Science and technology

Scientists have reconstructed the habitat of ancient people The habitat of ancient people in the view of the artist. M. Lopez-Herrera / The Olduvai Paleoanthropology and Paleoecology Project and Enrique Baquedano An international team of historians and geologists reconstructed the natural landscape that existed 1.8 million years ago at Olduvai …

10:04 12.03.2016 Physics from the USA has created a super saver magnetic chip that spends on recording one bit of information a million times less energy than classical transistors in modern semiconductor computers. © Jeongmin Hong, Jeffrey Bokor MOSCOW, 12 Mar – RIA Novosti. Scientists from UC Berkeley have developed …

Bacteria have learned to eat plastic bottle PET bottles Matt Montagne / Flickr Japanese biologists have found a new strain of bacteria that is able to recycle polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most common types of plastic. The article can be found in the journal Science, briefly it …

The ship Mayflower with the autopilot independently cross the Atlantic ocean 20.08.2015 [11:56] Sergey Karasev In 2020, the project participants Mayflower Autonomous Research Ship (MARS) plan to send a swimming robot fully servandae the ship, which will cross the Atlantic ocean. The ship was named the Mayflower is not accidental. …

The European southern Observatory (ESO) has published the most detailed to date image of dust disk around star proanalizirovana. The picture received Very Large Telescope Interferometer at the ESO Observatory in Chile Paranal. First appeared the opportunity to compare this disc with discs around young stars — and they were …

  With all the talk of a manned mission to Mars in 2030-ies, it is easy to overlook another serious offer on the next giant leap for mankind. In recent years, the European space Agency set out to return to the moon 2020-th year. Moreover, to build the satellite lunar …

Scientists from the USA managed to prove that women use the brain more effectively than men. Researchers from California decided to conduct an experiment. They gathered a group of volunteers from 45 men and 59 women. As it turned out, the brain of women is easier from the male brain …

In the Public chamber of Russia held a conference of the Russian Association for the promotion of science (RASN), during which scientists discussed various advantages in science, the relationship between generations, as well as interdisciplinarity. In RAN believe that experts should be involved in any important research projects, involving economic …

From own parasites mimivirus protected with the help of molecular-genetic systems, which, probably, once borrowed from bacteria. The virus is so unique in nature that until now biologists are debating whether to read them alive: in themselves they represent only a molecular complex of proteins, nucleic acids and sometimes lipids, …

Russian physicists have developed a battery that can convert into electricity the energy of beta decay – emission of electrons of a radioactive element. A team of researchers from the Moscow Institute of steel and alloys under the guidance of head of the Department of material science of semiconductors and …