Russian scientists revive the animal after 24 thousand years in permafrost

The microscopic multicellular animal returned to life after 24 thousand years in the permafrost of Siberia, the BBC reports. This is evidenced by recent studies. Scientists have unearthed an animal known as the bdelloid rotifer in the Alazeya River in the Russian Arctic. After thawing, the rotifers were active, ...

Fauci: a hasty opening of the economy could be devastating for the US

The director of the National Institute of Allergology and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said the United States needed to take control of COVID-19 and open the country carefully, or the consequences could be devastating. Writes about this CNN. “Thinking that you can simultaneously ignore the biological component and ...

Lower Belt Brewery: American Bladder Produces Alcohol Due to Unique Disease

American doctors in Pennsylvania discovered a previously unknown disease that actually turned the patient's bladder into a microbrewery that produces ethyl alcohol, the BBC writes. The unique discovery, reported Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal, was made almost by accident. A 61-year-old woman was being cooked ...

The magical power of art: 'Russian Film Week' opens in New York

The second film festival “Russian Cinema Week” opened in New York on December 6. Over the course of seven days, viewers will see 18 films created by Russian authors, and will also have the opportunity to communicate with the directors and film actors who played the main roles in them, writes TASS. The festival started...

Smarter than they thought: scientists figured out how a prehistoric man hunted mammoths

Skeletons of at least 14 mammoths have been found in Mexico. This sometimes happens, but now for the first time it has become clear that already 15 thousand years ago, people set up traps for mammoths, writes the BBC. Near the village of Tultepec, north of Mexico City, two such ...

Ukrainian woman made a unique discovery in mathematics, solving the problem of centuries

34-year-old mathematician Marina Vyazovskaya from Kyiv made a unique mathematical breakthrough - together with her team, the woman made a sensation in the world of science. Vyazovskaya solved a mathematical equation that indicates how an infinite number of points repelling from each other are located in 8- and 24-dimensional spaces...

Two Americans and a British received the Nobel Prize in medicine: what is their merit

Нобелевскую премию по медицине вручили за исследования гормонов, которые вырабатывают клетки при недостатке кислорода. Ее получили сразу три человека — ученые из США и Великобритании. Нобелевскую премию по медицине в 2019 году получили британский ученый из Оксфорда сэр Питер Ратклифф…

In 2019, retailers will open more 2000 new stores in the USA

The U.S. retail industry is undergoing a period of massive turmoil that has led to record high bankruptcies and store closings in the past few years. Against the backdrop of these losses, some retailers are doing well and are increasing the number of their outlets in the US, and ...

Night on the floor and queue, like in the Vatican: the first H&M opened in Kiev. A PHOTO

In the Kiev shopping and entertainment center Lavina Mall today, August 18, the opening of the first store in Ukraine of the Swedish clothing brand H&M took place. Its area is 2,9 thousand square meters. m. Fans of the brand spent the night right on the floor of the shopping and entertainment center, and social networks ridicule the hype. The store will have ...

Astronomers have found new planets suitable for life.

Астрономы открыли 7 новых землеподобных планет с помощью телескопа NASA, 3 из них находятся в «обитаемой зоне» — там может быть вода и густая атмосфера, сообщили в прямом эфире на пресс-конференции в NASA. Планеты обнаружены в открытой системе TRAPPIST-1 в созвездии Водолея,…

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