At Cayman Islands the first part of genetically modified mosquitoes are set free – with the help of them authorities intend to fight with the spreading of Zika virus.
The experiment intends usage of male mosquitoes which do not bite. Their task is to transfer to females a gen which leads to death the slugs of insects before they reach the sexual maturity.
Genetically modified mosquitoes will be set free during nine months in the area considered as one of the habital of insects spreading Zika virus.
The opponents of the project confirm that experiments started without arrangement of sufficiently detailed investigation.
Earlier genetically modified mosquitoes started being set free in Brazil. It is expected that such a technology will also help to struggle against the spreading of malaria and dengue-fever.
Zika virus is spread in Latin America and the Caribbean through the mosquito’s bites or sexual contacts. The scientists regard that this infectious disease can cause microcephaly in newborn children.
Mothers who contracted the virus often have children with microcephaly and syndrome of Guillaine-Barré syndrome. According to the estimations of scientists, Zika virus endangers to two million people.
Flying to Mars and back a person will get approximately 60 percent of the radiation doze that is considered acceptable for the astronaut in his entire career. Russian and Bulgarian scientists came to such a conclusion on the basis of the data received from the machine Trace Gas Orbiter of mission ‘Eksomars’.
Russian scientists found out the well-kept skull of Siberian unicorn, an extinct woolly mammal Elasmotherium sibiricum from the family of rhinoceros. The age of remains is 29 thousand years. The edition Science alert writes about that.
In the piece of amber at the market in Myanmar a fragment of feathery tail of the tiny dinosaur has been found. As the scientists told, this discovery is originated from the epoch not less than ninety-nine million years ago.
One more step of the trials of the new vaccine acting against human immunodeficiency virus has started in South Africa. The scientists claim that it could become the breakthrough in the science and it could help to win over the non-curable virus.
The Patriarch of Rome arranged a meeting with the scientist Stephen Hawking in Papal Academy of science located in Vatican. It is reported by Radio Vaticana.
Astrophysics from Institute of fundamental investigations Tata found out scratch in the earth’s magnetosphere maintaining the protection of the planet from the cosmic rays and solar irradiation.
Brown stone having been found out at the South of England more than ten years ago became the first in the history of science sample of petrified celebrum of dinosaur, as the researchers confirmed.
American meteorologists gave a possible explanation to the existence of the abnormal region at the south from Miami famous as the Bermuda triangle. The appropriate video is accessible at the web-site The Independent.
Finnish researchers who concentrated on the investigation of the north light defined that it is accompanied not only with the great light show but also with specific acoustic fluctuations that can be registered with the help of the specialized equipment.
The company of Elon Mask Space X represented program on colonization of Mars. Mask is planning to build a space ship able to have reached the Red planet for three months and take enough material for the construction of the base.
The group of experts from the USA and Israel used 3D-modelling and X-rays so as to decode passage in ancient Jewish scripture that was too fragile to fold it. However, they succeeded in it.
The astronomers notices the signs of origin of a new planet in the cloud of stardust around the star TW Water Monster located in 176 light years from the Earth.
One of the recent colonies of wooly mammoths located at the island of Saint Paul near Alaska died more than five thousand years ago because of lack of drinking water, as it is explained by the scientists.
Fires that have been set up by people of the epoch of Pleistocene (finished nearly ten thousand years ago) could have encouraged the appearance and spreading of tuberculosis. This fact has been revealed by the biologists from University of New South Wales.
62-year-old professor of Oxford university sir Andrew Wiles was awarded with Abel Prize of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for Fermat theorem proving. This problem has bothered mathematicians from all over the world for several hundreds of years.
