A few meters from the highway along which our modern and comfortable bus rushes, or perhaps even right beneath the asphalt, lies the old Vladimirskaya Road—the “Vladimirka.” The longest road in the world, part of the legendary Siberian Highway, a…
The spaceflight enterprise Blue Origin propelled six individuals from Texas on its 15th endeavor within the burgeoning realm of space travel. Blue Origin’s NS-36 mission, a cosmic journey, witnessed its launch at 8:40 a.m. CDT from its west Texas location,…
Ancient people, using quantitative assessments of everything around them, noticed the inexplicable influence of certain numbers on various events in their lives. They attributed everything incomprehensible to magic, and this impact of assessment on natural phenomena and on humans themselves…
Three researchers from Australia, Japan, and the United States were honored with the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their contributions to the field of molecular design, the Nobel Foundation declared on Wednesday. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences presented the…
An international team of researchers from Northwestern University (USA) and Yonsei University (South Korea) analyzed medical data from more than 9 million people from two large groups (or, as scientists call them, “cohorts”) in South Korea and the United States.…
Rats are extremely adaptable, intelligent and hardy creatures, able to survive in almost any, even the most extreme conditions. Their population is especially large in cities, where proximity to humans provides constant access to food and warmth, which is a…