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HoloLens can now hold the blind through a complex building
the HoloLens, "computer face" from Microsoft, is designed for mixing digital images with the real world. However, scientists have discovered that the headset is also very good to cope with the unusual: helping blind people make th...
10 scientific explanations for paranormal phenomena – from demons to ghosts
We live in a rational world. In a world where there are no ghosts, angels and demons, and creaking floorboards at night result from poorly laid flooring, and not just another visit recently deceased grandmother. But if the ghosts ...
Vitamin and mineral supplements showed its uselessness
According to the findings of a group of canadian scientists from the University of Toronto and the hospital St-Michel, published in the journal of the American College of Cardiology, the daily use of vitamin and mineral supplement...
NASA will learn to search for life on the bottom of the ocean
Near the coast of the Big island of Hawaii at a depth of 1000 meters beneath the ocean surface bubble warm volcanic waters. It's a deep place can tell a lot about how and where to look for extraterrestrial life. Therefore, NASA an...
The first colonists of Mars will have to give up sex and offspring
Plans for the colonization of Mars will require the first colonists substantial sacrifices – the complete rejection of procreation and any sexual relations. Because of this, oddly enough, will depend on the survival of the entire ...
We are not ready for the impending genetic revolution
When 15 years ago, scientists mapped the genetic information of humans (the genome), they promised to change the world. Optimists expect the era in which disappear all genetic diseases. Pessimists feared the spread of genetic disc...
How to play "Clover" affects the efficiency of labor
For many mobile quiz «Clover» needs no introduction. The game is very popular and each round collects hundreds of thousands of players. Every day these people are going to answer 12 questions in the hope of receiving a c...
Astrobiologists have selected the most interesting place to search for life on Mars
an international team of scientists, conducted a comprehensive analysis of the surface of Mars, he found the place of greatest interest with astrometeorological point of view in the framework of future missions to the Red planet. ...
Standard model: the amazing theory of almost everything
the Standard model. What a stupid name for the most accurate scientific theory known to humanity. More than a quarter of the Nobel prizes in physics in the last century was awarded to works that either directly or indirectly were ...
K-the computer predicted the existence of exotic particles "DJ omega"
Based on complex simulations of quantum chromodynamics, is made using the K computer, one of the most powerful in the world, HAL QCD Collaboration, scientists predicted the existence of a new type of "dibaryon" particles, containi...
Han Solo's Blaster exists. And it is much more powerful than a lightsaber!
People who think physics is boring, grandiose wrong. She is able to explain everything, from the eerie interactions on a tiny scale of atoms and particles to the behavior of whole universes. And if that's not enough physics could ...
Live "mini-brains" of the Neanderthals will tell you that makes our brain special
He found DNA from Egyptian mummies. He opened Denisovskoe people, an extinct species of ancient man, sekvenirovanie DNA from the tiny bone fragment. He led a large study on the recovery of the genome of Neanderthal man and found t...
Microsoft will capture a biased AI
Microsoft — that's the name of another company that tries to curb algorithmic bias. For anybody not a secret that in recent time, artificial intelligence is increasingly coming "to go" and starts the bullshit, reflecting your own ...
"Grandma, why do you need such a big brain?" Really, why?
in most animals the size of the brain proportional to the body size — species with larger bodies have larger brains. But the human brain is six times more than it should be, based on the size of our bodies. It's weird, because the...
Barbeque frying emit deadly carcinogens
Chinese scientists report that the smoke from cooking meat on an open fire is very detrimental to the human body. The researchers evaluated the risk of volatile carcinogenic compounds that occur during frying of meat on the coals,...
"Bacteria-on-a-chip" will help to diagnose the disease from the inside
Scientists at mit have built a intake sensor, equipped with a genetically modified bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stomach or other gastrointestinal problems. "Bacteria-on-chip" includes sensors of living cells and elec...
Pluto may be a giant dump of comets
Pluto is no longer a planet, but that doesn't make it less interesting object for research. Having studied the chemical composition of Pluto, a group of researchers from the United States came to the conclusion that dwarf the worl...
Found the harmful flavor electronic cigarettes
still, there are disputes about Smoking electronic cigarettes. It is especially difficult to say something when you have to compare it with the harm from Smoking tobacco. However, a new study presented at the annual conference of ...
The observation of the pulsar can bring scientists to unravel the mysteries of the FRB signals
observations of a pulsar in the constellation of the Arrow using the 305-meter radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory showed that the substance ejected stream of charged particles from the surface of the companion acts as a natura...
Scientists are searching for particles, loss of Large hadron Collider
the Large hadron Collider (LHC) — the most complex device ever created by people, and it allows us to explore previously unknown areas of physics. However, this puzzle is still missing several elements. Scientists hope that a rela...