A new land speed record is planned - over 455 km/h.

On the Tachyon Nb electric motorcycle from the American company Lightning, they plan to set a land speed record - to overcome the mark of 455 km/h. To achieve these results, the body of the motorcycle has been optimized in a wind tunnel and made of a special niobium material. Nb has been used in brake discs to improve their performance at high temperatures and added to the on-board charger to improve reliability and efficiency. The exact date of the attempted record race has not yet been named.

Chinese engineers plan to 3D print a hydroelectric dam.

Scientists from Beijing have developed a plan to build a 181-meter-high dam using robots, 3D printing and artificial intelligence. In this case, completely without direct human participation. The hydroelectric power plant will be able to provide electricity to a city like Beijing.

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Daniel Radcliffe broke about 80 wands during the filming of Harry Potter because he used them as drums.

Scientists have obtained diamonds from plastic bottles.

During the experiment, scientists fired intense laser flashes at a thin sheet of PET plastic used to make beverage bottles. Powerful pulses heated it up to 6,000 degrees Celsius and created a shock wave that, in a few nanoseconds, compressed the substance to a pressure millions of times higher than atmospheric pressure. The scientists found that this produced diamonds several nanometers in size. A similar process occurs on the ice giants of the solar system - Uranus and Neptune. The experiment of scientists made it possible to confirm that diamond rain really falls on them.

In Italy, a woman with a transplanted uterus gave birth for the first time.

On the island of Sicily, a woman gave birth after a womb transplant. This is the first such case in the country. A girl weighing 1.6 kilograms was born prematurely, doctors are watching her.

The British will feed the starving Africans with caterpillars and locusts.

UK charities have donated £350,000 to edible insect breeding projects in Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to British food technologists, the new food will be more nutritious than corn, which is popular in Africa.

Apple decided to make smartphones and other equipment from "waste" without using the Earth's resources.

Tim Cook said it was important for Apple to produce products in an environmentally friendly way: "Whether it's the materials used or the recycling of materials, we want to make the Earth a better place." Cook also said that Apple itself has achieved carbon neutrality, and by 2030 hopes to achieve carbon neutrality in the supply chain and new products that will be produced without using the resources of our planet. In particular, Apple plans to use environmentally friendly and recycled materials.

NASA will try to "shoot down" the asteroid live.

The test will take place as part of a test of a system to protect the Earth from the threat of asteroid impacts. For these purposes, the DART satellite was launched into space last year. The essence of the test is that the satellite will crash into the asteroid at high speed and possibly change its trajectory. The goal of the mission was the asteroid Didim, or rather the smaller Dimorph asteroid revolving around it. After the collision, scientists want to know how the orbit of rotation of this 165-meter “satellite” around a larger asteroid will change, and at the same time understand what force must be applied to change the direction of the flight of a cosmic body if it threatens the Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope has photographed a planet outside the solar system for the first time in history.

On it is the gas giant HIP 65426 b, it is 6-12 times heavier than Jupiter. The planet does not have a rocky surface, so it cannot be habitable. HIP 65426 b is located 100 times further from its parent star than the Earth is from the Sun. Its atmosphere, containing reddish dust clouds, warms up to 1300 °C. The planet makes a complete revolution around its star in 630 Earth years. Previously, exoplanets were photographed only by ground-based telescopes, because of this, it was not possible to study celestial bodies in detail. Now a new stage of research will begin, which is why astronomers have called the James Webb image historical.

For the first time, scientists have filmed a video of the sunken Titanic in 8K resolution.

With the help of such detailing, it is possible to examine previously inaccessible fragments of the ship and study how quickly the hull of a ship that sank more than 110 years ago is being destroyed.

In Argentina, five people have been infected with a previously unknown virus.

One person died, four were hospitalized in serious condition. They all have double pneumonia. Doctors, according to the results of the tests, ruled out infection with coronavirus, influenza A and B, hantavirus and a number of other infections.

Meta has developed artificial intelligence that reads minds.

Algorithms that convert thoughts into text have been developed for a long time, but this development, unlike others, does not involve surgical intervention. In this regard, the algorithm so far has an error of 27%, but this result is already enough to accurately determine a set of 793 most popular words in everyday life.

Merging the physical and digital worlds.

MIT professors and students have developed a device that bridges the physical and digital worlds. It enables physical interaction with objects behind the digital screen.

In China, a 10-year-old boy donated blood 30 times and underwent surgery to save his mother from cancer.

In Anhui Province, ten-year-old Cao Xuanyi donated bone marrow to his mother, who was ill with leukemia. The boy donated blood 30 times for doctors to check his tissue compatibility, and then underwent seven injections of the drug to mobilize blood stem cells. The boy is the only member of a large family who could become a donor. The child has been preparing for the operation since spring. After the transplant, doctors will continue to work with Xuanyi's mother to restore her body's ability to produce blood cells.

The UK has launched the world's largest offshore wind farm.

It is located 89 kilometers from Yorkshire in the North Sea. The power of the station is 1.3 gigawatts. It can provide electricity to 1.4 million homes - for example, the whole of Manchester. The area of the station is 462 square kilometers, which is more than half of New York. It has 165 Siemens Gamesa turbines with blades 81 meters long. One turn of such a turbine can supply electricity to an ordinary British house for a day.

The crypto exchange accidentally transferred $10.5 million instead of $100 to the client and noticed this only seven months later.

The situation occurred in May 2021, when a client from Melbourne requested a refund of $100 from the crypto exchange. However, an amount of $ 10.5 million was credited to her account - employees accidentally entered the woman's account number in the transfer size field. Despite the large transfer, the error was not noticed for 7 months, before the audit at the end of the year. The woman has already managed to cash out the funds, buy a mansion and a house for a relative. When the company discovered a mistake, the client was required to return the misappropriated money.

In South Korea, they successfully charged devices within a radius of 30 meters using infrared.

Laser charging is not too powerful yet (400 mW), but very convenient. The device simply distributes laser beams in all directions, which the devices pick up and charge.

Super high speed train FluxJet.

Canadian startup TransPod is developing the FluxJet super high-speed train, a hybrid train and jet that can carry up to 54 passengers at speeds of over 1,000 km/h. TransPod has already received funding and will soon begin building the TransPod Line, a networked system that will take people from Calgary to Edmonton in 45 minutes. Traveling on a vacuum train will cost about 44% less than a plane ticket and will reduce CO2 emissions by about 636,000 tons per year.

Researchers have found that people perceive numbers better if the numbers are not written from left to right, but from top to bottom.

To test how quickly people can process numbers with different representations, the scientists showed 73 2nd year students a pair of numbers from 1 to 9 on a monitor. Participants were required to enter a higher number using a high-performance, zero-latency gaming joystick. It turned out that participants compared numbers faster if they were split vertically, with the smaller number at the bottom. This may indicate that our mental number line actually goes from bottom to top, from small numbers to large ones.

Artificial intelligence brought 10 million euros to the French treasury.

With its help, more than 20 thousand unregistered pools were discovered. The program has found tax-free private swimming pools on satellite images - now the technology will be used for other buildings.