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If you believe that the consequences of the changeclimate will not come soon, they have to disappoint you. Numerous scientific studies show that global warming will lead to devastating consequences, including the movement of people around the planet on an unprecedented, destabilizing scale. Thus, droughts, floods, bankruptcy and famine are already forcing people to leave their homes. The situation is such that environmental hazards affectContinue Reading

In spring, summer and autumn mosquitoes pester us. Probably, all of us are enraged by their annoying squeaking at night, bites and itching on the skin caused by them. Let's reveal a secret - in fact, these insects are not created only to annoy people. They are useful in nature, because their larvae cleanse freshwater bodies, and adultsContinue Reading

New applications are constantly being found for neural networks. We have already seen how one neural network was able to write a symphony for an orchestra, and another one painted a portrait, which then went away at an auction for millions of dollars. Neural networks are also used for photo processing and entertainment: they, for example, formed the basis of the FaceApp application, which in a matter of days gained popularity all over the world.Continue Reading

About ten years ago, large manufacturerstechnicians presented the first virtual reality helmets that were available to ordinary users. There were two ways to get inside the reality created inside the computer. The first was buying expensive headsets from Oculus and HTC, which needed to be connected to a powerful computer using multiple wires. The second way was to buyContinue Reading

In 2020, the world has changed and probably forever. The pandemic of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has had a devastating effect on the way things go. According to experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), world leaders are not doing enough to prepare for future, possibly even more deadly and devastating pandemics. A new report from the independent WHO and World Bank Monitoring Council for Global Preparedness (GlobalContinue Reading

According to the World Health Organization,today, depression affects about 264 million people worldwide. Symptoms of this common mental disorder include depressed mood, loss of interest in everything around you, and more. If depression is not diagnosed in a person in time, it can lead to serious problems in life and even causeContinue Reading

Sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. These are the generally accepted five senses that most people have. Without them, we would have no music, no painting, no culinary delights. But if you discard the classic "five", then you may find that these are not all of our feelings. There are many other senses in the human body that constantly informContinue Reading

Move quickly from one point on the Earth todayto another is not difficult - just buy a plane ticket. Thousands of aircraft fly over our heads every day, at different heights and at different speeds. And so that each of them can successfully take off and land, tens of thousands of airports have been built on our planet. They consist of takeoff and landingContinue Reading

In 1620, one of the most importanthistorical events. A large group of Englishmen managed to swim across the Atlantic Ocean and found the first settlement in North America. This was made possible by the merchant ship Mayflower, which was taken over by Captain Christopher Jones. Exactly 400 years have passed since then, and in honor of this significant event, the research organizationContinue Reading

How many people do you think have come into contact withdeath and can tell about their experiences? It turns out that those who have approached her at least for a while return with eerily similar stories. To find out why a group of scientists plunged into an eerie and mysterious world, supposedly existing on the other side of life: according to the results, out of 1034 subjects from Norway, Denmark and GermanyContinue Reading