White card.

In Portugal, for the first time in the history of football, the referee showed not a yellow or red card, but a white one. According to the rules, it encourages the noble behavior of the players. So the referee of the women's match thanked the doctors who helped the football player.

Refueling test at Starbase.

The other day, Starship passed the first full-fledged refueling test at Starbase in conditions close to real flight preparation. For the first time, the ship and the first stage were fully refueled with more than 4,500 tons of fuel. This test will help verify the full sequence of operations during the pre-launch countdown, as well as the performance of the Starship and the launch pad in preparation for the actual flight.

The best thermal grease is ketchup, it turned out during an unusual experiment.

A user of a computer forum decided to check what improvised materials can be used instead of thermal paste. Heinz sauce (71°C), beloved by many, showed itself best of all, Sensodyne toothpaste had a slightly worse result (from 63°C to 90°C), but cheese, potatoes and baby cream, all of a sudden, are not suitable for replacing thermal paste .

In France, they created a backpack with an airbag.

At the same time, it can be used in everyday life, including a laptop. The backpack is paired with a smartphone app. It can call rescuers in the event of an airbag deployment and send them the GPS coordinates of the incident.

Unusual cafe "Capi Neko Cafe" in Japan

Visitors order drinks and sit with a baldezhny rodent - a capybara. The capybara is the world's largest living rodent, and although they are native to South America, they are so beloved in Japan that they even have an anime character dedicated to them. Usually capybaras are kept in zoos, but Tawashi is a friendly capybara who loves to hang out with visitors and sleep on the couch, and seems happy to be around cats and people. More and more cat cafes, including Capi Neko Café, are rescuing cats from the street and looking for a new home for them. The staff hopes that by spending time with the cats at the cafe, customers will be able to form a bond with one or more animals and take them for themselves.

A neural network for creating a 3D human avatar.

Microsoft introduced a neural network capable of creating a 3D human avatar from a single photo and a small text description. The final model can be edited - change the hair color and hairstyle, add vegetation, glasses and other notable features. So far, only a demo is available, but they promise to make the tool publicly available soon.

Looking for a job - ChatGPT will help you.

The founder of the company decided to check whether it is possible to deceive his HRs using a neural network and he succeeded - recruiters liked the resume written by ChatGPT more than 80% of other applicants.

Carnivorous plants evolved and began to eat the feces of animals.

Nepenthes - carnivorous plants - began to change their diet. They evolved and began to collect droppings of small mammals. It is more nutritious than insect excrement and provides plants with more nitrogen. To eat in a new way, the plants had to secrete more nectar with a natural laxative in the composition. These costs paid off: the tissues of the fecal-eating Nepenthes turned out to have almost twice as much nitrogen as in plants that eat traditional prey.

In the sky of Turkey, there was a rare natural phenomenon recently - a lenticular cloud.

The shape of the cloud was discussed the most, many said that it looked like an eye, but there were also those who thought about the vulgar.

More than 250 fossilized titanosaur eggs have been found in India.

In the Indian Narmada Valley, paleontologists have discovered the largest nesting site for titanosaurs - a thousand-kilometer stretch. It was possible to find 256 fossilized eggs in 90 nests of pangolins that lived 67 million years ago. It turned out that titanosaurs made masonry, like crocodiles - in shallow pits. At the same time, the reproductive physiology of ancient pangolins was similar to modern birds. In addition, they nested in colonies.

The surgeons sewed the patient's completely severed scalp.

Danish doctors performed a microsurgical operation to reattach the severed scalp to a woman whose hair was caught in a core drill. The damage affected the entire scalp and the area of the forehead up to the eyebrows. With the help of vascular anastomoses, the surgeons managed to restore the nutrition of the sutured tissues, and after five months the sensitivity returned to the patient.

The British Museum has banned calling mummies mummies.

The London British Museum and the National Museums of Scotland have dropped the term "mummy". As an alternative, he is offered the phrase "mummified man" or "mummified remains". The word "mummy" is not a misnomer, but it dehumanizes the people who once lived. At the same time, the use of the term "mummified person" encourages visitors to treat them with respect.

In Australia, found the world's largest toad weighing 2.7 kg.

The park ranger who discovered the animal initially mistook it for a soccer ball.

Apple devices save animals.

Apple devices save animals. AirTag saved the life of an Australian Shepherd puppy. While walking with his owner, a dog named Seamus fell into a fast-moving storm drain, after which she was quickly carried away by the current. The owners of the dog turned to the rescuer for help, and they were able to quickly track the coordinates of the lost dog using the AirTag on the collar. Seamus was found at the bottom of a drainpipe and successfully pulled out. He was lucky - he did not receive any damage.

The largest moon in the last 1000 years.

On the night from Saturday, January 21 to Sunday, January 22, the Earth's satellite approached at a distance of 356,568 km from us. The last time he was so close to our planet in 1030. According to experts, the inhabitants of the Earth will not be able to see such a huge Moon, because the new moon is an invisible phase: the Moon disappears from view for several days. We add that this new moon marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year according to the lunar calendar. And the next time the Moon will be so close to the Earth only after 345 years.

NASA has approved the concept of the spacecraft.

He is able to get to Mars in just 45 days. The reactor of such a ship will be nuclear. The combination of a peaceful atom and electricity has long looked like a sweet pie for astronautics. And now, they took it seriously.

In China, the tactic of limiting playtime in children was recognized as successful.

A report from China's Game Industry Group stated that 75% of children have actually succumbed to the law and play for about three hours a week. Parents, according to the organization, like it very much. And since the vast majority of adults are happy with the ban, it will be extended.

The Swiss placed solar panels between the rails to save space.

High population density motivates to search for non-standard solutions. The country already has floating and high-altitude power plants. Now the railways will also help to produce energy: solar panels were laid between the rails using a special wagon. The 10 km long experimental section will generate 2 MW of energy. This is enough for an ordinary family for about six months.

Boston Dynamics boasted of their achievements.

In a new video, Atlas' bipedal robot helps a man at a construction site. What a piece of iron can do: carry boards, jump on scaffolding with a tool bag and do epic somersaults.

Japan pays families 1 million yen to move to the countryside.

The government will pay 1 million yen (about $8,000) for every child in families who move from Tokyo to the countryside. The main goal of this scheme is to reduce overcrowding in the capital and revitalize outlying areas of Japan by attracting youth and promoting entrepreneurship. At the new location, at least one family member must open a business or take a job in a small or medium-sized enterprise. If they decide to leave after spending less than five years in the village, they will have to return the entire amount.