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...

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,...

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who died in March of this year, predicted shortly before his death that in the future a race of superhumans would appear who would become a threat to humanity. He wrote about this in his latest book, RIA Novosti reports. Before his death, Hawking wrote “Short Answers to Serious...

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 ...

The 28th Ig Nobel Prize for Strangest Discoveries was held at Harvard University's Sanders Theater. As the BBC Russian Service writes, this year ten scientists were awarded who made people “first laugh, and then think.” The prize in the Anthropology category went to Sweden...

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 ...

In 1977, for the severed penis of Napoleon Bonaparte (or at least what was considered such) they paid an absolutely fabulous sum for those times - $3000. However, the path that this exhibit has traveled during its existence is perhaps even more...

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...

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 ...

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 ...