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Rats play hide-and-seek, and a giant leech hides at the bottom of the sea
That only scientists do not study what they are not looking for, and in addition and find in the course of their scientific experiments and searches. Judge for yourself. We watched and watched the videos on YouTube by neurobiologists from Germany. And were inspired by the contemplation of frames, where the owners of pets demonstrated how their pets play. And pets are different. Including rats, which, as you know, are very easy to train and willing to play with people and even with each other. For example, I saw this for myself when I was holding a boy's rat...
6 лет назад
Russian ophthalmologists are eliminating the postoperative period and returning vision in 10 minutes
Operational intervention is one of the most common methods of restoring sight to people. It is hard to imagine that about 650,000 operations are performed in front of the eyes every year. In Russia alone, I perform eye surgery on more than 30 thousand patients a year. Nowadays, eye surgeries are not difficult. But in the postoperative period, some complications are also possible. After all, the operated eye must be treated with special medications. It's hard to calculate the dosage The difficulty...
6 лет назад
Squirrels listen to birds singing and scientists listen to whales singing
The song doesn't just help you build and live. Especially if it is performed by whales or birds. What scientists have learned from listening to the songs of whales and watching squirrels listen to the songs of birds - read in my lyrics. It turns out that not only birds sing, but also whales. The melodic sounds that whales make are called songs by biologists. Scientists have been able to learn the detailed route of whales' migration by singing humpback whales. And having paid attention to how...
6 лет назад
There are still lions in Africa, but there's no monster in Loch Ness
While all those who are not lazy have been searching for evidence of the existence or nonexistence of the monster in Loch Ness Lake for more than a century, English scientists have been counting lions in Africa. Mythical ancient animal, the evidence of which has not been found yet, if there is one, it will live for several centuries, but the lions in Africa are already in trouble. And if the situation does not change, the lions may soon become as mythical as the Loch Ness monster. And mankind will see lions only in zoos, circuses and pictures...
6 лет назад
Salmonella bacteria are asleep and AIDS viruses are hiding
Researches of scientists directed on clarification of behavior of pathogenic bacteria and dangerous viruses in a human body are constantly carried out. So, in one of such researches, the Swiss and Swedish experts have found out that bacteria can spread not only because they become steady against medicines which the person takes against them. And Belgian scientists have found out where the AIDS viruses hide during remission to cause an exacerbation of the disease after a while. Interesting? Read more in my text...
6 лет назад
An observatory will be built in Lebanon, and China, meanwhile, has recorded new space signals
All my life mankind has been looking at night into the starry sky, trying to understand what is happening where the distant stars shine. And only a few decades people have the opportunity to observe the distant celestial bodies at a new level, not in the primitive medieval telescopes. For supervision over heavenly bodies build more and more new observatories. At an altitude of more than three kilometers So they decided to build an observatory in Lebanon. The building of the new science center will be located at an altitude of more than three thousand meters...
6 лет назад
In Russia, an autonomous underwater robot will be assembled, and in India, a three-person spacecraft will be built
Underwater depths, like space, have always lured people. And there and there is still a lot of unexplored things. But how to penetrate the depths of the seas and oceans? The task has not been solved yet. Russia is planning to create a new type of underwater robot to study the depths of the World Ocean. It will be fully autonomous and equipped with manipulators. It is assumed that the robot will be able to work in the Arctic conditions, which can not be called extreme. And it is necessary to study them...
6 лет назад
Stem cells treat corneal diseases and protein blockages restore the retina
Science doesn't standstill. Scientists have learned how to restore sight even to those who have not seen before the operation. How - read in my text. Unfortunately, with age, and some people even in young years, for various reasons, there are problems with vision. But how would I like to keep good eyesight until the very old age? Alas, not everybody can do it. But science is not in place. Scientists are developing methods of treatment of eye diseases, which, I believe, will be applied in due course everywhere...
6 лет назад
Hypertension affects mental capacity, and Mondays increase the risk of a heart attack
Interesting patterns associated with hypertension and stress have been identified by American and Polish scientists. The first concluded that the mental abilities of older people are negatively affected by arterial hypertension. The second is that stress on the first working day of the week, Monday, contributes to a heart attack. More than 1 billion people worldwide suffer from hypertension High blood pressure today is not only a disease of people of age but also of young people. The figure of 1 billion people is given by the American Association of Cardiologists...
6 лет назад
Under the microscope: the bacteria on the shoe sole are not dangerous and the nanoparticles will be removed by a nano-vacuum
Most of us don't think about whether the bacteria we bring to our shoes from the street are dangerous. But someone thinks they are dangerous. And these people are right. But not enough to rush to wash shoes with antibacterials every time we visit the street. As it turned out, for most adults, such bacteria brought from the street on the soles of the shoes do not pose a threat of bacterial contamination. This has been proven in research by Lisa Kochar, a professor at Quinnipek University. The University is located in Connecticut...
6 лет назад