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Below, in alphabetical order, are the titles of articles published in the journal. Popular mechanics from 2002 to 2019. To find out which issue of the magazine Popular mechanics published this or that article, use article archive search. 10 arctic vehicles 10 Innovation WWI 10 innovations. Inventions you need to know about in 2009. The so-called T-rays are electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz (trillion hertz) frequency range. They are located between the microwave range (microwaves) and infrared radiation. Unlike X-rays (X-rays), T-rays do not have an ionizing effect, which means they do not threaten cancer. 10 innovations. They will be discussed in 2008. Technology is getting smaller, more convenient, and most importantly - smarter and smarter 10 new technical solutions. You will meet them more than once in 2007. Flexible concrete, tablet sensors and other wonderful inventions... Absolutely everyone will talk about these innovations in 2007 10 new technical terms 10 breakthroughs of the decade. Innovations 2020. Forecasts are more readily given for such terms that leave contemporaries few chances to live up to them. Experts who are ready to talk about innovations and discoveries in 50-100 years are easy to find, but as soon as it comes to the short term, experts begin to be cautious. When forecast verification is close at hand, it is easy to damage your reputation... 10 Toughest Concepts to Learn While Playing LEGO Education 10 technical ideas for 2012. Review. Pascalization. Now 10 tech concepts to talk about in 2010. Innovations 201010 technical concepts to be talked about in 2010 10 Tech Concepts to Know About in 2011 10 technical concepts that will be talked about in 2013 10 transport quirks. The most exotic public transport. Buses, trolleybuses, trams, subways and electric trains... These time-tested types of urban transport inhabited cities around the world and do not differ in a special variety of designs. However, there are places on Earth where passengers are carried by truly amazing cars. 10 transport fantasies. Tunnel under the Atlantic and much more. Sad as it is to admit, but, having celebrated, it would seem, quite recently the onset of the third millennium, the living generations have exhausted the limit allotted to them of large and round reasons to dream about the future. We will have to be content with little and indulge in futuristic dreams in the last year of the decade, which is about to come after the chimes and the hiss of wine foam. So, let's gain optimism and look into the bright transport future of the inhabitants of the Earth 100 km on 2 liters of diesel fuel. Hydraulic car. The car of today resembles a stove from a fairy tale: it smokes, heats up, and goes forward on the remaining energy. Wisconsin inventor Ingo Valentin knows how to turn all the energy into motion without wasting a drop. 100 special purpose vehicles 100 norms per shift. Skorostroy Is 1000 miles per hour in a car a reality? 1000 targets in one salvo. shovels 15 great ideas. Ideas that will change the world. The world is on the verge of major changes, but Popular Mechanics is on the alert. In this article, we will talk about the ideas that in the very near future may affect our lives - from traffic jams and Antarctic exploration to thermonuclear fusion and growing organs for transplantation on order. 18 megaprojects. Engineering wonders. A grandiose scope is certainly new design solutions, new schemes and methods. The limits of what's possible are receding 20 ways to open a bottle. Mechanics 20/20. Eye surgery. With the advent of soft contact lenses, many people have given up wearing glasses. Will the latest advances in laser eye microsurgery be able to radically change the current situation? 2012 is the end of the world. We continue to destroy. Spectacularly and with gusto, dropping a meteorite, flooding a metropolis, destroying a continent is not a problem for modern cinema. Audiences love disaster films, and every year writers and producers come up with more and more grandiose versions of universal doom. Fortunately, technology allows: in our time, you can show what directors could only dream of before or what they were afraid to approach because of the impossibility of doing it beautifully and reliably. In the computer age, only two factors can limit the scale of disasters: the imagination of the creators and the budget. 2022: Mars forever 22 ideas for houses of the future. Exhibition 24 hours diesel. Le Mans. Audi R18 TDI - an unusual sports prototype 33 thousand pipes. Organ device. When the inconspicuous beige-painted door opened, only a few wooden steps caught my eye out of the darkness. Immediately behind the door, a powerful wooden box resembling a ventilation box goes up. Watch out, it's an organ pipe, 32 feet, bass flute register, my guide warned. - Wait, I'll turn on the light. I patiently wait, anticipating one of the most interesting excursions in my life. In front of me is the entrance to the organ. This is the only musical instrument you can go inside 334 km/h on... bike 36 hours on edge. Test Drive. A drug has appeared in Moscow that restores potency for almost two days. The editors of Popular Mechanics tested its effect on themselves 3D CMB Globe: Download and Print 3D modeling is transforming paleontology 4x4 for the people. Peugeot RCZ. Often the simplest solutions are the most effective. The Peugeot Hybrid4 does away with the expensive and complex planetary transmission, and at the same time gives the car a simple and cheap four-wheel drive and additional space in the cabin. 50 iron rings Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility. A big step for humanity. Looking at how the ASIMO robot walks, it's hard to believe that this is a reality, and not just another Star Wars episode. Airbus: how the coolest helicopters in the world are made Airsurfing. Jumping. Stop a moment - you're fine. This popular expression is one hundred percent suitable for extreme sports. AK Alfa: Israeli Kalash AnyWalker: robot assistant from Russia BMW without engine. Skateboard. A year ago, fashion magazines walked around photos of an unusual skateboard from BMW StreetCarver. We went further: together with our friends from the Skater.ru project, we tested this mechanism. Extreme transport was run in by Pavel Gerasimov, and critically described by Alexei Gerasimov CD, DVD or SACD? SACD and PCM. At the moment when we, sitting in a comfortable chair, listen to our favorite song, the audio system processes thousands of different numbers every second. Each note is obtained through complex calculations to determine the parameters of the sound, reduce noise, create a surround sound effect, etc. One can argue at length about what sound quality is necessary. We will build the plane ourselves. Air Terawatt surf. Waves Dolce vita, zero calories. Sweetness Drone racing: superman racing ET was furious. The art of modeling nightmares. Steven Spielberg's 1982 film about the touching alien E.T. was life-changing for a generation of Americans. But times are changing. In 1993, the director bought at auction the only surviving copy of the famous radio play The War of the Worlds and became interested in the idea of filming the novel by H. G. Wells ECTO-1, the car of ghost hunters: how it works Ethereum: a platform for blockchain systems and its creator Vitalik Buterin EXPO-2005. What was shown. A few weeks before my arrival in Japan in the center of Tokyo, in front of a huge department store, one could observe an incredible picture: a giant queue circled the shopping center building, reminiscent of a long-forgotten line at the mausoleum. Enthusiast Japanese took their places in the evening, sleeping right on the sidewalk. What were they behind? A new Pokemon went on sale this morning FEDOR First: Russian anthropomorphic robot Fisker Karma: the failure story of the most boring hybrid Flyboard: how a flying segway works and how to use it Flying Phantom: yachts that can fly Ford Feuerwehr 798T Ford T. Masterpiece of the Bronze Age. This year marks a hundred years since the advent of the car, which played a crucial role in the development of not only the auto industry, but also civilization as a whole. We are talking about the famous Tin Lizzy - Ford Model T. Henry Ford flooded America with millions of inexpensive cars, putting the nation on wheels. Then the rest of the world got on wheels XNUMXth century GPS. Marine chronometers. Among the host of ticking devices that embodied the elegance of engineering and design art, the most accurate and one of the most interesting watches in design - marine chronometers stand apart. Harley-Davidson FXSTB Softail Night Train HD in Russian. An alternative to Blu-ray discs. In the summer of 2005, Popular Mechanics talked about a new standard for high-capacity VMD video discs, in the development of which Russian specialists also took part. Almost three years have passed, and the first HD VMD player with a stack of VMD discs with movies came to our office Homo technicus. Your upgrade is ready. For centuries, people have dreamed of eternal life, but - alas! These dreams remain dreams. No one has yet managed to live 1000 or at least 200 years. However, in the XNUMXst century, this can finally become a reality thanks to the latest advances in biology, medicine, nanotechnology and cybernetics. Homo volans. Flying man. Man has always wanted to fly. Well, or, given the bad experience of Icarus, at least it is safe to descend from a great height. There is evidence that the idea of a parachute came to the mind of inventors long before Leonardo da Vinci. However, it was Leonardo who drew a sketch of this device at the end of the XNUMXth century - a canvas stretched over a pyramidal frame. Cables were attached to the four corners of the pyramid, by which the man was holding. However, at that time no one dared to try this invention in practice. iCniper Indian Big Twin G-Model iPhone on wheels: urban transport in Russian IWA-2008. The largest weapons exhibition. In mid-March, Nuremberg traditionally hosts the world's largest hunting and weapons exhibition IWA. In terms of scale, only the January American SHOT Show can compete with it, but we, Europeans, are still closer to IWA. You can walk around this exhibition all day long, constantly bumping into new interesting things. Jetserf combines the delights of a jet ski, wakeboard and a trainer for all muscle groups Kingsman: Agent Outfit Guide Ladee: a spaceship that is assembled like a constructor Lego Mindstorms. Fight check. We recruited a children's designer for the war - and won Lexus Design Awards 2019 Mitjet: PM starts and wins MPEG-2: educational program. Video. In a short time, the abbreviation MPEG has become so familiar to us that there is no reason to wonder how it works. Palantir: how US intelligence agencies monitor the population Perlan 2: a plane that doesn't need fuel Playtron: a constructor that allows you to extract notes from any object! Pro insoles. Feet are warm. In order to radically improve your skiing technique, become more enduring and feel more comfortable, sometimes it is enough just to adjust the shape of ski boots in line with the shape of your own foot. Rinspeed as a lifestyle. Design Rolls-Royce among TVs. Plasma. In recent years, giant plasma panels have appeared that can already compete with a $ 50 video projector, and at the same time they can be viewed even in daylight. In addition, they take up very little space, since they do not have a cathode ray tube. RS1A3 Minirex: tactical robot for urban combat Shell be back! Terminator. Will Terminator III be the same breakthrough in action and special effects that its predecessors were? Sikorsky S-97 Raider: and the revolution will come Solar Impulse 2 and Omega watches TARG: wooden weapons are as good as real ones Tesla: why batteries will conquer the global auto industry Visual Science: How the World's Best Science Illustrations Are Made XXI century: it's time for firewood X Factor. What will we ride in 2020? The bet is $10 million. This prize will be awarded to one of 22 teams competing to develop a new generation ultra-efficient car. YikeBike reinvent the wheel. Design Was it a hobbit? Halfling Skeletons And instead of a heart - a paraffin motor And instead of a heart - an electric motor And instead of a heart, a plastic motor. Plastic engine. Among the 57 cars lined up on the starting grid at Watkins Glen in 1984 for the next round of the IMSA Camel GT racing series, connoisseurs were drawn to the plain white Polimotor Lola T616 with the Amoco sponsorship logo. The reason for the excitement was the unusual engine of this car, almost entirely made of plastic. Where is the steering wheel? And the head is in the trunk! Boss in Robot City. Are computer-controlled autonomous vehicles ready for a real urban world with multiple trespassers, parked cars, tricky intersections, and crazy traffic? And I want to drive! But do not rush to bury the internal combustion engine. The present and future of the internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine has been working for the benefit of mankind for more than a century and a half. In order not to lose his job, in the coming years the old man will have to change beyond recognition Come on, breathe! Test Drive. It is with this phrase that the most unpleasant conversation in the life of a driver can begin - after all, sometimes it ends with the deprivation of rights for 1,5-2 years. How to detect well-marked traces of a green snake in your own body before a traffic police inspector? What does a package of yogurt or eight hours of sleep mean for an impartial device? And most importantly - can you rely on inexpensive household breathalyzers? In all this, we tried to figure it out with the help of the test But Newton was not invited And under the hood - a nuclear engine Why not just blow it up? To break is not to build, but you can also break wisely. After the completion of the world's largest operation to remove an old dam, the Elva River in Washington state will be released again. The colossal three-year demolition project of this giant confirms that dismantling is a difficult task, not limited to a few tons of TNT. And now humpbacked! The legendary Soviet attack aircraft Su-25. The merits of the Soviet attack aviation in World War II were so great that it seemed that this type of aircraft should have been registered in the domestic armed forces for decades. However, interest in him disappeared almost immediately after the end of hostilities. avant-garde nostalgia Airliner Boeing 787. Dreamliner. With the design of the new 787, Boeing has radically redefined the concept of a commercial passenger aircraft. Airliner. Full inspection Russian aircraft carriers. Forgotten projects. In August 1953, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Nikolai Kuznetsov submitted a report to the Minister of Defense of the USSR Nikolai Bulganin, in which he outlined his views on the tasks and development of the fleet, and also formulated proposals for the construction of new warships. The report emphasized that in post-war conditions, without the presence of aircraft carriers in the Navy, the solution of the main tasks of the fleet cannot be ensured. Air show in miniature. Big games. JetPower looks like a real airshow: with demonstration flights, crowds of spectators, exhibitions in hangars and hundreds of aircraft. It's just very small... Auto from printer Autogyros in a peaceful sky. Intelligence service Auto tomorrow: what will cars be like in five years? And after ten? The automaton is dead, long live the automaton! Autolikbez. At the request of the Twin-clutch gearbox, the search engine will return an impressive list of automakers that are planning to abandon the traditional hydromechanical gearbox in the near future and offer consumers a second-generation automatic gearbox - a preselective gearbox with two clutches. Kazuaki Harada Automatons: Wooden Wonders Cars of the nearest present Cars of tomorrow. Frankfurt Motor Show 2007 A trip to the International Motor Show is one of the best ways to look into the future of motor transport. If we are talking about Geneva or Tokyo, we can expect the expansion of time horizons for decades. The Frankfurt Motor Show, on the contrary, reveals the prospects of tomorrow: the concept cars shown at the auto show, as a rule, are very close to the launch in the series. Do cars fly? Yes, but low, low... As a worthy end to the third season of the famous show, Discovery Channel's Monster Garage host Jess James decided to build a flying car. No, Jess did not plan to make a breakthrough in the auto or aircraft industry and establish the production and sale of autoplanes. It's not even about the challenge that this task threw to the engineers - he just wanted to prove that he can do it. Cars under the microscope of Alexei Safonov. Wood A car under the Y brand. Comments of the designers Open source car. Bypassing the auto industry. In 1908, Henry Ford designed the Model T and put it on the assembly line. In 1934, André Citroën introduced the Traction-Avant, the first body of which was made of spot-welded stamped iron. Corporations have taken over the auto industry. Today, solo enthusiasts once again got a chance to win back an island in the automotive world. Their projects are based on the open source principle that underpins Wikipedia and the Linux operating system. Automotive kung fu. Film effects. Speed Racer was the first film directed by brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski after the phenomenal success of their Matrix trilogy. They say that the directors really wanted to make a children's film to which they could take their nephews and nieces. Motorsport of the future. Closer to nature Aggressive