The launch of the Indian lunar vehicle "Chandrayaan-2" postponed to autumn

The Indian space Agency is developing a lunar "needle" for future colonists

Indian space research organization began to study inexpensive, but practical ways of living built the lunar module. Previously, the team of scientists participating in the project had developed interplanetary space module that wen...

Russian scientists have taught a neural network to doubt the correctness of their decisions

Scientists from Saratov state technical University named after Y. A. Gagarin (Saratov state technical University) together with their foreign colleagues created neural network can doubt at the moment of decision-making — wri...

Alcoholism can be defeated using stem cells

Scientists from the University of Chile in Santiago has made an unexpected discovery. They found that a single dose of human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) administered to laboratory rats, dependent almost entirely suppressed them a...

Four teenagers who can change our world

children are treated with caution. They are prone to abrupt mood changes, like to attract attention and wear strange clothes. This files most often have to accept them for who they are. But some teenagers break the patterns. A new...

Scientists have found that Viagra reduces the risk of colon cancer

the Drug sildenafil, also popularly known under the brand name "Viagra" is designed to enhance potency in men. Initially the drug was synthesized in order to improve blood flow to the myocardium and for the treatment of angina and...

Planetary scientists said, when Mars would appear to the oceans

According to the findings of scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, published in the journal Nature, the first oceans on Mars appeared about 4 billion years ago and 200-300 million years earlier than was commonl...

Artificial intelligence: no utopia, no Apocalypse... but what?

Almost anyone who is even slightly immersed in the subject of artificial intelligence, comes to the conclusion that either he will lead us to a fiery Apocalypse or a magical utopia. Options between virtually no. Of course, this is...

What if dark matter is not particles?

Everything we have ever observed in the Universe, from matter to radiation, can be decomposed into the smallest components. Everything in this world is composed of atoms, which consist of nucleons and electrons, nucleons are divid...

Stephen Hawking did not find the answer to his most interesting scientific mystery

a Few days ago, March 14, the world left is one of the most eminent physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking. Despite his severe illness, Hawking has managed to write a lot of scientific books, many of which became real bestsellers...

All disk galaxies in the Universe are United by one detail

Astrophysics International centre for radio astronomy research (ICRAR) and the University of Western Australia came up with some interesting findings in recent studies: regardless of the size and weight, all disk galaxies in the U...

Platypus will help scientists to create new antibiotics

Platypus himself, unwittingly, became a direct participant in the breakthrough discovery that made scientists from the Australian State Association of scientific and applied research. It turned out that the milk of this animal con...

Scientists caught three FRB signal. One was a record power

Astronomers Australian Observatory, Parkes caught three mysterious fast pulse, the nature of which remains unclear. When one of the received signals was a record capacity ratio signal/noise. The signals were received by 1 March, 9...

Simulation of the "fog" will help in finding aliens

analysis of the murky fog to simulate atmosphere created in the laboratory will be an important step in the search for aliens. As you must know, the space telescope James Webb will study planetary atmospheres in search of signals....

Other person: how a year-long mission on the ISS influenced American astronaut

In 2016, the American astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a 340-day stay aboard the International space station (ISS). Such extended space travel became a part of the program space Agency NASA to study the effects of lon...

The "body on a chip" — a new development at MIT for testing of medicines

When a pharmaceutical company needed to figure out how a new drug affects the human physiology, the list of options is not so great. Most often the drugs are tested on laboratory mice, which can hardly be called "the perfect analo...

Astronomers have studied the dead neighbor of the milky Way

Astronomers of the Spanish University of La Laguna undertook a study of the background galaxy NGC 1277, which stopped the formation of new stars. Researchers report that this system has not changed much over the last 10 billion ye...

We never make contact with extraterrestrial civilizations

While signals from extraterrestrial civilizations to reach Earth, it is likely that by this time all the aliens have long been extinct. To this conclusion came a group of American astronomers under the guidance of the Swiss resear...

Sleep in a room where light penetrates, can lead to depression

we All sleep in different conditions. Someone prefers to sleep with a night light, getting used to this lighting since childhood, some people prefer total darkness in the room and someone can sleep with the lights on. As it turned...

Discovered double Earth interested astronomers

Japanese astronomers analyzed data from a space telescope "Kepler" and found 15 new exoplanets. One of them, as scientists say, as two drops of water similar to our Earth. The only thing that distinguishes them is the size. Discov...

Our dreams have many uses, which vary over the life of the

Despite the fact that sleep and waking are very different in terms of both content and feel, and as profoundly difficult. For anybody not a secret that the dreams of the children differ from the dreams of adults. Children having e...