<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/11-1-2.jpg” alt=”A new platform for integrated all-optical logic has been studied”/>A research group from Skoltech and ITMO University led by the director of the Skoltech Center for Photonics and Photonic Technologies, Professor Pavlos Lagoudakis, a Challenge Prize laureate, demonstrated tunable polariton emission at room temperature on […]
<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Oblozhka-1-1-scaled.jpeg” alt=”Animal that lost its status as the “largest” has been halved again”/>A few years ago, the blue whale, the heaviest of the existing, and possibly of the ever existing animals, had a competitor. Paleontologists calculated the maximum mass of Perucetus, an ancient whale whose incomplete […]
<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/XB-1-First-Flight_06-1440×960-1.jpg” alt=”Live: First flight of the Boom XB-1 experimental aircraft at supersonic speed”/>The Boom XB-1 supersonic aircraft demonstrator, developed by the American company Boom Supersonic, is scheduled to perform its first flight at supersonic speed. The launch is scheduled for 18:45 Moscow time.
<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/istochnik-freepik-avtor-wirestock-scaled.jpg” alt=”Perm has determined how to improve vibration isolation of pipelines”/>Pipeline systems are used in water supply, sewerage, heating, as well as in the transportation of oil and gas. When pumps, compressors and other equipment are operating, strong vibrations occur that can lead to the destruction […]
<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/white-wooly-lamb-resting-sunshine-spring-scaled.jpg” alt=”St. Petersburg veterinarians assessed the effectiveness of local anesthetics in operations on sheep”/>Specialists from St. Petersburg State University of Medicine conducted a comparative study of the effect of three anesthetics on sheep. Unlike other farm animals, sheep require a special approach to pain relief due […]
<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1596206749_1-p-kak-stat-printsessoi-film-3.jpg” alt=”A person’s politeness affected his level of happiness”/>More polite people suffer less from symptoms of depression and feel happier. This is the conclusion reached by Turkish scientists who analyzed the connection between prosociality and good manners with psychological state.
<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/photo_2025-01-27_19-11-12.jpg” alt=”Senile dementia linked to unexpected drugs”/>Antipsychotic drugs and at least some antidiabetic drugs have been linked to a higher incidence of age-related dementia. However, a number of other very common drugs appear to significantly reduce the risk of this disease.
<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/scientists_use_blac.jpg” alt=”Symmetry of the Universe tested with gravitational waves”/>After analyzing 47 black hole collisions recorded by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors and studying the direction of gravitational waves, the authors of a new study tested the hypothesis of the “mirror” symmetry of the Universe. […]
<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/subne_pt.jpeg” alt=”Astronomers have discovered two sub-Neptunes three times larger than Earth”/>With the help of NASA’s TESS orbital observatory, astronomers have discovered two exoplanets orbiting the star TOI-6054, located approximately 259 light years from Earth. Both worlds belong to the class of sub-Neptunes and have a density […]
<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1620px-Rhinoptera_bonasus_columbus.jpg” alt=”Biologists have found out why the bullnose has such a long tail”/>Unlike most rays, the order Rhinoptera bonasus are actively swimming inhabitants of the water column. They have a wide body and a tail that is longer than it, the purpose of which remained controversial. […]