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Platypus will help scientists to create new antibiotics

Platypus himself, unwittingly, became a direct participant in the breakthrough discovery that made scientists from the Australian State Association of scientific and applied research. It turned out that the milk of this animal con...

Scientists caught three FRB signal. One was a record power

Astronomers Australian Observatory, Parkes caught three mysterious fast pulse, the nature of which remains unclear. When one of the received signals was a record capacity ratio signal/noise. The signals were received by 1 March, 9...

Simulation of the "fog" will help in finding aliens

analysis of the murky fog to simulate atmosphere created in the laboratory will be an important step in the search for aliens. As you must know, the space telescope James Webb will study planetary atmospheres in search of signals....

Other person: how a year-long mission on the ISS influenced American astronaut

In 2016, the American astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a 340-day stay aboard the International space station (ISS). Such extended space travel became a part of the program space Agency NASA to study the effects of lon...

The "body on a chip" — a new development at MIT for testing of medicines

When a pharmaceutical company needed to figure out how a new drug affects the human physiology, the list of options is not so great. Most often the drugs are tested on laboratory mice, which can hardly be called "the perfect analo...

Astronomers have studied the dead neighbor of the milky Way

Astronomers of the Spanish University of La Laguna undertook a study of the background galaxy NGC 1277, which stopped the formation of new stars. Researchers report that this system has not changed much over the last 10 billion ye...

We never make contact with extraterrestrial civilizations

While signals from extraterrestrial civilizations to reach Earth, it is likely that by this time all the aliens have long been extinct. To this conclusion came a group of American astronomers under the guidance of the Swiss resear...

Sleep in a room where light penetrates, can lead to depression

we All sleep in different conditions. Someone prefers to sleep with a night light, getting used to this lighting since childhood, some people prefer total darkness in the room and someone can sleep with the lights on. As it turned...

Discovered double Earth interested astronomers

Japanese astronomers analyzed data from a space telescope "Kepler" and found 15 new exoplanets. One of them, as scientists say, as two drops of water similar to our Earth. The only thing that distinguishes them is the size. Discov...

Our dreams have many uses, which vary over the life of the

Despite the fact that sleep and waking are very different in terms of both content and feel, and as profoundly difficult. For anybody not a secret that the dreams of the children differ from the dreams of adults. Children having e...

Some people hear colors and taste the sounds to taste. How do they do it?

Synesthesia is a rare neurological condition in which senses are mixed and begin to feel for others. One woman synesthet says that "the name Katerina tastes like chocolate cake". These people call pain by its name, hear colors, se...

The mineralogists found in terrestrial diamonds "alien" ice

collected and studied diamonds from the mines in South Africa, China, Zaire and Sierra Leone scientists from the University of Nevada (USA) found a microscopic inclusion of ice very rare cubic form. Such ice is called ice VII. Thi...

Chinese developers have taught the AI to speak in a human voice

Chinese Experts lab of Baidu Research, which is owned by the biggest search giant of China, has created an algorithm AI Deep Voice, is able to convert text to speech. Similar projects that existed prior to that, faced with the pro...

Physicists have found a way to see the "smile" of quantum gravity

In 1935, when quantum mechanics and General theory of relativity was very young, not very well known Soviet physicist Matvei Bronstein, aged 28 years, made the first detailed study on the harmonization of these two theories in a q...

It seems that dogs can "see" with their powerful noses

Dogs have a remarkable sense of smell, but scientists have long could not understand, whether our smaller brothers to associate the fragrance or smell with the physical object. A new study says it is likely, however, that dogs for...

Space debris will be able to give our "brothers in mind"

Our Earth is surrounded by a huge «bubble» space debris. If you look at the map, showing all man-made objects currently in orbit, it will be clear that it flies not two or three fragments of rockets or satellites. Yes, t...

The sugar has nothing to do with it: our ancient ancestors had the same problems with their teeth

tooth decay is one of the major problems related to teeth, in the modern world. Sodas, fruit juices, wine and other acidic foods often become the main accused, and then goes our wrong teeth brushing. Familiar, huh? And here the sc...

Mysterious anomaly beneath the African continent weakens the Earth's magnetic field

the magnetosphere of the Earth not just gives our planet's North and South magnetic poles. It also protects us from solar wind and cosmic radiation. However this invisible power is rapidly eroding. So much so that even scientists ...

First krishnarajendra person can return to life after 50 years

Cryonics is the technology of preservation of the body (and in some cases the brain) in a state of deep cooling, but maintaining all the vital functions. Some people suffering from incurable diseases, they use cryonics to "live" u...

Scientists have observed the final stage of death of the human brain

the Scientists were able to first conduct the study of the peculiarities accompanying the death of the human brain at the time when this event becomes irreversible. The observation of the phenomenon was conducted in several dereal...