The popular airline introduced the plane with seats inside the wings: what is more convenient. VIDEO

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...

An employee of Google has set a new record for calculating the number of Pi

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,...

Hawking before his death spoke about the new threat to humanity

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 Israel, found the world's oldest brewery, which destroyed all existing theories about beer

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 ...

Shnobel Prize-2018: roller coaster of kidney stones and fly-smelling wine

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 have discovered a new organ in the human body. VIDEO

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 ...

How Napoleon Bonaparte's penis came to the United States and will return back to France

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…

For the first time in history, NASA sent a probe to the Sun: why and how is it possible

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...

In San Francisco, the first restaurant in the world opened where food is prepared by a robot

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 ...

Russian startup developed 3D scanner to create copies of people

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 ...

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