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16 September cap of the Arctic ocean has reached the annual minimum and set a new record, according to national data center for the study of snow and ice USA (NSIDC).

On the part of tidal energy of the USA inferior and South Korea, and France, i.e. any country where the state is an active player on the energy market. The reasons are clear: without government intervention expensive project is hardly possible, and private banks do not like to give billions under unknown technology. But if you start little by little, I hope in the Ocean Renewable Power Company, to catch up with the leaders tidal energy still can.

Curiosity Rover chose the first goal for his manipulator - a stone the size of a soccer ball.

Astronomer Wei Zheng from Johns Hopkins University (USA) and his colleagues, using telescopes to space-based Hubble and Spitzer", found very likely (12-s, that is higher than the probability of discovery of the Higgs boson) candidate in the galaxy, whose age does not exceed 475-505 million years after the Big Bang.

2.5 million years ago near the coast of Antarctica in the ocean crashed an asteroid the size of a mountain. This led to an apocalyptic chain of events: first, the rain molten rock, and then a deadly tsunami that swept the Pacific ocean.

Cooking on a mixture of oils of sesame seeds and rice bran helps significantly reduce blood pressure and improve cholesterol levels, according to scientists from the University Fukuoka (Japan). According to them, this mixture is almost as widespread medication to lower blood pressure. And even better.

Why Mars is cold and dry? Although recent research has indicated that ancient Mars, perhaps, was not wet and warm, many scientists still believe that the once Red planet had a denser atmosphere that can support liquid water on the surface. If so, then on Mars formed conditions that could exist microorganisms.

A cloud of gas a radius of about 100 a. that is incident on a supermassive black hole at the center of the milky Way, may be visible after the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young low-mass star, think of astrophysics of the Harvard-Smithsonian center for astrophysics in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA).

Is the mysterious dark energy that are looking for for many years, threat? Whether it is able to tear to shreds our Universe? And what will be after this the "Big break"? Astrophysics Loris Baum and Paul Frampton sure that even in such a scenario, nothing bad will happen. It is only General cleaning in the Universe.

A few years ago, the Rover Opportunity found on the red planet mysterious little black balls, layer which covers the landing of the Rover. Recently the device found on Mars balls already another type. Most likely, both have natural origin and are associated with the composition of the Martian rocks, experts say.

The outbreak of renewed interest in a forgotten was the Native field impacted diamond, which geologists have found back in the 70-ies of the last century, gave rise to a wave of rumors and fantasy projections. Whether such diamonds is only in Russia? Can they suddenly bring down the world economy? Let us try to understand these issues.

American physicists have managed to do the impossible - to force the water to boil without the formation of bubbles. They picked up the materials with such a surface, which lowered the value of the point Leidenfrost water up to a hundred degrees Celsius. This technology will help the crafters to design such a Board, which will significantly reduce the friction of the vessel on the water.

Historians of religion and theologians are never-ending debate about whether Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. The dispute scientists got in fiction and on the screen to recall the notorious "the da Vinci Code" by Dan brown. Meanwhile, this debate is as old as Christianity itself. That proves the inscription on one of the Coptic papyrus.

Any global strikes the observer who first saw this dark hole, gaping at the starry brocade of the firmament. These heavenly bodies dark not externally - they keep a lot of secrets and mysteries. So, astrophysicists believe that there may be a birth of new stars. And two next to us globules, it seems that in the near future will be able to light a star.

Biologists from New Zealand have once again surprised their abilities new Caledonian crows. These birds are, it appears, are able to link in your mind visible for them the action with its hidden source. In other words, for them is not difficult to detect a causal link between the two events. As such, even not all mammals can.