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WASHINGTON – Mysterious “incidents” have at least sixteen Americans who worked for the embassy in Cuba physical symptoms are concerned. That the ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday confirmed after reports in the media about an “acoustic assault.” The puzzling phenomenon since the end of 2016. Several diplomats or their family members have Havana left…

This spring, the German startup has already tested the first full-size prototype of its aircraft with vertical take-off and now hired managers Gett and Airbus in order to help the company build the business of air taxi. A physicist, Remo Gerber, previously ran the European arm of the service Gett, took in the company commercial…

What is the life cycle of our star, the Sun, will one day come to its end, is a well known fact. According to scientists, this cycle is about 10 billion years. Current age of our sun, approaching 5 billion years. This leads to a very interesting and important question: what exactly happens when the…

If by “genome” we mean the set of genes contained in the set of chromosomes of a single organism, the “biome” is a collection of microorganisms inhabiting the human body. To this day scientists have a very vague idea about how the biome affects our life and health. IBM hopes that it will be able…

Modern navigation systems are based on the orientation of the instruments in space by using information received from GPS or GLONASS satellites. One of the problems with such devices is that they can work not always and strongly depend on the mass conditions. But recently, Russian scientists from the Siberian Federal University (SFU), together with…

A group of scientists from the United States created a new kind of bacteria. These bacteria can synthesize organic compounds using light due to the fact that they are part of the semiconductor crystals. It is thanks to the presence of semiconductor elements in a living organism bacteria called “bacteria-cyborgs”. The creation of a special…

Tropical Storm Harvey as photographed by the GOES-16 satellite at 9:50 am EDT on August 23, 2017. (Image: NOAA/CIRA/RAMMB) Tropical Storm Harvey is continuing to gain strength in the Gulf of Mexico, and meteorologists are now expecting this weather system to assume hurricane status by Friday. Texans are now battening down the hatches in preparation…

Dragonfly concept art. (Image: APL/Mike Carroll) “Titan is a unique place in our solar system,” APL’s Elizabeth Turtle, principal investigator on Dragonfly, told Gizmodo. “It’s the only moon with a dense atmosphere, and it has both an internal liquid water ocean as well as hydrocarbon seas on the surface. Titan’s rich organic chemistry, and the…

Image: Wikimedia The Hazda is a small group of hunter-gatherers living in the central Rift Valley of Tanzania, one of the few remaining groups of people left in the world who still collect the majority of their diet through foraged foods. Modernity has still managed to touch their lives, of course, but far less than…

Credit: Environmental Data & Governance Initiative Credit: Environmental Data & Governance Initiative Data-tracking watchdog group, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), has reported dozens of instances where the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has deleted references to climate change from its site. As the name suggests, the NIEHS’ site links to research summaries detailing…