Day: June 21, 2018

NASA showed the blue dunes on Mars MOSCOW, 21 Feb — RIA Novosti. NASA released pictures of blue dunes found on Mars. Pictures were taken with a multifunctional automatic interplanetary station Mars reconnaissance Orbiter. The footage captured the blue part of the planet’s surface in the region of the crater Liot. It is noted that similar phenomena are often found on the surface of craters, but usually they are grey. The researchers indicate that the dunes have a bright color due to the more complex structure and specific chemical composition.

The fate of the whistleblower. As the lives of Edward Snowden? Former NSA agent Edward Snowden marks 35 years. The last 5 years he spent in Russia. On June 21 1983 in Elizabeth city, North Carolina was born to Edward Snowden, the world-famous whistleblower of U.S. intelligence, in 2013 transferred several media information about total surveillance of the U.S. government for millions of people around the world. Fleeing from prosecution, Snowden ended up in Russia. To return to his native country, he can not, because in the USA it has been in absentia charged with espionage and theft of government property. However, time disgraced agent doesn’t waste. In the birthday of the famous whistleblower Aify says, than he became engaged in forced exile. The hermit, whose face graces the screens $200 thousand — so according to The Guardian was the annual income of the Edward Snowden the national security Agency

Where primates have flat fingernails? Flat nails — a gift of evolution; they distinguish the modern and fossil primates from their more ancient ancestors who were armed with sharp claws. American anthropologists found that the transition from claws to nails was smooth, and 10 million years ago some species of primates have survived several claws with which they were combing wool. Man is, as Plato said, an animal on two feet and flat nails. Last update, according to legend, was intended to distinguish human from cock, who also walks on two legs. Flat nails were already in the early primates that lived 50 million years ago and resembled more lemurs than apes. The ancestors of primates were common claws — rounded keratin growths on the ends of the fingers, designed to tear and scratching. In the course of evolution primates have lost this weapon, and instead got soft and sensitive

In the flood zone of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station has found an ancient mummy St. PETERSBURG, 21 Jun — RIA Novosti. The mummy presumably of the first century BC was discovered by archaeologists in the cemetery Terezin in the flood zone of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP in the Krasnoyarsk region, said on Thursday the Institute of history of material culture Russian Academy of Sciences (IIMK, St. Petersburg). “During the work of the Institute RAS grant from the Russian geographical society to save the unique archaeological sites in the flood zone of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station on the cemetery Terezin… cleared and the cap is removed from the stone box in which is the mummy, pre-dated the first century BC, the message reads. As explained RIA Novosti the representative of the Institute, now finding “cleared almost completely.” In addition to the mummy, which is entirely preserved, discovered utensils and household

Scientists have identified a safe dose of alcohol Irish experts have told, how many people can drink alcohol without any harm to health. Lovers of alcoholic beverages, who drinks no more than 10 grams of pure alcohol per day (the standard safe dose of alcohol), the least the risk of occurrence and development of cancer among drinkers. This is the conclusion after many years of observations made by scientists at Queen’s University of Belfast (Northern Ireland). Irish experts watched about 8-9 years for health 99 654 people. The level of alcohol consumption was determined using dietary questionnaire that tested filled from 1998 to 2000. In the end, for the time was was 12 763 cases of primary cancer 9 and 559 deaths. Scientists also identified a relationship between total mortality and alcohol consumption: drinkers who drank no more and no less than one standard serving of alcohol daily had the