The world of the unknown - Onua.org

In 2000, President Clinton convened a Commission of leading oceanographers and other researchers. The result of the work of the expert group was the report "the Last frontier of the Earth" (Discovering Earth's Final Frontier), which outlines developed by the first and the only national program for the study of the oceans.

Compact beskorsaya tight pair of white dwarfs with constantly shrinking distance between them due to gravitational waves can warm up so seriously that they degenerate surface hydrogen layer begins thermonuclear reaction, forming a "new tidal star", say scientists at Cornell University (USA).

Vesta, the second mass of the body in the asteroid belt, was considered to be absolutely dry. But Dawn spacecraft found evidence that water-rich asteroids smaller once "implanted" themselves into the surface of Vesta.

Today we have no doubt that people of anatomically modern humans arose in Africa. The difficulties are related to the questions of where this happened and how people settled on the Black continent, especially as he is, based on recent discoveries, mated with some other representatives of the genus Homo, and he himself may have been the result of interspecific hybridization.

Employees Dubna joint Institute for nuclear research, Moscow state technical University of radio engineering, electronics and automation Institute of applied physics of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova experimentally found traces of decay easy boson, not included in the Standard model.

Male killer whales real "Mama's sons", which, even as adults, they can not live without parent care. Therefore, orcas, ceased reproductive age, continue for a long time to take care of their tender sons.

Ambient concentration of a Nursery, located in 590 light years from Earth, includes more than 1,000 very dense stars. This, as a relatively small age of the cluster (not more than 600 million years old), did not give astronomers reason to expect the discovery of around sun-like yellow dwarfs such accumulations of exoplanets.

Beautiful (we believe) the galaxy NGC 7090, photographed space telescope "Hubble", looks at us askance, not allowing to see her spiral arm, filled with young, hot stars.

Thunderstorm complexes, fraught with monsoon floods and large-scale cyclones... they Say all these varieties of bad weather in the tropics will be more frequent as global warming. How?

In 1994 the Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre assumed its "engine, bend (vicious) space." It uses a special kind of curvature of space-time as a bubble, which moves faster than light in the external Minkowski space.

The mystery of methane in the Martian surface long been a subject of heated debate.

Fund Trust for America's Health predicts that by 2030, more than half of the inhabitants 39 U.S. States will be backward. The estimates are based on results of research conducted by the Centers for control and prevention of diseases from 1999 to 2010.

In Central Italy a group of American and Italian archeologists found underground pyramids Etruscan - for the first time in the history of science.

To avoid dissolution of nitrogen in the blood, sea lions when immersed driven supply air from the alveoli into the trachea, where gas exchange with the blood impossible. When it comes time to emerge, animals persecute the air back from the box into the alveoli, and thereby provide themselves with oxygen during ascent.

Scientists have obtained new evidence that about 12 900 years ago crashed to Earth kind of celestial body, destroying the megafauna of North America, and provoking the period of a strong cold snap.