Science & Technology
“Exploding” viruses against brain cancer
Brain cancer – a terrible disease that annually kills tens of thousands of lives. For its treatment uses a variety of techniques, but experiments using viral therapy only recently begun. The purpose of such treatment is that the patient deliberately infected with a particular virus that finds and affects the cancer cells something like a […]
Arctic will be completely free of ice!
Professor Peter Wadham of Cambridge University said that in this year or next year, the Arctic could for the first time in the last 100 thousand years is completely free of ice. On its findings scientist told the publication The Independent. Wadham says that the most recent data collected by NASA satellites show that as […]
Health app increases battery consumption on Android
Microsoft recently released Health app update with integration with voice assistant Cortana on the Android platform. This application can work with a fitness tracker Microsoft Band 2, but the update has caused the emergence of a number of problems with it on compatible devices running Android. The message in the store Google Play Store application […]
A record number of people wishing to fly into space
According to NASA, a record number of applications filed -18.300 astronaut training program in 2017. The space agency will need half a year to test the results for packaged group of 14 people. Judging the competition to get into the space squad is 65 times harder than the number of Harvard students. Despite the fact […]
Solar plants used for oil
Currently, the construction of the solar plant is conducted in Oman, which after the completion of the construction will be one of the largest in the world. The singularity of this event is that the station will not generate electricity; it will produce superheated steam which is used in some technologies oil. Miraah station which […]
Airbus aircraft published the 3D-printer
French Airbus Aircraft Corporation introduced the world’s first model of a mini-aircraft, printed the 3D-printer, reports UNN with reference to the SCMP. Aircraft model called Thor, made of nylon, has a weight of 21 kg and a length of less than 4 m. “We want to know whether we can accelerate the process of development […]
‘The Arctic can melt this year’
For the first time in a hundred thousand years, the Arctic could be free of sea ice. This may occur in the 2016-2017 year, said Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge. Wadhams study based on satellite data, the US. They imply that decreased by 1.5 million square kilometers, says The Independent for 30 years, sea ice […]
“HIV is invisible”
An international scientist’s team with the active participation of Russian researchers engaged in mathematical modeling of human immunodeficiency virus. Scientists want to understand how the virus interacts with the human body and how to deal with the consequences of its negative effects. Gennady Bocharov, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, a leading scientific worker of […]