Day: February 16, 2019

Looks like swamp is the largest swamp in the world where people live (photos) Just this region is very fertile. In the Central part of southern Sudan in the valley of the White Nile is a huge swamp called Sudd. It occupies the territory of about 30 thousand square kilometers, but during the rainy season, which lasts here from April to September, the swamp becomes even more overflowing to 130 thousand square kilometers. View this post in Instagram Publication of Aviator/Adventurer/Traveler (@helicopter_aviator) 20 Sep 2017 6:57 PDT During the download an error has occurred. View this post in Instagram Publication of Noga Malkin (@nogamal) 20 Jun 2016 at 9:44 am PDT During the download an error has occurred. It would seem that this area should be empty due to adverse conditions, but not. Here people live. Yes, right in the middle of the swamp. View this post in Instagram Publication

Putin awarded the Vladimir Kovtun the title of Hero of Russia during the Afghan war The President of Russia Vladimir Putin awarded the participant of operations in Afghanistan Vladimir Kovtun the title of Hero of Russia. About it reported in a press-service of the Kremlin on February 15. “For heroism, courage and bravery shown in the performance of special tasks in conditions involving a risk to life, to assign the title of Hero of the Russian Federation Kovtun, Vladimir Pavlovich,” — said in the text of the decree of the President. 30 years ago — February 15, 1989, was officially completed the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. This date was a memorable day. Vladimir Putin was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian GRU officer, Vladimir Kovtun (center), whose group in Afghanistan has captured the first samples of MANPADS “stinger”, the US supplied the Mujahideen. Despite the promise

Scientists: because of the depression, the aging brain 10 years earlier But this can be dealt with. Depression can accelerate the aging of the brain, found researchers from Yale University. Using a new technique of brain scanning, they were able to establish that the synaptic density — the number of connections in the brain — in people with depression start to decline 10 years earlier, on average at age 40 years rather than 50. Memory impairment, slowing of speech, “fog” in the head and age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, such people comes first. Synapses — the most important and the most “elusive” parts of the brain. It is the contact points between neurons that allow information to navigate through the areas of the brain and between them. In the brain of about 100 billion neurons, each of which is associated with about 10 thousands of others. When we are

People have taken into account the experience of others in the future to get an electric shock Supervision and guidance was as effective as reflexes. European scientists have found that the decisions of man can act not only formed his reflexes that signals danger, but a simple awareness: verbal or observation. To do this, they conducted an experiment in which participants had to choose the square that will not hit their current. The article was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The newsBiologists have learned how to transplant memories The formation of conditioned reflexes is an important part of human development, which helps him to get the maximum benefit or avoid danger. This direct learning by personal experience is often much more effective learning demonstrative or verbal, due to the experience of others. For example, a child who is forbidden to touch the burner on

In the depths of the Earth were mountains and valleys According to modern concepts, our planet consists of a hard and thin crust, the mantle is very viscous and more or less fluid core. The mantle lies at depths from 30-50 up to 3000 km, it accounts for a large part of the earth substance. About the structure and composition of the mantle, we know very little, almost only on geophysical data. The overwhelming importance of seismology data, obtained by observing the propagation of seismic waves generated by powerful earthquakes — only they have a chance to penetrate deep enough and bring out some kind of discernible information. According to their analysis, it is known that the mantle is divided into upper and lower, the divide between them runs approximately 670 km from the surface. But the shape of the border until this day was unknown. Newsof an Unusual seismic

The skeleton of a rabbit of Charles Darwin helped to test the theory of evolution MOSCOW, 15 Feb — RIA Novosti. The fragments of DNA extracted from the bones of the rabbit by Charles Darwin, helped scientists to prove that three different populations of these animals living in Australia and Europe, in the same way adapted to the emergence of a dangerous virus. Write about the scientists, who published an article in the journal Science. “We compared the DNA of rabbits who lived on Earth before the epidemic of myxomatosis, and the genomes of their modern descendants, have developed resistance to the action of the virus. We have shown that in all three countries, natural selection in the same way changed the structure of the genes of the immune system,” says Joel Alves (Joel Alves) from the University of Cambridge (UK). The newseveryone has their own cockroaches. As parasites and