tins. Weight category - up to 200 kg. Fighting robot fights - the most fashionable entertainment of the XXI century Adam, Eve and Mathematics Admiral for an hour: how the World of Warships game works Hellish buns. Round electricity. Although ball lightning has been known for several centuries, scientists still do not know its nature. Hell boy. Damn special effects. Film adaptation of comics is a completely independent and mature genre in American cinema. For decades, audiences have reveled in the adventures of Superman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and more. The turn of the horned imp with a tail has come Hell Potion. What to wish the enemy. For nearly 500 years, smoky black powder has been the god of war. Schiller wrote that since the invention of gunpowder, angels do not participate in the battles of people. Engels called gunpowder the great revolutionary who put an end to feudal oppression. The next revolution came in 1846 with the discovery of nitroglycerin. And in the 1880s, the ultimate goal was determined: a substance that was given the cipher name melinite Hell fire. Shoot to kill. The first new type of weapon to appear in the industrial XNUMXth century was the jet flamethrower. Moreover, the manufacturers originally planned it not as an army, but as a police weapon to disperse demonstrators. Strange way to pacify your own citizens by burning them to the ground ABC of trade. Barcode. There have been many inventions throughout history that have revolutionized the retail industry, from money itself to cash registers, shopping carts and the modern credit system. But, probably, nothing has changed the face of modern trade (and not only) as much as one very simple thing: a label with printed black and white stripes - a barcode Azuma Makoto and his photographs of plants in outer space Tunnel Acrobatics: The Aerodynamic Sport of the Future Diamond Utopia. Underground city. What can be done with a diamond quarry whose glory is in the past? Give it a future by building a self-sustaining eco-city for 10 inhabitants in its bowels. The Moscow architectural bureau came up with such an initiative project. Interestingly, the idea to build underground cities in the permafrost zone, so as not to heat the frosty air with the outer walls of buildings, but, on the contrary, to use the geothermal heat of the Earth, was expressed in the USSR back in the 000s ... Diamond surgery The Diamond Age is coming. synthetic diamonds. It is not the De Beers group that should be afraid of the advent of artificial diamonds, but the Intel company The alchemist is the opposite. Super heavy space truck. On the night of March 9, the most advanced spacecraft made in Western Europe, the Jules Verne truck, was launched to the ISS. The manufacture and launch of the Jules Verne truck into space cost €300 million. The ship can deliver no more than 7,7 tons of payload into orbit. Taking into account transport services, 1 liter of water, once on the orbital station, will cost €40 Alchemist of Light. Cinema Pioneers. A long time ago, when the trees were big, movies were made without the help of computers. Courage and imagination were required from its creators - they did not even invent the language of cinema, but its alphabet. The cinema started by the Lumiere brothers was almost documentary. It fixed the reality in a straightforward manner - a sprinkled sprinkler, an arriving train, workers leaving the factory. French director Georges Méliès has figured out how to make cinema something more than life. He invented the first special effects and made the first science fiction films. alternative aviation. Thunderbolts who were not. History does not know the subjunctive mood. However, it is always very interesting to see what would happen if ... For example, if aircraft designers were guided by the simplest solutions Alternative cosmonautics. New launch vehicles. NASA plans to use the new Ares I rocket from 2015. However, a group of aerospace engineers proposes a different concept for a ship that can be made faster and cheaper. Aluminum armor: the lightest protection for armored vehicles American version of the weapons of a soldier of the future American space program. What's next. The Columbia shuttle disaster that occurred on February 1 did not change my views on the development of the American space program at all. Since my presidency of the American Aerospace Commission, my views have only slightly crystallized. After completing the commission's report at the end of last year, I began to prepare a conference on alternative approaches to space exploration. Roller coaster. New generation of attractions. Thanks to the most advanced technology, the new attraction has become taller, it promises unheard-of speeds and unimaginable sensations. Crazy swiftness, cosmic overloads and exceptionally strong experiences will be remembered for a lifetime American Marine. Fighters against terror. Special weapons and tactics of American elite brigades Amphibious Quadski: a hybrid of an ATV and a jet ski Anatomy of a crossbow. Modern crossbow. Arches (shoulders) fixed on the bed, a bowstring and a lock that fixes it in a cocked state - all these details were in crossbows two thousand years ago. True, a modern crossbow, of course, is no longer made from the same materials as its distant ancestor - it has become lighter, stronger and more reliable. Anatomy of a disaster. The Science of Tragedy Prevention. Passenger air transport has never been as safe as it is now, but this does not prevent aircraft from disappearing in broad daylight. So, you need to do everything possible to learn how to prevent tragedies. Flight anatomy. Sport Anatomy of a digital camera. What does she have inside? If you are holding this magazine in your hands, it is probably not in your rules to use a thing (and even more so to buy it) without knowing what is inside it. Show Anatomy Hangar 21. Race Guardian angel. Monitoring Andrea Davide and her clockwork sculptures Antibiotic Apocalypse Antidotes. World history of poisoning. Since the dawn of mankind, poisons have played a significant role in our lives. They lubricated arrows with them, going hunting, they silently and without any problems eliminated objectionable husbands or political rivals, they executed criminals. Poisons have penetrated into all spheres of human life so much that people wanted to have reliable protection against this formidable weapon. Antikillers Anti-Magnetic Movement: Why Magnetic Fields Don't Affect Watch Accuracy Antineutrinos at work Tank upgrade. Where the infantry does not pass, a bicycle will make its way. Where previously only a caterpillar tractor could reach, now you can safely ride a two-wheeled bicycle Apocalypse in motion. Indian technology. If you try to determine the main direction of Mel Gibson's directorial career, you get something like this: each of his next film turns out to be more bloody than the previous one. Since his second film, Braveheart, for which he won a director's Oscar, Gibson has gained a reputation for making violent films and not much caring about historical truth. Apocalypse Dresden Arduino almighty. Electronics for adults Arena for grand football Flying car arena. Quadcopters Arctic: hot polar night The Arctic: who does it belong to if not Russia? Arctic science. Year at the polar station. The layman, as a rule, is completely incomprehensible what these people are doing there, at the top of the Earth, in conditions of extreme frost, polar night, on an ice floe that can break at any moment, and without the usual comfort of modern civilization. When I asked Vladimir Churun, deputy head of SP-36 for science, to tell about scientific research on the ice floe, he answered thoughtfully: You know, I would not refuse to know about it either! Arctic Air Defense of Russia: MiG-31 and MiG-31BM Arctic burlak: Russian all-terrain vehicle for the north Arctic monster: floating platform North Pole Arctic building. igloo Armada of Count Zeppelin. Airships. Rigid airships were not only transporters and sea reconnaissance aircraft, but also the first aircraft carriers. Super Spy Arsenal. James Bond and his stuff. Since childhood, the special arsenal of James Bond, which was replenished by the unforgettable Professor Q, caused genuine envy. Exotic vehicles, weapons, watches, phones and lighters with a bunch of secret functions, miniature cameras and tape recorders. However, the further, the more difficult it is for a super agent to surprise us - sometimes modern civilian devices that get into the editorial office are not inferior, and sometimes even surpass things from Bond's arsenal Artifact of the future Artillery in orbit. Combat orbital stations. How Soviet military orbital stations were going to shoot back from killer satellites Artillery against the citadel. Storm. The Second World War was the last bright episode in the history of powerful fortifications in Europe. Built for decades and centuries, mighty fortresses with their forts, redoubts, walls and dungeons still remained hard nuts for the attackers, but were no longer able to restrain the mighty blows of the god of war - artillery Artillery to the music. Fireworks. Fireworks vary from the tiny fountains sold on holiday eve at newsstands to the state holiday fireworks, the sound design of which is a volley of 18 real artillery pieces. Apart in this family of fire-breathers are professional firework shows, which are based on music. Viktor Ivanov, the director of the company Salutes of the best collections, told us about how these theatrical performances are created in the sky. Arthur Ganson and his amazing machines: Leonardo of the XNUMXth century Architects of extraterrestrial civilizations. How Lunograd was designed. Dizziness from success... It is probably to him that we owe the fact that at the end of the 1960s people of an unusual profession appeared in our country - designers of extraterrestrial settlements Asgardia: the first space nation Astrocyte: what is biological architecture Asphalt roller. Summer tires 2010. So that you don't have to slide on the asphalt in the parking lot of the supermarket, like on the ice of a hockey rink, you need good summer tires. Technology Review Summer 2010 Asya Kazantseva: the better you sleep, the more you remember Attack on cancer. Cancer vaccine. Every army has a doctrine, a belief that leads everyone into battle, from generals to privates. During World War II, the doctrine was unconditional surrender. During the Cold War, the containment of communism. The war against cancer has its own doctrine. This is the belief that cancer is not a disease, but a family of diseases, each requiring specific treatment. The conduct of hostilities on this front has already yielded impressive results. Teeth attack. Why humanity suffers from caries, and is it possible to fight it Atmospheric satellites: solar-powered drones Atmospheric impact. rockets Atomic Lego. Our nanofuture. A computer the size of a salt crystal will be cheaper than dirt Atomic Wings. Nuclear planes. Dreams of a nuclear-powered aircraft can become a reality thanks to a new mini-reactor Atomic International Atomic constructor. Reactor on the table Nuclear burial ground: how radioactive waste is stored Atomic float. The nuclear power plant floats at the behest of the waves. In five to ten years, floating nuclear power plants will electrify the whole world Atomic king-ship Atoms and emptiness. There is nothing but atoms and emptiness. Democritus from Abder (1th century BC). The Physical Encyclopedia says that vacuum is the state of a gas at less than atmospheric pressure. At the same time, they often mean not just less, but much less. Under normal conditions, at a pressure of 760 atm. (0 mm Hg) and a temperature of 30000000000000000000000 Celsius, there are approximately XNUMX molecules of different gases in a liter of air African cars: plenty to choose from African racing. Stay on the surface. We are rushing along the Gulf of Finland in an inflatable catamaran. We are a lean pilot Vladimir and I, who play the role of a 100-kilogram balance. I tensely wait for Volodya to start turning so that I can quickly throw my body weight in the direction of the turn to compensate for the overturning moment. But he only speeds up the boat, and finally, at a speed of over 30 knots, he turns sharply to the left. Just don't roll over! Airmobile. Hybrid tricycle. Stephen Fambro was considered crazy by many. What else can you call a man who, at the age of 39, gave up his career as a lead robotics engineer at a thriving biotech company Llumina and spends days fiddling in the garage of his house? Steve builds a supercar that no one has been able to make before him. A car that cuts through space with the ease of a razor... Airplane-2. We are testing the aircraft. Recall that in the last issue we told and showed how to assemble a radio-controlled model of an aircraft from corrugated plastic in three evenings. The only thing we did not have time to do was to implant the actual radio control into the body of the aircraft and launch the model. The case turned out to be not as simple as it seemed from the very beginning. Baz Aldrin. Second number. On July 1969, 25, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the moon. To commemorate the 1994th anniversary of the event, in 25, Aldrin wrote about his experience in the July issue of Popular Mechanics. Who else to write about the historic landing on the moon, if not its participant, the one who could say: I was there. When the magazine approached Aldrin to write an article, Aldrin was still in the service - 1993 years later he was working on creating a practical and permanent human presence in orbit. In XNUMX, he received a patent for the design of a permanent space station. Basel 2015: nano versus micro Bike at the foot of the volcano. harley Bacteria of eternal youth: Russian scientists about slowing down aging Million dollar bacterium. A small culprit of big problems. The 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to two Australians for their research on the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which is now found to be one of the causes of gastric and duodenal ulcers. Why, 20 years after the discovery of Helicobacter, are people still suffering from ulcers? Snowmobile ballet: tricks, jumps and tricks Beam of variable stiffness. Skiing. This year, sports equipment manufacturers have exhibited about 300 models of alpine skis and no less number of snowboards in Moscow stores. It is almost impossible to deal with such an abundance on your own. Manufacturers' catalogs and sellers' advice, as a rule, do not bring clarity to this matter. Ballad about fast neutrons. The unique reactor of the Beloyarsk NPP. The town of Zarechny is located 40 km from Yekaterinburg, in the middle of the most beautiful forests of the Urals. In 1964, the first Soviet industrial nuclear power plant, Beloyarskaya, was launched here (with an AMB-100 reactor with a capacity of 100 MW). Now Beloyarsk NPP is the only one in the world where an industrial power reactor on fast neutrons - BN-600 The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet Baltic Trafalgar: how Russia fought with Sweden Baltic: an amazing icebreaker that goes sideways Bath joy. Baths. Every year, on December 31, my friends and I go to the banya... The famous phrase from the equally famous film firmly connected the New Year with the banya theme, however, valuable brooms focus our attention exclusively on the Russian banya or the Finnish sauna related to it. But, as you know, there are options. Barabashka. Robosos. All vacuum cleaners are the same. Their design has remained virtually unchanged since the beginning of the XNUMXth century. Each has an electric motor, fan, air inlet and outlet, and a place to collect dust and debris. Barmingrad. Forgotten city. For many years, every day, on my way to work, I passed a nondescript building on Berezhkovskaya Embankment, which is between the third transport ring and the thermal power plant. Even if I stopped and read the sign on the building - Design Bureau of General Mechanical Engineering, it would add clarity to what is happening outside the walls of the building. Nevertheless, the building is unique - for more than twenty years, lunar cities have been developed and designed in it. No more and no less Swimming pool for lunatics Batteries for Caribbean Crisis Trampoline earned tower batteries Running in a circle. Differential. First, the differential was invented, allowing the wheels of the same axle to rotate at different speeds. Then they decided to complicate his work with the help of locks ... Run Man Run: How We Do It Running Sect Running pictures. Camcorders. The first and main question that arose when I received an editorial task to deal with modern camcorders was: Why are they needed at all? Running on the waves. Aki dry. Amphibious vehicles are back - this time with good performance, attractive looks and smart technology Running on wires. Trucks rush along the power lines. The main form of transport in the Russian North is aviation and reindeer. It is impossible to build a railway: the canvas will constantly float in permafrost. Asphalt simply does not survive in arctic temperature fluctuations, and concrete is so expensive that usually only the central streets of the regional center and the runway of the local airfield are concrete. Here is the academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Anatoly Yunitsky and proposes to develop an unconventional transport network - to pull the string Running in the labyrinth Running fire. Not every pickford cord. Since its inception, gunpowder has been used in more than just guns and guns. Military engineers quickly realized that with its help it was possible to bring down the most impregnable fortress walls. But they were able to do it with guarantee and at the right time only after the invention of the Fickford cord. No weight. Reduce weight to zero. Astronauts in training can fulfill the dream of many obese people - to reduce their weight. Down to zero Without any resistance. Anniversary Without borders and compromises. Freeriders: proud highlanders. Freeride bikes are the undisputed leaders in cross-country ability... and in price Without roads and fools. quagmire Without convoy No extra tact No limits. Speed. The most hated sign by motorists is the speed limit. Violators will be fined. True, not all. Some, on the contrary, are waiting for worldwide fame and entry into the book of records. So if next time it seems to the traffic police inspector that you were driving fast, show him this record number. Let him know what really fast is! But still, you should not, inspired by an example, try to repeat these records without careful preparation. It's better to just enjoy reading about it. No panic! All the wonders of the universe. The cult book by the Englishman Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, begins with the destruction of the Earth and continues in the vast expanses of space, where Arthur Dent, left without a home, seeks answers to the questions of life, the Universe and everything else, accompanied by a motley company of interplanetary vagrants. No trace. Rebreather. Little is known about the Soviet submarine special forces, or, to be more precise, almost nothing. Without noise and dust. Muffler. Often misrepresented by film and television sound engineers as an almost musical zing, with a good silencer, the sound of a gunshot is more like the rustle of a metal brush being run over a wooden board. The gases from the powder charge inside the cartridge remain in the deflectors as the bullet passes through the holes, practically blocking them and causing the gases to expand inside the silencer. With five internal deflectors - the outer cover played the role of the sixth - the sound of the shot turned into a low whisper (Tom Clancy, Without Pity) Merciless forcing. 