Color printing on a surface the size of a grain of salt

Employees of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH) reported the smallest color image created using inkjet technology. The size of the image is so small that it can be seen only in a special microscope. It shows the clown fish floating near the aquarium plants, sea anemones. The area of ​​the image is only 0.0092 mm 2 or 80 mm x 115 mm, which is comparable to the area of ​​the cross section of a human hair.
 

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SpaceX Falcon 9 - reusable launch vehicle

US private company SpaceX has carried out the first ever controlled landing launcher.
December 21 at 20:29 local time (at 04:29 Moscow time), the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket took off into space, separated from the second stage, and then carried on by a return back to the landing site in Florida at Cape Canaveral 10 kilometers from the launch pad.
Despite the fact that the main task of the mission with which the company has successfully managed, was the delivery of eleven satellites in orbit and landing of the first stage of the rocket - a minor task. In essence, this event is much more significant, because it opens a new milestone in the space industry - the beginning of the orbital of the economy, the future is extremely promising cheap spaceflight.

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Perm CB "Aircraft Engine" developing Ukrainian analogue of the turbines for the Mi-26

Perm Design Bureau (KB) "Aircraft Engine" started developing Ukrainian analogue of turbines for heavy Mi-26 helicopters. This Tass Territory Governor Viktor Basargin.
"To replace the Ukrainian engine D-136, which are equipped with Mi-26 helicopters, the Perm enterprise" "OAO initiation of a helicopter engine PD-12B. In parallel, work on the creation of the PD-10 engine for a heavy modification of aircraft "Sukhoi Superjet", "- he said.






 

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Named the best way to long-term storage of information

Psychologists from the UK and Germany have called the best way to long-term storage of information that does not require much effort from the people using it. The results of their research published authors in the journal Hippokampus, and brief them can be found at New Scientist.
According to experts, long-term memory recently received enough information to make a break of about ten minutes. During this period of time can not be distracted by other sources of information, such as watching TV or communicate in social networks.

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The 113th element of the periodic table called Japan

The official announcement of the authorship of the 113th element of the periodic table will be held in late January, most likely, the authors call scientists from the Japanese Institute of RIKEN, and not the Russian-American group, said the Japanese media.According to the newspaper "Sankei" joint working group of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) in the IUPAC presented the outcome of the question of authorship and the conclusions that the author element should be recognized scientists RIKEN.

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The military reported the establishment of a unique launch for the "Buk-M3"

For the future of air defense of ground forces of medium-range "Buk-M3" created a unique new missile, said on Saturday, December 26, at the radio station, "Russian news service" Head of the Air Defense Forces Lieutenant-General Alexander Leonov. His words led TASS.
"In launching transporting containers [complex] there are six missiles on each self-propelled fire installation. Missiles have become more compact, but nevertheless, they fly faster, farther, and more accurately. That has created a unique new missile, which will be more likely to destroy air targets ", - he said. According to him, each installation is now not four, but six channels, which is 1.5 times increased productivity.

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Japan will be the 113th element of the periodic table

The new 113th chemical element in the periodic table, Dmitry will be called Japan. For the name of the new element now fighting teams of scientists from Russia, the US and Japan. It is reported by news agency Sputnik.
During the opening of the authorship of the 113th chemical element fighting two teams of Russian-American and Japanese. The first synthesis of element declared in 2003 after experiments conducted at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna.

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In Russia, created an unmanned vertolet- "Bomber" for fighting fires

In Russia, created an unmanned helicopter complex, allowing quickly to put out spot fire hazards. This was announced by chief designer of KB "Seeker" Moscow Aviation Institute Dmitry Dyakonov, "Interfax".
"Tests spot fire suppression systems. The unmanned helicopter "Raven 700" dumped on the seat of the fire, "fire bomb" with the flame arrested substance (powder), "- said the deacon.
According to him, during the test, "Raven 700" hung over the fire burning and dumped him "bomb" (a parachute or not), which undermines the electronic detonator at the surface, whereby the flame arrested powder sprayed over a wide area.

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Service WhatsApp messaging security against eavesdropping

The updated version of the application WhatsApp for Android now has a "pass-through» (end-to-end) encryption, which protects the default messages from being intercepted and read by unauthorized persons. This was reported in the company's blog partner WhatsApp to provide this function Open WhisperSystems.

The idea of "through" encryption that the message is encoded in the time of shipment and can only be decrypted by the user who it is intended. Thus, even if unauthorized persons will be able to intercept traffic WhatsApp, then the message will get to them in encrypted form. Moreover, decrypt messages and can not formally representatives themselves WhatsApp, because they will not be available to encryption keys, and because they can not disclose the content of correspondence, even by the court.

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In the LHC, reported the discovery of two new baryons

LHCb collaboration reported the discovery in the course of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), two new baryons. Their findings the authors published in the journal Physical Review Letters, and briefly with them can be found at CERN.

