Francis Ford Coppola has completed filming for Megalopolis. They lasted 40 years.

Film studios were initially unwilling to support Coppola's project, which is why he financed it himself. The director even had to sell his wineries in Northern California. Adam Driver, Natalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman and other famous actors played in the film. The sci-fi film follows a successful architect who decides to rebuild New York after a natural disaster. The idea came to Coppola after the release of the 1979 Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now.

In London, fakes of famous paintings that have long been considered original will be exhibited.

Also, visitors will be told the history of these paintings and sculptures and how they were exposed. For example, among the exhibits there is a forgery of Van Baburen's "Procurer", which was painted in the 1930s by the forger Han van Meegeren, and a painting in the spirit of the Botticelli Madonna, created by the swindler Umberto Giunti. His deception was exposed by noting that Madonna looked like actress Greta Garbo - the forger was her fan.

Archaeologists have found the first traces of drug use in Europe.

They were found on the island of Menorca off the coast of Spain in the hair of a man who is about 3,000 years old. Scientists believe that the find indicates the use of substances that can cause delirium and visions: mandrake, henbane and dope ordinary. In addition, ancient people used ephedra, which contained the stimulant ephedrine.

In the Netherlands, opened a metro station right on the beach.

Hoekse lijn metro station, the closest metro station in the world to the sea, has opened on Hoek van Holland beach near Rotterdam. It is only 40 meters from the coast. The architects took into account the climatic features - sand, wind, salt and sea water will not harm the station. There are several more metro stations in the world near the sea. For example, in Barcelona, Barceloneta is located about 600 meters from the water. In New York on Coney Island, Stillwell Ave is 500 meters from the ocean and Ocean Pkwy is 170 meters away.

The French city of Lille will pay motorists for not traveling during rush hour.

Five thousand drivers will participate in the pilot experiment. From 7:00 to 9:00 and from 16:30 to 18:30 their cars will be tracked using GPS trackers. For the refusal of one trip, drivers will be charged two euros, for a day without trips during rush hour - four, for a month - 80 euros. The mayor's office believes that traffic jams will become noticeably less if at least 6% of motorists refuse to travel during peak times.

An ancient fortress in Spain will be saved from collapse with the help of bacteria.

The Moorish Alhambra fortress in Granada is built on a steep cliff of the Tagus San Pedro, it is threatened by landslides. Therefore, scientists decided to strengthen the soil with the help of bacteria to strengthen the soil. Similar methods are actively used for the renovation of historic buildings in France and Portugal. Scientists will begin experiments and tests to understand how best to use the bacteria. Then add them to the soil as "glue".

The number of insects in the forests of Europe has decreased by 60%.

An international team of ecologists has tracked changes in the abundance of more than 1,800 species of insects that live in the forests of Europe, and found that populations have decreased over the past 10 years. The number of insects has fallen most strongly in forests, where there are many coniferous trees, including various types of pine and spruce. Scientists cannot yet pinpoint the cause of the sharp decline in the number of forest insects, but they suggest that one of the main factors is human activity.

Alain Delon put up for auction his art collection.

More than 80 works of art from the collection of French actor Alain Delon will be auctioned at Bonhams-Cornette de Saint Cyr on June 22. The collection is estimated at 4-5 million euros. Before the auction, the paintings will be shown in New York, Hong Kong, Geneva, London and Paris. The Delon collection includes works by Eugene Delacroix, Veronese, Raoul Dufy. In 2007, the actor has already sold dozens of paintings by contemporary artists. He explained this by saying that he does not share the idea of posthumous sales.

Robops Boston Dynamics will paint for a contemporary art exhibition in Australia.

Three Boston Dynamics robots will paint for the NGV Triennial contemporary art and design exhibition. It will be held in Melbourne at the end of the year, hundreds of artists are participating, including Yoko Ono, Tracey Emin, David Shrigley, Sheila Hicks and other famous creators.

