, as if they "heal themselves"

What scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois and the University of Cambridge managed to do stands out from the general row in that the process of creating a structured material was controlled at the level of individual atoms

Physicists from the University of Toledo are part of an international team of scientists who created the only material to date that emits white light

Scientists at Royal University of Technology of Melbourne (RMIT) have developed a material capable of self-cleaning

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new method for storing information in DNA. They recorded The Wizard of Oz, translated into Esperanto into a double strand of DNA with unprecedented precision.It is believed that the main difficulty in storing information in DNA is that the molecule can be easily damaged and information will be lost

Japanese scientists have identified a metal that can withstand constant pressure at ultra-high temperatures. This opens up opportunities for new developments in jet engines and gas turbines for power generation

Scientists of Tyumen State University presented to the world scientific community the development of an unparalleled biomorphic neuroprocessor based on a new component of nanoelectronics - a combined memristor-diode crossbar, the press service of Tyumen State University reports

Inspired by an essay by Barjavel, the 70-year-old documentary proposes the evolution of television in a portable, pocket-sized format, as well as a way for people to interact with objects. Today, parallels are drawn between objects, like smartphones described in a short documentary

Three scientific articles have been published in which the authors report on large-scale fallouts of chromosome genetic material and DNA rearrangements. The scientists' findings, the article says, reinforce concerns about the safety of genome editing technologies

Thomas Edison invented as many as two devices for communication with the Souls of dead people. The first appeared in 1895. A device that could catch the waves emitted by a clot of energy (soul) after the physical death of the body.In 1916, Dutch inventors J

The fact that leading countries are engaged in the development of hypersonic weapons has been known for a long time. However, it is now that conversations have left the category of futurology and become reality: in January 2017, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the completion of work on a hypersonic missile

One of the detectors of the Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, consisting of four charmed quarks. Physicists believe that this is the first representative of an undescribed class of particles.The (lower-right) two-dimensional distribution of the di-J / ψ candidates and its projections onto (lower left) M (1) μμ and (upper) M (2) μμ. Four

The international prototype (standard) of the kilogram is stored at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (located in Sèvres near Paris) and is a cylinder 39.17 mm in diameter and height made of a platinum-iridium alloy (90% platinum, 10% iridium)

The twenty-fifth frame was born in the summer of 1957 in New Jersey. His father, a certain James Wykeri, is a researcher of subconscious factors in the semantics of words. He conducted the following experiment. A second projection apparatus was installed in the theater, which showed the film Picnic, one of the thrillers of that era

Many people simply cannot get into a car and not start the navigator to see how and how long they have to go. I am a person who still found the time when it was necessary to drive a car with a map. It was only 10-15 years ago, and therefore I even have great respect for simple navigators, although I think that they make you dumb

The name of the great Serbian scientist and ingenious inventor Nikola Tesla is now in the ears of many. However, it is still not cleared of the false slander, which was surrounded by the servants of the parasites, protecting the interests of the owners

On Sunday, June 14, it became known that Russia would have weapons capable of intercepting hypersonic missiles. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the air of Vesti Nedeli: “I think that we will be able to pleasantly surprise our partners with the fact that when they have this (hypersonic) weapon, with a high degree of probability we will have a means of combating these weapons ", - said the head of state.W

The ring of the new collider will be 100 kilometers long - almost like the Moscow Ring Road.- Salik.bizWork for the rest of the 21st centuryThe European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has approved plans for the construction of the Future Circular Collider - the FCC or, in our opinion, the BPC

The Soviet scientific school was one of the most powerful on the planet, so it is not surprising that the number of discoveries that were made by scientists of the USSR. However, something does not fit into this optimistic picture: there are projects that even today's scientists regard as brilliant, but they turned out to be "wrapped up" by the party elite, and some of them are generally classified

Remember, in Gogol's "Dead Souls", talking about Captain Kopeikin, the postmaster mentions amazing mechanical prostheses made in England? So, the inventor of such prostheses was, in fact, our Kulibin at the end of the 18th century.- Salik

Technology that is changing the world …A group of scientists from the University of California at Berkeley presented their invention to the public - a device that literally produces drinking water from the air. The peculiarity of this breakthrough device is that it receives a liquid suitable for human consumption practically from dry air