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Robin hood - the most famous noble robber. Many people are familiar with the legendary biography of the leader of forest shooters of Sherwood forest. And although he himself is a myth, however, over the centuries, this myth, like the bottom of a ship, and was covered with shells. We will try to deliver the vessel with name "Robin hood" in dry dock, to cleanse it from the later layers.

About the placebo effect was first discussed in the XVIII century, when the German doctors managed to cure the sick with tuberculosis using aspirin. The doctor gave him for the newest and most effective medicine. Since then, placebo were associated with self-suggestion. But recently scientists have presented evidence that the placebo effect from conscious suggestion is not affected.

Recently, scientists from NASA was able to further study the behavior of high-altitude lightning, called sprites. And this has helped them camcorder satellites that a few months filmed this phenomenon occur during strong storms. Although sprites for the first time has opened more than 20 years ago, they are still know very little.

Recent studies of American oceanographers have shown that the Gulf of Mexico, apparently fully recovered from the effects of the unfortunate accident that happened two years ago. And this they told local coral polyps. Their spawning hosted this year's absolutely normal - if contaminated, this would be simply impossible.

Scientists suggest that the transformation of the stars in the red giant stage does not mean a death sentence for the organisms living on the subjects she planets. The thing is that the resulting after the white dwarf is more stable star, for example, than our Sun. And it can create better conditions for the re-emergence of life.

Astrophysicist from France suggested an interesting explanation of one anomaly of the planets of the Solar system. They are all built in the same plane, but this plane is slightly tilted with respect to the solar equator. The scientist believes that this is the result of "hooligan" behavior of the Sun in the early stages of its evolution. Then it loved to radiate relativistic jets.

The spectrometer LAMP mounted on Board the station Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, has allowed scientists to study the spectrum of substances in the atmosphere of the moon. In particular, it turned out that there are helium and argon. First measurements of the spectrum were held in 1972 under the project LACE made by the mission "Apollo-17".

The attention of astrophysicists who gathered at the twenty-eighth session of the General Assembly of the International astronomical Union, was attracted to the unusual behavior of the recently opened a black hole average weight HLX-1. Around her newly formed blue glowing haze. This means that a unique space glutton again gathered to eat.

Experts NASA and the McDonald Observatory (USA) believe that the system of double stars Kepler-47, located in 5 thousand light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, may be mnogoletnei. It means that you can talk about the potential habitability of such star systems. The more planets, the more chances for the existence of life on them.

Housing space technology specially treated with ultraviolet light to destroy all microorganisms. However, soil bacterium, Bacillus (saprophyte) were resistant to this treatment. Since 2006 it has consistently found on the surface of the aircraft. This means that our bacteria can be the first colonists on other planets!

Passions around the mysterious object found in August last year at the bottom of the Baltic sea, continue to boil. For example, some experts believe that by unidentified artifacts from space Nakhodka has absolutely no relation. So, one of the versions says that this is a secret military base of the Nazis, and the other thought it just rocks...

Astrophysicist Charles Wong, seems to be close to the final solving the mystery of a supernova explosion. Still it was not clear what kind of process is taking place at the level of elementary particles, causing this colorful and dangerous phenomenon of nature. The scientist is convinced that the whole "big badabum" occurs because of the emergence of a scalar particle, like the Higgs boson.

What are the living beings can cause rain when they need it? It turns out that such power over the weather have on plants and fungi from the rain forests of the Amazon. Scientists have found that they can release into the air of aerosols, which contain crystals of salts and organic molecules. And those are just the centers of condensation of rain drops.

Archaeologists from Britain's Leicester University in search of the remains of the English king Richard III. Under the asphalt on one of the city autoparkings Leicester found the remains of walls and two graves. Up to XVI century on this place there was a Franciscan monastery "gray brothers" - Greyfriars, the chapel which buried the ashes of king Richard III.

5 September passed exactly 35 years since the launch of the spacecraft Voyager-1". Today tireless space wanderer has already reached the edge of the Solar system. Will he be able to break out of it? Maybe it will happen until 2025. However, Voyager" already gave the researchers a lot of surprises, which they previously did not know.