SpaceX can send to Mars two spacecraft

With antibiotics was able to block the ability of cancer cells to obtain energy

according to the news Agency TASS, a group of researchers from Russia, Spain and the Czech Republic with antibiotics were able to block the mitochondria of cancer cells, as well as starting the process of inhibition of autophagy a...

Gravitational waves: the key to unlocking new dimensions?

If we want to find extra dimensions in our Universe, that is, the existence of what we are trying to explain the so-called string Theory, we should turn our attention to gravitational waves. Because they may be the key to their di...

Chinese scientists ran a simulation of life on the moon

the News Agency «Xinhua» reports that Chinese scientists started the experiment, in which volunteers will live in conditions as close to the moon. The first four volunteers, two men and two women, have now begun to live ...

If permafrost will continue to decline, can "awaken" the ancient virus

Scholars, more than a dozen years working in the Arctic circle, they say that the melting of eternal ice can bring far more problems than previously thought. Under the impenetrable layer of Arctic ice can escape dozens of ancient ...

Found a way of turning natural gas in graphene

according to the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, American scientists have managed to develop a method of producing graphene out of ordinary acetylene. The new method is not only much simpler existence, but also significantly redu...

Created the first "chemical memory" in volume 1 bit

Sometimes the search for new ways of information storage makes scientists to discover hitherto unknown properties of familiar things. For example, we all know that «classic» storage unit of information is bit. In quantum...

NASA selects ideas for new space missions

Maybe most of the attention NASA now focused on Mars, however, space Agency has not forgotten about the rest of the Solar system. NASA is beginning a critical analysis and review of the 12 proposals it has received for the further...

Experimental spaceship, the U.S. air force landed after two years in orbit

the Official account of the U.S. air force reported that reusable orbital spacecraft X-37B OTV-4 successfully landed on the runway at Kennedy Space center. The U.S. air force said that X-37B OTV-4 was in space more than seven hund...

Psychologists: the Use of foul language makes you stronger

Professor of psychology Richard Stevens — one of those famous «British scientists», pleasing to humanity is an important and necessary discovery. He was awarded the IG Nobel prize for research on a Mat a few years ...

Stanford has developed a biodegradable and flexible electronic circuits

Soluble electronics can be useful in many different situations. It can help to create a subcutaneous medical implants, which after a course of treatment just disappear without any intervention. Trackers for studies of wildlife wou...

Oxford has created an artificial retina made of soft biomaterial

currently Existing implants is not as good as would like. Use the same for their production of solid materials are dangerous, because their properties are not the best way can affect the health of the patient. Therefore, researche...

A pill that replaces the gym, is closer to reality

the majority of people are very lazy which is easier to wrinkle her nose, looking at your kilos in the mirror than still decide to go to the gym and try to get in shape. Pharmaceutical corporations are well aware, it is not the fi...

The first manifestation of Parkinson's disease may be registered in the intestine!

the Fight against neurodegenerative diseases more effectively than before starting therapy of these diseases. The problem is that the identification of these diseases usually occurs at the stage of first symptoms of lesions of the...

Archaeologists were able to detect DNA of our ancestors in sedimentary rocks

During the excavations it is often possible to find pieces of dishes and other kitchen utensils, weapons and items of tableware, but the remains are not so simple. To find the whole skeleton or at least a sufficient number of frag...

Found a method of producing hydrogen fuel with a quantum efficiency above 100%

investigate the possibilities of reducing the dependence of human civilization from fossil fuels are in progress in several promising directions. Scientists in particular have focused their efforts on finding a more effective meth...

The holding company shvabe is developing a new generation of fiber

As stated by the press service of the state Corporation «rostec» holding «Schwabe» together with the specialists of Volga state University of telecommunications and Informatics (PHUTI) in the framework of enhan...

NASA has developed the concept of suspended lunar greenhouse

for a long time to live and work on the moon or Mars, you need to eat well. A healthy diet is unthinkable without fruit, vegetables and herbs, so the problem with growing food is to scientists almost as urgent as the establishment...

DARPA looking for way to speed up the process of learning

If the brain is a common set of biological "wires" and "circuits", why not just upgrade its components to make us better and smarter? At least this is the theory behind a new project, the secret research Department of the advanced...

For brain development, immunity and memory respond to the same genes

Previously it was thought that in the brain and is its own immune cells, are separated from the rest of the body the blood-brain barrier. Thus cells of the brain and immune system develop under the influence of factors unrelated t...

NASA and ESA will hold a joint landing on a moon of Jupiter

Recent discoveries in space at the same time simplified the search for life beyond Earth, and at the same time its complicated. The more we find exoplanets and their satellites, have the potential to support extraterrestrial life,...