16-year-old inventor from Ukraine, Sofia Petrishin, will go to the International Olympiad of geniuses in the USA. A schoolgirl will present in New York a device that converts digital information into Braille for the blind. The girl studies in the 11th grade of the school-lyceum and is engaged in the informatics section of the Lviv regional small ...
Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Vladimir Drinfeld and his co-author Alexander Beilinson were awarded the prestigious Israeli Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics. Both scientists work at the University of Chicago, Illinois, according to the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Scientists were awarded for a cycle of innovative works ...
12-year-old Gitanjali Rao came up with a quick and inexpensive way to determine the presence of lead in water. For this she received the title of Best Young Scientist in the United States in 2017, according to the BBC. With her invention, she wanted to help the city of Flint in Michigan, where in 2016 ...
Alexey Abrikosov, a famous Soviet-American theoretical physicist, died on March 30 at the age of 88. In 2003, he, together with the Soviet-Russian scientist Vitaly Ginzburg and the American James Leggett, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for "fundamental work on the theory of superconductors and superfluids." What will be remembered ...
It’s always like that, you want to write an interview like “this guy lives”, and the result is an article about the apocalypse of our days. But everything is in order. I met the hero of my story, Mikhail Kolonin, in 2003. For me, as well as for many ...
On Monday, November 30, at the age of 97, Marcus Klingberg, an Israeli scientist convicted in the 80s of espionage for the USSR, died in France. Abraham Markus Klingberg was born in 1918 in Warsaw into a religious Jewish family. Already in…
Chemist David Whitlock of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has come to the conclusion that a daily shower, along with dirt, removes from the body its natural defenses - good bacteria. Whitlock believes that our ancestors enjoyed enviable health due to the fact that they washed rarely and, more importantly, without the use of gels ...
God created Eve not from a rib, but from a completely different bone, which since then has disappeared from the descendants of Adam. This is the so-called priapus bone found in the penis of many mammals, including great apes, but not humans. This hypothesis was put forward by ...
In northeastern Moscow, a 65-year-old nuclear scientist Alexei Kalagin, who suffered from pancreatic cancer, committed suicide. It is noted that before his death, the man wrote two notes in which he spoke about the attacks of pain that tormented him, which there was nothing to drown out. He also asked not to blame anyone ...