A huge asteroid will pass Earth at the end of the year

A giant asteroid weighs 55 million tons will pass by the Earth later this year, provides NASA experts.
According to forecasts of scientists in November, the asteroid will pass between the planet and moon, and will be visible with small telescopes.

"This opportunity to see an asteroid up close was a real rarity,"said Robin Skagel, Vice-Chair of the British society for popular astronomy, reports the Daily Telegraph.

If an asteroid of this size and weight hit the Earth would have the impact as much as 65,000 nuclear bombs, and would leave behind a crater six miles wide and over 600 meters deep.

Asteroid named YU55 will go on past Earth at a distance of 320,480 kilometers. This is the first large facility that will pass so close to our planet.

NASA has been officially designated as potentially dangerous YU55 facility, but emphasized that, given its current direction, there is no reason for alarm.

YU55 asteroid orbits the Sun every 14 years. The former is passed by Earth in April 2010. years at a distance of 1.5 million years.

Lasers replace spark plugs on cars

Spark plugs in cars could soon taken lasers. A team of Japanese and Romanian scientists plan to a conference on lasers and electronic devices, introduce a special laser that can start internal combustion engines. This technology, the cars made much more economical, and greatly reduce air pollution, which occurs each time the engine ignition. Scientists on this project have already started negotiations with manufacturers auto spark plugs. Otherwise, the idea of replacing their dated long, because soon spent, and the metal of which they are made over time corrodes.

A team of scientists from Romania and Japan demonstrated a system that focuses on two or three laser beam engine in the cylinders at various depths and thus promote combustion. A few small lasers located in the cylinders, with no problem can withstand the high temperatures in the engine, a laser lasts as long as the car.

Russian fleet gets "flying saucers"

Russian experts of the Institute of Physics, "Lebedev" in Samarra said the sensational news that made ​​the so-called plasma coating for supersonic aircraft, which allows them to multiply to increase the speed of flight.

They are, furthermore, failed to clarify the mode of action of "shock waves in the middle of unbalanced" which is formed around aircraft wings. Physicists are convinced that, thanks to the management of such waves, manage to achieve unthinkable maneuver new aircraft, according to the site Radiomajak.

According to scientists Rinat Gauls, "managing these waves with the magnetic field is possible, control the plane, but it is necessary to form a plasma stream to the right place is necessary properties.

Russian scientists working out this is not the first aircraft, like "flying saucers". A year and a half in Ulyanovsk adopted five-year program to build aerostatic aircraft in which there is a location that is, except helium, full of warm and cold air (Atla).

Such a scheme makes it possible to effectively control the buoyancy force acting on the spacecraft, allowing its vertical takeoff and landing. This aircraft is due to their similar in shape to drive named "flying saucer".

Diameter of the aircraft will reach 250 meters, height about 100 meters and will cost about 2.7 billion rubles (96.9 million).

Atla is, according to scientists, virtually a new generation of airship.

Spare parts for the human body

Professor of theoretical physics, City University of New York Michio Kaku said that the year 2030. expects several important scientific discoveries, including contact lenses with Internet access.

On a prototype of such a device to Professor Babak Parviz University with Washington, which is for the London daily The Times explained that the device will be able to recognize faces or automatically translated from foreign languages.

It is expected that up to 2030. sold at the show "spare parts" for humans.

But now scientific advances make it possible to make cartilage, bone, skin, ears, nose, blood vessels, heart valves, bladder and trachea. By then, the man may acquire and telepathy.

Paralyzed but now implanted in the brain microsheme, with which they learn the power of their thoughts to write emails, play video games and surf the Internet.

Engineers at Honda corporation on this principle, create bots.

"There is likely to be scientists to 2070th able to revive the extinct animals," said Professor Kaku, forecasting what will be the scientific achievement of the show by 2100. year,

By now deciphered the genome of Neanderthal man, and in scientific circles for the prospects of a revival of the human ancestor.

