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Scientists invent ‘self-healing’ material

news | Feb 08, 2019 | Science & Education | 5

A team of researchers from the University of Southern California have created a material capable of healing itself after being damaged. This discovery opens new horizons for humanity.\n

Physicists make laser juggle

news | Feb 08, 2019 | Science & Education | 1 | 3

The discovery was made by researchers from Germany and Sweden. Using a laser beam, they suspended tiny glycerol droplets in the air and witnessed an amazing phenomenon.\n

Moon base concept revealed

news | Feb 07, 2019 | Science & Education | 1 | 4

The project was created by Greek students from the National Technical University of Athens in collaboration with the ESA (European Space Agency).\n

Correcting genetic mistakes with CRISPR/Cas

articles | Feb 06, 2019 | Science & Education | 4

CRISPR/Cas is one of the most promising technologies developed in the field of genetic engineering in the past few years. Scientists have managed to transform bacterial immune systems, allowing them to make precise modifications to any organism’s genome. Some of the potential applications of this technology are treatment of hereditary diseases, creation of next-level antibiotics, and genetic modification of animals and plants.

Robots can now play Jenga

news | Feb 05, 2019 | Science & Education | 7

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is famous for extensive research in the emerging field of robotics. This time, they taught a robot to play Jenga.

Hubble discovers a new galaxy

news | Feb 01, 2019 | Science & Education | 3

The telescope's discovery happened quite by accident. This case clearly shows how little we know about the world in which we live.

A 500 year experiment

news | Jan 30, 2019 | Science & Education | 3

In 2014, a grandiose project was launched to determine the age limit of long-lived bacteria. It will take half a millennium.

The black hole Sagittarius A* will be photographed

news | Jan 29, 2019 | Science & Education | 5

Images of black holes have always been difficult to capture. But now this problem has been solved, and the first snapshot of a strange space object is waiting for us.\n

Europe gets ready to conquer the Moon

news | Jan 28, 2019 | Science & Education | 4

Mass media outlets haven’t paid much attention to the European Space Agency’s space programme. And it is in vain, because the ESA has been stepping up its efforts in this area.\n

Scientists Unveil the Origin of Life of Earth

news | Jan 25, 2019 | Science & Education | 4

There are questions that have for centuries occupied the minds of leading thinkers. The answer to one of them has finally been found.

Professor Avi Loeb talks about mysterious interstellar object Oumuamua

interviews | Jan 23, 2019 | Science & Education | 3

On October 19, 2017, scientists discovered an interstellar object passing through the Solar System. The asteroid was named Oumuamua. The unusual cigar-shaped object had an uncommon trajectory and had likely...

Insects to Help Create IA

articles | Jan 20, 2019 | Science & Education | 3

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense (DARPA) has announced a competition to create a model of the nervous system of a gadfly (a winged insect). The prize fund is $1...

Rainfall on Titan

news | Jan 18, 2019 | Science & Education | 4

Scientists thoroughly analyzed the data obtained by Cassini spacecraft and came to the conclusion that there was a rainfall on Titan (Saturn’s moon). This natural phenomenon was recorded at the north pole...

The Large Hadron Collider Will Get Even Bigger

news | Jan 17, 2019 | Science & Education | 3

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a 28-kilometer particle accelerator at the border of Switzerland and France. In 2012 it lead to the discovery of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle, and other successful...

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that might be made ofliquid water

news | Jan 09, 2019 | Science & Education | 3

The planet in the constellation Reticulum is almost three times the Earth's radius

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A Robot Smaller Than a Bacterium: How Scientists Created a Microscopic “Cleaner” Powered by Light

articles | Sep 09, 2026 | Med & Bio

Robots can assemble cars, deliver packages, and even perform surgery. But researchers at the University of Würzburg decided to go in the opposite direction and created a machine so tiny that even a bacterium looks large next to it.

Chinese Cosmonauts Successfully Synthesize Oxygen in Space for the First Time

news | Jun 01, 2026 | Science & Education

The crew of the Shenzhou-19 mission has conducted an experiment that could forever change the rules of the game in space exploration. Chinese cosmonauts have, for the first time in the world, successfully synthesized oxygen and rocket fuel components using artificial photosynthesis directly in orbit.