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  • Artificial intelligence: no utopia, no Apocalypse… but what?

    Virtually anyone who is even slightly immersed in the subject of artificial intelligence, comes to the conclusion that either he will lead us to a fiery Apocalypse or a magical utopia. Options between virtually no. Of course, this is partly dictated by the fact that more attention is attracted to slogans like “the End is…

  • Stephen Hawking did not find the answer to his most interesting scientific mystery

    A few days ago, March 14, the world left is one of the most eminent physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking. Despite his severe illness, Hawking has managed to write a lot of scientific books, many of which became real bestsellers, and all his life maintained the optimism was an active popularizer of science and…

  • What if dark matter is not particles?

    Everything we have ever observed in the Universe, from matter to radiation, can be decomposed into the smallest components. Everything in this world is composed of atoms, which consist of nucleons and electrons, nucleons are divided into quarks and gluons. Light also consists of particles: photons. Even gravitational waves, in theory, consist of gravitons: particles,…

  • All disk galaxies in the Universe are United by one detail

    Astrophysics International centre for radio astronomy research (ICRAR) and the University of Western Australia came up with some interesting findings in recent studies: regardless of the size and weight, all disk galaxies in the Universe are United by one common part – they all make one complete revolution around its axis in about 1 billion…

  • Genetic engineering will bring sight to the blind people

    Today it is possible to correct almost any vision from nearsightedness and farsightedness to amblyopia. But what if the vision was gone completely? Russian scientists claim that the case is not hopeless and help to the person can come to genetic engineering. The technology, developed by scientists from Moscow state University, Institute of Bioorganic chemistry…

  • How to change the life, if the energy will be free?

    The development of technology leads to the fact that the value of many things tends to zero. What we once paid so much, now is cheap or even get for free is to buy a computer, to call on the other end of the world, take a photo, watch a movie, listen to music or…

  • Walmart will create robotic bees

    We have repeatedly mentioned the wonderful British (and now American) TV series “Black mirror”, as well as the fact that many of the ideas contained in it, frighteningly often find expression in reality. Not so long ago we wrote about the creation of artificial flowers, and now it became known that a large network of…

  • Scientists caught three FRB signal. One was a record power

    Astronomers Australian Observatory, Parkes caught three mysterious fast pulse, the nature of which remains unclear. When one of the received signals was a record capacity ratio signal/noise. The signals were received by 1 March, 9 March (the most powerful) and March 11. The radio was marked 180301 FRB FRB FRB and 180309 180311, in accordance…

  • Platypus will help scientists to create new antibiotics

    The platypus himself, unwittingly, became a direct participant in the breakthrough discovery that made scientists from the Australian State Association of scientific and applied research. It turned out that the milk of this animal contains unusual in its structure protein MLP, unlike the known types of stacking of the protein chain, which has a powerful…

  • Presented the first concrete details on the construction of a lunar orbital station

    Orbital lunar station, Deep Space Gateway (DSG) is designed not only for carrying out scientific work on the orbit of the satellite, but also for making expeditions on its surface, according Space.com with reference to the representatives of NASA. But it does not become a sort of ISS 2.0, despite the fact that the project…