Ticket to Mars

Elon Musk said that everyone can buy a ticket to Mars - it will cost only $100,000. The main goal is to make travel to Mars reasonably affordable. To build a city on Mars, you need to attract about 1 million people. The businessman wants to show the red planet to anyone who wants it. He claims that anyone can work or take out a loan to accumulate a notional amount of $100,000.

Nile crocodile

The Nile crocodile is very experienced and successful in swimming. It usually dives for 2-3 minutes, but can stay underwater for up to 2 hours. It submerges completely and silently under the water, forcing the air out of its large lungs. The Nile crocodile swims very fast underwater. The tail helps to develop speed in water up to 30 km / h.

Interesting facts about dolphins

The communication system of dolphins is so developed that each dolphin has its own name, which he calls out to when relatives address him. They have about the same number of levels of organization of sounds as a person: six. That is: sound, syllable, word, phrase, paragraph, context. There are also dialects. In nature, only two species of mammals have sex for pleasure - humans and dolphins.

The largest venomous snake

The king cobra is the largest venomous snake. It is a common misconception that this is one of the most venomous snakes in the world (although this is McCoy's taipan of the genus taipans, with poison 180 times more potent than cobra venom, and some other species)

Interesting facts about corn flakes

Corn flakes were invented as a cure for sex drive. Corn flakes were created in the 19th century by Dr. John Kellogg to reduce the sex drive in men. They were not sweet and were served for several years for breakfast at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Later, the doctor's brother realized that the masturbation cure didn't work, added sugar to them, and sold them commercially, creating the first cereal company.

Guinness book record

In Argentina, they baked a 5-meter pancake. At the pancake and tortilla festival in the city of Mercedes, a pancake was prepared that can claim the Guinness world record as the largest. Cooks spent 1199 kg of flour and 1599 kg of melted fat

Creative fishing

A guy from Shanghai decided to get creative with the issue of subsistence during the lockdown and caught an ornamental carp from an artificial pond with the help of a drone. Recall that a hard lockdown has now been introduced in China. Therefore, the inhabitants had problems with food.

News from Tesla

Tesla has installed a new 360MWh Megapack worth over $135 million 30km south of Las Vegas. The facility consists of 528,084 solar panels generating more than 500,000 MWh of energy per year, avoiding 400,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year. In this way, Megapack will help power 60,000 homes.

Japanese robots

In Japan, they created a humanoid railway robot. The point is that the operator is in the control cabin, and the robot itself repeats its movements outside. This will reduce the risk of injury when working with high-voltage wires or at high altitudes.

Fancy Steaks

London restaurants are ready to serve steaks made from synthetic tiger meat. Primeval Foods said it has entered into agreements with several restaurants in London to add tiger and other exotic meat dishes to their menus, which will be obtained through laboratory-grown protein mass. Most importantly, the risks for wildlife will be reduced, which will no longer be perceived as a source of food, as well as the improvement of technologies for growing artificial meat will solve the global problem of world hu

Windows 11

Windows 11 lost in popularity to Windows XP. The researchers came to such a disappointing conclusion. 80.34% use Windows 10, Windows 7 is preferred by 4.70% of users. 0.04% use Vista and 1.71% use 20 year old XP. But that's still more than 1.44% adoption of Windows 11.

New in HIV treatment

Immunologists have tried to achieve remission in HIV-infected patients with a cocktail of two antiviral antibodies. Antibody injections allowed trial participants to live 20 weeks without standard antiviral therapy and several more months without treatment at all. Most of the subjects then had to return to standard therapy, but in two people the remission lasted at least a year. Next, researchers will have to figure out exactly how antibodies affect the intact reservoir and look for a way to shrink it more - perhaps somehow combining antibodies with antiretroviral therapy.

Advertising slogans

Specialists from the IT company Appier taught artificial intelligence how to create advertising slogans. Specialists trained a special mathematical model to create marketing campaigns based on previously approved advertising slogans. The neural network they described is capable of processing almost 30 billion requests per day.

New alloy

NASA innovators have developed the world's strongest metal alloy for the aircraft industry using a 3D printing process. GRX-810 is twice as strong as current alloys, 3.5 times more resistant and 1000 times better at handling high temperatures.

The most powerful electric car

The Australian company Deus showed the most powerful electric car - Vayanne. They promise 2200 hp. and a torque of 2000 Nm. Acceleration to 100 km/h takes less than two seconds, and a top speed of 400 km/h. A total of 99 copies will be released. Other details will be revealed closer to the start of the first deliveries in 2025. The cost is currently unknown.

Stress and gray hair

Scientists from Columbia University have confirmed that there is indeed a connection between stress and the occurrence of gray hair. However, when the stress level dropped, the hair color of the subjects was restored. For example, one of the participants went gray on vacation. Researchers attribute these processes to chemical changes in hair cells during the growth stage.

Big green labyrinth in Tentegorra

This is the largest maze in Spain. It has twelve entrances, symbolizing the signs of the zodiac. The height of the walls is 2.5 m. There are two routes through the labyrinth: easy and difficult. In the center there is a tower with an observation deck, from where you can admire the labyrinth from above.

Discovery in neuroscience

The absence of a part of the brain involved in speech processing did not stop a person from learning two languages ​​and getting a degree. Evelina Fedorenko, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked for several years with a patient without a part of the brain that is involved in speech processing. Despite the lack of a left temporal lobe, she speaks fluent English and Russian, has a degree, and has had an "impressive" career. Scientists did not know before that whether the frontal lobes could form in the absence of the temporal lobes, but the experience of the patient Fedorenko showed that they can. A series of experiments confirmed that her language abilities are in no way inferior to those of neurotypical people.

New startup

Startup Space Perspective showed the interior of balloons for space tourism. The ball will rise into the stratosphere to a height of 30-40 kilometers. It will not reach outer space, which begins above the mark of 100 kilometers. The flight duration will be six hours. Space Perspective expects to organize the first launches at the end of 2024. The ticket will cost $125,000.

The negative impact of electronic cigarettes on brain health

For the study, biologists exposed lab mice to JUUL e-cigarette vaporizers three times a day, using some of the most popular flavors: mint and mango. The researchers then looked at signs of inflammation throughout the body. It turned out that the strongest changes occurred in the brain: several markers responsible for inflammation were increased there. However, the expression of inflammatory factors was seen in the colon. In the heart, scientists tracked a decrease in the level of inflammatory markers. The state of immunosuppression of the heart can make heart tissue more vulnerable to infection. In the lungs, biologists found no signs of tissue inflammation, but numerous changes in gene expression were observed in the samples.