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At what age does old age begin? Disclaimer: later than you think
Lately, many people have been interested in all sorts of methods and methods to prolong youth – they play sports, follow certain diets, apply creams to the skin, take vitamins and nutritional supplements, etc. According to some data, people spend about 40 billion US dollars a year on prolonging their youth, and by 2030 this…
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In the tropics there are walking trees that travel 20 meters per year.
If you have watched the film “The Lord of the Rings” at least once, you probably remember about the Ent people living in Middle-earth. They are trees with eyes and a mouth that are able to move along the ground with their strong legs. It would seem that these are just fantastic creatures that were…
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Mice turned out to be as smart as children – here's the proof
Employees at Johns Hopkins University, who had to work with mice for a long time, came to the conclusion that the mental abilities of these animals are greatly underestimated. They, like people, can put forward hypotheses and test them, which indicates the high intelligence of rodents. It has long been known that mice do not…
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When did Arabica coffee first appear on Earth?
Arabica is the most common coffee variety, currently accounting for about 60% of the world's supply. The plant is called Coffea arabica and is grown in tropical regions almost all over the world. But how, where and when did it first arise? Currently, modern technologies, such as genomic modeling based on the results of sequencing…
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A race among neural networks took place in the UAE – artificial intelligence is now in sports
A non-trivial event in the world of sports and high technology recently took place in Abu Dhabi – a race for driverless cars. The competition, in which 8 teams took part, took place over two days. To some extent, it was a scientific experiment, as well as a competition between programmers. The event is not…
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Books with green and red covers are being removed from libraries around the world – they are poisonous.
How can books be dangerous? In our opinion, some of them are capable of causing harm except for their shocking content. Also, in very rare cases, a person can injure his finger on the edge of a book sheet. It turns out that that's not all: recently the authors of the Poisonous Book project warned…
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Why did scientists send live fish into orbit and what does space sickness have to do with it?
Various types of animals have already been in space – dogs, monkeys, rabbits, rats, mice, guinea pigs, frogs, etc. Of course, sending each species into orbit was necessary for one or another scientific purpose. The same thing happened with fish – in the early 70s, NASA scientists decided to conduct an important scientific study. As…
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In a Colombian city, bodies of buried people turn into mummies on their own – scientists don't know why
In the small Colombian town of San Bernardo, located in the Andes, people are not buried forever. To save space, they are exhumed after some time to bury other people. This is not surprising, because this is often done in Colombia, but what is happening at the cemetery in San Bernardo has greatly puzzled scientists…
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Unexpected discovery – cancer occurs even without cell mutation
Despite the fact that scientists have been researching the nature of cancer for many decades, they are still quite poorly understood. Even regarding the cause of their occurrence, debate continues in the scientific community. According to the main version, cancer occurs due to cell mutations. However, there are cases where a tumor appears without any…
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Scientists have recorded the sounds of the heaviest living organism on Earth
Who do you think is the largest living organism in the world? Many people will answer without hesitation that this is a blue whale, whose body length reaches 33 meters and weighs more than 150 tons. Indeed, this is the largest creature in the animal kingdom, which has no competitors. But do not forget that…