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Ukrainian employees of the Akademik Vernadsky station showed footage of “white nights” in the Antarctic. It is late spring and a very long day in the station area. This was reported by the National Antarctic Research Center. It is noted that in Antarctica, daylight hours are now 19 hours and 32 minutes, and their duration […]
Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a technique to create insulin-producing pancreatic cells from a patient’s own stem cells, which could lead to diabetes treatment without the need for injections. The process, called “directed differentiation,” involves reprogramming stem cells from the patient’s blood and directing them to turn into pancreatic cells capable of […]
Scientists from NASA’s George Marshall Space Flight Center have shown some eerie images captured by their cameras watching meteors in the night sky. NASA has shared a series of mysterious and spooky images for Halloween. Some of them are very easy to solve, for example, one of the pictures clearly shows a frog. The rest, […]
Scientists have uncovered the secrets of MSH 15-52, one of the most amazing pulsar nebulae, also known as the “cosmic hand” or “hand of God”. With the help of two powerful X-ray telescopes, the scientists were able to visualize the “bones” in the ghostly hand, which are magnetic fields. The NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory and […]
Scientists have “resurrected” tiny creatures that existed in the time of woolly mammoths and spent the last 50,000 years in hibernation. Nematodes, also known as roundworms, are one of the few organisms that can survive in such extreme conditions for a long period of time. To do this, they are known to enter a state […]
On board the International Space Station, which orbits the Earth at an altitude of about 400 kilometers above the planet’s surface, scientists have for the first time cultivated and grown mouse embryos in microgravity. The results of the experiment, designed and led by molecular biologist Teruhiko Wakayama of Yamanashi University, showed that mouse embryos can, […]
Engineers at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in collaboration with the Honda Research Institute, have developed an advanced soft sensor that opens up new perspectives in robotics and prosthetics. The sensor can be applied to the surface of a prosthesis or robotic limb, enabling them to sense touch and perform tasks that were previously […]
An unusual marine creature that has no similar analogues on Earth was first discovered off the coast of Japan in 2018. Scientists have studied this creature and its thousands of organisms in the form of sperm in the “belly” in detail, but have not been able to give an exact definition of its nature. It […]
A group of scientists at the University of Washington has successfully created a miniature robot that resembles an origami figure. The robot is powered by solar energy and is able to change its shape during flight; it transmits the collected information via Bluetooth. Such robots, called microflyers, can climb to a height of up to […]
Scientists are working to create robots that could end their lives after completing a task. The first step towards this development has already been taken. According to a study published in the scientific journal Science Advances, researchers from South Korea have successfully created a small soft-bodied robot that turned into a puddle of mucus after […]