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  • The neural network taught “to read minds”

    The developers at Purdue University created a neural network which is able to analyze fMRI brain scans taken during viewing of the video and then in real-time to determine what people were watching. The experiment involved three subjects who showed about a thousand videos. During the show, scientists have been able to obtain a huge…

  • Spaceship graveyard: what is it and where is it located?

    The most remote from land point on Earth has many names, but most often it is called point Nemo, or oceanic pole of inaccessibility. It is located at the coordinates 48°52,6′ South latitude and 123°to 23.6′ West longitude. The closest sushi island is located about 2250 kilometers away. Due to its remoteness, this place is…

  • Putin instructed the Central Bank to come up with a tax on mining until the summer of 2018

    The government and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation received from the President of Russia Vladimir Putin instructed to prepare amendments to the Russian legislation, regulating the ICO. In addition, Putin asked to come up with a tax on mining. “The government of the Russian Federation jointly with the Bank of Russia to ensure…

  • 17 the next space missions that deserve your attention

    For a good half of the previous century, humanity had time to run in the boundless space of a set of scientific instruments. With a single purpose – to better understand this, it would seem, at first glance, completely lifeless vacuum. From the very first grainy images of Mars, obtained in the framework of the…

  • Vector, a rival of SpaceX, will make three flights next year

    Vector aerospace company reached an agreement with NASA management and received approval on three commercial launch of their rockets. All three of the launch is from the Baikonur NASA, located in Virginia, reports CNBC. Executive Director of Vector Jim Cantrell said that the first launch is planned for July 2018. Under the terms of the…

  • New epidemic? Russian and Ukrainian media organizations attacked by virus-encoder

    On the evening of 24 October 2017 the number of Russian media outlets was attacked by a new virus-the Trojan horse. At first glance, it is very similar to raging spring Petya.A or WannaCry, but by examining the output from the new virus displays on the infected computers, experts came to the conclusion that we…

  • An experiment about 30 years, as scientists have observed the evolution of bacteria

    Perhaps this scientific experiment can rightly be called the most long-lasting in the region of observation of the evolution of a living organism. Started in 1988, the American evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski. Together with his colleagues at the University of Michigan, Richard began to observe changes in 12 cultures of the bacterium E. coli (Escherichia…

  • CERN: our Universe shouldn’t exist

    “All our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, why our Universe shouldn’t exist”, says Christian Smorra from the collaboration BASE at the research center CERN. “There has to be asymmetry, but we just don’t understand where. What breaks the symmetry, what is the source?”. The search continues. Still between protons and antiprotons…

  • China will build its own “Silicon valley” in the suburbs of Beijing

    Chinese IT companies continue to evolve, to grow, and their number is steadily increasing every day. In China there are already hundreds of developers of artificial intelligence, many developers working to create innovative devices and are constantly creating new software and hardware products. Increased growth of biotechnology companies, start-UPS engaged in the field of renewable…

  • The U.S. military has developed a device to improve the functioning of the brain

    To improve your mental abilities, you need are known to “gnaw granite of science”. But many are trying to find and easier way. And maybe, researchers from McGill University in Canada and researchers from HRL Laboratories have developed a new device that can increase the thinking ability of a person. About the new development according…