4000 tires were burned by stuntmen on the set of the third Fast and the Furious. The Japanese could not believe that the Americans who came to them really want to buy a few dozen used right-hand drive cars. Why do you need them? - the sellers were surprised, but the citizens of the richest country in the world answered mysteriously: In a year you will know Silent roar of the future Safety glass Triplex. These things are so firmly and naturally inscribed in the world around us that we tend to forget about the history of their origin. Popular Mechanics decided to fill this gap Madness on wheels Crazy Inventors. Invent the future. What happens when four professional technicians join forces to bring the wildest, wildest, wildest ideas to life? Nothing more than filming Invent the Future on Discovery Channel Crazy Max. An angry bus. How many horses does he have? - asks our test driver, 2004 Russian rally champion Gennady Broslavsky. - According to my feelings, 220. And we rode it quite a bit. I don’t have time to answer, I only press myself tighter into the chair and turn a little pale. A frenzied bus is rapidly rushing along the Volokolamsk highway towards the Tushino airfield. The drivers of the surrounding cars do not even have time to react to a swift minibus suddenly appearing behind, which just as quickly disappears in front. We took the world's first sports minivan Ford S-Max for a test drive Madness of the brave: 10 most beautiful base jumps White magic. Science and miracle. Snow is a letter from heaven written in secret characters (Ukichiro Nakaya) Squirrel in a wheel. Motor wheel. Twelve years ago, Michelin's labs began creating the eco-friendly electric wheel of the future, accommodating the entire car, except for the body and seats: engine, transmission, suspension, steering and braking system. White Sea. Puffy. March is the first month of spring, but only formally White dragons. Who killed the elephants and horsemen of Hannibal. Snow donkey with a characteristic sound hhrrum. I have heard similar sounds many times in my life, but this sound was special. It was VERY loud, like a bomb had gone off nearby. It was quiet for a split second. And then, as if the rocket roared at the start White spots of science Petrol Cooking. Engine progress. Traditional multiport gasoline injection systems sent the carburetor to the museum, but it's time for them to leave the stage Bert Rutan: Don't be afraid to make mistakes! An endless ballad about the orbital wheel. Circle Infinite motion by Brad Litwin. Rotation. Many artists work in the genre of kinetic sculpture, but only a few are familiar to the general public. Brad Litvin is practically unknown in Russia. Popular Mechanics decided to fill this gap The Endless Childhood of Ben Light Contactless payments: how does it work and can it be trusted? Unmanned death. Drone boats. Israel is a very small country that relies on very big fists. Its military equipment can give odds to Russia and the United States. Recently, photos of a new Israeli know-how have appeared in the press - Rafael Protector unmanned boats patrolling the coastal space of Syria, Lebanon and even Iran. The editors of the PM decided to understand the topic of unmanned naval battles Unmanned vehicle Yandex: urban test drive Self-driving vehicles, PM kids and other best letters of the month The Useless Cars of Nick Remage Heartless Manipulator: PuppetMaster Robot Puppeteer The unsystematic morse code of Karl Lautmann. Click Immortal HeLa cells Bestiary of Pierre Matte. Almost living mechanics. Sculptures in biomechanical steampunk style blur the boundaries between living organisms and machines. The French sculptor sees the prototypes of his works in real life Inhuman wars. There will be almost no people in the wars of the VI generation. The material concerns the classification of wars in general. The heading is headed by Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Military Sciences, Professor Vladimir Slipchenko Inhuman and smart. New combat drones. While flesh-and-blood aces pilots were demonstrating their skills in the skies over Farnborough 2010, unmanned vehicles took over the space of the exhibition pavilions of the famous air show. In any case, this gave the impression Concrete imitating ice Crazy Stool Biathlon from Kalashnikov Business at the speed of sound. The concept of a supersonic aircraft. The ability to move very quickly around the world is very much in demand. Especially among those for whom time is literally money. Beat, beat, did not break. Roof One way ticket. Friend. Laika, who flew into space on November 3, 1957 (the fortieth anniversary of the revolution), was not the first dog sent into space on a rocket, and not even the first to die in space. But she became the first (and last) dog sent into space without the possibility of returning. Biology of xenomorphs: how Aliens work Pokemon biology: how Pikachu and Bulbasaur work from the inside Bioluminescence: Can Luminous Plants Be Used? Bioluminaire: a luminous plant in your home Biofoundation: how microorganisms are used in construction Biohackers Biohackers: how to modify human vision Bioethanol: to your health! Cars on alcohol. Bioethanol is not only a renewable fuel resource that can dramatically reduce the level of harmful emissions and replace fossil fuels, but also an interesting economic tool Battle for bytes. The digital death of celluloid. Digital technologies are slowly taking away living space from celluloid Space battle. Ambition, investment and dreams of stars. On December 27, 2005, the head of the Federal Space Agency announced a closed competition for the development of a new Russian reusable spacecraft under the Clipper theme: the only spacecraft Soyuz today was conceived back in the 1960s and has practically exhausted the possibilities for improvement. What will Russian cosmonauts fly in the near future? Tire battle. Where does the bus start? They must cry. Cry white viscous tears, once every five days. Otherwise we won't be able to drive Battle for supersonic. Really fast cars. In the United States, CEOs are usually referred to by the abbreviation CEO (Chief Executive Officer). However, Ed Shadl, the head of the US-Canadian North American Eagle team, is called differently by employees - COG (crazy old guy). This fall, a crazy old man is going to restore the glory of the fastest motorists in the world to Americans. He intends to accelerate his car to 1300 km/h! Battle of the little ones. The People Against the Automotive Giants Entrepreneur Peter Diamandis established the Automotive X-Prize. The winner - the developer of the most promising economical car - will receive millions Cloud battle. Cloud dispersal. As many probably remember, Dr. Felix Honniker, the character in Kurt Vonnegut's ironic dystopia Cat's Cradle, created the mysterious and terrible ice-nine. One had only to throw one crystal of this ice into a puddle, as all the moisture on Earth, including atmospheric, began to crystallize and harden already at a positive temperature. Fiction is fiction, but the creation of Dr. Honniker has some real prototype. The writer himself was inspired by the works of his own brother Bernard, a famous chemist and meteorologist who figured out how to cause artificial rain or snow. Technology battle. LCD vs Plasma. Flat panels are replacing televisions and cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors. Which technology is better? Technology battle: DECT vs. WI-FI. Telephone communications. Basically, it's all Tesla's fault. After all, it was he, and not at all Popov and not even Marconi, who invented the radio. Although no, you should not slander the fertile era of analog electronics. Then everything was extremely simple: you set the frequency, the type of modulation - and you are in touch eiffel battle Battle of the Electric Kings. Variable versus constant. The whole world is illuminated thanks to the efforts of these people. But two great inventors - Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison - were sworn enemies. Bipedal battles. Fighting humanoid robots. So the real battles of robots reached Russia. From October 17 to 21, in the Moscow pavilion at VDNKh, as part of the Robotics-2006 exhibition, two-legged robots will knock each other out The Beatles never dreamed of such a thing. Concert equipment. Coming to a concert, we all want to hear the music and parse the lyrics. To fulfill these simple wishes of the audience, the equipment at concerts must be complex and expensive. The beaten unbeaten is lucky. Tugboat for skiers. The test drive of the world's first powered skis was short, but the impressions from it will last a year ahead To beat or not to beat. Fight. Of course, a silver screen fight is not a real fight. Blissful insensitivity and its dark sides. Abyss Blissful fear. The scariest rides ever. There is ecstasy in battle and a gloomy abyss on the edge. And this rapture is provided by adrenaline, which is synthesized by the adrenal glands at the command of the central nervous system in moments of danger. Under the action of adrenaline, blood vessels narrow, blood pressure increases, the heart begins to beat faster and stronger. The body overflows with energy, reactions become sharper, feelings become stronger... Blender: Disassembly Report Near future on hand Near space: faster, better, cheaper Closer to asphalt! Pocket motorcycle. Small motorcycles, two-strokes that look like they've been taken off a chainsaw... maybe mini-bike competitions are just for kids? But why do serious motorcycle racers love them? Probably for the same reasons that Formula 1 drivers love to go karts. Next to the asphalt, speed is felt more sharply! Closer to people. Preved? With the Technology+Humanity principle of ASIMO, Honda engineers strive to combine technological excellence with humanity. Closer to the sun. Follow your favorite star. On October 10, 1946, a captured V-2 rocket was launched from the American military range White Sands in New Mexico. The rocket did not carry a warhead, but was equipped with a spectrograph, which was used for the first time to take pictures of our sun in the ultraviolet spectral region of 290-230 nm, the waves of which are absorbed in the lower layers of the atmosphere and do not reach the Earth's surface. It is this date that can be considered the birthday of space solar astronomy. Blitzkrieg as a technology of war. Effective military management. Blitzkrieg, lightning war. It is believed that the main role in this aggressive strategy of the Wehrmacht was played by tanks. In fact, the blitzkrieg was based on a combination of advanced achievements in all areas of military affairs - in the use of intelligence, aviation, radio communications ... Wandering shadow. Adaptive high beam Wealth and Thrift Combat Pinocchio. wing chun mannequin Battle Island. Marine base. The combined mobile offshore base is larger than a city. For the soldiers-liberators, it will become a home in a hostile environment. Fighting dolphins. Real animals. It's no secret that war is the engine of progress. To achieve military superiority, people are ready to use any means, even to attract animals to their side. As a result, completely unique units of saboteur dolphins were born. Fighting robots by Mark Poline. SRL show. Any futurist knows that in three hundred years the armies will disappear from the face of the earth, and interplanetary conflicts will be resolved by the forces of controlled robots. If you believe the creators of the film Terminator, at some point the machines will get out of the control of the creators and turn against them. It will not happen soon, but the first step has already been taken. Meet Mark Poline, Terminator Master Combat humanoid robots: how they are made Warhead: what's inside and how it works after separation from the rocket Caterpillar fighter and other amazing photos Divine wind. Kamikaze. Real kamikaze were not terrorists. Japanese pilots of the Second World War voluntarily gave their lives for their homeland Combat in virtual reality: the editors of the PM are testing VR games Small Aircraft Fighting: The Most Extreme Modeling Fight club. Airsoft. Fans of military-historical reenactment introduced Russia to a new game that originated in America and Japan, and here it changed both the name and the rules Fighting snakes. How those born to fly fight Soldiers of the invisible front. Sports optics. Every year I stop more and more uncertainly at the counter of sunglasses and masks - the choice of lenses grows exponentially. Blue, red, orange, yellow, mirror, polarized and other glasses confuse me completely Boxer on the high road. Subject: boxer internal combustion engine A more worthy goal. Buzz Aldrin's space program. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon in 1969, comes forward with a proposal to scrap another lunar race (this time with China) and focus on a more worthy goal - the colonization of the planet Mars Big red button. Flywheels-accumulators. Seeds of future green cars germinate in Formula 1 greenhouses The big hunt for relic neutrinos. Neutrino. By confirming the existence of these relic particles, science will receive invaluable information about a very young cosmos. The Great Higgs Hunt Elon Musk's Big Rocket Big regatta. Volvo Open 70 for ocean racing. The triumph of high technology over the ocean waves Big fish Great construction More clay - closer to the sky. City More goblins, good and different. Chronicles of special effects. Spiderwick. The Chronicles is a popular series of children's books, a fantasy tale in five parts with exquisite black and white illustrations. It is intended for an audience that has not yet grown up to Harry Potter, but is already interested in magical adventures. More action, less chatter. Film effects. "Transporter-3" continues the cycle of action films, with which French filmmakers successfully prove to the world that they are able to make an exciting movie with chases, fights and explosions no worse than their American counterparts, and in addition for much less money. “We may not have had £75m, but we had a lot of ideas,” says Olivier Megaton, director of Transporter 3. - We even ordered T-shirts for the film crew with the slogan: “Less chatter, more action” More glue. Duct tape. Few people know that the name Scotch, which has become synonymous with adhesive tape in our time, came from ... an insult that the first user of this product expressed against the inventors! More, more wings More than air. Car tire - yesterday and today. More than a hundred years ago, a working prototype of a tire was created, in which air under pressure dampened the bumps in the road. Long decades of evolution have turned the tire from a simple shell for air into a complex structure, no less important than other car components. More than you can carry. Shopping cart. These things are so firmly and naturally inscribed in the world around us that we tend to forget about the history of their origin. Popular Mechanics decided to fill this gap More than symmetry Big races Large calibers of physics Big Aircraft - Big Data Large binocular telescope. Two-eyed witness of the Universe. The most powerful optical telescope in the world will soon be directed to the most ancient space objects, fanned by the mystery of the origin of the Universe Big tank - big wheels Bomb for the conspiracy theorist. Tectonic weapons. On January 12, 2010, a powerful earthquake actually wiped out the capital of Haiti - the city of Port-au-Prince with its suburbs. About 210 people died, about the same number were injured, and more than three million were left homeless. Seismologists stated that the cause of the disaster was the movement of the earth's crust in the collision zone of the Caribbean and