Britain announced a prize in 10 million pounds for a scientific solution of one of the greatest problems of our time , according to the BBC.
Experts offered a list of six problems. Till June 25 they need to choose burning one and determine the winner – a person who proposes the best way to solve it. In shortlist , among others, are the problem of world hunger and creation of a system of seawater desalination.
According to the Award curator Jeff Malgena it may take several years to announce the name of the winner.
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.
The word ‘brexit’ meaning exit of Britain from European Union appeared in Oxford dictionary of English language. The lexicographers report that after its apparition this word spread with the jaw-dropping speed.
The private British schools are going to make contributions up to ten thousand of free-of-charge places for education of children from the families with the low level of income.
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.
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.
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.
