Omicron is detected in half of the COVID-19 Muscovites, Sobyanin said

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“The situation is getting more complicated every day due to the fact that Omicron is beginning to dominate the proportion of cases. Recent studies gave 41%, but today it is safe to say that more than half of the cases are those with omicron,” the official said on the Rossiya 1 TV channel. According to him, this suggests that the dynamics of the spread of this variety of SARS-CoV-2 is increasing. Since December 20, 729 cases of infection have been registered in the capital. Omicron is a strain of coronavirus, or B.1.1.529, found in Botswana and South Africa in early November. According to experts, it is characterized by increased transmissivity. According to data at the end of December, a new variant has already been identified in 110 countries of the world, it is spreading faster than the “delta” and is becoming dominant. Vaccination remains the most reliable method of protection. According

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Hordes of raging monkeys terrorize Thai city

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Lopburi has long been known in the country for its huge population of macaques, which attracts tourists from all over the world. Locals even hold an annual festival in honor of primates. Usually, the monkeys were plentifully fed by tourists, but during the pandemic, the locals also began to throw them food. Since the beginning of the coronavirus quarantine, 6 thousand Lopburi macaques have become more aggressive: now they penetrate into homes and steal everything that is bad. One abandoned cinema even became their “base”: locals say that anyone who tried to enter was attacked. In addition, violent clashes between rival packs of monkeys sometimes block roads. Residents assume that the animals were brought to the city by the felling of a nearby forest. City services lure primates with fruit into cages and take them away for sterilization, but they simply can’t keep up with the growth in the number

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Astrophysicists have created the largest map of the universe

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This isn’t just a pretty picture; it’s the biggest map of the universe yet. Earth is in the lower-left looking out over 5 billion light-years, and each colored point represents a galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars: https://t.co/yJ9eM0Abey ? D. Schlegel/Berkeley Lab/DESI pic.twitter.com/uJtaTT3zbD – WIRED (@WIRED) January 13, 2022 Three-dimensional computer scan of the DESI Universe. The ground is at the bottom left. Each colored dot represents a galaxy, which, in turn, consists of 100 billion or 1 trillion stars. A group of scientists from the Kit Peak National Observatory in Arizona has been collecting and combining images of different parts of the universe taken by the DESI astronomical instrument mounted on the Mayall telescope for six years. Astrophysicists Release the Biggest Map of the Universe Yet – https://t.co/DD74DeA3VL After just seven months, a huge team of scientists who work with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument have already mapped

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Study: Amid pandemic, masks make people more attractive

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This was found out by scientists at Cardiff University, The Guardian reports. As noted by Michael Lewis, an expert at the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, a study conducted before the pandemic showed that people in medical masks arouse less sympathy from others because they are associated with diseases. “We decided to check whether this perception has changed, since masks have appeared everywhere, and decided to understand whether the type of mask matters,” the researcher said. He said that now people in blue medical masks look the most attractive. “Perhaps because we are used to such masks being worn by health care workers, and now we associate them with doctors who take care of our health. In difficult times, medical masks inspire confidence, so we experience more positive feelings towards those who wear them,” suggested Michael Lewis. Scientists told how to disinfect a disposable mask The first part of

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A shopping mall with a thousand trees on the facade was built in China

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View this post on Instagram A post from SURFACE (@surfacemag) An unusual shopping center called “Thousand Trees” has opened in the Chinese city of Shanghai. The nine-storey building is made in the form of a huge stepped mountain covered with green trees and shrubs. View this post on Instagram Published by Heatherwick Studio (@officialheatherwickstudio) In fact, there are not a thousand trees on the building at all, but much more. According to general information, there are about one and a half thousand evergreen and deciduous trees on the facade, and about 250 thousand different plants. The author of the project was the British designer Thomas Heatherwick. He designed the building using a grid of concrete columns positioned at a 45-degree angle to the river. Each column is topped with planters of trees. Total area The shopping center is 62.7 thousand square meters. It has more than 100 shops and 63 catering

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Scientists have found out whether humanity is really losing interest in the truth

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“our results suggest that the post-truth phenomenon is linked to a historical seesaw in the balance between our two fundamental modes of thinking: Reasoning versus intuition. If true, it may well be impossible to reverse the sea change we signal.” https://t.co/Zk5ynVwf7p — Rafael Uehara (@rafael_uehara) January 13, 2022 It was revealed that, starting from the middle of the XIX century and ending in the 1980s, people more often used words related to logical reasoning, such as “therefore”, “determined” and “conclusion”, and less and less often – words denoting inner feelings and subjective beliefs. However, since the 1980s, the trend has gone in the opposite direction. Moreover, scientists have found that in the late 2000s, the trend to replace logical reasoning with arguments based on feelings has greatly accelerated. Presumably, due to the growing popularity of social media. “Whatever the driving forces of this trend, our results show that the phenomenon

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Kazakh Minister Umarov Calls His Russophobic Quotes 'Rotten Garbage'

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Results of the activities of Russian diplomacy in 2021. What did Lavrov say?

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Lavrov stated that NATO continues to try to artificially lure new members to to itself. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the course of the United States and the North Atlantic Alliance is openly proclaimed as containing China and Russia. Western countries contribute decisively to the negative development of events in the world, conflict potential is accumulating, the head of the department said . According to & nbsp; he said, Western states have taken a course to & nbsp; undermine the architecture of international relations, which is based on the & nbsp; UN Charter, and & nbsp; are pursuing a line of & nbsp; substitution of international law with their own rules, on which they want to force everyone to build a new world order. Russia expects from the & nbsp; United States of America and & nbsp; NATO written responses on & nbsp; security guarantees. Along with & nbsp; the

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