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Scientists have created “the white” material
What color can be considered to be perfectly white? A starched shirt? Medical gown? Or maybe a sheet of paper from the nearest printer? All this, of course, true, but a group of scientists from Cambridge University have managed to create a substance 20 times whiter than any known. Surprisingly, the resulting product is not…
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“Roscosmos” told about the nearest plans for the moon and the ISS
Speaking at the conference in Moscow the forum “Russia – country of opportunities”, the General Director of state Corporation “Roscosmos” Igor Komarov has declared that after more than 40-year hiatus since the completion of the Russian lunar program in the next two years will be launched the spacecraft “Luna-25”, which will study our natural satellite.…
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The “body on a chip” — a new development at MIT for testing of medicines
When pharmaceutical companies need to figure out how a new drug affects the human physiology, the list of options is not so great. Most often the drugs are tested on laboratory mice, which can hardly be called “the perfect analogue of the person”. And what to do in this case? Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute…
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After a few months, the space telescope “Kepler” will be history
During the nine years of its work space telescope “Kepler” managed to make many amazing discoveries. With the help of this device, scientists have confirmed the existence of exoplanets 2245 and found 2342 candidate in the list of these heavenly bodies. But all sometime comes to an end. Here is the “Kepler” telescope will soon…
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Other person: how a year-long mission on the ISS influenced American astronaut
In 2016, the American astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a 340-day stay aboard the International space station (ISS). Such extended space travel became a part of the program space Agency NASA to study the effects of long stay in space, as well as testing the limits of human endurance with a long stay…
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Astronomers have studied the dead neighbor of the milky Way
Astronomers of the Spanish University of La Laguna undertook a study of the background galaxy NGC 1277, which stopped the formation of new stars. Researchers report that this system has not changed much over the last 10 billion years. The details of the observations, scientists announced in a press release posted by EurekAlert. The original…
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Microsoft shot a man from a cannon to break the Guinness record
It would seem, what is the relationship between Microsoft and the man shot out of a cannon? But the fact that the company decided in such a nontrivial way to advertise the release of the first in a long time exclusive for Xbox One and Windows 10 called the Sea of Thieves. Moreover, Microsoft threatened…
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HP unveiled a new line of specialized medical computers
Specialized medical equipment is not just different machines and robots. It is also conventional computers. But for the conditions of the medical clinics conventional computer technology is not always appropriate. And recently Hewlett Packard introduced a line of specialized computer equipment, tailored to the specific needs of medical institutions. Materials computer devices created in such…
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The Swiss taught robots ANYmal rhythmically to “light” music
Swiss robotics at ETH Zurich, developed a four-legged robot ANYmal, trained his ward new tricks. The updated software of the machine allows it to dance to the music. The robot not only produces a predetermined course of action, it analyzes the tempo of the music and tries to synchronize with their movement. The robot ANYmal…
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This student was… How Einstein became the most popular scientists of the galaxy
At the end of 2017 at the auction in Jerusalem was exposed to a sentence of thirteen words, handwritten in German by albert Einstein. In the city archives of Einstein, which he bequeathed before his death in 1955 the Hebrew University. The institution he helped to establish in 1920-ies. In the archives of albert Einstein…