Новости за 13.03.2019

Five-year pause would give nations breathing space following the birth of the first genetically-modified children in November

As countries around the world grapple with rise of “anti-vax” sentiment, non-vaccinating parents in Italy face fines or their children being turned away from school

Blowing formic acid apart like a firework sheds light on asymmetric photochemical synthesis

Researchers suggest arts and crafts should be integrated into learning science

A 30-year study of Pluto’s nitrogen atmosphere suggests it has reached maximum pressure and will now start to form 'snow'

With academic jobs no longer the norm, universities look to adapt

Driverless cars have a problem – rotations of an object fool the best image recognition AIs, which may mean confusing a tin for a truck on the road

An AI based on DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero AI has learned to solve graph colouring problems, which have many applications including allocating aeroplanes to flight routes

Defence researchers in Russia are building a cyclocopter, which is a flying vehicle that looks more like a paddle steamer than a conventional aircraft

Bits of DNA known as gene drives that force themselves through a population could be use maliciously, but thankfully there is a way to detect them before they spread

Pangolins’ keratin scales, prized in traditional Chinese medicine, may doom them

Swedish 16-year-old Greta Thunberg will lead a global school strike this week. Thousands of children are expected to walk-out to protest climate change inaction

Chemical model reveals how alcoholism drug disulfiram joins copper to kill cancer cells with oxidation overload

Potential radio interference could hamper future hurricane tracking

The debate about whether to declare a “moratorium” on germline editing ratchets up

Silicon nanoparticles wrapped in polydopamine and graphene

Reading the parts of Romeo or Juliet in a brain scanner has shown that actors have less brain activity related to their sense of self when they take on a role

Dancing droplets

When this water droplet falls and smacks the surface below, it doesn’t just bounce back up. It pirouettes in the air. The droplet gyrates likes this because of the four slits on the surface. Aided by surface tension, these slits guide the droplet to expand into four directions upon impact instead of expanding into all directions evenly. When the droplet contracts as it bounces back up, it follows the curves of the slits, producing the spinning motion. The labs of Xi-Qiao... Читать дальше...