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Proposed another explanation for why we haven't found intelligent life in space
Where are all the aliens? The difficulty in finding them may lie in ourselves, says a group of psychologists from the University of Cádiz (Spain). In the article scientists published in the journal Acta Astronautica, says that we ...
In Japan he found "almost infinite" reserves of rare earth elements
Japanese scientists have mapped huge reserves of rare earth elements in the deep mud. According to them, enough to feed the international demand for the "almost infinite" basis. The deposition found in the Japanese exclusive econo...
Study: prefer night life at risk to die early
an international group of scientists from Britain and the United States completed a large-scale study of chronotypes man, which lasted 6.5 years, and came to the conclusion that people-"owls" likely to die earlier meted out to the...
NASA for the first time check, such as human spermatozoa behave in space
the crew of the International space station will soon begin not only quite interesting but also very important from the perspective of space colonization experiment. Truck Dragon private aerospace company, SpaceX has delivered to ...
Fast food not to blame! Found the bacteria that cause obesity
Obesity has become truly a scourge of the XXI century, and it is not surprising that this problem began to be studied particularly closely. Scientific papers on the subject of excess weight regulations on its control and origin a ...
Scientists have figured out why "junk" DNA
researchers from the Institute of life Sciences at the University of Michigan and the Medical Institute of Howard Hughes was identified as satellite DNA, which was considered «junk DNA» plays a critical role in the Assem...
What the dinosaurs go extinct? A new theory
Some experts have long believe that the reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was the fall of a massive asteroid. However, the new analysis Professor of psychology at the University of Albany suggests tha...
A deficiency of phosphorus in the Universe reduces the chances for extraterrestrial life
crab nebula Exploring space in search of signs of life astronomers, as a rule, pay attention to the presence and concentration of such chemical elements as carbon and oxygen. However, another element that has a very important mean...
Google employees spoke against the company assistance the Pentagon
last month it became known that Google has offered their resources to the Ministry of defense for the Maven project, a research initiative to develop computer vision algorithms that can analyze the videos. In response, more than 3...
Astronomers have found several thousand black holes in the center of the milky Way
the Astronomers at Columbia University in new York found a whole galaxy of several thousand ordinary black holes around the supermassive black hole Sagittarius a*, located in the center of our galaxy. Scientists say that observati...
Astronomers have found several thousand black holes in the center of the milky Way
the Astronomers at Columbia University in new York found a whole galaxy of several thousand ordinary black holes around the supermassive black hole Sagittarius a*, located in the center of our galaxy. Scientists say that observati...
To deprive of Mars's magnetic field could hydrogen
the Lost Mars ' magnetic field could "drown" in the core of the planet. Excess hydrogen resulting from the splitting of water molecules and accumulated in the Martian mantle could stop convection (heat exchange) off so the magneto...
Another star system was sterilized from any possible life
From the report Eike Gunther from the German Observatory, Karl Schwarzschild submitted on scientific conference held in the framework of the European week of astronomy and space science, it became known that the powerful x-ray rad...
Incredible luck allowed us to get a photo while the most distant stars
Due to the effect of gravitational lensing space telescope "Hubble" was able to get pictures of the stars, distant from us 9 billion light years, which at the moment is a record of observations of a single object located far from ...
In a secret laboratory Google want to force the AI to grow food
Alphabet X (), secret lab parent company Google, — the place behind a closed door, in which were born and continue to be born with the most incredible ideas — Google Glass, Project Loon and more. Astro teller, head X, shared...
Scientists want to find out whether we are quantum computers
There is a hypothesis, or rather a set of hypotheses, according to which our brain represents not that other, as biochemical quantum computer. At the core of these ideas lies the assumption that consciousness is inexplicable on th...
"Roscosmos" experienced parachute for landing on Mars
«Roskosmos» reports that in preparation of the joint Russian-European mission "Eczemas-2020", the developers conducted a low-altitude testing of the parachute system, which is planned to carry out a soft landing of the R...
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy in which there are almost no dark matter
About 65 million light years away is galaxy NGC 1052-DF2. She has one very interesting feature, really puzzled by scientists. The fact that this galaxy is almost no dark matter. About his discovery, the researchers shared in the j...
Metal foam was stronger military reservation
an Army armor serves as a faith and truth, saving the lives of soldiers for years. But military experts always strive to improve their technology. For example, recently, scientists from the University of North Carolina, together w...
Promising a vaccine against cancer are beginning to experience the people
In February this year, the journal Science Translational Medicine published a very promising material: the experimental cancer vaccine showed high efficacy in trials on laboratory mice. Even more joyous news to many will certainly...