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The problem of bad roads, contrary to popular belief, applies not only to Russia and the former Soviet Union. Every year around the world on the pavement leaving a lot of money, and the establishment of the road which would “fix itself”, by far not as useless as it might seem at first glance. Very…

The method of radar scanning, which is usually used to measure the density of the snow caps at the poles of the Earth, was applied for the analysis of the surface methane seas, the largest satellite of the planet Saturn, Titan. As a result of analysis, the scientists found that Titan’s surface is “close to…

Can with high probability say that in the future robots will replace man in many positions. For example, Assembly lines of different factories are almost completely automated, next year the robots will start to cook the burgers. But in Tambov, the local engineer-inventor, the robotic mechanism has already taken up the service as a cleaner.…

Did you know that the average person spends 108 days of his life brushing your teeth? Usually, we brush our teeth for just 60 seconds is recommended by dentists 180. And some people completely miss the evening cleaning due to the fact that very tired during the day. What’s worse: many people don’t even know…

Images: Skyrocket The pitch was Pokemon Go meets Call of Duty. I couldn’t quite fathom how that would turn into a cool as hell game, but it involved augmented reality, a key feature of Pokemon Go, and laser tag, and those are both very fun things. Then I sat down with the team from Skyrocket…

Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria responsible for gonorrhea. (Image: National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering) Describing it as a “serious situation,” the World Health Organization has issued a grim warning about the dramatic rise of antibiotic resistant gonorrhea around the world. The agency is now calling for the quick development of drugs to treat the…

Screengrab: Doğan News Agency Throwing things out of anger is never a smart move, but it can also lead to more serious consequences. Especially when you’re at an airport and what you’re hurling at the ground is an explosion-prone lithium battery. This week, a man traveling to the UK caused a scene at Ataturk Airport in…

Photo: AP Waymo and Uber have reached an agreement in their ongoing legal fight—Waymo will drop the majority of its patent infringement claims and Uber will promise not to resume development of its defunct, allegedly infringing lidar device, Spider. The patent claims have been a bit of a distraction in Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber, which…

Image: 20th Century Fox In Andy Weir’s novel-turned-Matt-Damon-movie The Martian, the protagonist endures the harsh terrain of Mars by using his own shit to grow potatoes. The idea isn’t that outlandish—over the last few years, a NASA-backed project has been attempting to simulate Martian potato farming by growing taters in the Peruvian desert. While early…

Reconstruction of Ötzi. (Image: University of Padova) Ötzi the Iceman—our favorite Copper Age corpsicle—is the gift that keeps on giving. A recent analysis of the metal found in the Neolithic hunter’s copper axe suggests a point of origin in Southern Tuscany, which is far from where Ötzi’s frozen body was found. This suggests a long-distance…