A simple retinal prosthesis is being developed in collaboration between Tel Aviv University in Israel and LiU. Fabricated using cheap and widely-available organic pigments used in printing inks and cosmetics, it consists of tiny pixels like a digital camera sensor on a nanometric scale. Researchers hope that it can restore sight to blind people.
Researchers led by Eric Glowacki, principal...
EarthNow has announced it intends to deploy a large constellation of advanced imaging satellites that will deliver real-time, continuous video of almost anywhere on Earth. The latest company to spin-out from Intellectual Ventures, EarthNow recently closed a first round of financing with investments from Airbus, the SoftBank Group, Bill Gates, and Greg Wyler. The initial funding focuses primarily on maturing the overall system...
Membership of the director of academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives academician Vagif Farzaliyev in the Oxford Academic Association of Great Britain has been confirmed. Attributes of membership in the Academic Association, including the badge, certificate, membership card and stamp, were given to academician Farzaliyev.
It should be noted that the Expert Council of this Academy has made such...
Academician A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences with the assistance of the Council of Young Scientists and Specialists, has announced a competition entitled "The Best Scientific Report" dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. According to the Chairman of the Council, Associate Professor Afsun Sujayev, during the competition which will...
The scientific employee of acad.A.Guliyev Institute of Chemistry of Additives of ANAS Kamala Mammadova is successful at creating Wikipedia articles. She has reached success in it independently learning Wikipedia rules without passing special trainings. By present she has published about 300 articles in Wikipedia of Azerbaijan. As an active user she edits almost 200-300 articles every month.
Kamala Mammadova has...
According to Decree No.196 of the President of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences on 29.05.2018 at 10.00 in the Specialized Council of Yu.Mededaliev Institute of Petrochemical Processes there will be held the Master’s thesis defense on chemistry -060504 (specialization: “Petrochemistry”, “Chemistry of Nanomaterials”, “Inorganic Chemistry”, “Organic Chemistry”).
Vast system of chambers on Tibetan plateau could send enough particles into the atmosphere to allow extensive clouds to form
China is testing cutting-edge defence technology to develop a powerful yet relatively low-cost weather modification system to bring substantially more rain to the Tibetan plateau, Asia’s biggest freshwater reserve.
The system, which involves an enormous network of fuel-burning chambers installed high...
Today, there are lots of ways to store information from cloud services to "old-fashioned" methods of recording on discs or external hard drives. However, with the advancement of technology the size of the files increases, and we need a more capacious storage media. We have already talked about the fact that the company had managed to Twist Bioscience ....
The city of Alexandria was built by Alexander the Great in 332-331 BC.
For many years, historians have assumed that the invaluable data of the ancient period were completely destroyed. But later, historical documents belonging to the library began to appear in different countries of Europe and Asia. Educated people of that era preserved these manuscripts. They secretly from the...
Drinking tea immediately after eating has become a habit among people. However, this habit removes iron from the body, which, in turn, contributes to rapid weight gain. This was stated by the Turkish specialist Sinan Akkurt at a press briefing on Friday, reports Medicina.az. He said that iron deficiency is the main reason for weight gain.
According to him, iron...