A consortium of ten of the largest oil and gas companies in the world promised, Friday - the day when the global Paris climate change agreement came into force - that in the next ten years will invest $1 billion in technologies to combat the global warming, informs Reuters. The initiative of OGCI, led by the general directors of the following companies: Saudi Aramco, Royal … [Read more...]
Saturn’s rings – a cemetery of the Moons and of the small planets
The emblematic rings of the gigantic gaseous planet Saturn, as well as those less known of the gigantic Neptune and Uranus are made of pieces of raw material derived from all the planets like Pluto that remained for too long in the vicinity of these planets, being destroyed by the strong gravitational attraction developed by them, according to a new study. Astronomers believe … [Read more...]
The scientists reproduced a beer from the Age of Iron
A team of experts worked together with a beer factory from Milwaukee to reproduce an alcoholic drink discovered inside a funeral site dating from the iron age, in Germany, informs the Live Science. In spite of the fact that the acid soil dissolved the human remains, the archaeologists found in the necropolis weapons made of metal and a cauldron, dating between the years 400 - … [Read more...]
France inaugurates the particle accelerator Spiral2, to decipher the origins of the atomic nucleus
A new particle accelerator, Spiral2, was launched in Caen, France, with the purpose of finding which are the origins of the atomic nucleus, to decipher the substance and existence's secrets, according to some materials published by AFP and RFI. After a long period of time when it was believed that the atoms are the smallest parts (indivisible) of the substance, at present it is … [Read more...]
According to the science, the age at which we have the first child is written in the DNA
The scientists identified 12 areas of DNA sequence associated with the age at which a person has the first child, and with the total number of children that will have along the life. This study, to which worked over 250 sociologists, biologists and geneticists from several institutions in the world, was published on Tuesday in 'Nature Genetics', informs the Science Daily. About … [Read more...]
The industrial robots, from 1.8 million now to 2.6 million in the next 3 years
The technology already plays a major role in the industrial sector, at present there are 1.8 million industrial robots and in three years the number will go up to about 2.6 million, according to the Global CEO Survey 2016. The leaders of the business take these changes into consideration and integrate them into their strategy. According to the PwC poll, 77% of the executives … [Read more...]
The office in which Adolf Hitler died, rebuilt in an ex-Nazi bunker
In a former bunker of five floors, built in the era of the National-Socialism in Berlin, was created a replica of the office in which Adolf Hitler committed suicide swallowing cyanide and which provides an extensive documentation about the history of the Nazism, according to EFE. Under the title 'Dokumentation Führerbunker', an exhibition that shows events from the Second World … [Read more...]
The American scientists claim to have discovered the youth elixir and that they started to test it on people
The American scientists claim that they discovered a natural compound that can be found in avocado, broccoli, cabbage and cucumber, which has 'outstanding anti-aging effects in the case of the mice' and which could work on people, too. The research was published in the Cell Metabolism Journal, informs Science Daily. The researchers who started the clinical tests on a small … [Read more...]