channel 24 He prepared a selection of the most interesting news of the week, which should be read in the field of science. We have collected the most interesting things in one place so that you do not miss anything interesting.

Construction of the city of the future has begun – Line, a recumbent skyscraper

Construction of a large-scale complex, a 170-kilometer-long mirror-like skyscraper, has begun in Saudi Arabia. Line (line) – the name of this complex – is an element of the future city called Neom.

According to the kingdom’s statement at the time of the announcement, the project will be completely vehicle-free and have zero emissions into the atmosphere.

Construction of the “line” shot from a drone: watch the video

The project caused a lot of criticism and controversy even during the planning phase, and when the issue came up, several members of the local tribe were sentenced to death for refusing to leave their homes on the construction line.

Read about this and other details of the construction of the futuristic city of the future in our material.

Researchers succeeded in turning water into metal, although it was considered impossible

A group of scientists led by Pavel Jungvirt of the Czech Academy of Sciences succeeded in imparting metal properties to pure water. Previously, this was considered impossible. It changed from an ideal insulator to a conductor of electric current.

To have such properties in water became possible only at an incredibly high pressure of 48 megabars. It is extremely difficult to implement, and therefore it was almost impossible to investigate such “metallic water”. Now, thanks to a new study, scientists can observe the phase transition of water to metal under normal conditions.

Scientists turned ordinary water into metal: watch the video

During the experiment, the water droplet turned golden and became conductive, which was confirmed using two different spectroscopy techniques. The duration of existence of such a decrease is short, but sufficient for measurements.

Read the details of the experiment and the conditions under which it was performed at Techno 24.

A new phase of matter

Physicists fired a series of laser pulses simulating the Fibonacci sequence on a quantum computer, creating a new phase of matter. It is assumed to be significantly more reliable than existing methods of protecting information.

This is a real scientific breakthrough that could make quantum computers much more reliable because the current method of keeping qubits in quantum states is unreliable.

Success is truly impressive. You can read all the details and comments of the scientists participating in the experiment in a separate article on this subject.

Cats often sneeze at us and they also like when we talk sweetly to them.

Such conclusions can be drawn from an experiment conducted by scientists who analyzed the behavior of 16 pairs of owners and cats. It turns out that cats can distinguish timbres and intonations, recognize when their owner is addressing them, and even know when they are addressed.

It turns out that in most cases, they just sneeze trying to contact them. They easily respond to their owners if they try to imitate cat sounds and communicate with them in sweet sounds.

In short, cats behave like cats, and there is nothing unusual in that. And if you want to know more about the experiment, read it here.

Scientists transmitted data at twice the bandwidth of the entire Internet.

The researchers were able to transfer data at a rate of 1.84 petabytes per second. This is almost twice the global internet traffic in the same time period.

In this way, it was possible to break the previous record for data transmission using a single light source and a petabit per second optical chip. And to put that number in perspective, one petabit equals one million gigabits. One gigabit, or 1,000 megabits, is the fastest data download speed money can buy for most households.

The speed is truly incredible, but the practical implementation of the technology is still far away. While expectation is important, skills must be tested in the field, so to speak. Read more about the discovery, how the experiment was conducted, and what was conveyed in a separate article.

With the help of MRI and a special algorithm, scientists managed to read a person’s thoughts.

A truly impressive discovery has been made by researchers from the University of Texas. They claim to have created a “decoder” algorithm that can reconstruct human thoughts. To do this, he monitors brain activity using an ordinary MRI scanner.

Interestingly, to decipher the broader mood or meaning of what the three subjects were thinking while listening to 16-hour podcasts and the radio, he monitored the activity of changes in blood flow, rather than individual neurons that were notoriously “noisy” and difficult to decipher. publications.

Although the experiment is still being tested, the scientists who read the results were delighted. You can read all the features and details of the experiment in a separate article by subject.