Hand made of "liquid metal"

American scientists from Binghamton University have created a hand from "liquid metal" like the Terminator! The product consists of a Fields alloy, which includes bismuth, indium and tin, and a rubber-like elastomer frame has been stretched over it. Thanks to these tricks, the structure can be deformed as you like, and after heating it returns to its original state.

The most expensive fountain

The construction of the most expensive fountain on Earth, which is located in Dubai, cost $ 218 million. The Dubai Fountain also entered the Guinness Book of Records as the largest of its kind.

Danger of marijuana for pets

Pets have become even more likely to be poisoned with cannabis after its legalization in Canada. This conclusion was reached by a team of researchers after analyzing the results of a survey of 251 veterinarians from Canada and the United States. Most often, animals fell ill due to the fact that, through an oversight, they ate dried marijuana or products with it. Although most of the affected individuals were quickly cured, sixteen deaths were reported by veterinarians.

Cementless eco-concrete

In Canada, they came up with cementless eco-concrete from waste. The new material is 30% stronger than the classic counterpart. The manufacturer uses steel slag and carbon dioxide from the surrounding air instead of cement. As a result of their contact, calcium carbonates are formed. The pilot project provides for the production of 450 tons of concrete per day, which is 25,000 bricks. With such volumes, the new technology will allow capturing about 20 tons of carbon dioxide per day.

The Large Hadron Collider is up and running again

The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has returned to work after a three-year hiatus for repairs and upgrades and has begun its third run. Today, beams of protons at an energy of 450 gigaelectronvolts began to circulate in the LHC ring for the first time. In the future, scientists plan to conduct experiments at collision energies of 13.6 teraelectronvolts.

Smart lenses

The timing of the appearance of smart lenses is predicted. The authors of the material noted that many forecasts for the 2040s say that smart lenses will appear on the market of the future. With their help, people will be able to receive information and collect data on medical indicators. Thus, experts predicted the approximate timing of the appearance of smart lenses on the market - the authors believe that this will happen no earlier than in 20 years. The main players in the smart optics market will be Google, Samsung and Sony

James Webb telescope

The James Webb telescope has become one of the coldest objects in space. The temperature of the main MIRI instrument reached -266.75 degrees Celsius. This is only 6 degrees warmer than absolute zero, at which the molecules stop moving. The telescope is almost ready to start shooting deep-sky objects

The most expensive fruit?

Yubari melon is a hybrid of two cantaloupes, the taste of which combines pungency and sweetness, spice, juiciness and sugar content of watermelon pulp, light but long pineapple aftertaste. Fruit price - $22.872

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.