Science and technology

Text: Yuri Medvedev 08.02.2016, 20:20 Dmitry Kopczuk, Catherine Proshkin, Vladimir Stegailov. Photo: from personal archive. The award of the President of Russia in the field of science and innovations for young scientists for the year 2015 steel chemist Dmitry Kopczuk (Institute of organic synthesis named. I. J. postovskogo Ural branch …

Size discovered planet is about half the size of Neptune NASA Moscow, 8 February – AIF-Moscow. With the help of a telescope “Kepler” and the HARPS spectrograph, scientists were able to detect in the constellation of Aries “impossible” planet, which theoretically would have to be a likeness of Neptune, but …

They say that one of the reasons why in our smartphones with tablets still appeared real, but artificial neural network is the lack of power supply the required power. The thing is that all these so-called brain-like, i.e. “mothodologie” artificial intelligence systems, at least in their modern form, dependent on …

Researchers from Toulouse (France) found that the progression of pancreatic cancer can be completely stopped by blocking a certain enzyme in the body. This is one of the most deadly cancers: each year in France alone, 12,000 people die from pancreatic cancer , while around 13,000 new cases are registered …

The top ten “ranking” of prominent scientists included Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Ivan Pavlov, Sergey Kapitsa, Sofia Kovalevskaya. However, 37% of Russians, according to the study, are unable to remember a single outstanding Russian scientist. © RIA Novosti. RIA Novosti MOSCOW, 7 Feb — RIA Novosti. Dmitri Mendeleev and Mikhail Lomonosov, in …

21 January 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Council for science and education, which discussed the issues of preparation and implementation of the strategy for scientific and technological development of the country. At the beginning of the meeting, the President made a report, much of which …

Can’t lose weight? Scientists find new cause of obesity. Experts believe that there are some changes in the sixth chromosome, which “develops” not only obesity, but also some types of behavioral and mental abnormalities. This genetic syndrome scientists explain why people with obesity are not able to control your appetite …

Deleting a key gene, accelerated aging, increased lifespan of the test mice by half. This can be done at the stage of embryo development. According to a new study diminishes, if the deletion of the gene occurs after birth. The information was published this week in Science Translational Medicine by …

Once, a student had to attend lectures in materials science and TMM – doctor of technical Sciences, Professor Nikolay Vasilevicha Chepelskogo. The pair were hard. Techie who knows what is TMM (theory of machines and mechanisms), the student – There is My Grave. From time to time, he had brought …

How to conquer the top of the charts, not having talent? Why is the song “louboutins” now has all the ratings? Think about the talent, luck or lot of money on promotion? Certainly these are important components of success in show business, but not major. A decisive factor of any …