Science and technology

In South Korea, a production technology of solid-state batteries designed for electric vehicles and energy storage systems (ESS). According to the news Agency Yonhap News, has developed a method scientists of the Korean Institute of industrial technology (KITECH). “Instead of the traditionally used liquid electrolyte in the new lithium-ion batteries …

According to experts, it will help to close many of the problems of modern blood donation. Because every day in hospitals throughout the U.S. consumed about 16.5 thousand litres of donor blood. It is important that the blood matched the patient according to certain parameters, so that the blood types …

Scientists have proved that the ancient highlanders used psychoactive substances during the funeral rituals. In Eurasia, as scientists believe, the Smoking of pipes came after the discovery of the New world, but the practice of burning certain substances and inhaling the resulting smoke existed since ancient times. An international group …

People without sexual characteristics just the first five weeks of his life. Dvuhgolosyj and three-centimeter fetus while in the womb, already possesses or microscopic vagina or tiny penis. It is by the presence of testicles, the doctor carrying out ultrasound at the 4th month of pregnancy determines the sex of …

Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have developed a new material which holds shape when it is placed in a magnetic field. It is a composite material consisting of two components. Unlike the previous materials with shape memory, it is composed of polymer and drops of …

Established three years ago, the canadian company Li-Cycle claims that its new two-stage recycling process of lithium-ion batteries allows you to extract 80%-100% material. The company notes that most other companies specializing in the recycling of li-ion batteries, using processes based on pyrometallurgy, i.e., melting components, which ultimately yields 30% …

On the test bullets 50 caliber — piercing and General purpose — hit the armor with a plate of foamed metal at speeds of up to 885 m/s and are unable to penetrate. The shells were broken, the plate will have absorbed about 75% of the kinetic energy of impact. …

In the state Duma plan to talk about the introduction of criminal liability of doctors for public unscientific recommendations, reports radio station “Moscow speaking” with reference to the statement of a member of the Duma Committee on health protection of Alexey chicken. In his words, while it is in the …

Since ancient times, mankind was treated to dreams, as something mystical. Dreams that are repeated past events, people could still interpret from the point of view of experienced emotions. But the nature of dreams in which people saw what was happening over a period of time to accurately explain one …

At the end of last year a group of professors of the St. Petersburg mining University and the physics and power Institute (Obninsk) have made an incredible discovery which could not fail to appreciate in the world. Their work lasted from 2010, and the results deservedly received the status “opening …