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In August 2008, the U.S. defense Department has proposed dozens of scientific groups to address issues of perspectives of studying a brand new aerospace technologies, including new methods of movement, takeoff and stealth. Among the most interesting works was listed as a 34-page report prepared by two scholars under the title “Warp drive, dark energy…

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 prejudices, preconceptions, bias and imperfection of our society. The company wants to create a tool that will find…

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 brain costs us dearly — it burns 20% of the body’s…

Many people with great skepticism belong to different circles and sections that develop the talents of the child, but in vain! After all, many great inventions have grown out of ideas of very young people. Recently, the 9th grader Dmitry Kalimullin, which is in the circle of physics, Kazan Physical University (KFU), created the “ultrasound…

Modern technology such as electric vehicles and Autonomous flying taxi will definitely change the world. But nothing will affect our future as a technology that connects the human brain with a computer. It is known that on this task, I Elon Musk and mark Zuckerberg, but they are still very far from the realization of…

Any army in the world, no matter how professional she may be, has one significant drawback: the soldiers have the ability to grow old, to lose the skills and even die, which, by itself, reduces the efficiency. Nearly all these deficiencies are deprived of the robots (well, except that total destruction), so the question of…

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, and found that a significant part of these substances enters the body through the skin, not through…

Pluto 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 world could appear as a result of collision of many comets. Scientists from the southwest research Institute in…

Program self-driving cars Uber bad showing this week. But their initiative on creation of a flying articles, ahem, off the ground. The company announced today in a press release that they will open a research station Uber Elevate in Paris. In the next five years, scientists will spend 23,4 million dollars on the development and…

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 electronics, ultra low power, which can pass bacterial response to a wireless signal that can be read with a smartphone. “Designed by combining…