North American lithospheric plates. However, a different version of what happened was proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ... Bomb for Manhattan Bombers: Reloaded. Loading weapons in the air. Aerial refueling technology has greatly expanded the range and patrol time of military aircraft. Now they do not need to return to the airfield to replenish fuel supplies, and the flight time is limited only by the physiological capabilities of the pilots. The next logical step is reloading, or resupplying in the air. Bombs that don't explode. What is a vircator. PM has written more than once about electromagnetic weapons. In shock wave and explosive magnetic frequency generators, the energy of explosives is converted into electromagnetic radiation. However, there is another kind of electromagnetic weapons - non-explosive sources of radiation Dust Fighters Ice fighters. Ice is a real problem, not just for pedestrians and motorists Flood Control: Russia in the Water The fight against warming Bowling in orbit. Orbital hotel RKK Energia Braille. Reading by hand. The chain of events that led to the emergence of Braille began during the Crusades of the French King Louis IX Brothers of the smaller planets. asteroids Marriage games of robots. Yours among strangers. In the nearly 60 years since Alan Turing proposed his test for perfect artificial intelligence, robots have never learned to pretend to be human. But they are quite ready to mislead our smaller brothers, learning to speak the same language with them. The burden of real cowboys. Russian rodeo. This story began in the first half of the XNUMXth century in the United States of America. American shepherds - cowboys - gathered in the so-called big circle in order to demonstrate to each other the skill of handling horses and bulls, the ability to work with a lasso. Time passed - and such meetings turned into mass sports shows. This is how rodeo was born. Armor-piercing silent Boa constrictor: replacement of PM? Armored car in Spanish. Samopal Armored cats against mice in armor. Craft on the verge of reality. Armor of Jeff de Boer evens the odds in the eternal war of cats and mice Armor of the White Guard The armor is strong and our tanks are round ... Armored exotics of the early twentieth century. To date, a certain stereotype of the layout of the tank has developed: a caterpillar mover, one turret with weapons, a rectangular hull. But engineering fantasy is much richer. The designers developed the most exotic projects of armored monsters, which, for one reason or another, never appeared on the battlefield. One of these projects was a tank-balloon, that is, a combat vehicle in the shape of a ball. The idea from the point of view of cross-country ability is very promising. But the combat armored ball ... isn't it fantasy? The armor is strong, our dumbbells are fast! Truck Armor is soft. Crash test of a battle tank. The impenetrable armor of the tank can injure the crew even without a fight. Therefore, the next generation tanks will be soft Armor falls from the sky Let's throw hope into the wind. Russian energy. In ten years, Russia will need to produce 60% more electricity than it does now. But even what we have today is produced on equipment with wear and tear of more than 70%. The country needs new energy capacities like bread. But what? Let's bet on the atom? Shall we build new dams? Will we continue to burn coal and gas out of habit? Or maybe the wind will help us? Abandoned cars by James Corbett Abandoned cars by James Corbett. Sculptures from auto junk. There are many ways to get rid of used cars. In the US, they are sent to huge car cemeteries and pressed. In Brazil, they are simply thrown everywhere. In Russia, a number of companies were gradually formed involved in recycling - disassembling cars for spare parts for subsequent resale. But the Australian James Corbett does not recognize such methods. From the details of the old ruins, he creates wonderful sculptures. Splashes of frozen time There will be a ball for you, there will be a whistle. Tradition versus technology. The two most important attributes of the 2008 European Championship football matches are the sports equipment, as well as the constant companion of the referee Will the guns be silent? Future in the past? quantum wonder The future of diesel. Silent power. Soot and soot are a thing of the past. Modern diesel vehicles are silent, environmentally friendly and high speeds. The future of the oil civilization. And how much is all this enough? Of course, not forever. But with a prudent attitude to natural resources and the development of alternative energy resources, we can well prevent a catastrophic situation and prevent all oil sources from suddenly drying up. The future of the oil civilization. Report from the drilling platform. To date, one of the most promising oil-bearing areas in the United States is the deep-water part of the Gulf of Mexico. Popular Mechanics editor Karl Hoffman went there by helicopter to see firsthand how today's drillers, working on the most modern, technically advanced oil rig, every day do what they would have considered absolutely impossible ten years ago: they open up an oil-bearing reservoir that lies at the bottom of the ocean under 2,5 km of ocean water The future is already here. We live in a world where everyone can follow everyone. In the early 1920s, the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote a fantastic novel warning We about the totalitarian world of the future. The United State is governed there according to mathematically verified formulas and recipes for a universal happy life, and one of the most important slogans - Freedom and happiness are incompatible Paper will endure everything. Master Class. If there is a rocket engine, then at least tie a fence to it - it will fly! - so said Valentin Petrovich Glushko. Bowing to the wisdom of the great Soviet designer, we decided to test his principle in practice. It seems that by equipping a paper airplane with an engine, we have found a new direction in aeromodelling. Paper will endure everything. Text The paper is not for printing. Personal question. More than 30 billion toilet paper rolls are used worldwide every year. This means that when you read this subheading to the end, another 6000 rolls will be used up - one thousand every second. Paper castles by Peter Callesen. Paper work. Everyone knows what origami is. Almost everyone will be able to fold an airplane or a boat from a notebook sheet. Origami masters are able to create paper designs of amazing complexity. But is it possible to go beyond this ancient art? Can stereotypes be broken? Of course, says Danish sculptor Peter Kallesen. And does it Paper Wings. Unmanned, silent, environmentally friendly. What an old children's game can turn into if you take it seriously. Paper airplanes are made and launched by quite adult people. Pinocchio is on fire. Carabas' worst nightmare. There is an amazing weapon in the Russian army - the heavy flamethrower system TOS-1 Pinocchio. Advertising materials of Rosvooruzhenie claim that its volley destroys all life within a radius of 3 km Storms and Storms Natalie Meebach Drilling on an asteroid. Extraction of extraterrestrial soil. After NASA was forced to abandon plans for the exploration of the moon, the mysterious Mars and asteroids, space hooligans, now and then threatening the Earth with their risky maneuvers, have come to the top of the agency's list of tasks. The most important stage of their study will be a large-scale geological exploration. Of course, alpenstocks and hand drills are indispensable here Storm on demand. Aerodynamic tunnels. At the Society of Automotive Engineers' annual SAE World Congress, held recently in Detroit, the focus was on tightening government regulations on average fuel consumption per lineup in America and Europe. By 2020, it should decrease by 30%. On average, the process of developing new models from sketch to serial prototype lasts four years, so automakers are in time trouble. To stay on the market, they will have to make a technological breakthrough as soon as possible, and in the most difficult market segment of mass models. Sandwich for catching the light. Film is in no hurry to give up digital. They say that the era of film is over and digital cameras have forever replaced film cameras. The digital revolution is everywhere, but it's too early to bury film Are there male contraceptives? Was there a goal: high-tech technologies for fixing the ball at the European Championship Were our African ancestors similar to today's blacks? Quick Freeze. From scarecrows to the table. In the 1930s, fresh-frozen foods were considered elite. And they were priced accordingly. Faster than bullet. Supersonic. The Concorde has already gone down in history, but it did not carry with it the dream of civilian supersonic flight. Introducing the new supersonic business jet Fast and dead. Weaving. Thirty years ago, the Sukhoi supersonic missile carrier made its first flight, a quarter of a century ahead of its time. Experts call it T-4 Sotka. It was developed by the now little-known designer Naum Semenovich Chernyakov Fast and accurate household bomb. Volume explosion. As a child, I was engaged in rather low-intellectual pastimes with my friends. We took a burned-out light bulb, carefully removed the flask, closed the contacts, screwed the structure into the cartridge and put a plastic bag on it with a small amount of powdered sugar. Whipping the bag lightly, we ran around the corner and turned the switch. The deafening explosion lifted the spirits for the week ahead. Without knowing it, we dabbled in vacuum bombs Be invisible and see. Sighting systems of Russia and the USA. As many have probably noticed, under the bottom of the fuselage of Western combat aircraft, you can often see some kind of cigar-shaped devices. These are not bombs or missiles. And - which may seem strange - there is nothing like this on Russian fighters and bombers. So what is it? Batmobile for every day. Gas turbine vehicle. The word Jet is translated from English as a jet engine. However, the word jetcar does not have to be translated as a jet car. Jetcar in colloquial English is just a cool car. But a car with a gas turbine engine is a real jet car To America by the stars. Strategic cruise missiles. If history had been destined to decide otherwise, then the first winged Buran would not have started in November 1988, but 30 years earlier - in 1958, and it would have looked completely different. But first things first Attack with nunchaku. Combat vehicles. In the 70s of the XX century, the legendary martial artist and actor Bruce Lee demonstrated with deafening effect in his films the mastery of exotic weapons, which on the screen were not inferior even to the sharpened sword of a samurai. The world is sick with nunchakomania... Into the abyss on wings. Dream In buffalo skin In harmony with aggression. Equilibrium In a virtual galaxy far, far away. Computer games. Star Wars fans are attacking the World Wide Web as their favorite characters Into deep space without fuel: an engine that cannot be Nine times faster than sound There is strength in unity. Toilet design. Summing up the results of the past millennium, the famous British newspaper The Times included the toilet in the top ten greatest inventions of mankind. in the interests of the revolution. High-tech direct action. Scientific and technological progress does not stand still. In the XNUMXst century, innovative technologies penetrate even into such a specific area as political struggle. Very little time will pass, and handing out leaflets, going to the barricades and seizing power will be ... robots There is a plug in each barrel. Investigation. If the theater begins with a hanger, and the homeland - with a picture in the primer, then good wine certainly begins with a cork. To China - across the sky In space without a rocket: is it possible? In space in a soap bubble. To turn a fairy tale into a movie. Director Darren Aronofsky calls The Fountain a psychedelic love story. This is an ambitious story about love, death, the Tree of Life and other important philosophical matters. Steam-powered into space. Steam astronautics. Steam could do serious work not only in the XNUMXth century, but also in the XNUMXst century In space on sugar! Caramel fuel. Standard blended solid propellants are out of reach for most rocket enthusiasts. We have to look for something simpler ... First you need to decide where space begins - where, in fact, you need to get. In recent years, it has been more or less agreed to consider that space begins at a height of 100 km. Although this is not entirely true - such an altitude is not enough for an orbital flight - but round numbers are psychologically attractive, so the 100-kilometer boundary suits most arguing Spiraling into space. Fight for supersonic. In the middle of the last century, jet manned aviation, gradually mastering new speeds and altitudes, was able to come close to the threshold of space Sailing into space In the edge of volcanoes. Volcanoes of Kamchatka. The main attraction of Kamchatka is visible even before landing at the Elizovo airport of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Snow-capped volcanoes rise above low clouds, delighting our airliner passengers. In good weather, volcanoes are visible from everywhere - from the airport, and from almost anywhere in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky In the land of giants. Saturn, Jupiter and their moons. The Pioneers and Voyagers, developed in the late 1970s, have been replaced by a new generation of spacecraft - the now deceased Jovian spacecraft Galileo, the Cassini station operating in the Saturn system, and the New Horizons space reconnaissance aircraft flying to Pluto In the labyrinth of vessels In bast shoes and with a bomb. Dangerous stuff! The appearance of the Stuka in the air threw people on the ground into a panic. But the Soviet fighters, seeing this dive bomber, rejoiced - easy prey! In beams of sound. Hearing is selective. In one of the halls of the Museum of Science in Boston, a video clip of Summertime from Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess is shown. There is complete silence in the hall, but the three listeners in front of the screen are not using headphones. They are in the coverage area of three directional Audio Spotlight emitters, so the first hears only the trumpet, the second - the violin, and the third - the vocalist. Other visitors do not hear anything In a new color. Colorful shootouts. A popular game has evolved into a high-tech sport Waiting for the storm Flash Awaiting the verdict in an ocean of plasma. The fourth state of matter. Most of the matter in the universe is in the fourth state of matter. But it was not always so In the crosshairs of the sight. Threats of the digital world In pursuit of power. Superchargers. Supercharger as a radical means to kick your car in the ass In pursuit of speed. Helicopter with pusher propeller. In the coming years, a most curious technological race promises to unfold before our eyes. Two Russian helicopter manufacturers, Kamov and Mil Design Bureau, and one American, Sikorsky, almost simultaneously announced the start of development of a helicopter with a pusher propeller. In pursuit of a miracle engine In search of the Higgs boson. Collide and examine. The fragments that are formed during collisions at ultra-high speeds reveal the most secret secrets of nature In search of brothers in mind. Aliens. This year, the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) project turned 50 years old. In search of distant planets. Exoplanets. Advances in the detection of exoplanets have attracted not only public attention, but also funding to this area of astronomy. Therefore, the development of next-generation devices is now in full swing. Looking for compression. Pressure In search of an ice house. Ice exploration. Choosing an ice floe for a drifting station is an extremely important undertaking, because polar explorers have to spend a whole year on it in the extreme conditions of the Arctic with its frost, wind and ice shifts. No wonder Vladimir Sanin in his book For those who are drifting! wrote: You do not choose an ice floe for yourself - fate ... Looking for fishing spots. Through the water column. Submarine detection technology in the water column allows anglers to see fishing spots In full. Illusion of existence. Looking at the hologram, every now and then you turn it edgewise to make sure that there is no three-dimensional object behind the colored glass. On the eve of the European Football Championship: 94 changes in the rules In the context: how to make cold out of heat In the editor's chair. Ours are all. Who can fly with the Blue Angels (US Navy aerobatic team) and drive an ocean-going fishing boat, stand at a printing press and play the drums masterfully, build a spinning wheel and teach a beginner to typeset a magazine? Only editor-in-chiefs of Popular Mechanics. And each of them, month after month, managed to prepare for the release of a thick magazine that meets the needs of the most picky readers. In the rhythm of the sun Sundial. Here, I will return back ten steps the sun's shadow, which passed along the steps of the Akhazovs. And the sun returned ten steps along the steps on which it descended the Bible. Isaiah 38:8 In Soviet times, auto travelers were surprised by the unexpected improvement of dead roads and the increase in their width. Such luxurious roads suddenly appeared, for example, in a deserted steppe and just as incomprehensibly disappeared after a few kilometers. In the land of the Lilliputians. Railway tracks. Railway modeling in Russia appeared later than in Europe, and is not as popular as it is there. But our