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10 facts about the lost Atlantis, of which not all know
we have All heard about Atlantis, the legendary island, which one day disappeared under the water. Who first found out about it? Whether there was Atlantis really like? What else do we not know about it? The story of Atlantis came...
In Switzerland printed is capable of beating heart
Heart printed research group at ETH Zurich in Switzerland — that's where the specialists with the help of 3D printing technologies and printed artificial heart made out of silicone. Other scientists have already begun prin...
Discovered new data in support of the existence of the Ninth planet
In 2016, ten years after the status of Pluto was downgraded to dwarf planet, researchers at the California Institute of technology expressed the assumption that in our Solar system, there might be another new "Ninth planet". This ...
Tardigrades can survive the fall of an asteroid and supernova explosion
Scientists often think about how will people survive some terrible disaster. Well, for example, what will happen to us if the Earth will crash a giant asteroid from outer space? Or the Sun will go out? Chances are not very many pe...
Poland will conduct an experiment to simulate life on Mars
Inside the old hangar for military bombers, located in Western Poland, in a short time, the start of the experiment to simulate life on the moon and Mars. Within two weeks of the "mission" called Poland Mars Analogue Simulation 20...
Hosted the first test of the vacuum transport system Hyperloop One
it Turns out that the tests took place may 12, but information about it has decided to publish only now, summing up all the results and studying the nuances. CEO shervin Pishevar encouraged by the results and noted that Hyperloop ...
Astronomers have found the smallest star in the known Universe
the Astronomers at the University of Cambridge announced the discovery of the smallest ever discovered the stars. Object EBLM J0555–57Ab is part of a binary system (it wraps around a larger star), located approximately 600 light y...
Can artificial intelligence predict death?
the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas passionately called for a struggle against the inevitability of death. The leading futurists of our time echo echo his calls. The only difference in sentimentality between the poet and prosaicness reali...
Scientists have "lost" a huge volcano
10 Oct 1465 people fervently waiting for the wedding of king Alfonso II of Naples. He was destined to marry a refined Hippolyte Mary Sforza, an aristocrat from Milan, in a lush ceremony. When she entered the city, the crowd quiete...
DARPA is funding six developers brain-computer interface
communication between human brain and computer, which we are so often shown in Hollywood films remains a fantastic concept. But some large companies are keen to implement a similar interface to reality. Take Elon musk with his or...
#video | Google taught artificial intelligence.
In recent years, researchers from different companies are actively developing this promising technology, like artificial intelligence. Google is one of the undisputed leaders in AI race and all the forces working to improve his ar...
Astronomers told about another interesting puzzle Pluto
Pluto was considered the farthest planet in the Solar system, was downgraded in status and transferred to the class of dwarf planets the International astronomical Union in 2006 in connection with the opening of many new Kuiper be...
In our galaxy of 100 billion stars failed. And that's bad news
Astronomers estimate that the milky Way contains at least 100 billion brown dwarfs – stellar objects that were not able to turn into a full-fledged star. Research shows how much is actually distributed, this type of stars in our g...
Is it possible to send a message, without sending anything?
We contact each other via the particles. Calls and messages are riding on the waves of light, websites and photos are uploaded on the electrons. All communications are inherently physical. Information is recorded and transmitted r...
When we are waiting for a mass extinction?
65 million years ago a massive asteroid, five to ten kilometers in diameter, struck the Earth at speeds greater than 30,000 kilometers per hour. As a result of this disastrous collision was destroyed by giant creatures, known as d...
No potatoes on Mars. In this acidic soup nothing will grow
Scientists have found that certain components present in the Martian soil capable of destroying entire bacterial culture in just a few minutes. Researchers have long wondered over whether microorganisms are able to survive on the ...
The latest weather reports with Titan, moon of Saturn
a Method of radar scanning, which is usually used to measure the density of the snow caps at the poles of the Earth, was applied for the analysis of the surface methane seas, the largest satellite of the planet Saturn, Titan. As a...
The ability to change memories is now even closer
Neuroscientists have recently discovered that the formation of different types of memory though they use the same neurons, but they occur in different processes. The discovery could lead to the development of new and more effectiv...
How justified is the hype on how to improve the brain?
Despite bold predictions from several Technocomplex about the future of neural interfaces, science extensions of the brain is still in its infancy. What do scientists think about all this hype that comes from Silicon valley? Mikha...
DeepMind learns his AI thinking humanly
last year, the artificial intelligence AlphaGo for the first time won the world champion in the game. This victory was unprecedented and unexpected, given the high complexity of the Chinese Board games. Although the victory AlphaG...