A piece of agate turned out to be a dinosaur egg.

An unusual agate from the British Museum turned out to be a dinosaur egg. British scientists have found that an unusual spherical piece of agate from India, kept in the Natural History Museum in London since the 1880s, is actually a dinosaur egg almost 60 million years old. The discovery was made using computed tomography. Scientists suggest that the egg fell into the area of ​​the volcanic eruption and was covered with lava. After that, for hundreds of years, silicates were gradually washed out of the eggshell and agate was formed.

Astronomers from the Arab interplanetary station Al Amal have published a complete map of the surface of Mars.

It was made up of more than three thousand color photographs collected over two years. On the map, you can see the giant canyon system of the Mariner Valley, to the right and left of which there are areas with volcanoes. In particular, Mount Olympus with a height of more than 20 km is clearly visible - it is considered the largest in the solar system.

American car wash Take 5 uses pigeons to attract customers.

Birds fly and mark cars. A GPS tracker was attached to each pigeon to find “tagged” cars. Then, the owners of these cars are proudly presented with a coupon for a car wash at a discount, and it works.

Treasure hidden on the moon.

It will contain the key to a wallet containing 62 bitcoins (about $1.5 million). They will be received by the first one who reaches the surface of the satellite. The key to the wallet will be engraved on the MAPP Rover lunar lander, which will be launched into space later this year on a SpaceX rocket. The purpose of this space action is to inspire a new generation for interplanetary exploration.

Astronomers have discovered one of the largest black holes.

Scientists from Durham University in the UK have discovered a supermassive black hole - about 33 billion times the mass of the sun. 6 solar systems in a row can enter this hole along with their Oort clouds, which are thousands of times larger than the solar systems themselves.

The greatest creation of China.

In China, every year on the first of April they remember their greatest creation: the local company Dream Elephant wanted to release a toilet for couples. It was assumed that thanks to this invention, the ever-busy Chinese hard workers would be able to spend time together at least somewhere. Alas, the idea did not appeal to future buyers and the innovative toilet bowl remained only a concept.

Paris is voting to ban electric scooters and bicycles in the city.

The results of a survey of city residents showed that 90% are fed up with scooters - they are unsafe, their drivers do not obey any rules and are the epitome of chaos on the streets.

NASA has announced a crew that will return to the moon half a century later.

As part of the Artemis II mission next November, three Americans and one Canadian will go on the Orion ship to our planet's satellite. The journey will last 10 days, but no one will land on the surface - this will happen as part of the next mission, Artemis III.

Physicists have passed light waves through "slits in time".

The study was based on a variation of the famous double slit experiment first performed by Thomas Young in 1801. The scientist discovered the dual nature of light as particles and waves. Today, physicists have new instruments and materials to explore how light will behave if it is "subjected to double-slit interference in the time domain." The results of these experiments pave the way for the creation of new technologies based on optical phenomena. Now physicists are looking to replicate the time crystal experiment.

Scientists filmed the fish at a record depth of 8336 meters.

The video was recorded by an autonomous module lowered into the Izu-Ogasawara chute in southern Japan. Scientists believe that the snail fish is at the maximum depth at which any fish can survive. Creatures from the genus Pseudoliparis also live in shallow water, but some of them have adapted to life in extreme conditions in the cold waters of the Arctic and Antarctic or in the deepest trenches in the world. They are helped to survive by the body structure and lack of a swim bladder that many other fish have. They eat the smallest crustaceans, which are abundant even at depth.

Swedish scientists have created batteries from wood, coconuts and lemons.

To create the device, the wood structure is filled with molecules based on citrus and coconut. They turn into a polymer that allows you to store and release energy. The researchers say the battery can be recharged by sunlight or any other heat source. It allows you to adjust the temperature around the mark of 24 ° C. “The idea is that coconut molecules can go from solid to liquid, which absorbs energy, or from liquid to solid, which releases energy,” the scientists explained.