"I think it would be possible when we receive the tools for genetic manipulation. Such instruments would theoretically occur sooner or later. The question is whether it is necessary to work," said Robert Lanza of corporations "Advanced technology sel.

To 2070th is expected and the emergence of technologies that will allow you to slow down the aging process, and by 2100. can be achieved imagination of scientists about the "matter that can be programmed, or a different format.

At the beginning of the 22nd century appears spaceship that could travel to the stars, scientists believe.

By then, the human civilization take victory over cancer, and is expected to "merge man and robots."

"By 2100. Will in our daily lives get reasonable robots, but we will not be separated from them, but before we ourselves become robots and partly be associated with robots," predicts scientist Rodney Brooks Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Until then come to the penetration of the space tourism, as a matter of creating a cosmic elevator.

Female brain is more active than male

Canadian scientists have found that the female brain is more active than men, which, on the other hand a better rest, transmitted  "Le Figaro". The ability of men to not think of anything was, as the newspaper said, the real fact that during the resting activity of neurons in the brain is much higher in women than in men.

Asked whether this means that the female brain can never rest, a Canadian scientist Adrian Menderk with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal says that the male brain is simply a better rest of the brain of women.

"Each brain is, in fact, constantly active, the only question to what extent, but the fact is that the male brain is better than rest of the brain of women, " she said.

Angels, who specializes in schizophrenia, the discovery came by accident while studying this disease to patients in the awake and sleepy state.

"We have not yet able to say to what extent such differences affect the social factors and hormones, " she said.

"In current circumstances, women are constantly preoccupied with different jobs and have to keep under control a lot more things than men, so that something like this is not surprising, " says angels.

3D Walls

Modern wallcoverings in three dimensions, which are made ​​of natural materials are often used in interior decoration.

Not only do they have a strong aesthetic effect, but much more practical and cost of wall paper that has been used to decorate the walls.

Modern environmental and wall coverings made ​​from recycled material and are 100% biodegradable. They are manufactured from raw materials obtained processing sugar cane.

Wall coverings in three dimensions are entitled to refreshment modern home. Their design contributions phone bearing the appearance of the home, and can be placed in any room, even in the bathroom.

Floating city

It looks like a scene from a science-fiction film, but the floating city is potentially a solution for places that natural disasters and extreme weather conditions devastated. The imposing structure would be 366 meters tall and stretched to the 279 acres, and at that point could be 40,000 people. Inside the floating city, there would be all that exists in normal capital-from the hotel, across stores and to casinos and schools. This metropolis is also equipped with gardens, a special super-fast elevators and moving walks for pedestrians.



The project was inspired by the disastrous consequences of Hurricane Katrina from 2005. which hit New Orleans. The damage was so great that the city is still in the process of rebuilding. Now a group of designers, whose base is in Boston, made ​​a new proposal for a floating city that will be located on the Mississippi River levee. The project named "New Orleans Arcology Habitat" is an acronym NOAH.

 

Structurally he can submit a strong storm shock without any consequences for residents. Kevin Schopfer, chief designer of the project, explains that the team had three main starting points in creating an amazing city.

The first challenge is to overcome the psychological and physical vulnerability caused by natural disasters. The need to ensure stable and secure environment is paramount for long-term recovery and prosperity of New Orleans. Another challenge was that New Orleans has too much water. The city is built on the sea and below sea level, making the water level is still high, even at risk of flooding and stormy. Third, the city is built in wet conditions, soil contains layers of mud, silt and clay. Such conditions bring a broad range of difficulties. Our solution to overcome these challenges is to take advantage of the first presentation of controversial issues of urban floating platforms - Schopfer said.

Although the initial idea to be built in New Orleans, the designers believe that similar projects could be practiced in any other urban area on the coast.
In addition to apartment blocks, this city would also have schools, commercial buildings, hotels, casinos, parking. This project is an incredible resource that improves the current expectations of New Orleans. This is the gate of a new era of development of urban areas - said Schopfer.