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It has long been known that the sense of smell in humans plays an important role in communication with other people, although we ourselves do not even notice it. Surely you yourself have noticed that sometimes strangers evoke sympathy or antipathy for no apparent reason. According to scientists, an important role in this is played…

The number of Hamster Kombat players has exceeded 150 million people. All of them log into Telegram dozens of times a day to press their fingers on the hamster and thus collect coins. And all this because players have hope that in the future, in-game money will turn into real cryptocurrency that they can sell…

Scientists have been trying to unravel the mystery of dark matter for nearly a century, a hypothetical form of matter believed to be responsible for certain gravitational effects unexplained by general relativity (GR). Fortunately, a new hypothesis may change the course of events. A paper recently published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal…

Coca-Cola is an incredibly popular drink all over the world, but only in one country in the world is it drunk instead of water. We are talking about Mexico, where people's dependence on Coke has reached the scale of a national disaster. Each Mexican drinks an average of 2 liters of Coca-Cola every day. Sugary…

Soviet small-sized apartments seem very small by modern standards – their living area usually does not exceed 18 square meters. But, as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, everything is known by comparison. If you compare such a small apartment with a coffin apartment, an extremely common type of housing in Hong Kong, it…

Did you know that you can become a millionaire without doing anything? A person can simply go to meetings with strangers, ride a taxi and eat in restaurants at their expense, almost without participating in conversations. For several years now, the Japanese Shoji Morimoto has been doing this, earning a lot of money with his…

It is no secret that some gasoline manufacturers add alcohol to the fuel, usually obtained from processing plant materials (bioethanol). Fuel with a high alcohol content has recently become particularly popular in Europe. For example, at gas stations you can find E85 gasoline, where the alcohol percentage is 85%. Moreover, even racing cars run on…

Let's accept the fact that neural networks can already write music better than most people. There are many free services with which you can create a song about family and friends, or generate music for a video – they can be used as a background. To make a song using a neural network, you just…

Have you noticed that every summer we languish from unbearable heat? Of course, there have been hot days in past decades, but now we are increasingly faced with new temperature records. When it’s hot, we don’t think well, get irritated over trifles, and generally feel terrible. If you do not follow certain rules, in such…

According to the Great Russian Encyclopedia, approximately 2,300 species of spiders live in Russia. The most dangerous of them is the black widow (Latrodectus mactans), which was previously found only in the warmer parts of our planet. But today the climate is such that even in Russia the hot weather lasts for several months, and…