The U.S. military has created a stretchy material for armor, which can be patched with iron

Want to know why after rain smell so nice?

Many people like the smell after rain. It gives not only a sense of freshness, but also — as if to say peace in the world. And did you know that the smell can kill you? All right, the rain as air rises (in most cases harmles...

Artificial intelligence and genetics of living beings are trained very similar

Networks of genes in animals are somewhat similar to networks of neurons in our brains — they, too, can "learn" on the go. In 1996, a young graduate student named Richard Watson decided to read the article about evolution. She was...

NASA approved the plans for the coming years and got a budget increase

Yesterday, the U.S. government approved the bill providing the space Agency NASA a budget of $ 19,508 billion $ 208 million dollars more than the budget for the year 2016. In addition, the government stressed those projects that t...

China is considering launching space vehicles with aircraft

China news Agency China Daily that China is studying the feasibility of air launch for small spacecraft. Using aircraft is planned to launch rockets, which, in turn, will orbit Earth satellites. the idea is not new — in th...

In China are developing a reusable spacecraft for missions to the moon

the Chief designer of the Bureau of manned spacecraft Zhang Bainan said «Cazzi daily» that his team currently is developing a four-seater vehicle capable of delivering a crew to the moon. The engineer stressed that it is...

Scientists have a new explanation for how on Earth could develop life

the History of evolution has repeatedly witnessed the eternal debate about what was first – the egg or the chicken — however one of the most interesting mysteries is: was there life before the advent of nucleic acids? In the...

Substituted graphene — semiconductor with a thickness of one atom

Semiconductors with a thickness of just one atom — no longer science fiction but reality, although not embodied in certain devices. A physicist from the Bayreuth University (Germany) Dr. Axel Enders (Enders, Axel) in collabo...

China will begin to prepare for space flight engineers and scientists

the Selection of new astronauts in China is already planning to start this year — this publication reports the «people's daily». In the cosmonaut training center of China the newspaper explained that in a few years...

The main module of the Chinese space station will launch next year

News Agency with reference to representatives of the company CASC reports that the Assembly of the main unit «Heavenly Palace» have been completed. Now it is tested and ready to launch, which is scheduled for 2018. Take ...

The Japanese Venus reconnaissance Orbiter "akatsuki" serious problems

Following the news about the unexpected leak of energy, the Japanese space Agency had to shut down two of the five cameras onboard the Venus orbital spacecraft "akatsuki". To probe this can be very bad news, as the level of space ...

The mystery of the distant nebula gives astronomers peace

Astronomers are faced with quite an interesting case. In one of the far corners of the Universe discovered a huge glowing bubble of gas, and scientists can't explain what causes it to glow. Discovered nebula located in the center ...

Nanoparticles of urea and citric acid will help in the fight against dangerous diseases

according to the publication, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, the team of scientists from Russia and Ukraine managed to create a harmless nanoparticles on the basis of urea and citric acid, which when introduced into the huma...

Scientists have proven the ability to create computers based on DNA

Researchers led by Professor Ross king had developed a computing device on the basis of deoxyribonucleic acid. If taken as a programming language of life, why not create on its basis a computer that can perform calculations? If DN...

NASA has begun testing a miniature prototype of a supersonic aircraft

a Prototype quiet supersonic aircraft developed by NASA engineers in conjunction with specialists from Lockheed Martin. To create a full version so far away, but QueSST, miniature test sample, the size of which is about 1/10 of th...

People can learn echolocation, like dolphins. And it's surprisingly simple

Scientists have successfully trained a small group of people navigating by echolocation, that is, the method by which they communicate with each other some species, such as dolphins and bats. Although the possibility of using this...

Physicists say that even in a perfect vacuum can be friction

One of the fundamental postulates of modern physics States that in the environment a perfect vacuum is space that does not contain any matter can not exist such a process, as friction, because completely empty space cannot act thi...

Nuclear fuel from the ocean can provide energy for thousands of years

Using the new collection method, scientists from Stanford University were able to identify three times more uranium from the ocean for 11-hour period than previously possible. This method can be an environmentally friendly alterna...

SpaceX's something announced at midnight tonight

Elon Musk wrote in his «on Twitter» that today at midnight Moscow time company Space X plans to make the announcement. No details and he did not say anything, as usual, intrigued the audience. SpaceX announcement tomo...

The UK government is planning the construction of the spaceport

Members of the UK Parliament are considering the construction of the first spaceport in the country. In early February there began to create a Fund, the purpose of which — support for private space companies, and now the aut...

Refutes whether the Large hadron Collider, the existence of ghosts? Yet

At a depth of 100 metres under Geneva, on the border of Switzerland and France is the 26-kilometer Large hadron Collider. This giant is a scientist trying to understand nature's most basic particles of our Universe and to find the...