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Proxima b: the planet of lost dreams?
we Have some bad news for those who have already planned your trip to the nearest exoplanet to the Earth. According to a new study by the space Agency NASA, planets in the habitable zones of stars-class "red dwarf" — includi...
Under the glaciers of Alaska discovered ancient pyramid
Global warming is undoubtedly a considerable danger to our planet. But there is this phenomenon another, more positive side. Due to the melting of glaciers, researchers had the unique opportunity to see under the ice, ancient pyra...
Astronomers from the Moscow state University has compiled a directory of 800 thousand galaxies
There are many directories, which contain information about various heavenly bodies, galaxies and stars. They regularly use, but they are not voluminous, informative and accurate, so astronomers often not enough information there,...
Volgabus company will allocate 200 million rubles for the development and testing of unmanned buses
Not long ago, we about electric modular platform , the concept of which was presented by the Russian company . The versatility of the platform is that on its basis it is possible to quickly make a small but functional vehicles or ...
The Stanford students made beer 5000 year old Chinese recipe
We know that our ancestors learned to make alcohol for many thousands of years ago. But to this day almost did not survive the original recipes of the ancient intoxicating beverage, and the surviving descriptions of their characte...
In Brazil discovered dozens of ancient structures like Stonehenge
According to the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, recently in Brazil, in the area of tropical forests of the Amazon lowlands, a group composed of Brazilian, British and canadian researchers-archaeologists, ...
Created a tiny generator, producing energy from gastric juice
the Gastric juice has a rather complex composition including hydrochloric acid (its major component), bicarbonate, pepsinogen and pepsin, mucus and the enzyme Factor castle. Present in the stomach acid is able to effectively decom...
Study: sedentary lifestyles are not as harmful as was thought
many of you have Probably heard that the so-called sedentary lifestyle – that is, when a person is most of their time (usually at work) holds in a sitting position – very harmful to health. So it turns out that these are just horr...
In the artificial brain was able to grow blood vessels
Researchers at brown University located in Providence, United States created laboratory , which is then able to grow a network of blood vessels. Now they hope that with the help of this achievement will be better able to study man...
Fire, water, air, earth: the most dangerous place on Earth
Many of us, the weather was caught off guard, whether it's a sudden downpour on the way home or to work, or the scorching sun in the absence of a beach or any shelter. But it's all doable. There are on our planet where mother natu...
What do we know about prehistoric monsters lurking?
more than a hundred years of history about the lake monster called "Mokele-mbembe" of concern to researchers deep forests of Africa. What they found since then? In 1981, the message about living in the lake monster have attracted ...
American engineers managed to create a robot-bat
fear Batman because American scientists are preparing you a decent change in the form of robotic bats. The world of science quite often in the realm of wildlife, here and this time employees of the California Institute of technolo...
Boston Dynamics made a jumping robot on wheels
Experts from Boston Dynamics regularly publish video demonstration of their new developments. Their robots, despite the frightening appearance, you can do various interesting things: run, jump, walk the stairs, to pick up and carr...
One of the oldest ancestors of animals and humans was similar to the "toothed bag"
Paleontologists joined the family album of humanity another picture of our probable ancestor. Perhaps the oldest found at the moment. Examining discovered in one of the provinces of Shanghai (China) 45 ancient fossils the size of ...
Space travel will change the shape of the human brain
According to a new study of a group of scientists from the University of Michigan (USA), during space flight, the human brain changes its shape. To such conclusion the research team came after comparative analysis of the results o...
Dirty air can cause neurodegenerative diseases
the Situation with air pollution in some countries is approaching catastrophic. Of course, first comes to mind is China, a place where people sometimes do not see anything beyond a few meters in front of him because of the smog th...
15 "untranslatable" emotions that you never knew
have You ever felt a slight "mbuki-muuki" is an irresistible desire to throw off their clothes as they dance? Or, maybe, a little "kilig" is a bit of a nervous, trembling feeling when you tell someone that you like? How about "uit...
Our galaxy not only attract but also repel at a speed of 2 million km/h
Maybe we do not notice, but our planet revolves around the Sun faster than 100,000 kilometers per hour. Moreover, our entire Solar system is moving within the spiral arms of the milky Way at a speed of 850 thousand kilometers per ...
Discovered the first evidence in favor of the holographic model of the Universe
for Decades scientists consider the idea that our universe is (or once was) a gigantic and very complex hologram, in which all physical laws require only two dimensions, but everything around us operates according to three dimensi...
Created a metamaterial that is capable of becoming soft upon impact
In recent years there are more various applications of so-called metamaterials. They have a number of unique properties not available «common» materials. And recently, researchers from the University of Michigan has deve...