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_{24 Jun 2015 16:31:00}

The Rosetta probe crashing into a comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (3 photos)

the European space Agency (ESA) has adopted a proposal to extend the mission of the Rosetta probe until September 2016. The Agency announced on its official website. However to this point it remains an open question about "recycling" stations: the most likely is still the plan, according to which scientists will literally break expensive space equipment on the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In the name of science, of course.

_{24 Jun 2015 16:30:57}

In France accidentally ate genetically modified sheep with jellyfish DNA

the national research Institute in France reported that genetically modified sheep with jellyfish DNA was randomly sold to slaughter and probably somebody had already eaten. A sheep named ruby was part of a research program Green Sheep, in which the Institute studied the effects of different implants for people with heart disease.

_{24 Jun 2015 11:30:53}

Doctors warned hipsters: jeans that are harmful to health

Frequent wearing trendy skinny jeans can be dangerous to human health. It is to such a disappointing for hipsters the conclusion reached by researchers who have published in scientific medical journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry article about the dangers of skinny jeans.

_{24 Jun 2015 10:00:53}

Lexus has developed a hoverboard like in Back to the future" (video)

it Seems that Lexus was not joking, announcing the development of a very real hoverboard. Something similar can be seen in the movie "Back to the future". However, skateboard automaker is not yet able to fly, but still not relies the wheels on the ground while hovering at about two or three inches above it.

_{23 Jun 2015 11:30:56}

Scientists two years watched the insects and created Robotron (video)

Cockroaches are one of those species of insects that have always attracted attention of scientists. They crafted not one robot, and development engineers from the University of California at Berkeley — another confirmation. At this time, researchers taught their mechanical creation to overcome obstacles in exactly the same unusual way, how do these cockroaches.

_{22 Jun 2015 13:00:55}

NASA: the formation of water on Saturn's moon resembles earth processes (4 pics)

As is known, the largest of the moons of Saturn — Titan — consists of about half water ice. The images with the automatic interplanetary station "Cassini" on its surface can be considered lakes and seas filled with liquid hydrocarbons, as well as just empty the funnel, above the origin of which scientists are still scratching their heads. However, on the NASA website was published, a new note, where scholars have suggested that craters on Titan are formed on the principle of terrestrial karst topography.

_{19 Jun 2015 10:30:57}

Astronomers have weighed a supermassive black hole (8 photos)

Japanese scientists have managed to find a way to quickly "weight" of black holes. To learn the weight of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy NGC 1097 (Fornax) that is 45 million light years from Earth, the researchers needed only two hours. Published in the Astrophysical journal data, the mass of the black hole in NGC 1097 was 140 million Solar masses. For comparison, the black hole of our constellations the milky Way is lightweight and exceeds the mass of the Sun just a few times.