The existence of the particle and Xi_b'- Xi_b * -, discovered by scientists, it was predicted by the quark model of elementary particle physics. According to this theory, all particles involved in strong (nuclear) interaction - hadrons are composed of quarks.

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Five of the most lethal weapons in modern warfare

Although all now groan and gasp about nuclear weapons, submarines and stealth aircraft, modern war - this is usually the infantry on the ground. And the infantry small arms need.

Over the last hundred years in the nature of modern warfare occurred great changes, as an intense rivalry between the two countries has given rise to new, more deadly weapons systems. Aircraft, missiles, tanks, submarines and other inventions, which in 1914 was practically nonexistent, quickly occupied key positions in the armies of the world.

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Heart of the bioreactor

Just yesterday it seemed that the production of spare organs for our fragile body - entertaining fiction, which, who knows, maybe it is realized in the distant future. Today we are talking with a man, through which growing new organs to become a reality, and salvation for the first patients. No less surprising it seems that the most innovative transplant operations developed in the laboratory of the most advanced research in the field of regenerative medicine are not held anywhere, and we have in Krasnodar

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Micro-robots to travel inside the body

The idea of travel inside the human body and treatment of complex diseases in this way, put forward by science fiction writers in the 50-60-ies of the last century, may soon become a reality. So researchers at the Max Planck Institute are developing micro-robots that can move freely through the blood vessels, delivering drugs into the body, or making any transactions.

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Patch nanoparticles can suck bacteria from wounds

Scientists are developing a grid of nano wires capable of pulling germs from the wound, thus speeding up the healing process. Novelty was devoted to the report presented at the 61st Congress of the American Vacuum Society, and briefly about her reports Science News.

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Carbon nanotubes to help sappers

Another use of carbon nanotubes, which have previously been used in a new light source, flexible super capacitors and sensitive sensors, found researchers at the University of Utah. With their help, a team of scientists led by Professor Ling Zhang created a prototype sensor for the detection of explosives, which is also suitable for the identification of drugs and hazardous chemicals, such as nerve agents.

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Lunar Palace - a project of the Chinese lunar base

China is an active stance on the issue of lunar exploration and colonization (see. Note "On the Moon rover landed Chinese Yutu"). By the end of this year planned testing of the space program, "Chang'e-5": UAV will have to collect samples from the surface of the Moon and return them to Earth. This task will be implemented as part of the launch vehicles "Chang'e-5" and "Chang'e-6". With the completion of the mission of unmanned lunar exploration, since 2017, specialists will determine the date of a manned landing on the lunar surface, after which will begin construction of the base on the moon.

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Aerial Burton - Mobile 3D-display without screen

The Japanese company Aerial Burton continued to improve its unique development of real 3D-display capable of reproducing an image directly into the air (see. Note "Aerial Burton 3D display is building a true three-dimensional image"). One of the priorities in the study was a reduction in the size of the installation, up to the placement in the trunk of a car-SUV. This is due to the fact that the company wants to commercialize the project and expand the production of such mobile units by early 2015.

As the developers say the application of the system is possible to signal in an emergency situation when there is a necessity to build the image seen at long range, in areas where it is impossible to find a suitable location for the normal screen. For example, it can be text or pointers, hovering in the air that will inform victims about where you can get food, where there are emergency supplies, or indicate a safe path to the evacuation.

 

Technology of the air volumetric images based on the ionization of air by means of a sufficiently powerful infrared laser, capable of producing pulses with a frequency of 1,000 times per second. These pulses come in the three-dimensional scanning optical system which reflects the laser beam and focuses it at the desired point in space. The energy of the laser light ionizes the air molecules, causing them to emit photons of light in the visible range, making a point of the space pixel lit three-dimensional image.

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Bike with a jet engine

French ekstremal Zhissi Francois (Francois Gissy) set a new world speed record on a bicycle ride with a jet engine. Rider clocked up to 333 km / h in just 4.8 seconds. Participated in the experiment Ferrari car looked just a snail compared with a jet bike.

The event took place at Paul Ricard in the south of France last Friday. Rocket engine mounted on the bike was built by Exotic Thermal Engineering. Unfortunately, information about what kind of fuel system uses not disclosed. It is known that the power plant is about 560 horsepower.

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Puzzle "build a flying castle"

Flying locks always excite the imagination of not only children but also adults. Ever since the novel Dzh.Svifta "Gulliver's Travels", where the hero finds himself in the flying city of Laputa Castle dreamed of flying to see a generation of people. With the puzzle game "Hoverkraft Levitating Construction Challenge" Flying castle can not only see, but also to build.

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Transistors with carbon nanotubes

Recently, we have already presented how our world will look like in 10 years. We mentioned the creation soon faster and less power-hungry computers, which will be based on transistors made ​​from carbon nanotubes.

IBM announced that it is working intensively on the development of this technology and provides that it should come to the market before the end of the decade. This is very important because it is fast approaching the magic limiting the possibility of silicon chips that operate at 5 nanometers.

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