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  • Researchers have created a flexible organic battery for medical implants

    Irish scientists from the University of Queens in Belfast has developed a new flexible organic battery that promises a serious step in the development of medical implants. Currently, medical devices such as pacemakers, use solid batteries, made of metal, which makes them not very comfortable. In addition, these batteries do not have the feature of…

  • Winners of the IG Nobel prize in 2017

    Harvard University hosted the 27th annual ceremony of awarding scientists the IG Nobel prize (in the original: Ig Nobel). “Nobelevku” is awarded to scholars whose works represent questionable value for the world of science. On the other hand, if on some research simply from the heart laugh, others are quite capable to force to think…

  • The first house in Europe to print printer from Yaroslavl

    The Danish company 3D Printhuset announced that it will publish its first home in Europe with the construction of the apparatus developed by the Yaroslavl company SPETSAVIA. The decision to build a 3D printer of Russian production due to the fact that the company produces the best ratio of price and quality equipment. Counterparts, according…

  • This smartphone surpassed the iPhone 7 Plus power consumption

    OUKITEL K10000 MAX is the world’s first smartphone with a battery 10 000 mAh, but the battery in the mobile device is determined not so much capacity, how much battery life that she is willing to offer. Representatives of the laboratory OUKITEL decided to conduct a test where the device clashed with such enemies as…

  • “Patches” for the heart will print on a 3D printer

    3D printing is widely used not only in industry but in other industries. For example, in medicine. There have been several attempts of printing entire organs. But if full use of printed organs is still far away, their parts can be produced in the near future. A researcher from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) Mohammed…

  • Trump’s Morning Tweetstorm Includes Bigger Muslim Ban, Getting ‘Nasty’ on ISIS, Whining About ESPN

    In this image made from video, fire raises at a southwest London subway station in London Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (@RRIGS via AP) Video of the flaming bucket was posted to Twitter, again showing that there doesn’t appear to be any actual large explosion on the train. President Trump’s claim that the terrorist or terrorists…

  • Cassini Is Gone and I’m Not Crying You’re Crying

    After a 20 year sojourn in the final frontier, at approximately 5:00 AM PT this morning, NASA’s Jet Propulsion laboratory lost contact with the Cassini spacecraft, which had plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere about an hour and a half prior, ending its 13-year exploration of the Saturn system. “Maybe a trickle of telemetry left, but we…

  • How Facebook Tricks You Into Trusting Algorithms

    Photo: Getty Mark Zuckerberg disingenuously poses as a friendly critic of algorithms. That’s how he implicitly contrasts Facebook with his rivals across the way at Google. Over in Larry Page’s shop, the algorithm is king, a cold, pulseless ruler. There’s not a trace of life force in its recommendations and very little apparent understanding of…

  • Huge Wafts of Smoke From North American Wildfires Have Traveled All the Way to Europe

    Natural-color image showing smoke across the upper Midwest on September 13, 2017. (Image: NASA/Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)) It’s been a particularly brutal wildfire season in parts of western North America, as several large blazes continue to cause headaches from California up to British Columbia. As shocking new satellite images show, the smoke from these…

  • Screaming Hairy Armadillos Articulate Our Existential Dread

    How Cats (and Other Good Animals) Helped Pave the Way For Human Spaceflight We Don't Deserve Capybaras Bats Are Good, But We Need to Leave Them Be