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26 публікаційGuardians of order: Leukocytes navigate between red blood cells, inspecting for pathogens. #science
A Glimpse of Extreme Weather in Siberia: How Life Looks Today in Tiksi, Russia. For those who think their local weather is harsh, here’s what residents in Tiksi, a remote settlement on the shore of a Siberian bay, are fa…
Landing on a comet! Let’s revisit the historic event of 2014, when the Philae lander separated from the Rosetta spacecraft, which was studying the Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet, and attempted a landing. Unfortunately, not…
Implants Made from Blood Rapidly Heal Broken Bones Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking technology for creating implants that can be 3D-printed using a patient’s own biomaterial. These implants are introduced direct…

On Green Energy: A Critical Look at LCOE LCOE (Levelized Cost of Electricity) is the average calculated cost of electricity generation over the entire lifecycle of a power plant. It’s a key metric often cited to promote…

AI-Powered Headphones Create a “Sound Bubble” Around Users Researchers from the University of Washington have unveiled innovative AI-enabled headphones that filter ambient noise, creating a “sound bubble” to shield users…

⚡️The First Immortal Fly is Here! Yep, you heard that right. Scientists have fully digitized the brain of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Quick recap: Once upon a time, people dreamed of digitizing Lenin’s brain,…

Quantum physics is seriously mind-blowing. It explains pretty much everything happening around us. Want to know how atoms work? Why light can be both a wave and a particle at the same time? Or how a cat in a box can some…
Elon Musk: Rockets to Replace Airplanes? Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, envisions a future where airplanes are replaced by spacecraft. Imagine traveling from New York to Shanghai in just 40 minutes, London to New York…
AI vs. Prompt Engineers: Is the Profession Becoming Obsolete? Google Cloud has introduced Prompt Writer, a tool that could revolutionize the way prompts are created for generative models. Now, artificial intelligence tak…

An extraordinary “drawing” has appeared on the Martian surface: a smile formed by a ring of salt deposits and two impact craters. However, don’t expect to snap this cosmic grin with your phone while flying over Mars! Sal…

The top image shows the final results of the recent U.S. presidential election, won by Trump with a score of 312 to 226. Remarkably, no human could predict this outcome—not experts, super-forecasters, exit polls, predict…
In a groundbreaking study, scientists have engineered mice with an enlarged cerebral cortex, resulting in more active and sociable behavior compared to typical rodents. By introducing Yamanaka factors early in developmen…
The Surface of Venus! Venus is enveloped in a dense, impenetrable atmosphere that’s opaque to visible light. To map its surface, we rely on radar imaging (right image), as radio waves can penetrate the thick atmosphere a…

The eyes of the deep-sea telescope fish, which lives in perpetual darkness, are uniquely adapted to see both visible light and infrared radiation. Even more remarkable, each eye can rotate independently, allowing the fis…

📢 Breaking New Ground in Vision Restoration: iPSC-Derived Corneal Transplant Surgery 🌱👁️✨ A pioneering clinical study in Japan has successfully used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to regenerate corneal tissue…

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. Konrad Lorenz #science

💡 This underscores the importance of natural resources to the global economy and illustrates how resource distribution impacts the geopolitical influence of nations. Source: Statista, Elements.visualcapitalist.com

NASA’s spacecraft has sent back the clearest images of Jupiter yet! The Juno spacecraft recently completed its 66th flyby of Jupiter and its moons, capturing breathtaking images with the JunoCam, a camera with a two-mega…

Unusual angle on camera… Sharks 😀 Sharks have always been a favorite for the thrill factor, but seeing them from unexpected perspectives opens up a whole new appreciation. It’s not every day we get a close-up of these a…

Skipping breakfast can be DANGEROUS for your health—it increases the risk of type 2 diabetes and obesity. Studies show that people who skip their morning meal tend to overeat at night to make up for missed calories and e…

Karl Ward showcases his invention — a pedal-powered unicycle. Los Angeles, 1971. Instead of a traditional wheel, Ward’s creation used artificial legs. The pedals drove a mechanism that propelled the structure forward and…

Australian mathematicians have debunked the theorem suggesting that if a monkey were given infinite time with a typewriter, it would eventually produce all of Shakespeare’s works. Scientists calculated that even if all 2…
Recent studies on Drosophila (fruit flies) reveal a promising approach to combat brain aging by regulating actin polymerization. Researchers found that an age-related accumulation of F-actin (filamentous actin) in the br…

Money begets money, success begets success, and Nobels beget Nobels. Believe it or not, according to Nature, 95% of Nobel laureates (702 out of 736) belong to a single vast academic family tree, a network that I reflects…

🚀 SpaceX to Attempt First-Ever Starship-to-Starship Refueling in March 2025 NASA has announced that SpaceX will conduct a groundbreaking test of orbital fuel transfer between two Starship spacecraft as early as March ne…