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The largest and heaviest animal on Earth is the blue whale– Regular readers of our site should be well aware of this. Their body length is up to 33 meters, and their weight can reach 150 tons. For many years, these creatures were the subject of whaling: people hunted them for blubber, meat, baleen, liver…

People have four blood groups, among which there is only one universal, that is, suitable for absolutely all people — this is the I(O) group. Even though this is a common group, donor blood is often still in short supply. Therefore, scientists have been working for several decades to create artificial universal blood that could…

Usually in May, Russian residents wear T-shirts and enjoy the warm weather. But in 2024, nature gave us an unpleasant surprise: almost the entire country is cold and snowing at times. For example, during the May holidays in Moscow there was snowfall, the intensity of which could be compared to a winter blizzard. It's so…

What complex multicellular organism can survive near the epicenter of an atomic bomb explosion? Most people will probably answer that there is none, but in reality this is not the case. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, about 140 thousand people died at once, more than 60 thousand buildings were destroyed or severely…

At the end of January 2024, specialists from the company Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk, implanted a chip in the brain of 29-year-old Noland Arbo to control a computer mouse using the power of thought. Some time after the operation, the head of the company announced that the patient was recovering and the neurons of…

Twenty years ago, a double burial was discovered in Austria. It immediately attracted the attention of researchers, as the remains of two people lay on top of a horse in an embrace. Archaeologists have long believed that the grave contained a married couple of a man and a woman from the early Middle Ages. However,…

On the night of May 10-11, it was possible to observe the northern lights even in mid-latitudes, where it is usually impossible to see them. The reason is a powerful geomagnetic storm, which arose due to solar flares and the ejection of solar plasma. However, it is too early to say that everything is over.…

Today the Sahara is one of the largest and most famous deserts in the world. During the day, the temperature in this part of our planet can rise to 50 degrees Celsius, and at night it drops to 25 degrees. All living organisms in the Sahara Desert have long adapted to extreme conditions with low…

The Chang'e-6 mission launched in China on May 3, the goal of which is to deliver soil from the far side of the Moon to Earth. This is a significant event that will occur for the first time in human history if the spacecraft returns to Earth. However, information is spreading online that this is…

There is a legend according to which the Trojan War took place in the 13th century BC. It began because the son of the Trojan royal family, Paris, kidnapped Helen, the wife of the Spartan king Menelaus. The ruler, as expected, was very angry about this and immediately declared war on the ancient city of…