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A cup of hot coffee put in the refrigerator cools down instantly. Similarly, if the sun went out and its heat was suddenly "switched off", which in reality is physically impossible, the Earth, compared with the surrounding space, would remain hot for several million years after that. However, the inhabitants…
Immunotherapy against cancer, namely the recruitment of the immune system to eliminate the tumor, was considered by the «Science» magazine the main scientific breakthrough of 2013, which became a "key year" in the war against cancer. The leading magazine presents a list of the major scientific breakthroughs of 2013, from…
Despite the fact that the various interfaces and control panels that are used in the movies are aimed only to help the development of the plot, many of these devices have gained worldwide fame. Such things are used in many science fiction movies, starting with communicators from "Star Trek" and…
In short, the form of potential alien life would depend on the conditions which would exist on their planet. On planets covered with vast oceans, life can exist in the form of water creatures resembling inhabitants of our marine environments. In a world with strong gravity and dense atmosphere large,…
The future is already here: for the first time in the world, a team of Japanese scientists managed to implement teleportation! However, don't get too excited just yet, it was not a human being that was teleported. It was actually a beam of light that was moved from point A…
What is the link between quantum entanglement and a wormhole? Wormholes in the space-time continuum, which are a great method of the rapid movements between different parts of the universe, are certainly well known to the readers of science fiction. Moreover, the concept of wormholes is well described in the…
During the World's Fair in New York in 1964, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov made a number of predictions about how the world would be 50 years later. Reading them today, you can see that the author managed to predict nearly all modern technological achievements! According to Asimov, half of…
An unusual psychiatric experiment took place in Michigan in 1959. Three patients with schizophrenia who all believed they were Jesus Christ were brought together. But before that, there was a remarkable meeting in one of the clinics in the U.S. in the mid-1940s. Two patients were having a cute chat…