modellers are guys without complexes: even the inscriptions on miniature fences are written off from nature In the dry residue In the Dark Room: Quest Championship In the shadow of giants Babylon of the XNUMXst century. fantasies Transmission variation. Variable speed drive. Good for the trolleybus driver. Know yourself to change the speed of the electric motor that turns the wheels. And the efficient operation of an internal combustion engine is limited to a narrow speed range. Therefore, an intermediary is needed between the engine and the driving wheels of the car - a gearbox wow cube: more than a toy Up and on Up on Electricity: Electric Aircraft of the Future Spinning into the dirt. auger Digging into the ice. Winter trails. This sport was not invented in Russia, but Russians win in it Along the oyster: Sakhalin test drive Land Rover Discovery 4 Along the string on a starship. Flight along cosmic strings. In science fiction, travel from star to star has long been faster than the speed of light. Is it possible in reality? Some scientists believe that the answer to this question may be yes. Witches' daughters. Shrapnel mines. Such weapons are not subject to the Ottawa Convention on the Ban of Anti-Personnel Mines: according to the classification, this is not a mine, but a shotgun Fan and harp Omnipresent Plasma. The fourth state of matter. What is the fourth state of matter, how does it differ from the other three and how to make it serve a person Ubiquitous Lucky Rutherford. Men argue about models. Sometimes luck can play no less a role than knowledge or brilliant insight. It was luck that helped bring to light the famous planetary model of the atom Wakeboard without a boat Wakeboarding for dummies. Master's advice. Cool wakeboarders rush across the water surface at speeds of more than 40 km / h, and then take off into the air almost 2,5 m Age of pocket submarines. Mini submarines. Under water, a whole unknown world will open before you - it would be something to sink into the depths. During the century, submarines were widely used, but only for military and sometimes scientific purposes. One could only dream of having their own submarine and sailing on it myself The Age of Flight. From the history of aviation. The Wright brothers not only conquered the sky. They awakened brilliant engineers who created a new world Eyelids for cars. Windscreen wipers. It took almost 60 years for the familiar car windshield wipers to become modern Leo Fender's big mistake. Where does electrical sound come from? In the early eighties, a teenager named Ilya Lagutenko was engaged in a yacht club in the city of Vladivostok. But he was not destined to become a sailing star. The young man was overtaken by a new hobby, rock music ... And new music required a new, electrified instrument Great Void Great Equalizer. Samuel Colt. An American proverb says: The Lord God created people, Abraham Lincoln gave them freedom, but only Colonel Samuel Colt finally made them equal. Indeed, with the advent of mass-produced handguns, society has changed. But it has undergone no less changes thanks to other achievements of Samuel Colt. Great removal - 1. Unknown pages of the history of space. Notes of a test doctor, a participant in the preparation of a manned flight to Mars. Beginning: continuation and ending published in the March and April 2004 issues Great removal - 2. Unknown pages of the history of space. Notes of a test doctor, a participant in the preparation of a manned flight to Mars. Continued: beginning published in February 2004, ending in April Great removal - 3. Unknown pages of the history of space. Notes of a test doctor, a participant in the preparation of a manned flight to Mars. End: Beginning published in the February and March 2004 issues Atlantis cyclists. Immersion. At the beginning of the last century, Henry Ford did what seemed impossible. With the help of an assembly line, he made the car so cheap that almost anyone could buy it. There is an assumption that in the near future one more vehicle will significantly fall in price: an underwater vehicle. At least there is an inventor in St. Petersburg who is XNUMX% sure of this Hungarian magic. Rubik's Cube. Rubik's Cube confidently entered the top ten best-selling toys of the twentieth century Faithful luggage carrier Faithful subject of beauty Vertical of the future Vertical hurricane. Let's fly! In Moscow (more precisely, in the region), the first vertical wind tunnel appeared, making it possible to fly not in a dream, but in reality The helicopter is the opposite. Vacuum cleaner on the road. The car, which creates a vacuum under its own bottom with the help of a giant fan, kept the road so well that it did not leave rivals the slightest chance of winning. Riding a drone Riding a dream Supergiant An-225 and ekranoplan Eaglet. In 1992, an amazing project of a giant vehicle was born on the fresh ruins of the USSR. Two design bureaus, which suddenly lost government orders, were actively looking for applications for their unique developments. Cockhorse. Monorail. Moscow monorail soon to be launched Riding on the reactor. Nuclear plane. Nuclear planes were good for everything, except for the giant radiation Fun Science Fun science. Ignobel Prize. In early October 2008, the annual Ig Nobel Prize was awarded for the funniest scientific work. Introducing the winners who explored Coca-Cola's contraceptive properties, championed the dignity of plants, and rated strippers' tips Cheerful robotics Nemo Gold. Kinematics. Kinetic artists work slowly. Well, if you get two or three projects a year. But Nemo Gold from Minnesota in 2009 alone made about twenty electrical and mechanical robots, not counting abstract sculpture and visual installations. Cheerful devils of Keith Newsted. piggy banks Weighty arguments. Flatness plus performance. Last year, laptops were divided into two camps. Some are designed to replace computers on our desktops, while others are to become our companions on a variety of journeys. Scales for molecules. Mass spectrometry. How to distinguish molecules of different compounds? It turns out that the easiest way is by weighing them on a special scale called a mass spectrometer. Windy James Bond. product placement. James Bond changes brands of cars like gloves. Neo, the hero of the new age, is also fickle with mobile phones. It's not a whim, it's just a product placement Windmills out to sea Eternal values. Imitations and fakes. Precious stones have always served as a reliable and very compact investment. Not surprisingly, they were often tried to fake - sometimes successfully, sometimes not so much. Fakes can shine and play no worse than diamonds. How do real stones differ from fake ones? Substance with minds. Taste Weighing weightlessness. How much do the soul and atoms weigh god gaze A look into the abyss. Height. What is a fear of heights? A look into the sky. Four centuries of telescopes. On July 26, 1609, the English universal scientist Thomas Harriot pointed a telescope at the moon and sketched its surface. This date can be considered the birthday of optical astronomy. Looking down View through the propeller. Air Looking through the wall. Super strength Look at traffic jams from above. Airmobile SkyFlyer. The author of the project - Alexander Shevchenko from Yekaterinburg - hopes that his device will become for the transport scheme of the future the same as the Flyer, the first aircraft of the Wright brothers, has become for aviation. We take off on an Airbus A380. Instruction. On a modern aircraft, the pilot does not so much control the flight as he controls the correct operation of automatic systems. Dariusz Janiszewski, Airbus Operations Support Director for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS Taking off from the drawing board. Big plans. The aircraft of the future will be both safer and smarter: it simply will not allow the situation to be brought to a catastrophe. New flight control systems could make flying aircraft as easy as driving a car Take off from the spot. Aviation. The experience of World War II showed that airfields are one of the most vulnerable aspects of front-line aviation. Even if combat-ready aircraft remain in shelters, their use from the destroyed runway becomes impossible. The path to solving the problem was obvious, but the insufficient level of technological development did not allow the creation of an aircraft that did not need a long runway - the first jet machines, due to the low thrust-to-weight ratio (the ratio of the mass of the aircraft to engine thrust), had a takeoff run of more than a kilometer. But technology didn't stand still. Blow up peacefully. In terms of explosions, we are ahead of the rest. January 1965 in Kazakhstan turned out to be frosty and snowy. It is unlikely that a random person who looked at a bunch of yurts behind a veil of snow on the banks of the Chagan River 80 km northwest of Semipalatinsk would have guessed that a nuclear charge was being assembled in one of them. And on January 15, not far from this place, a column of fire flew up into the sky, covered with steam and shining with all the colors of the rainbow. Adult games. The best worlds. The average age of gamers on the planet is now 28 years old explosive equivalent. Destruction standard. Although TNT in its pure form is now rarely used, it is still considered almost the official equivalent of the destructive power of explosives. Explosives: fantastic creatures by Maxim Kostenko Explosions for the truth VCR that knows about the tastes of the owner. Few people know that initially household video recorders were positioned as time shift devices. Simply put - for recording TV shows. The idea was that the owner of the device programs it to record an interesting program, and the smart machine will turn the recording on and off at a given time Apparently? Invisible! Invisible hat Visible Advantage Visions for the future Vinyl on wood, survival card and other amazing photos vinyl track Vlad Lobayev's rifle: the farthest shot in the world Rifle Exhaust: silent, high-caliber, ours Clamshell rifle. How difficult is it? From this issue we decided to open a new rubric - Promdesign. Young Russian designers will present their developments, and experts will criticize them Rotary giants. hybrids. Civilization will be delivered to the farthest corners of the globe by heavy-duty hybrids of an airplane and a helicopter. Rotary toys. Radio controlled helicopters. Do you think real helicopters explode in movies? No. These are radio-controlled models, any of which can be bought and assembled for $1000-1500. Actually, a helicopter model costs around $800, but without an engine (at least $200) and radio control (at least $360), it will not fly. Be sure to advise you to buy another computer program-flight simulator. In total, you are unlikely to leave less than one and a half thousand in the store Vira little by little. Construction Virtual glasses. Test drive video glasses. Already today in stores you can find video glasses that allow you to watch movies on the road without any problems. In the near future, they will become almost as popular a tourist accessory as headphones for an MP3 player. But isn't that too optimistic a point of view? To understand this issue, the editors of Popular Mechanics took six of the latest models for testing. Giant viruses in the ocean of life Vitamins. A complete collection of delusions. Spring is the best time to remember about vitamins. But not so much about what everyone already knows, but about the many myths that many take for medical facts. Knight in a shark skin. Comprehending the demonic mind. To understand the behavior of these ancient predators, you sometimes have to get into their shoes. In the literal sense of the word Viceroy of plastics. Vinyl Taste in a cube The taste of meat. Cooking as an exact science. “Leo Tolstoy,” Kolya said in a trembling voice, “didn’t eat meat either. - Yes, - answered Liza, hiccuping from tears, - the count ate asparagus. - Asparagus is not meat. - And when he wrote War and Peace, he ate meat! Eat, eat, eat! And when he wrote Anna Karenina - he ate! popped! popped! - And when he wrote the Kreutzer Sonata, did he also gobble up then? Kolya asked venomously. - The Kreutzer Sonata is small. He would have tried to write War and Peace while sitting on vegetarian sausages... Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov, Twelve Chairs Taste of the written word. Cocktail - computer Delicious smoke. Smokehouses Lord of the Rings. CERN. In autumn 2004, the 50th anniversary of the European Organization for Nuclear Research was celebrated. A good occasion to talk about this unique scientific center and the benefits of fundamental science Lords of the weather. clothing Power over swamps extraterrestrial intelligence Extraterrestrial transport. Planet rovers. In the 70s, strange rumors circulated around Kamchatka. Some tourists who found themselves in the beautiful Tolbachik valley, located between the volcanoes Ostryi and Plosky Tolbachik, saw a slowly moving alien mechanism among the lunar landscape formed by basalt slags... Down the rabbit hole. rockets inside a small tube Whether in the garden, in the garden. Technique in the garden. Traditional garden tools - shovels, rakes and scythes - are giving way to lawn mowers, cultivators and electric hoes In the belly of a white whale. Industry Water at the door water bird Water god. Jetpack. When Ray Lee was young, he often flew in his sleep. Growing up, he decided to make his favorite dreams come true. Ray's JetLev satchel will go on sale this summer Hydrogen circumnavigation Hydrogen car: keep moving Hydrogen transport: technology of the future or complete failure? Water strike. Jet US military news 2017: smart grenades and aircraft carriers Driving blind. Hybrid Return to reality The return of taste. Why do store-bought tomatoes taste cardboard, and can they be made delicious again? Return of Indiana Back to the roots. Nobel Prize. Until recently, there were eight Nobel laureates among Russian physicists. Now there are ten of them. The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg and Alexei Alekseevich Abrikosov for their pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors Return of the Concorde: a new round of supersonic passenger aircraft The return of the space plane. Military spaceplane. It is quite possible that soon a space plane will appear in the United States capable of delivering small units of the Marine Corps to anywhere in the world within two hours. Return to Mars. Search The return of synthesis. Thermonuclear energy. After almost complete oblivion, thermonuclear energy is on the verge of a return. Fusion is the process that gives energy to stars. For more than 50 years, scientists have been trying to use this energy on Earth. Air versus cold. warm module. The goal of the project is to create a residential module for two researchers working in the Far North. The module should be as convenient as possible for work and leisure with minimum dimensions and weight. Balloonists. Heavyweights are lighter than air. Looking at this monster, you remember the novels of Jules Verne, but we have before us an attribute not of the past, but of the future. Two inventors from Ohio are preparing an air transport revolution Reverend Stirling Air Machine. To the seventh heaven September 19, 1816, having passed all the required examinations and probation, Robert Stirling was appointed priest of the Lay Kirk church in Kilmarnock (Scotland). But he did not earn fame by reading sermons. air fuel Air gladiators. Air racing Castles in the Air by Thomas Saraceno Air battle Air giant: what will be the new Russian-Chinese airliner Is it possible to fly into space in a pressurized airship with a rocket engine? Age of the universe. Listen to the pulse of the universe The rebirth of the XZ439. Airshow Take your radio with you. Satellite. Digital satellite radio. The digital satellite radio has left the car. Now you can take your portable receiver with you wherever you go Enter the matrix. Video games. The same people who created the Matrix movie trilogy came up with a game where cinema smoothly flows into multimedia. War of red robots. DARPA is communist. The legendary Ostekhbyuro created the first remote-controlled submarines and aircraft War of the Worlds 1.0: how the most powerful WoT update was made War starts in space War of the Invisibles. Air defense against stealth aircraft War of particles and antiparticles. Who has left the battlefield - our Universe? In accordance with the Dirac equation, the meeting of an electron with a positron has fatal consequences for them - both particles disappear. Such an amazing prediction and its experimental confirmation made a strong impression on both physicists and non-physicists - after all, this was the first example of a complete transformation of matter into radiation. The newly discovered effect was called annihilation, which in Latin means complete annihilation. Voinushka for adults: the rules of the pistol game Robot Wars. Film effects. Two years ago, the movie Transformers directed by Michael Bay was released. Based on the adventures of iconic plastic toys, it told of a war between alien robots - positive Autobots and evil Decepticons who decided to sort things out on earth - to the great amazement of a teenager named Sam (Shia LaBeouf) caught in the middle of the action. The picture was successful, and the continuation was only a matter of time Around the world in 8 hours. Tests. At the new BMW Environmental Research Center, you can travel around the world in eight hours. At the same time, the car will overcome thousands of kilometers at speeds up to 280 km/h, overcoming arctic cold and tropical heat on its way, bypassing mountain passes and snowdrifts. The driver will never have to