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Musk has predicted the decline of humanity by 2050
Elon Musk never ceases to worry about the fate of humanity in the future. This time the head of SpaceX and Tesla pessimistic Outlook for the next 30 years. According to the Mask in the next decade, the world waits for the explosio...
Scientists from Harvard are creating a new generation of soft robots
Soft robots could be the future of robotics, but right now they have a number of shortcomings in their design. For example, of the possibility of such machines is limited because of the need for wire management. In other words, th...
The Norwegian capital will install wireless charging stations for taxi
the Appetite of Norway the electric cars are rising every year. For example, according to the latest data, 40 percent of all car sales in the country last year was accounted for by electric vehicles. So it is not surprising the ne...
The project of a new jet engine SABRE got the "green light"
Development of innovative hybrid hypersonic air-breathing SABRE engine (Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) from the British company Reaction Engines, who will be able to work effectively in the atmosphere and in the vacuum of...
"Smart capsule" RaniPill makes painless injections inside the intestines
Patients with diabetes of the first type by an annual average of have to do 700-1000 injections of insulin. Hormone disorder acromegaly causes people to go to doctors and receive very painful injections into the muscle once a mont...
Scientists have developed a cheap method for the production of biofuels from algae
Current methods for the production of biofuels in large volumes is economically disadvantageous. The production spent too much energy. Therefore, experts in this field have been searching for more efficient and less costly product...
IKEA has created a curtain that can clean the air in the apartment
we All know that plants can purify the air, absorbing carbon dioxide and harmful substances from the atmosphere, producing oxygen. Many people are for this reason kept at the homes of several gardens. And what about those who are ...
The end of the presentation, Samsung: "flexible" smartphone, the flagship Galaxy S10 and smart watch
20 Feb long-awaited presentation of Samsung, in which she revealed the new smartphones, headphones, watches and fitness bracelets. It can be called the brightest of the entire history of the company — the organizers did not arrang...
Artificial leaves for effective air purification
Starting in 2011, scientists from around the world tried to create artificial leaves able to clean the air and even produce fuel. All this time they created the prototypes could only work in laboratory conditions and their functio...
Ford created a "smart" bed, solves the problem of many couples
Ford is known not only as a car manufacturer, but also as the inventor of the other equipment, which sometimes looks quite bizarre. For example, earlier she created a baby cot which simulates mild noise and vibration of a moving c...
Tesla on Mars, the African glaciers and other news of high technologies
While in Africa looking for the traces of glaciers (and find!), and robots are taught to play jenga, Tesla Elon musk crisscrossing the space... by the way, what's with her? Let's see, at the same time, other news this week run. ...
Ionalit the size of a coin flies without wings, propellers and moving parts
Flying robots the size of insects are usually designed to mimic biological insects, because the biological insects are considered as masters of efficient small flight. These microapparatus flying with flapping wings (FMAV) are app...
These pills swell in stomach: why is it cool?
In recent years, medicine is developing very rapidly. Some robots have already learned to do surgery, but their tiny cousins is able to penetrate the human body and to deliver medicine to remote places. New abilities get even tabl...
Eternal motor: the energy of the heart can be used to recharge the pacemaker
the Strength of the cardiac rhythm is so high that it is able to recharge the device designed to save lives, the study said experts from Dartmouth College (USA). Developed by engineers at the College compact device is capable of c...
Forecast: self-driving cars will create traffic chaos
Autonomous transport will radically change people's lives and will bring various benefits to any city — no doubt about it. Just imagine: taxi always arrives on time and is much cheaper, the roads almost no accidents happen, and th...
Scientists have created from graphene, a self-healing anti-corrosion coating
Hard to believe that even the tiniest cracks in the metal may one day lead to the destruction of entire structures. However, the examples do not need to go – falling bridges, exploding pipelines, and many other disastrous conseque...
Scientists have developed artificial skin with "superhuman" capabilities
a Group of American and canadian engineers, chemists and biologists from Western Connecticut state University and the University of Toronto have developed a new kind of sensor that gives an artificial skin can feel pressure, vibra...
Plants inspired scientists to create a robot
In 2014, the team of inventors from the Italian research centre in Genoa has created a tree, Plantoid. It is fully printed on 3D-printer and equipped with sensors to measure temperature, humidity and recognition of chemical substa...
Scientists predict droughts and fires with the help of orbital satellites
Dry soil without plants could be the first harbinger of the impending drought, but to fully appreciate the risk of its occurrence, it is necessary to pay attention to the amount of groundwater. Fortunately, it is not necessary to ...
15 technologies from science fiction became reality
often introduces us to a fictional future worlds that seem to be nothing more than the imagination of their creators. However, only in the last 100 years mankind has made incredible technological progress and no small role in thi...