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The fact that people have experienced insomnia at alltimes, one of the oldest ways to fall asleep testifies - it is believed that you just need to count sheep, cows, pigs and other animals. But this method can hardly be called effective: back in 2002, researchers from Oxford University came to the conclusion that counting sheep and other animalsContinue Reading

Today, our planet is home to approximately 7.7billion people. Almost 6 billion of them classify themselves as one of the existing religions, which means that 84% of the world population believes in one or another God. And from the point of view of how we Sapiens evolved, this is quite natural. But not reckoning yourself with any of the existing inContinue Reading

The 2002 issue of the Nature newspaper madesensational statement: according to scientists, almost half of the people who have ever lived on Earth could die from malaria. Is this disease really that dangerous? In 2018, nearly 230 million people worldwide were affected by malaria, and about 500,000 died as a result of the infection. More than 60%Continue Reading

You are deeply mistaken if you think thatthe coronavirus that has hit the world is the worst infection that could have happened to humanity in its recent history. In 1918, a flu strain known to the world as the Spanish flu caused a global pandemic that spread like a medieval bubonic plague, killing everything in its path. Although estimates of the exact number of deaths caused by the disease vary, it is believedContinue Reading

Every 8 years, some Japanese trains are forced tostop movement, because thousands of centipedes crawl out onto the railroad tracks. This usually happens in two mountainous regions and scientists for a long time could not understand why exactly this happens. Researcher Keiko Niijima began to study this phenomenon in 1972. For almost 50 years, he came toContinue Reading

One of the oldest and most fundamental questionsmankind is the question of how many years our universe has existed. Fortunately, advances in science and technology have allowed researchers to get closer than ever to the origins of the world we know: recently, astronomers from the Paranal Observatory, located high in the Andes in northern Chile, announced new data obtained during the measurement of the relictContinue Reading

Water off the coast of seas and oceans at nightsometimes it starts to glow. In some cases, this phenomenon is so beautiful that it seems that the coast has turned into a starry sky. People noticed this phenomenon for a very long time and scientists already know its cause. The fact is that a huge number of microbes live in the waters of the seas and oceans andContinue Reading

The first case of coronavirus infection wasrecorded in December 2019. Quite a long time has passed since then, during which almost the whole world was quarantined, and scientists managed to develop several vaccines. Every person experiences the disease differently. Some people have it without symptoms, but most have fever, shortness of breath and loss of smell. Unfortunately there isContinue Reading

Over the past two years, SpaceX has sentspace of more than 950 Starlink satellites. But in the future, it intends to send 12,000 objects to earth orbit, and for this it already has permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The company floods the near-earth space with satellites for good purposes, because it wants to provide Internet to even the most remote placesContinue Reading

According to data for 2010, our planet is inhabited byabout 22,000 fish species. A lot of time has passed since then, so the number of aquatic inhabitants known to science today is clearly much larger. And if extinct species are included in this list, the number of species of fish can number in the hundreds of thousands. Some of the largest fish that have ever lived on ourContinue Reading