Scientists with the help of worms will solve a global environmental problem

Stanford University scientists have discovered worms capable of feeding on plastic, including foam. The new discovery, the university staff are confident, will help solve a global environmental problem: so far less than ten percent of plastic waste is recycled. Wu Wei-Min (Wei-Min Wu) and his colleagues worked with flour ...

Michigan resident wins three hundred million dollars in lottery

The lottery ticket bought in Michigan won and brought its holder a prize of $ 301 million. This lucky ticket was sold at Three Rivers and became the second highest Powerball jackpot in 2015. According to the organizers of the lottery, this ...

NASA Introduces Five New Missions

The US National Space Agency has unveiled five new concepts for space exploration projects, taking into account the Discovery program, which focuses on low-cost missions. According to published information, NASA has selected five groups of researchers, who are allocated $ XNUMX million for initial experiments. ...

The lunch menu on the Titanic went under the hammer at an auction in New York

The last lunch menu on the famous liner Titanic, which sank in 1912, went under the hammer for $88. The first class passenger managed to save the list of dishes. Auction house Lion Heart Autographs has put up for sale a menu and two previously unknown items...

Panda gave birth to a baby in Washington Zoo

  The Washington Zoo is a happy addition. A giant panda named Mei Xian gave birth to a cub on August 22, which is considered the third of its kind. A small miracle was born thanks to artificial insemination - for this, experts used frozen sperm from a male ...

The clumsy passenger was spotted on the highway near Yekaterinburg. VIDEO

The car, from the window of which a forest animal was looking out, came into view on the highway near Yekaterinburg, at 17 km of the Chelyabinsk Highway. Judging by the video from the dash cam, the bear is sitting in the back seat of a Volga with Rostov license plates. It reveals its presence when a passenger...

Facebook came up with a selfie replacement

"A video profile will allow you to show a part of yourself that you couldn't show before and will add a new dimension to your profile," the company said. Also, the update developers have provided users with the ability to change their profile photo at a certain period of time: by setting the time...

In the ancient amber found a flea with the causative agent of the plague

In amber twenty million years old, scientists have discovered the probable ancestor of microorganisms, to which mankind owes one of the most deadly epidemics in history - the "Black Death" of the XNUMXth century. Then the plague killed more than a third of the population of Europe. A sample of amber was found on the territory of the Dominican ...

Billboard called Lady Gaga "Woman of the Year"

The American Billboard magazine, together with the cable TV channel Lifetime, has named the "Woman of the Year 2015" in the music industry. She was the singer Lady Gaga. The award, according to the website of the publication, will be presented to the performer at a ceremony to be held on December 11 in New York. Billboard experts emphasized that Lady Gaga ...

US scientists learn how to code memories

US experts have created an implant that will allow people with memory impairments to retain memories and not forget. Essentially, this device encodes memories and will be a lifesaver for people with Alzheimer's, head injuries and other ailments that affect memory. The device represents ...

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