The Japanese make dreams come true - a drug has been created that mimics sports.

The main component of the drug is the aminoindazole derivative locamizadol (LAMZ). It stimulates the growth of muscle cells and osteoblasts. The effectiveness of the drug was tested on laboratory mice. Over time, scientists have identified an increase in the width of muscle fibers, as well as an increase in muscle strength.

The second life of fishing nets.

BMW will use recycled fishing nets to create plastic in its vehicles. At the moment, about 20% of BMW's plastic is made from recycled materials.

GM purple tomato has been approved in the US.

After more than a decade of development, the USDA has recognized the nutrient-enhanced purple tomato as safe to grow. The tomato has been gene-edited to produce 10 times more antioxidants than pre-existing varieties.

Scientists have figured out why sharks dance round dances.

It turns out that giant sharks in the North Atlantic gather and swim in circles to have a "speed date". The shark evaluates the maximum number of potential partners and chooses the right one for itself. The "speed date" involves from 6 to 23 sharks.

China is testing a levitating car.

A 2.8 ton concept was seen on one of the tracks - the car literally hovers above the surface at a height of 3.5 centimeters. According to journalists, the car was able to reach a speed of 240 kilometers per hour.

Unusual interview.

The world's most advanced humanoid robot Ameca said in an interview that androids will never take over the world. The creators noted that they did not prepare answers in advance. Ameca runs on the advanced GPT-3 language model and composes the answers itself.

Hungarian women are required to listen to the fetal heartbeat before an abortion.

The Hungarian government has amended the rules for abortion. Since September 15, doctors have been required to show the vital signs of the fetus to women wishing to have an abortion. For example, pregnant women will be forced to listen to his heartbeat.

They decided to save rare Australian birds with the help of dog urine.

Ornithologists at Deakin University have figured out how to protect rare Australian plovers from invasive foxes that eat eggs and chicks. To repel predators, dog urine will be poured near the nests of waders. Foxes are afraid of dogs, so they will stay away, and plovers will grow up in safety.

SpaceX continues to write history before our very eyes.

The corporation has made a record 52 launches over the past 52 weeks. Once a week, the Elon Musk apparatus flies steadily into orbit. Moreover, one of the upper stages was recently used for a record 14th time.

Engineers from Japan and Singapore have created a self-loading cockroach control system.

It is fixed on the upper part of the insect, stimulates its cirriform organs with electrical impulses and thereby makes it turn in the right direction. And a flexible solar panel on the back of the cockroach recharges the electronics without interfering with its movements.

The electrician became the king of the British Isle.

Peel is part of the kingdom, but every ten years they choose their own ruler. The island is famous for its old tavern and 900-year-old castle ruins. Now they have a new owner: 33-year-old electrician Aaron. During his coronation, he was doused with beer and seated on a beer barrel throne. Aaron will keep order and will be able to knight those who will be useful to the island.

"The Elon Musk Law"

UCLA Law School will launch a course called "The Elon Musk Law" based on the lawsuits of Tesla and SpaceX corporations, as well as Elon Musk personally. Course instructor Professor Stephen Bainbridge believes that the popularity of the billionaire will really attract students. The program will cover cases related to Tesla's purchase of SolarCity, the delayed acquisition of Twitter, compensation to Tesla's CEO, securities investigations, and potential conflicts of interest in his business dealings.

A material has been created that can "feel" and "think".

Scientists have proven that almost any material can be used to create integrated circuits capable of performing computational operations. In particular, specialists managed to mechanically process information and integrate it into a soft polymer. Usually this technology is used in silicon semiconductors, but it has a counterpart in nature - the properties of nervous tissue. Scientists from Pennsylvania decided to test it in soft materials like the brain. The polymer used reconfigurable circuitry so that external stimuli were captured and converted into electrical information that could then be processed to produce output signals. This approach can be used to detect radio frequencies and send light signals - for example, for autonomous search and rescue systems.

In the Andes, ancient Indian dams are being restored to combat drought.

In the Peruvian Andes in the Pamparomas region, due to drought, they began to restore the dams of the ancient Indians, built in the pre-colonial era. Thanks to one of them, they hope to collect 15,000 cubic meters of water when it rains. It is always dry in the Andes from May to September. But due to climate change, it has become even less rainy. Farmers are worried about the harvest of barley, root crops and alfalfa, a perennial legume. If the land does not generate income for half a year, many families will have nothing to live on.

"The northernmost island in the world" turned out to be an iceberg.

In the summer of 2021, a group of Danish and Swiss scientists accidentally found "a piece of land closest to the North Pole" measuring 30 by 60 meters. It was called Qeqertaq Avannarleq - "the northernmost island" in Greenlandic. But it turned out to be an iceberg. The study showed that there is water under Qeqertaq Avannarleq. So it's not an island, but a flat iceberg. It probably broke off from a nearby glacier. Gravel could get on it during landslides. So far, Oodaak Island, 780 meters southeast of Qeqertaq Avannarleq, claims the title of the northernmost point of the Earth. But now his status is also in question.

The flu shot can reduce the risk of a stroke.

Annual flu vaccination may be associated with a lower risk of stroke. These conclusions were reached by Spanish scientists during a study involving almost 86,000 people over 40 years old. Since the study is an observational study, scientists cannot say that it is the flu shot that reduces the risk of stroke. So far, only the connection between the two events has been established. More information is needed to draw firm conclusions.

Cargo ships decided to bypass Sri Lanka for the safety of blue whales.

There is a large population of these animals around the island, so animal rights activists have long demanded a change in logistics routes. Over the past ten years, at least 12 blue whales have died due to collisions with container ships near Sri Lanka. These are the largest modern animals. They grow up to 30 meters in length, weigh up to 150 tons and live for about 80 years. The species is under threat of extinction.

Pigeons have surpassed mammals in brain efficiency.

A gram of pigeon brain consumes, on average, 2.5 times less glucose than the brain of mammals of comparable size, and 3.5 times less per neuron, the German scientists found. The reason for such a high energy efficiency of avian neurons has not yet been precisely determined, but, most likely, the matter is in the histological features of the nervous tissue and the temperature of the brain.

Men's brains shrink when they become fathers, scientists have found.

The study involved forty volunteers from two countries who were preparing to become fathers for the first time. They underwent MRI examinations before their partner's pregnancy, during it, and also several months after the birth of the child. The results showed that in fathers, unlike mothers, the structure of the limbic system of the brain, which is responsible for motivation and internal reward, does not change with the birth of a child. But the restructuring occurs in the cerebral cortex, affecting the visual cortex and areas associated with the network of the passive mode of the brain. Perhaps the changes in the brain are designed to help fathers more easily recognize their child and be more willing to respond to him, the authors of the study say.

In Japan, they released the NFT to reward officials.

The Japanese government has issued non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a reward for local officials who excel in the use of digital technologies. The first awards were presented during the Summer Digi Denkoshien 2022 event. Seven mayors received NFTs.