The Dutch airline KLM has allocated significant funds to design a new model of a passenger airliner using the “plane-wing” scheme, where passengers will be accommodated in the wings, writes the BBC Russian Service. As company representatives stated, this design will greatly improve the aerodynamics of the aircraft, which will lead to a reduction in consumption...
Google employee Emma Haruko Iwao calculated the value of Pi to 31 trillion decimal places. Previously, the number "Pi" was known only to the 22 trillionth digit. Now humanity knows more. Iwao used one of Google's services. For the calculations, 20 terabytes of memory were needed,...
Физик-теоретик Стивен Хокинг, скончавшийся в марте этого года, незадолго до смерти предсказывал, что в будущем появится раса суперлюдей, которые станут угрозой человечеству. Об этом он написал в своей последней книге, сообщает РИА Новости. Перед смертью Хокинг написал работу «Короткие ответы на серьезные…
In a prehistoric cave near Haifa in Israel, researchers have found the world's oldest brewery and traces of beer 13 thousand years ago, writes the BBC Russian Service. The discovery was made while they were studying the burial site of semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers. The brewing business, as it was believed earlier, appeared 5 ...
В Гарвардском университетском Театре Сандерса прошла 28-я церемония вручения Шнобелевской премии за самые странные открытия. Как пишет Русская служба Би-би-си, в этом году были награждены десять ученых, которые вынудили людей «сначала смеяться, а потом — задуматься». Приз в номинации «Антропология» получил швед…
Scientists from the Garvan Institute for Medical Research made an incredible discovery: it turns out that there are microorganisms in the human body that are unknown to us until our time. They can only be seen under a microscope. The authors of the studies reported about this find on the official website of the institute, writes Life.ru. In the beginning, microorganisms were ...
В 1977 году за отрезанный пенис Наполеона Бонапарта (или, по крайней мере, что таковым считалось) заплатили совершенно баснословную по тем временам сумму — 3000 долларов. Однако тот путь, который этот экспонат проделал за время своего существования, возможно, даже еще более…
The Parker space probe, launched on August 12 from Cape Canaveral after the launch was delayed by a day, should fly through the solar corona for the first time in history, actually touching our star, writes the BBC Russian Service. The idea of such a mission has been discussed since the very beginning of the space age...
The world's first Creator restaurant, where a robot prepares burgers, has opened in San Francisco, California. The cost of such a dish is $ 6, writes Fast Company. You can watch the chef prepare lunch through the glass wall. The chef is unusual here - a special machine device. The buns are sorted in a row, then ...
In Russia, Texel, a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation, has created a complex for color scanning of people unparalleled in the world, Izvestia.ru writes. The Russian development allows you to form a 3D model of a person for a variety of applications - virtual fitting of clothes, making souvenir figurines, identification by figure and ...