leave the building. Are you worried? So guilty! Lie detector. How can you fool a smart device Magic bubbles. First champagne. The name of the French region of Champagne comes from the Latin word campania, campus - field. Champagne is located at a crossroads, and for thousands of years, conquering armies have marched across it many times in various directions. Reims - the capital of the region - was rebuilt several times, and Epernay was completely wiped off the face of the earth more than two dozen times. By the XNUMXth century, Champagne had become known as the birthplace of excellent red wines, which only Burgundy could compete with. Armed eye. Choosing a telescope How an Aspiring Astronomer Avoids Frustration When Buying Your First Telescope Embodiment of hate. Remote control. Saying the phrase Laziness is the engine of progress, they usually cite the television remote control as an example. In fact, the driving force that led to the appearance of this most useful item was not laziness at all, but a stronger feeling - hatred. The embodiment of strength. Soldier of the future. The feats that in a few years an ordinary soldier will be able to perform were not even dreamed of by the creators of the Terminator Crow in your pocket. Under cloth! Vladimir Vasiliev (born 1967) is a famous Russian science fiction writer, one of the founders of Russian cyberpunk. He successfully works in all genres of fantasy, the author of 18 novels, many novels and short stories, including the famous cycle The Witcher from Greater Kyiv. Multiple winner of literary awards Golden Caduceus, Aelita, Roscon, Bronze Snail Eighty years of creation Memories of the Cassini probe: all about the mission to Saturn Rise of the good robots East is a delicate matter. Opening East and its inhabitants Climbing Elbrus for Dummies: Expedition PM The eighth wonder of the world. Russian radar. A few years ago, planes landing at Sheremetyevo made a small detour when approaching Moscow, skirting a certain restricted area. If in our time a curious traveler presses close to the porthole, then between Sofrin and Pushkin, in clear weather, he may notice a gigantic structure resembling the unfinished pyramid of Cheops. In fact, this is a completely completed, unparalleled DON-2N radar in the world. For its appearance, unique characteristics and incredible cost, the military often calls it the eighth wonder of the world. Voyage on batteries Forward to the past. What will calm the heart. Popular Mechanics editor, popular TV host and performance car collector Jay Leno talks about the cars he uses to atone for his environmental sins Forward to the past! Slap. How a steam locomotive works. Engineers of locomotives have always been distinguished by good health and good wages. Injection. The age of the carburetor. We live in the XNUMXst century, so many of our contemporaries will consider the story about the device of an internal combustion engine a banality. However, the injector, one of the essential attributes of a modern engine, despite its simplicity, is still surrounded by a large number of myths and prejudices. Enemy and Helper Within Us: Mobile Genetic Elements Gateway to the underwater world. Minisubmarine. Russian submarine appeared off the coast of Cyprus The time of people, or the Anthropocene: when a new geological era began Time of steel dragons Smart time Everything is safe, gentlemen!. Invented by Elisha Otis. Born in 1811, Elisha Graves Otis was fascinated by mechanics from childhood and instead of working on a farm near Halifax, Vermont, he preferred to hang around the forge, where there were many different mechanisms. All in the bath. How does the steam room affect the human body. Steam room for you - is it a pleasure? And for your body, this is the strongest stress that it fights against, throwing almost all of its physiological systems into battle. It's all about the wires. How does ADSL work and why is it needed. First there was a modem. Many people remember how miraculous the very fact of connecting to 2400 seemed (as much as 2400 bits could be transmitted per second) and the realization that there is your like-minded person on the other side of the telephone wires. There was no mention of the Internet. But technology does not stand still, and today even the ultra-modern v.90 modem, which seemed ten years ago, is hopelessly outdated. The new word sounds like this: ADSL It's all about the strength of the spirit. Fortification It's all about eggs All work is good. Professions of the future. Has it ever happened to you, when you were about to go on a visit, to call a coachman? Did you have to dictate the subscriber's number to the telephone operator? When you see the word scribe in the text, do you remember that such a profession existed for many centuries? Finally, do you know what a postilion is? Life is changing, and many once important professions are disappearing into oblivion. Maybe it's time for you to think about a new specialty too? Popular Mechanics presents the most promising professions of the near and far future Everything you need to know about the future of 5G: numbers, technology, first impressions Everything you need to know about Rosetta's historic mission All planes do it. Aircraft crash test All-seeing eye Always ready! Always closed door Always first. Primus. In the second half of the XNUMXth century, the first workable internal combustion engines appeared, first gas, then gasoline. Industrialization proceeded rapidly, and engines began to be built into everything that only required a mechanical drive. Just iron. Test Universe in words. Word and speech Universe and memory. Data stream from the largest telescope in the world Universe with your own hands. People are like gods. In the August issue, Popular Mechanics wrote that Russian and American scientists have created two new elements of the periodic table. Continuing the theme - a detailed story about the history of the creation of man-made elements and an exclusive recipe for the preparation of element No. 114 from the Livermore National Laboratory Universe with your own hands. Inflaton theory All this should be sewn World Canal Race World history of cutting. Trunks World Hunger Ghost. Edible Almighty inflation. Evolution Almighty echo. Doppler effect. In 1875, something strange happened on the Cologne-Minden railway. Time after time the locomotive hummed past a group of serious German burghers standing on the platform. Among the observers of this experiment was an experienced musician - the bandmaster of the local orchestra, Baron von Kaulbars, who on his violin most accurately repeated the change in the tone of the locomotive whistle when the locomotive approached the platform or moved away from it. Let's remember the good A flash of Russian light. Russian engineer's lamp. Answering the question of who invented the electric lamp, a contemporary is likely to name Edison. Meanwhile, at the end of the 1870s, another name was widely known in Europe - Pavel Yablochkov. The lamps of a Russian engineer were the first to be used in Europe for street lighting, and the French even called the new type of artificial lighting Russian light - la lumiere russe Meeting with the earth. Landing is the most difficult part of the flight. Those who live in the area of airports know that most often taking off liners soar up a steep trajectory, as if trying to get away from the ground as soon as possible. And indeed - the closer the earth, the less opportunity to respond to an emergency and make a decision. Landing is another matter Meeting with the mind. Robot RoboquadTM by WowWee Are stars found in extragalactic space? Counter attack. Active tank armor. Since the advent of armored vehicles, the age-old battle between projectile and armor has escalated. Some designers sought to increase the penetration ability of shells, while others increased the durability of armor. The fight continues even now. About how modern tank armor is arranged, Professor of the Moscow State Technical University named after V.I. N.E. Bauman, Director for Science of the Research Institute of Steel Valery Grigoryan Backfire. The return of the deadly Spaniard. To defeat bird flu before it regenerates into more dangerous forms for humans, scientists are rushing to revive an extinct virus that killed 50 million people almost a century ago. All life in a career. Autosaurs. The Super Pit mine in the Kalgoorlie gold region of Australia is a huge crater 3,5 km long and 1,5 km wide with a funnel going 360 meters deep. Huge dump trucks slowly descend into it along an endless serpentine road, one after another, and then in clouds of dust rise to the surface of the earth with a load of gold ore. Against the backdrop of a giant funnel, 600-ton dump trucks look so organic that it is not their size that seems unnatural, but the appearance of the people sitting in the cabs. It's amazing that these little ones are able to manage such colossus. Second paper. The evolution of electronic paper. Despite the abundance of screens, people still prefer to read from paper. Can e-paper replace real paper? The second life of the SVD: the legendary rifle and its future Second try. Medieval sword. Forging a real sword of the XNUMXth century from a blank turned out to be not so simple. Like medieval blacksmiths, we didn’t get weapons on the first try. Second capital. Dungeon bet. If Moscow had not been defended in 1941, the Headquarters would have been located here The second wind of a jackhammer. Air power. Few people pay attention to road workers. Well, some people in bright orange vests are swarming around there - just think, a big deal! Nobody notices their instrument at all. And in vain! The evolution of this very instrument is of particular interest. The second defeat of the tape recorder. sound recording Second coming Volcanoes under supervision. Vulcan vs Boeing. When, in August 2008, seismographs on Bolshoi Sitkin Island in the Aleutian Islands chain noted small tremors, it never occurred to anyone to nod at Kasatochi, a small dormant volcano forty kilometers from Sitkin Choose life. multiverse Selection of winter tires: overview of new products 2016/2017 The Fictional Nature of Rogan Brown Burner. Self-propelled laser systems Expecting death. loitering ammunition Survive 48 hours. Workout Survive in the crowd Challenge to inventors. Top 10 most anticipated technologies. We tried to imagine technological advances that could radically change our lives. There is only one thing left - for someone to invent them Get out of the shadows High space fashion. Martian suit. Private companies have joined the fight for the right to build a space suit of the future, competing on equal terms with NASA High parking. Accuracy is a matter of technology. Pressing a button - and the car parked. This is not an episode from a science fiction movie, but our near future. Smart parking technology is on its way high energy High tech Rolls-Royce Wraith High flight Valery Rozov High resolution DIY. Let's try HD. Such cameras are already produced by a significant number of high-tech companies: Panasonic, JVC, Sharp, but they are not officially supplied to our country. The only exception is Sony, which is actively promoting a line of eight (!) consumer HD cameras in Russia. High-tech Red Bull Air Race Exhibition of achievements Exhibition of failures. Sunset of Europe. Not a single breakthrough at the main European electronics exhibition Shot into the future. Do-it-yourself Gauss gun. Despite its relatively modest size, the Gauss pistol is the most serious weapon we have ever built. Starting from the earliest stages of its manufacture, the slightest carelessness in handling the device or its individual components can lead to electric shock. Be careful! Shot in the air. Aircraft launchers. The word catapult is associated with the majority either with an ancient throwing weapon, or with an emergency rescue system for military pilots. At the same time, another ingenious invention remains in the shadows - a take-off catapult, a device that accelerates an airplane when it is unable to take off on its own. Shot from underground. Extremely simple and extremely dangerous. A bullet mine is, in fact, a single-shot pistol dug into the ground with the muzzle up Shot - forgot! For tank hunters, a new weapon is on sale. Leonid Roshal once designed the weapons system for one of the most powerful tanks of the 80th century, the T-XNUMX. Ironically, now he is engaged in the opposite task - anti-tank systems. In his opinion, in the confrontation between a missile and a tank, guided missiles now prevail. Moreover, Leonid Roshal considers the Russian Cornet complex, developed in the Tula Instrument Design Bureau, to be the most powerful and effective. The highest measure. Metrology as a science. The practice of measurement is almost as old as human history. An economy based on the social division of labor and trade cannot exist without measurements. A remarkably complete (for its time) system of measures was created in Ancient Babylon, from where, through Phoenician merchants and navigators, it spread throughout the Mediterranean. Aerobatics. air maneuvers. Numerous visitors to air shows and aviation festivals always look forward to the start of the demonstration program with special impatience. Adults and children watch with bated breath how the planes draw turns, twist the barrels and freeze in the air in an absolutely unthinkable way. After all, aerobatics is a real art! Exit to the open sky. Aviation Enter the dragon: how China is conquering space Katyusha went ashore. Cannonade A month has come out of the fog. Blade Divination by resonance. Bioresonance diagnostics. Bene diagnoscitur, bene curatur, said the ancient doctors. It is well diagnosed, well treated, - modern colleagues echo them. This truth in medicine has remained immutable for many centuries. Gadgets in the realm of Morpheus Ugly duck. Safe car. History has known many attempts to create an absolutely safe car. The founder of modern safety principles was the German designer Bela Bareny: in the 1950s, he introduced the concepts of crush zones and the driver's safety capsule, and initiated mandatory crash tests. But before Bareny, there were several designs that claimed the title of the safest car in the world ... Gas in captivity. Well Gas for Manstein. Dust them! In 1942, Soviet leaders were going to use chemical weapons against German troops. Gas turbine tank T-80U: test drive Popular Mechanics The galaxy as a biosphere Galactic carousel. The Science of the Impossible Galactic Internet Hallucinations of Don Quixote. Monsters are marching in full swing. Tourists traveling around the Netherlands, seeing these animals, do not believe their eyes. Some take them for mirages, others for hallucinations: Amsterdam with its coffee shops nearby. But no matter how people rub their eyes, fantastic giants do not want to turn into windmills. This is how the Dutchman Theo Jansen gets new fans Hamburg account. Race of Champions. A car on a football field? Perhaps an electric car with a stretcher to evacuate an injured football player? No, instead of grass there is a ring track, and on it there are super racers in powerful cars. This is the Race of Champions! Garage Auto Blues: How the TV Show is Filmed Fast and Loud Harmony of spheres and hemispheres. Giant domes. The first domed structures arose, probably, among the people of the Stone Age, they are also known in ancient Mesopotamia. But a true masterpiece, striking the imagination of even the people of the era of skyscrapers, was built in Rome nineteen centuries ago. Nails would be made of these people. Iron Man becomes a movie character. Director Jon Favreau was invited to film Iron Man. I'm not a fan of computer graphics, - he immediately told reporters. John Nelson, who supervised the creation of the effects in the picture, received the following instructions from Favreau: the effects should correspond to the story, look believable and not be an eyesore. Where are my turbo boots? Walking boots guide. Step 1. We start jet engines of boots. Step 2. Let's jump! Where will we take revenge. Sochi 2014. Although the achievements of Russian athletes in Vancouver did not please us much, there was one certainly pleasant moment at the past games - the baton was passed to the new winter capital, and this capital is our Sochi. Two years later, when the fire of the Summer Games is lit in London, the builders will have their own Olympic final Invention gene Audacity gene. Great deceivers. On average, once a week we learn about a sensational discovery: scientists have found a cure for cancer, synthesized a sexuality gene, created a flying carpet. However, as a rule, the matter does not go further than the news report. Why? Yes, because the world of science is very far from the ideal image that has taken root in our minds. Science is not made by crystal-clearly honest fanatics, who place objectivity and accuracy of results above all else, but by very pragmatic figures, among whom there are quite a few Creativity Generator Genetic Upgrading: Dispelling Myths About GMOs Genetically modified athletes. Test tube champions. In February 2004, shortly before the Athens Olympics, WADA director Richard Pound told the Times newspaper: I don't think we'll see genetic doping in Athens, and I doubt it very much about the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But in 2012 it will be quite possible Brilliant ideas and a little ingenuity. inventions Genius Junkman: XNUMXD Drawings by John Peralta Gene therapy: how genetic diseases are treated Gene gunners. Genetics do not expect favors from nature. Articles about the achievements of biotechnology are reminiscent of military reports: gene guns are fired, viral and bacterial delivery vehicles are used, and at headquarters they are reading ciphers - texts written in four- and twenty-letter alphabets General secretaries in sneakers. Sports cars of victorious socialism. A decade before the legendary muscle cars appeared in America, their forerunners appeared on the other side of the Atlantic. The designers of ZIL married limousines with sports cars, packing bulky units of executive class cars into lightweight racing bodies. Unusual one hundred and twelfths were born Life champion genes. Virus Asphalt Heroes. Hooves of an iron horse. Spring! time to hide winter tires in the garage, and at the same time figure out what trends exist in the creation of new summer shoes for our cars Fabian Ofner flexible times Hybrid, and proud of it! Hybrid Wankel. rotary hybrid Airplane-Dragon Hybrids: The Works of Alice Bruder Giants from the hot cradle. Tires. Going to the other end of the globe is probably worth it just to look at something grandiose. To see, for example, how volcanoes erupt, how icebergs break off from a continental glacier. Or how they make tires that are much taller than human height Giants on wheels. Monsters. Each of the 6,7 billion inhabitants of the Earth needs to eat, have a roof over their heads, everyone moves somewhere and needs energy. You can solve these titanic tasks with the help of a whole army of small machines, or you can put a handful of real giants into battle. And these are not toys, but serious mechanisms designed to do serious work. Giants at the start. Speed Fabric guide: how to choose the best Hydrocar to travel around the world, a woven facade and a four-meter dwelling Hypersonic aircraft: a technological revolution? Gyrocar - in the series? Hybrid Hitler and Stalin as commanders TsAGI main pipe Main X-File. Secret. Declassified Documents Reveal Truth About Most Famous UFO Incident: Nothing Happened The main caliber of the XXI century. Tsar Cannon. Guided missiles in the current century have not been able to completely bury the traditional weapons of battleships - main caliber guns Eye in the ocean. To the dregs. The inhabitants of the ocean depths have long managed to hide from sophisticated research probes. Now they willy-nilly have to pose - you can't hide from a small underwater video camera Eye from above. The best drones in the country. In the early morning of 1982, a sound like the buzzing of lawn mowers was heard over the positions of Israeli troops. Five Scout toy drones flew to the Syrian side. After 30 minutes, they returned, capturing the positions of 37 Syrian anti-aircraft batteries on their miniature video cameras. A couple of hours later, Syria was left without air defense. Military around the world were in shock Global cooling. Conditioners. Unbelievable, but true - forever chilly Russia firmly occupies the 4th place in Europe in sales of air conditioners, after the Mediterranean Spain, Italy and Greece. This statistic, as well as the air conditioner itself in the room, seems strange only 9 months a year. Hot and stuffy summer, you have to wonder why we lost the first place Deep connection. The Science of the Impossible. Attempts to harness the elusive (or almost elusive) particle - the neutrino - began shortly after its experimental discovery. This possibility is discussed by both science fiction writers and scientists. deep waters Deep contact. The United States is going to celebrate Independence Day with never-before-seen fireworks: on July 4, 2005, the Deep Impact space projectile will crash into the comet Tempel 1 at a speed of 36000 kilometers per hour Deeply hidden taste. Cooking as an exact science. After the first two minutes of communication with the champion of Russia in barista (professional coffee brewing), I remembered a good children's anecdote. Do you love cats? - No. So you just don't know how to cook them. It's the same with coffee. With the right approach, even an old one-button office filter coffee maker can produce a great drink. Checked! Deep Sea Bestiary Deep sea quarry: how to get diamonds from the bottom of the ocean Dear microbe. Just a hundred years ago, microbes living in the human gut were considered freeloaders and pests. In recent years, the human microbiota began to be called a kind of organ of our body, necessary for the normal functioning of the body. Sun's wrath Go: why did the computer take so long to defeat a human? talking skin Talking car. Ease of translation. When brave astronauts find intelligent life on the planet, they immediately take out an electronic translator from their pocket. The smart machine grunts, hisses, clicks, and then starts to translate. With minor flaws, of course, but you can still understand the brothers in mind ... Goliath, tanker builder Gijs van Boon Dutch School Dutch cheese. Trap thugs Hologram on a regular printer? Easily! Holographic people: Jackets and Helson 3D installations Holography on the windshield: when can we expect glass displays? Hunger is not an aunt! In pursuit of beauty. Most often, people go on a diet in order to lose weight, and in the pursuit of beauty, many are ready to make any sacrifices. Is it worth it? Most popular diets are harmful to health, and even the most harmless and scientifically based weight loss programs have been found to do more harm than good in general - including for the waist. Voice over wires. Telegraph. After the invention in 1833 of the prototype of modern communications, the electric telegraph, the inventors began to think about the next step - voice transmission. In 1854, the idea was voiced by the Frenchman Charles Bourseul, who proposed his device in the form of a very flexible membrane capable of registering the slightest vibrations. Voices of Silence Naked racer Naked digger: an animal that does not age Homeopathy: dissolved medicine. homeopathic rituals. And we are being treated by a homeopath, - someone in the company remarks meaningfully, and a heated argument immediately breaks out. Both one and the other side gain a lot of arguments, but usually everything ends with a deaf defense of homeopathy supporters: It helped me! Homunculus: man on glass Gentlemen's race: the most beautiful auto show in the world Longevity race. Stories of simple things. By the beginning of the era of the Great geographical discoveries, determining the coordinates was still an unattainable dream of navigators Beauty Race. Traveling museum. Incredibly beautiful cars, tight turns, crazy speeds and thousands of excited spectators along the route - such was the Mille Miglia race, Italy's most exciting motorsport event of 1927-1957. Foreigners competed in races with Italians, but in almost all pre-war competitions, Alfa Romeo pilots finished first Bog Racers: A Strange Sport bean racing Racing on the water. Boats with rocket engines. In 2005, three pilots - American, British and Australian - will try to cross the speed limit of 400 miles per hour (643 km / h) and win the title of the fastest man on the water. Molecule Racing: A Brief Overview of Molecular Cars Racing on a stool. Small horse, but daring. When you see a scooter on the road, treat it with respect: this little car is capable of a lot! Burn, burn! Clear?: How the Olympic torch was created Hormone of evolution. Explosion Hot ten. Technologies that are sure to change the world. The whole world is in secret. Governments, corporations, individuals, not to mention businesses that live on the Internet - no one could live without secrets. Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva is at the forefront of a technological movement that could greatly enhance the security of electronic communications. Gisin's tool is called quantum cryptography. With its help, you can transmit information in such a way that any attempt to eavesdrop can be detected. Hot ten. Ten new technologies that are sure to change the world Hot ten. cartilage. Ten technologies that are sure to change the world Hot zone. Laboratory of infectious diseases. In the new laboratory for the study of infectious diseases, scientists will unravel the mysteries of the world's most dangerous diseases Hot superconductivity. Experiment Hot Pictures: Smartphone Thermal Imager Hot news for the cold winter. Rubber Hot sticky hell. Napalm Burning for others. Thermoses and wings. The path for Soviet manned spacecraft was paved by BORs - Unmanned Orbital Rocket Planes. It was on them that thermal protection was worked out, without which the spacecraft would simply burn out when entering the dense layers of the atmosphere Getting ready for the Oscars: the coolest tech movie stories of 2016/17 Gravity weapons: how trebuchets are built in Russia Sheba Levy gravitrams. gutter Gran Turismo. Yekaterinburg - Moscow - Turin. How to get an excellent bonus, and even triple the amount? Participate in the competition Russian racing car Formula GT. The organizers were so impressed with the level of submitted works that instead of the promised year, they provide the winner with a full three-year course at the European Institute of Design Grand Baltic. Thunderstorm nightingale-robbers. It is generally accepted that the technically backward Russian army during the First World War had its own trump card - the famous heavy bomber Ilya Muromets. But not everything is so simple. In 1914, it was Muromets who was a symbol of the technical ignorance of the Russian military, spending government money on the purchase of weapons of dubious combat qualities ... mushroom fortress Car undertakers. Auto? You won't get far on this cart of the past! For the Michelin Challenge Bibendum 2006 environmentally friendly car competition, it was difficult to choose a better scenery than sweltering Paris. The ancient city, better than any press materials, explained to journalists from all over the world why they were here Storm of the Straits. Landing ship. One glance at the 550-ton hulk of the Zubr landing ship is enough to feel pride in a country capable of producing these unique giants - no one else in the world makes such ones. And they couldn’t do it - such ships could only appear in the USSR Thunderstorm of the fortieth caliber. Haute couture grenade launcher. Do military weapons need a design? Certainly. After all, the true task of industrial design is to clothe a design idea in a form convenient for a person. Introducing the AGS-40 grenade launcher project for rapid response units Thunderstorm of terrorists A formidable enemy at the threshold. Do we face the punishment of heaven? More than 100 asteroids rush in space around our planet, but only one (of those that we know) threatens in the next 000 years without an invitation to visit us. This is Apophis - an asteroid named after the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and destruction. What should earthlings do to ensure that a terrible tragedy is avoided? Thunder and lightning against fire Thunder from a clear sky. Hit any target on the globe with a delay of no more than an hour. Is the Prompt Global Strike program a revolutionary new weapon system capable of hitting almost elusive targets, or is it an irresponsible policy that threatens to provoke a nuclear war? The roar of battles at sea The coming digital war. Weapons against cyber attacks. The Pentagon's computer networks are under threat. The enemy acts covertly, swiftly, without respite. It is difficult to track him down, but now the US military has finally decided to provide itself with adequate weapons to repel such attacks. Dirty Bomb: Pandora's Box. Death Dirty games. Who and why draws gamers into the political struggle. It's no secret that politics is the dirtiest game in the world. However, at the beginning of the XNUMXst century, this thesis acquired a fundamentally different meaning. Politicians are increasingly using computer games for their not always lofty goals. And as a result... microworld gulliver Gullivers from Lilliputians. Radio controlled trucks. And in what tropics near Moscow did you find such a giant grass? - such a question was asked by several people while we were reviewing photos of Tamiya trucks in the editorial office Goose slaughter. Pantgan. Baron Jerome Karl Friedrich von Munchausen was very fond of ducks. Especially for lunch. And he did not recognize the traditional ways of hunting them. For example, once the baron, for lack of flint, knocked out sparks from his own eye, and another time he fed the ducks a piece of bacon on a rope: swallowing it sequentially, the ducks strung on a string and carried the lucky hunter to the castle Let there be light! History of artificial light sources. Never before had the small town of Menlo Park known such excitement. On New Year's Eve, 1880, the population of the entire state of New Jersey, and perhaps several neighboring states, seemed to have gathered there. The Pennsylvania Railroad could not keep up with the flow of applicants, and additional trains had to be launched. People came for the sole purpose of seeing how a hundred electric suns, incandescent lamps, illuminate the station, the streets and Edison's laboratory. May FULL HD be with you. Digitization and restoration of old films. Everyone knows that dollar bills are green. But the color of the cloth on the billiard table... Is it really blue? At least that's what he looks like in The Color of Money, which Martin Scorsese made in 1986. Only now, 20 years later, the billiards in the famous painting are turning green again. Daan Rosegaarde: architect of interactive spaces Let's paint the fridge. In the right color. Popular mechanics has already written about airbrushing, with which you can turn any object into a work of art. But as it turns out, this is not the only way. Make way for drones Let's steer! Electric motor said. Avtolikbez: amplifiers. Your muscles are not developed enough to drive this car - so fragile ladies were discouraged from buying some cars until recently. Modern cars are much less suitable for bodybuilding. Some of them are able to turn the steering wheel themselves instead of the driver. Far from suckers. All about modern dust fighters. If you are going to buy a new vacuum cleaner and do not know which model to choose, consider yourself incredibly lucky. The Popular Mechanics team tested the most curious vacuum cleaners of 2007 and are ready to impartially talk about it distant horizons. How far is a person willing to go? During the first half century, space exploration developed at a staggering rate. The first Soviet satellite was followed by walks on the moon, and then it came to interplanetary expeditions. The coming 50 years promise the conquest of even more significant milestones. In the future - all-terrain vehicles, surf the surface of various planets in search of traces of life, the base settlement on the Moon and, finally, the most grandiose of the nearest targets of extraterrestrial activity - a colony on Mars Distant relatives of the stealth aircraft. Fishing rods. A modern rod is not just a wooden or plastic rod, but a product of computer modeling and the most advanced aerospace technologies. Trucker: a new rifle from Russian gunsmiths Long road to the bath. Comfort Lady with a dog. Genetics Sword of Damocles. Atomic bomb. Hundreds of books have been written about the history of the nuclear confrontation between the superpowers and the design of the first nuclear bombs. But there are many myths about modern nuclear weapons. Popular Mechanics decided to clarify this issue and tell how the most destructive weapon invented by man works. Gift of the Volcano Seafood. Cooking as an exact science. There are thousands of cookbooks. Using the detailed instructions of these storehouses of culinary knowledge, you can prepare a wonderful dinner. But practically nowhere is it explained - why do you need to cook this way and not otherwise? Traditionally, cooking is considered an art, but we publish a series of articles on the scientific methods of cooking. Today we will talk about fish and seafood Two days with tanks Two fingers up: an overview of the coolest modern slingshots Twenty milliliters of diesel fuel, please! Diet car. The magic carburetor is an invention of charlatans. A car that runs on water can only be found in science fiction stories. Can you feel how skeptical I am? Now listen to what I say: it is possible to make a familiar car consume only TWO liters of fuel per 100 kilometers. Today, with today's technology! Two by two. All-wheel drive on both wheels. These rovers will go anywhere. In extreme cases, you can simply carry them on yourself. Two minutes of real time. Love. Story Two tons of TNT: how explosives work in quarries Move yourself! Ice dancer. Description of professional tricks, techniques and extreme driving techniques The engines are original and amazing. Combustion The engine is redundant. Ultimate freedom. Is it possible to make a fast car without an engine? It turns out yes! Engine for a spaceship: what people will fly into deep space Engine-pipe. The pinnacle of technology. The second half of the XNUMXth century can be safely called the century of gas turbine engines: it was they who made mass travel over long distances possible, ensured the transcontinental pumping of gas and generated a huge amount of electricity. In addition, the gas turbine engine is rightfully considered the most technologically complex mechanism of the past century. Much more complex than a nuclear reactor Property. Life on wheels. Have you ever managed a house? I want to ask, do you know how fast it picks up speed, how it behaves in corners, how good it is off-road? The editors of the PM decided to satisfy their and your curiosity and rented Hymer Exsis Moving pictures Christine Sur. Pop up Double UAZ: what does the Russian hybrid consist of Two-tailed Two-wheeled threat. Armored motorcycles. Remember the movie Terminator 2? How inconvenient it was for Schwarzenegger to drive a motorcycle with one hand and reload a shotgun with the other! .. But he is forgiven: the