science
How is SKOLKOVO? Report from the innovation center
This project was called the toy Medvedev, promising the beginning of a journey to the "kazaniu the oil needle", the Russian Silicon valley, a Potemkin village with unlimited funding. Despite political and economic instability, the...
Beneath the island of Mauritius traces of the "lost continent"
Scientists have confirmed the existence of a "lost continent" beneath the island of Mauritius in the Indian ocean, which remained after the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, which began 200 million years ago. Part of the cru...
Bioengineers have created artificial cells that have "passed the Turing test"
Scientists have created an artificial cell that turned out to be so similar to the living that it was misled by these cells, with which they were placed, and the latter began to try to communicate with them. This kind of "option" ...
Scientists have found a cheap method of production of graphene
without any exaggeration can be called the "material of the future". And then we hear about how researchers from different countries are discovering new properties of graphene, opening to mankind huge number of exciting . The mat...
Hi-tech knitting, or How to tie their exoskeleton
it Seems that creating super cool clothing will be one of the main trends in the fashion industry in the near future. Recently we reported about that, as did the even more interesting information. A group of researchers from Swede...
The cost of Russian science is proposed to reduce by 10%
the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation has prepared a draft resolution that would reduce spending on the development of scientific-technical complex of the state in the period from 2017 to 2019 on 25 billi...
Drops that "come to life": how else could it receive life?
Still driving the bus, we knew that raindrops drained and spread out on the glass from the other side. Then we grew up and learned that oil droplets in water merge together, forming larger drops until you gather everything into on...