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#video | How tyrannosaurs looked like, if they were actually covered with feathers?

Many people with childhood believe that almost all dinosaurs were covered in scales. This assumption is in the top ten of the ancient giants, because paleontologists have found evidence of most of them were feathered creatures. If...

Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a device to read thoughts in the Facebook

For those who are seriously concerned that Facebook is too deeply into people's lives, recent comments Mark Zuckerberg made at Harvard should be a Wake-up call. During the nearly two-hour interview with a Professor from the law sc...

CERN begins the hunt for dark matter

the European physical research laboratory, CERN said it plans a new search for particles associated with dark matter, which is believed to account for about 27% of the Universe. The experiment will be conducted where there is a La...

Geologists found traces of predatory worms that lived before the dinosaurs

it is believed that 500 billion years ago the depths of the ocean was completely uninhabitable. The Mackenzie mountains in the far North of Canada, which had plates of an ancient seabed, prove the opposite — an ancient ecosystem t...

Archaeologists have found a Mayan temple with thousands of years of artifacts

In 1966, the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza was found a system of caves. To record the find, the locals called the archaeologist Victor Segovia Pinto. He wrote a report, but excavations did not, and residents simply closed the...

There's new evidence that the sound still carries weight

a Trio of scientists at Columbia University have discovered new evidence that sound waves carry a lot. In his article published in the journal Physical Review Letters, Angelo Esposito, Rafael Krichevsky and Alberto Nicolis describ...

What is really the size of the human footprint in Antarctica?

over the past decades humanity is trying to explore Antarctica. After the adoption of the Antarctic Treaty 1961 human activity on this continent began to be governed by the law, since scientists began to worry that the presence of...

Astronomers have discovered another star with an extremely unusual decrease in luminosity

Piggy astronomical mysteries replenished. An international group of researchers reported on the results of observation of a very unusual star. Located about 440 years of low-mass star, dubbed EPIC 204376071, demonstrates a very in...

Found correlation between poor oral hygiene and the development of cancerous tumors

There are many types of cancer and, despite the active development , scientists are trying to develop drugs against only their specific species. A new discovery made by researchers from Columbia University that can help in the tre...

Destroy the asteroid turned out to be more complicated than previously thought

a Popular topic in movies — when the planet is approaching asteroid threatening to destroy all life, and a team of superheroes sent into space to blow it up. But approaching the asteroid, perhaps, harder to break than previously t...

In the future people can boil alive like a "frog in boiling water"

People perfectly adapt to global warming of the air on Earth, and this has been proven by researchers from the University of California, Davis. They found that because of the slowness of the process, the people simply do not notic...

Global warming has a chance to affect the fishing industry

Scientists have already managed to figure out how the gradual increase in temperature on the Earth will affect the glaciers, the global sea level and the animals themselves. It turned out that the consequences have already begun, ...

Gene therapy attempts to use to prevent Alzheimer's disease

no One knows for sure what causes Alzheimer's disease. But one fact about this disease acquired almost irrefutable status. Depending on which version of the APOE gene you inherit, the risk of brain disease may be two times below t...

#photo | Found an ancient tool for tattooing

Human remains prove that ancient people started tattooing thousands of years ago. Unfortunately, not every culture leaves traces that can identify drawings are and their purpose. For example, they include Indians who lived in sout...

#Video | the Giant spiders were the cause of death of many animals

a Huge tarantula's seem horrible and the photos but on the video they were even worse. Edition of National Geographic for the first time in history managed to shoot, as a huge spider attacking a possum and pulls into a secluded pl...

The deep ocean turned into "bins" for plastic waste

Plastic waste heavily pollute the environment, and this process is very difficult to stop. Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK found that non-degradable garbage is not only on the surface of the Earth, but in the depth...

Created eye drops that allows you to see in the dark

If our eyes were able to perceive infrared light, we could easily distinguish any objects in the dark. The fact that the infrared light comes almost from all the objects around us, but their waves are so long that the photorecepto...

Food of centenarians: why do we need fiber?

the eating habits of majority of people has not changed since the 60-ies. We used to — or so we said — eat buckwheat and bread, try to eat less fatty and fried, to blame themselves for extra piece of cake and absorb as much as pos...

NASA has shown how it is possible to detect life on Mars

Right now, on Mars there is a probe in the middle of February began to prepare to on the surface. With it, the researchers intend to obtain information on heat flow in the earth, but a new experiment by NASA proving that in this w...

The discoverers of the mysterious "Ninth planet" clarified its characteristics

Since the exclusion of Pluto from the category of planets in 2006 people still believe that our Solar system is home to 8 planets. However, a few years ago in the scientific community up a buzz about the possibility of the existen...