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In the United States to establish the centre transplant pig heart man
The first xenotransplantation research centre will open in the US very soon. His tasks will include the study of methods of transplanting pigs hearts of man. To do this, United Therapeutics has invested in a new organization 24 million dollars that will go to study in the future are able to solve the problem of…
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Can machines have consciousness, according to neuroscientists? It seems that Yes
As if the Director wanted to force you to believe in it, the protagonist of the film “the car” in 2015, directed by Andrew Garland, is not Caleb is a young programmer who has been assigned to assess machine consciousness. No, main character is Ava, a striking humanoid AI, naive in appearance and mysterious inside.…
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What Alzheimer’s does to the brain?
About 50 million people worldwide live with Alzheimer’s disease. And with aging populations in many countries, the numbers suffering from this disease are steadily increasing. We know that Alzheimer’s is caused by problems in the brain. The cells begin to lose function and eventually die, leading to memory loss, cognitive decline, and even major changes…
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10 things that happen to you and your body in space
Every day it becomes increasingly clear that sooner or later a new space race will lead to the fact that humanity will leave the same Earth-mother. Whether we want it or not, space travel will become an integral part of our future. More precisely, our unlikely, but our grandchildren and great grandchildren — it is…
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Eternal life may be mathematically impossible
Even in 2016, when the FDA turned on the green light for clinical trials of metmorfin — a drug that increases life expectancy by 40% in animal models, it became clear that a paradigm shift occurs in our attitude to aging and life expectancy. Aging is still an inevitable part of life — can be…
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The extinction of the dinosaurs is only a coincidence
The fall to Earth of a meteorite 65 million years ago that caused the death of the dinosaurs, is nothing short of an accident, the probability of which was extremely small. After all, if the place of falling was any other, mass extinction of living beings would not have happened. To such conclusion the Japanese…
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Poor school performance increases the risk of death in the future
“You do not learn – you will not find a normal job.” I’m sure many have heard this phrase from their parents. But what if the poor performance may affect our health? It would seem that any connection between health and bad grades is not, however scientists from Karolinska University proved that people who didn’t…
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Aliens can look like us externally and internally due to natural selection
How to look for extraterrestrial life? This question is trying to answer a variety of astrobiologists, writers and artists, ultimately bringing to our world the images of Vulcans and Klingons and other exotic forms that are not like any one earthly form. But often the vision of these artists is limited. As noted by the…
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Ford workers began testing exoskeletons
The first prototypes of the exoskeleton from Ekso Bionics has already entered the factory of the automobile company Ford. Engadget reports that their development was conducted in cooperation with the workers of the Assembly line, which helped to improve the design, identifying weaknesses and helping to improve the final version prototypes. EksoVest exoskeletons are made…
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Dubai-based startup is working on the fastest supercar in the world
While many car companies are developing ekologichnogo and inexpensive public transport, trying to reduce the cost and simplify the production of its future cars, the Dubai-based company Devel Sixteen goes the other way. The purpose of the startup is to create the most powerful and fastest car in the world. Supercar, which in the Devel…