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Why some birds are ready to sacrifice their lives for the dream?
Perhaps each of us at least once in my life had such a condition in which we would be willing to give everything I have, if only to be in a warm and cozy bed after a hard day. As reported in the journal Current Biology, not only h...
Little known facts about kamikaze
we've All heard about people like kamikaze. People wanting to try their hand at this business was not, after all, his own people they were heroes, and the enemy terrified. What else was connected to the mass of such phenomena, wha...
Whether soy is so harmful as to talk about it?
Despite the fact that soy belongs to the legume family, you can cook even meat. Soy is one of the most popular products in the world. Although soy products have appeared in European countries only about 60 years ago, Asian countri...
are you Afraid of death? This terrible phobia in scientific language sounds like thanatophobia and in some measure found, perhaps, in every human being. Perhaps death is the biggest mystery to mankind, because to find out what hap...
As mosquitoes have changed the world?
throughout history, the damage to these tiny insects, have determined the fate of empires, paralyzed economic activity and predicted the outcome decisive . The mosquitoes killed almost half of humanity. In the period from 1980 to ...
#video | the world's First aircraft with an electric motor crashed
Cars and planes annually emit into the air tons of greenhouse gases that accumulate in the atmosphere of our planet and are one of the main causes of global warming. To reduce the amount of emissions trying virtually the entire wo...
In New Zealand, found the remains of a penguin the size of a man
In the article about we said that all existing animals are the smaller copies of their ancestors. It really is — millions of years ago our planet was inhabited by a truly giant sloths, sharks and other creatures. Numerous archaeol...
Elon Musk told how much it costs to build a city on Mars
We have heard news that after his colonization would be to build not just small settlements and entire cities. Of course, «right now» to do this, no one will, because you need several stages of preparatory work. However,...
In Greenland found a shark at the age of 512 years. Is it true?
Who would have thought that they are so amazing creatures that live much longer than humans? In early August, we wrote that the waters of the U.S. state South Dakota was found by the 112-year-old fish that have survived two World ...
Toxic algae can kill animals and infect humans. Soon they will be even more dangerous
Be careful — if you one day decide to swim in the freshwater lake in the heat of summer, you may suddenly feel bad. You may have irritation of the skin temperature to rise, and because warm weather in the so-called water bloom blu...
What is the large crater from a nuclear explosion
In the early 50-ies of American scientists have proposed the idea of using the energy of a nuclear explosion in the so-called peaceful purposes. It was assumed that the explosions of different power can be applied to solve a varie...
The most unusual in the world of wrist watches
there is a lot of what is called status items and accessories. Typically, in the manufacture of such products use expensive metals, inlaid with diamonds or rare gemstones, appearance develop eminent designers and so on. But there ...
How to bake bread, which is eaten by Egyptian pharaohs?
now, Could you name the most unusual food you've ever had to eat? Perhaps it is some exotic dish that you tasted while traveling in another country, or something like that soon it will be possible to try in Russia. You can travel ...
Fish began to evolve faster. What is the reason?
recently, the fishermen, and then the scientists noticed that they began to reach sexual maturity much faster than before. Simultaneously, the average size of individuals has declined significantly. At first it did not attach spec...
The Indian boy was found 526 extra teeth. What is this disease?
do you have friends working in the hospital? Sure, they know of medical practices that can surprise and even scare you. Dentists from the Indian city of Chennai, for example, there really is something to tell your friends, family,...
Greenland began to melt. And this is a problem for the whole world
«Strange» (and that's putting it mildly) behavior of the weather in recent years, increasingly forcing scientists to wonder what will happen to our planet further. But major changes related to climate that are happening ...
The most toxic city in the world located in Russia
On our planet there are a large number of places that can apply to the human body irreparable harm. For example, in the Pacific ocean is the so-called Marshall Islands, where the American military tested nuclear weapons. This area...
In Egypt found a sunken temple and the treasure ship
the History of Egypt is full of secrets and mysteries, and not all of them . Did you know that in this hot country has a flooded city called Heraklion, the study of which archaeologists have been doing for almost 20 years? As the ...
Atomic lake Chagan: the unfulfilled dream of the Soviet Union
In the 60-ies of the last century, at the height of the cold war between the USSR and the USA both countries competed not only in the space sector. As you know this race ended up being the Americans . Both countries were active in...
Can mosquito bite cause brain inflammation and death?
One of the most annoying insects in the world, undoubtedly, are the mosquitoes. At the moment scientists know of about 3600 species, and approximately 100 of them live in Russia. Not only that, their bites, they are able to turn t...