VR bus in Rome.

Rome has launched a tourist VR Bus, which offers to observe the Eternal City of 2000 years ago using virtual reality. By the way, such an excursion is accompanied by special aromas. 30 minutes of sightseeing will cost 15 euros.

Interesting facts about ants.

1. Ants have a larger biomass on Earth than humans. 2. Some ants are able to recognize themselves in a mirror. During the experiments, they noticed and cleaned off the colored dots applied to them from their bodies.

Lady Gaga's stage name comes from the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga".

Rob Fusari once texted Germanotta under the alias "Radio Gaga" and a spell check turned "Radio" into "Lady". Germanotta loved it, and that's how Lady Gaga was born."

Apple will protect its devices from surveillance.

iOS 16 will introduce a lockdown mode. When it is enabled in Messages, the preview of links and files is disabled; incoming calls from unknown people in FaceTime and other applications are blocked; shared photo albums are deleted, new invitations to them are blocked; communication with wired devices and accessories is disabled; installation of configuration profiles is prohibited; it also disables the ability to enroll in the mobile device management system.

Australian police dogs can even find digital media of criminals.

Puppies can find USB sticks, hard drives, microchips, and any form of digital media. These files help the police in solving crimes. Two-month-old puppies are trained for 3 months. Now they are involved in 74 operations and have already discovered 328 digital media.

In a new software update, Tesla has learned how to avoid potholes and put them on the minimap.

Thanks to roadway scanning capabilities and Tesla Adaptive Suspension, ride height is now automatically adjusted to overcome uneven obstacles. Also in the update, it became possible to add all the bumps on the road to a special map, the data of which is transmitted to other cars - but so far on the Model S / X.

Soil samples from Mars will still be delivered to Earth.

Some scientists have raised the question of the danger of shipping Martian samples due to the possible presence of some deadly alien viruses. Thankfully, NASA has said it will not cancel the program and will instead put more effort into isolating the samples and keeping them safe on Earth.

The 10-year record for launching paper airplanes has been broken.

It took Julian Chee months of research to come up with a design concept for a long-range aircraft. According to him, there are several factors that affect the performance of any aircraft, but the general essence always comes down to a balance between mass and wing area. The paper craft flew 77.134 meters, beating the previous record of 69.14 meters set by Americans John Collins and Joe Ayoub in 2012.

In the US, they want to open a bank of faeces.

American doctors want to create a bank of stool samples for the treatment of intestinal diseases using fecal microbiota transplantation. Scientists believe that this procedure in the future will also help rejuvenate the body and treat asthma, multiple sclerosis, obesity and diabetes. In a feces bank, people will be able to store their excrement in anticipation of scientific breakthroughs in medicine. Samples can be taken in youth and used in old age.

Solar electric car.

Dutch start-up Lightyear will launch sales of the first electric car that is fully charged by solar energy this year. Development has been going on since 2016. According to the manufacturer, the car will not charge for months. A test drive starts in July-August, and the first deliveries will begin in October this year. On the site, the preliminary cost in the Aurora colorway is €255,000.

Tattoos and piercings.

The study showed that tattoos and piercings are more common among those who were abused in childhood or received little attention from their parents. Researcher Mareike Ernst and her colleagues used a sample of 2,510 participants aged 14 to 44. The results showed that about 40% of the participants had at least one tattoo or piercing, and approximately 25% of the participants reported severe abuse or neglect at an early age. Among participants who reported childhood abuse, 48% had tattoos or piercings.

The world's first sand accumulator was launched in Finland.

It allows you to store solar and wind energy until winter, when the price and demand for heat rises. Green energy, based on the principle of operation of electric fireplaces, heats sand up to 500 °C in an accumulator. Then, with the help of a heat exchanger, it heats the air circulating inside the chamber. It is it that is used in winter to heat water in the central heating system. From there, heat is supplied to the buildings. Sand is stored in a giant bunker, its volume is 100 tons. The temperature in the storage can stay at +500 °C for several months.

Rhinos have reappeared in Mozambique after disappearing there 40 years ago.

Mozambique, after a civil war and rampant poaching, is restoring its wild fauna - the first white rhinos were brought into the country from South Africa. They disappeared in this East African state 40 years ago. The animals were taken to the Zinave National Park. More than 2.3 thousand re-imported animals already live there. In the next two years, 40 rhinos are planned to be resettled in Mozambique. In ten years, there will be a thriving population.

Global warming is driving methane emissions four times faster than previously thought.

An increase in temperature promotes the production of this gas, activating microbes in swamps. At the same time, natural reactions to neutralize gas in the atmosphere are slowed down due to more frequent forest fires.

China has quarantined almost two million people.

A new outbreak of coronavirus began in Anhui province, where almost 300 Chinese were infected in one day. The authorities decided that it was very dangerous and locked up 1.7 million residents for prevention.

Vinyl records are back.

In 2021, vinyl record turnover was $1 billion, up 61% from a year earlier. The jump is so big that the producers are physically unable to cope and declare that it is time to start building large vinyl plants.

The Eiffel Tower is rusty and in urgent need of repair.

Experts argue that the only way out is to almost completely disassemble it, repair it, repaint it and reassemble it. The renovation will be completed by the end of 2024. The Eiffel Tower was built in 1889, and initially its service life was not to exceed 20 years. Every year this attraction is visited by about 6 million tourists, it ranks fourth in attendance after Disneyland, the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles.

In Britain, an antique vampire hunter set was sold for 13 thousand pounds.

It belonged to a high-ranking 19th-century official, Lord William Haley. The set includes standard tools for fighting evil spirits: a Bible, crucifixes, a bottle of holy water, a rosary, two pistols and a wooden stake. The buyer of the antique set wished to remain anonymous.

The British have found the largest water lily on the planet.

Its diameter is three meters. Scientists have discovered a third species of giant water lilies from the genus Victoria. Its seeds were misidentified and brought to Britain from Bolivia 177 years ago. For almost two centuries, the water lily Victoria boliviana grew in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and no one knew about its uniqueness. Before that, it was believed that only two species of giant water lilies of this genus grow on the planet - Victoria amazonica and Victoria cruziana.

Artificial intelligence will test the Chinese for loyalty to the party.

The Hefei Research Institute in China has developed an AI that is able to test members of the Chinese Communist Party for party allegiance. Due to the loud discontent of the citizens of China, the institute removed the research from the public domain. According to scientists, the AI ​​was supposed to read the reaction of politicians to the news and draw conclusions about their loyalty - "do they feel gratitude to the party, do they listen to the words of the party and follow the party." Thus, the researchers planned to apply new technologies to strengthen the Chinese Communist Party. 43 party members participated in the AI ​​test.