The conceptual Krasoevich Bridge looks like a colossal transforming dragonfly that has come to life. Ordos District, Inner Mongolia Region, Western China. The local authorities decided that they wanted not just a bridge over the Ulanmulun River, but a technogenic landmark, for which they ordered a corresponding project to the British architect Margo Krasoevich. And what is already looming is least

Thanks to the accommodative system of the eye, we can clearly see the surrounding objects located at different distances from us. It can be compared to a camera lens with which the required focus is set. Physicists of the Tyumen State University managed to create an artificial analogue of the accommodation system. To do this, they synthesized a special solution that has the property of collecting

If you have dreamed of living as a hermit away from civilization all your life, but at the same time having access to electricity (just in case), then the New York company Pedal Power has something for you. The firm has developed a design that will allow, sitting at a table and simply pedaling, to generate electricity. Pedal Power offers two modifications of this useful device: Big Rig and Genny.

New fractal design will increase the efficiency of solar power plants by 20% Engineers from the US Sandia National Laboratories have designed an unusual version of the energy receiver for power plants, in which sunlight is concentrated by mirrors at one point. This will allow absorbing almost all radiation and significantly increase the efficiency of the installation. In a typical solar power plan

Hackers easily tricked Tesla's autopilot with a piece of sticky tape Tesla promises to release an electric car with fully autonomous control, but at the same time they strictly insist - always keep your hands when driving on the steering wheel. The last claim was recently proven by hackers at McAfee's service. With the help of a symbolic piece of dark electrical tape, they tricked Tesla's onboard

Found vulnerability allows hackers to hack hundreds of thousands of heart implants Security firm Clever Security has discovered a serious and potentially highly dangerous vulnerability in Medtronic defibrillator implants. It affects 16 models, with a total of about 750, 000 copies already installed on different patients. Hackers can connect to such implants and disrupt their work, but the manufact

Mechanical diaphragms for optical devices were not invented yesterday, but they all have one fundamental feature - they are controlled from the outside. Therefore, if we want to create a man-made "eye" that should react to light in the same way as a real one, we will have to equip it with an illumination sensor and a controller. Cumbersome and inconvenient, but a team of Finnish and Polish scienti

Access to the Internet has become as much a need for millions of US residents today as the availability of housing, clean water and other benefits equated to human rights. However, with dozens of factories shutting down, Detroit has turned from the capital of the American auto industry into a dying ghost town, where 40% of the remaining residents cannot even afford an internet connection. Vice's M

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States has published a report from which it follows that the past January 2020 became a record hot on a global scale. The data of the report refers to North America, but illustrates the general climate situation on the planet. In part, the rise in temperature was due to the extreme polar vortex and pressure drops, which prevented th

A miniature liver created by Organovo using 3D printing broke the company's own record by performing the functions of a human liver for 40 days. It may seem that this is not so much, because human liver cells are regenerated after 300-500 days. However, the result is impressive, because the previous millimeter-sized sample lasted only five days. To create an artificial liver, the San Diego scienti

Vollebak has announced the imminent release of the most unusual clothing in the world - the "graphene jacket". This business structure specializes in innovative and provocative hi-tech accessories and technologies for streetwear. But in the case of the graphene jacket, they themselves admit that they are at some dead end. First, the graphene content in the future product is extremely small, the ja

Artificial blood from stem cells will soon replace donor blood The creation of artificial blood is undoubtedly one of the most pressing problems of modern medicine. An unconditional breakthrough in this direction was the research of a group of Scottish scientists from the University of Edinburgh under the leadership of Mark Turner. They have developed a technology for producing artificial blood fr

Logitech Launches Professional Cyber ​​Athlete Training Program for Everyone Logitech G, the gaming division of Logitech, has launched the Playmaster Cyber ​​Athlete Training Program. The program was created in cooperation with professional esports associations and, according to the developers, "has a scientific foundation." The first game to hit the sights of the Playmaster was the immortal Count

SCP Innovation has unveiled a jetpack designed to move underwater. The device was named x2 Jet Pack. The main element of the knapsack is underwater propellers, which are mounted on the hands or where weapons are usually suspended. This arrangement allows the underwater swimmer to freely maneuver and even perform acrobatic stunts. The x2 Jet Pack is only available as a prototype for now. For its ma

World's largest 3D printer Stargate will be able to print an entire space rocket Relativity Space has reported in attracting $ 35 million of investor funds, which will soon be spent on the creation of the second Stargate complex. Today it is called the largest 3D printer in the world, although in fact it is a mini-factory based on robotic systems. It is specially designed to print a full-fledged s

Scientists have "spied" on spiders the technology of creating a thread covered with liquid Having studied the technique of weaving a web, a team of scientists from Oxford University and the University of Pierre and Marie Curie has created a technology for obtaining a self-unwinding liquid-coated fiber. The web is an amazing creation of nature. It is born from a small sticky watery droplet secreted

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New graphene-based material promises leap forward in semiconductors Graphene continues to amaze scientists with all the new facets of its "talent". This time we are talking about the use of a superconducting monatomic layer of carbon used to create two-dimensional materials that will find their embodiment in lasers, sensors and electronics of the next generation. Materials scientists at the Univer

Social media photos have proven to be an invaluable resource for natural exploration. The use of materials from social media, in particular from Instagram, Flickr and Panoramio, has enabled researchers at the University of North Carolina to collect a wealth of valuable information to form models in the field of land use, environmental planning and other equally important areas. According to one of

Designed a T-shirt that generates electricity to recharge gadgets Researchers at the Faculty of Science at the University of Malaga (UMA, Spain) have developed an inexpensive T-shirt that generates electricity from the difference between the temperature of the human body and the environment. This is made possible by a special fabric developed in conjunction with the Italian Institute of Technology