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Researchers from the universities of Minnesota and Kansas believe that the substance is ouabain could be the basis for pharmacological male contraception. Ouabain contained in the leaves, roots and stems of one of the shrubs growing in Africa. It is commonly used by the African hunters as a poison with which they smear their arrows.…

Representatives of governmental Norwegian airport operator Avinor report that in the coming 20 years, the country plans to fully translate a small aircraft, a short internal flight, for electric traction, told the publication AFP the head of Avinor, Dag Falk-Petersen. Transition plan to implement smoothly: first, the airline will test the aircraft on biofuel and…

More and more auto manufacturers think about the rejection of traditional internal combustion engines in favor of more modern solutions. Was no exception and Peugeot-Citroen. Plans for the next ten years, said the head of the group Carlos Tavares. According to him, after seven years the manufacturer would fully abandon conventional engine and will equip…

Company Filament designs for the Internet of things in 2012. Among the startup’s investors include Intel Capital, Samsung NEXt and many other companies, thanks to which the developers were able to attract investments in the amount of $ 22 million. Filament recently introduced a new product — the microchip to the blockchain that allows any…

Perhaps it’s time to get the most expensive gadget of the past and, perhaps, this year. The first enthusiastic thrill of the purchase has settled… but who am I kidding, things have not subsided, just a little unsettled thoughts, and I’m ready to tell you about A&ultima SP1000, the same player for $ 3,500. Perhaps…

Quantum Chinese satellite was launched into orbit two years ago. Since then, he has helped to conduct a number of experiments, and last summer was even able to transmit information to the three ground stations, located at a distance of one thousand kilometers from each other. The physics again set a record, passing the data…

According to some estimates, in the order of 0.2–0.5 percent of the world’s land surface covered by roads. And this ratio is expected to increase by 60% by 2050. Amazingly a lot of space devoted to roads, but they are mostly just for transportation. What if to make them produce energy? China is building one…

We often say that robots and unmanned aerial vehicles designed to make our lives better and safer, but the “documentary” evidence of these words was not. And now, for the first time in world history, an unmanned drone patrolling the coast of Australia, saved the lives of two people. Just off the coast of New…

Artificial intelligence, created by experts of Microsoft, began to draw “on demand”, relying only on text descriptions of future work. So, his first task was the bird that he was able to draw at the request of the researchers — they asked him to portray the “bird with black wings and a short bill”, and…

Virtual reality today is quite young technology, despite the fact that the first attempts to create something similar was made decades ago. Today we can experience for yourself the numerous VR-rides, to play a great VR games and even watch a short animated VR movies. Over time, the scope of application of this technology will…