hero had no other choice. But in reality, motorcycles are often adapted for combat needs - as if specifically for the terminators. Here you have armor, and a machine gun, and even a bazooka in a stroller ... where the most daring robots work Girl, get up! Story The ninth planet: does it really exist? XNUMXth century deindustrial revolution. Have you tried a cake made on a printer yet? For the foreseeable future, industrial products - from colored socks to aircraft parts - will not be manufactured in a factory, but printed on a printer. Active space communications ship Making a fire tornado with improvised means It's up to the little ones. Underwater microboats. Modern warships are not small structures, and sometimes they are simply huge. The size allows them to perform certain tasks - for example, to serve as a floating airfield or a platform for ballistic missiles. With the advent of new concepts of naval warfare and new technologies, ships began to decrease dramatically Democracy cut. shooting Demon Maxwell. The Science of the Impossible Flag demonstration Tractor day. Hard rider. Tractor driver Andrey Gordeev from the farm Land of the Rostov region woke up at dawn. Hastily finished with breakfast, he hurried to the yard, where his devoted friend, the Belarus tractor, was standing. Andrei gently ran his hand along the iron side of the car and said quietly: Don't let me down! Today, the machine operator and his tractor were waiting for an amazing day, for which he had been tirelessly preparing since the beginning of May. Today he must win the tractor race! Enthusiast's Day: the story of a Russian who won the Dakar wooden crown Wooden skyscrapers: how it works Wooden samurai. artificial life. Karakuri masters from medieval Japan owned the secret of a mechanical soul Wooden chronometers by Ludwig Seip. Primitivism Hold the handle Keep hitting. Well hung car. Skill only wins with the right suspension settings Keep your ears warm Hold me three. We fasten the belts. If cowards invented the brakes, then what do you call those who invented seat belts? You will be surprised, but seat belts are the invention of the most courageous people. Dessert for contagion Ten to minus nine. Popular about nanotechnology. Recently in Russia it is difficult to find a publication that would not mention the word nanotechnology with or without it. However, the real meaning of this term is not clear to everyone. In this project, prepared with the participation of RUSNANO specialists, we will try to tell you what this word actually means Ten by fifteen. What to do with digital photos. What to do with digital photos when there are not two, not twenty, or even two hundred Detail people by Jeremy Meyer. Art. Jeremy Meyer does not have the slightest reverence for antiques. Every week he combs the surrounding flea markets and junk shops, then carefully dissects the finds in his studio, dismantling historical relics to the last screw, and spends long hours classifying and cataloging the resulting parts, then to combine them into a new artistic entity. Detective: How We Found Mars 3 Children of the editorial Children's question Kindergarten forever Jedi in blue. Film effects. Star Wars filming technology is as exciting as the film itself Gerard Gere: Animal Bones Sculpture Bulb genie. Magnet about one pole. If humanity manages to find a way to reproduce or capture the giants of the microworld - magnetic monopoles, it will become the owner of the most destructive weapon or energy source that surpasses thermonuclear reaction. Jeep trial among the rocks. European Championship Eurotrial-2008. The phrase the hot sun of Norway sounds, perhaps, as paradoxical as the tropics near Moscow. However, thanks to the vagaries of the climate at the end of July this year, the south of the country, whose name translates as the northern path, really turned out to be one of the hottest places in Europe. Add to the inferno the roar of dozens of engines, the smell of burnt engine oil, as well as the ubiquitous dust rising from the crushed stone whipped by the wheels - and you will undoubtedly have some idea of a two-day technoad called Eurotrial-2008 Joule in your kitchen. Induction hob. Popular mechanics lifts the veil of secrecy and talks about how the induction hob is arranged and works - one of the wonders of modern kitchen technology Diagnosis from the car Diagnosis. What does this sound mean? A good knock will show itself or a good knock will come out - an ominous driver's proverb ... Elephant diet. Economic driving practices. In anticipation of cars consuming 2 liters of fuel per 100 km, we can try to reduce the consumption of our current cars by the same amount. It's possible! Diet liner. Airliner 2030. It took four high-profile research teams a year and a half to outline the face of the 7th generation airliner. Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Electric and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented their vision of the aircraft of the 2030s Dietology with mythology. Man is what he eats. Man is what he eats. This is the same banal truth as a poison offered to you by a sage, take it, but do not take balm from the hands of a fool. Or, from the same source of wise truths, you'd rather starve than eat anything, and better be alone than with anyone. But most of us eat anything, and if we go on a diet, then very often we are guided by the advice of not wise men. Cool design. Advice for beginner masters of the elements. The best way to get into the essence of a natural phenomenon is to try to recreate it in the form of an experiment. While studying the physics of snow crystals, I became interested in the possibility of growing exactly the same snowflakes as those that fall from the sky under controlled conditions, says Kenneth Libbrecht. - I call them designer snowflakes, because in the laboratory you can create a snowflake of almost any desired shape. Bathtub dinosaur. Superstition technologies. A vague silhouette in the waters of a Scottish lake was captured on film in the 1930s. Scientists have not found evidence that a prehistoric creature lived in the lake, but this did not stop folk fantasies Dinosaurs of the Land of the Soviets. Big traction. Jurassic Park is located in one of the courtyards of the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant (MZKT). Iron giants, created during the Cold War, live here. High energy discs. Flywheel storage. Today, scientists from all over the world are unsuccessfully trying to create an inexpensive, lightweight, compact and incredibly capacious battery. Meanwhile, such an energy storage device already exists. Buyan's long arms: what Russian corvettes are capable of For half of humanity. Safety razor. We can say that King Kemp Gillette, born in 1855 in the town of Fond du Lac in Wisconsin, inherited a love of invention. His father was a jack of all trades and worked as a patent attorney. King's mother was also an inventor - in the field of cooking: her cookbook, first published in 1887, is still being reprinted Dmitry Morozov: Russian master painting with sound Down to the screw! Enduro motorcycle Before and after Carlson. Helicopter packs. Why don't people fly like... helicopters? After all, current technologies make it possible to create a light helicopter pack with sufficient thrust. But where are they, helicopter packs? Until first blood. Adhesive plaster. What do you do if you suddenly get burned or cut? That's right - seal the wound with adhesive tape. But if Josephine Dixon had been a more skilled housewife, who knows what we would bandage small cuts and scratches with today ... What progress has been made? Welcome to the safe. Business Good doctor helium-3 Dogma of speed. How the world's best road bike works Long Kiss. Crash a car to save a man. Car deformation zones, developed by Belaya Bareny, led to the premature death of many cars, but saved hundreds of thousands of human lives. Should restaurants reduce portion sizes? House of the Future. Futurism. There are no more interesting places on Earth than the research centers of large corporations. Here you can see and touch the future House in a parallel world A tree house is an extreme dream. I sit high, I look far away. Now there is no doubt that our ancestors were monkeys. Seeing a tree, a person strives to climb it. We have been given very perfect and skillful hands - probably in order to build a house on a conquered tree. The house is uprooted. How buildings are moved. Among the engineering problems that mankind had to solve, there are those that cause something like sacred awe in the soul. Moving buildings from place to place is clearly one of those. In the very idea of tearing the house away from mother earth, something unnatural and irrevocable is already felt. But if it is necessary, then it is necessary, and back in the XNUMXth century, the legendary Aristotle Fioravanti (before becoming a Russian architect and military engineer) moved the bell tower in his Italian homeland House with a sea view. Enthusiasts Home tanks. Full HD storage and playback. Back in 2003, in an interview with Popular Mechanics, the legendary Hi-Fi guru Ken Ishiwata from Marantz predicted that CDs and DVDs were the last mass-produced physical media for sound and video. Home moon rover. Offroad Alchemist. Designer Alexander Kopytov is sure that his cars will be able to master not only heavy off-road conditions, but also a new niche for all-terrain vehicles. The description of Alexander Kopytov's all-terrain vehicle will inspire every fan of off-road rides - six driving wheels, four steerable, lockable cross-axle differentials and independent suspension of all wheels Homegrown geniuses. home inventions. Unbridled imagination, audacity and skillful hands - that's all you need to create these unusual inventions. Dope abundance. Eat - I do not want! The World Anti-Doping Agency annually updates the list of substances that experts consider doping. The Prohibited List includes about a dozen methods and about 300 substances. Some of them are forbidden to be used only during competitions or in certain sports, for example, alcohol: shooters know very well that a drop or two relieves tremor well. And the fencers are checked for alcohol, and, of course, the racers - what if they drunk fly into the oncoming lane in a bobsleigh? Augmented reality, roly-poly cabin and other amazing photos Road to a dream. Birdwing chicks. First there were the Montgolfier brothers, then the Wright brothers... A man was able to take to the air and fly, but still has not learned to fly like a bird, flapping his wings. However, in the near future, the old dream of mankind may come true. Road to clean energy. The most common and destructive energy myths. The road to a clean energy world is littered with intriguing possibilities as well as wolf pits. The purpose of this article is to warn readers of several pernicious myths that can lead our society astray from the path of proper development. Road to Mars. From the Blue Planet to the Red. How is NASA going to reach the red planet? Opinion of the second man on the moon, Apollo astronaut Base Aldrin The road winds like a smart ribbon ... Ghost road. Stalinist building of the century. The Stalinist construction of the century, the railway line along the Arctic Circle, turned out to be useless to anyone Roads of a fire-breathing train. Jet train. Technical solutions, embodying both simplicity and paradoxicality, inexplicably excite the imagination. They seem to give a long-awaited answer to the questions that have been sitting in us since childhood: What will happen if ...? In theory, we already knew what would happen if we put a jet engine on a railway car, but we so wanted to meet with the visible memory of this experiment that a small delegation of the PM went to the glorious city of Tver Armor for Speed Daughters of Eve. Genes, history and geography. In the last issue of the magazine, we talked about the Genography project and how you can trace the lineage to Y-chromosome Adam through the male line. And what about Eve? According to the marks left by random mutations on mitochondrial DNA, both men and women can trace their ancestry through the female line all the way back to the foremother - Eve. Drag design. How modern medicines are made. The directed development of new drugs with predetermined properties, for lack of a short and convenient Russian term, is called drag design (drug - medicine, design - design, construction) The oldest of feelings. Smells. The sense of smell gives us the opportunity to enjoy pleasant smells, and sometimes it can save our lives - not to let us drink vinegar instead of vodka, to suggest that we should not eat a rotten pie, or to remind us that we should not flip the switch when we smell gas. However, the smells around us have properties that many may not even be aware of. Bomber Drill Droneboy: a device for shooting down drones Drones chasing the map Drones and Action Cameras: Technology Show Trends 2016 Suicide Drones: Loitering Munitions The other side of the pencil Friendly whirlwinds. Physics Arc of Vasily Petrov Wind crossbow The soul of an aluminum can. Inspired by the bull. An ordinary can of Red Bull inspires artists, athletes and workers to create masterpieces of contemporary art duel on propellers Duel with an electric ramp. Defense Smoke to the rescue. Means of disguise Smoke on the water. We breathe correctly. There is an opinion that hookah smoking is much less harmful to health than cigarette smoking. Is it so? Smoke on the water. High-speed armored boats. When US Special Forces need to safely get along a riverbed, they turn to the best boatmen in the world for help. A Popular Mechanics correspondent visited the exercises and met the crew of the amphibious armored boat from Group 22 Hole in the details Breathing through the walls Breathe deeply. Scuba. Since ancient times, people have tried to look under the water. Some did it for educational purposes, some (sponge and pearl divers) for commercial purposes, and, of course, the military also showed considerable interest in this. The Greek philosopher Aristotle mentions in his work, dated 332 BC, the use of a structure vaguely resembling a diving bell by Alexander the Great during the siege of Tyre (now Lebanon) Breathe in health! Home atmosphere. Modern air conditioners are able not only to regulate the temperature, but also quite effectively purify the air. Breathe right! Hundred per litre. Is it possible to extract a hundred horsepower from each liter of displacement of a gasoline engine? Yes, if you equip it with a supercharger or set it up in a racing way. This was the only correct answer until VTEC technology appeared. Dozen projects. Straight from the workshop. After Popular Mechanics magazine announced a competition for the craziest invention, readers were not long in coming. We present the twelve best projects of this year Europe has won. Airbus A-380. Airbus A-380 will be the largest passenger aircraft European traveler His name is Kong. King Kong. How the ape evolved from man. When future director Peter Jackson was nine years old, he saw an old black and white 1933 King Kong on TV. Sobbing over the tragic fate of a giant ape falling off the Empire State Building, he decided he wanted to make movies too. single space The only chance for immortality Daily 42 minutes above ground. Aviation Hedgehog in space. Reagan's nuclear laser. Successes in the creation of munitions for a directed explosion, primarily cumulative ones, raised the question - is it possible to create a directed nuclear charge? Riding blind. Driver assistance systems. Ten years ago, speaking about the active safety of the car, we meant the sharpness of the steering wheel, the ability of the chassis to sharp maneuvers, the predictability of behavior in a skid - in general, everything that would help the driver avoid a collision in a potentially dangerous situation Driving vertically If there are no sharpened knives in the house. Blade If long on the path If aliens exist, then where are they: a scientific approach If you feed strawberries to a cow, will her milk taste strawberry? Is there life on Barsoom? Film evolution Is there life on the brane? String theory. It seems that little of the entire multidimensional world is available to humanity, but the most interesting thing is the brane. Before entering the next dimension, it remains to improve the accuracy of measurements Do satellites of planets have satellites? There is only a moment. Ghost hunter: MiG-25. In the army, I served for some time as the driver of a giant airfield tanker. The strongest airfield impressions are the landing of MiG-25 interceptors, which for some reason always landed in pairs. From behind the clouds, two swift cars flew silently, at great speed smoothly touched the runway with their wheels and instantly released braking parachutes. Ride standing Hot topic. Air conditioners Iron branch of evolution Iron hunt. Sports pneumatics. Shooting at long distances, and even at unknown distances, is perhaps one of the most exciting entertainments. The problem is that it is available mainly to snipers, for whom it is not so much fun as work. For the rest, especially for residents of large cities, finding a shooting range or a deserted area where you can shoot half a kilometer and further is an almost impossible task. However, there is one sport that almost feels the same. This is Field Target Iron planet. And Mercury floated above us... (M. Svetlov.) Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun in the Solar System, revolving around the Sun in 88 days. Scientists still know relatively little about this planet. Iron hand. Wrench. On June 2, 1998, Bahco produced the 100 millionth adjustable wrench. In total, more than 40 million pieces of such instruments are produced annually. Sam Deal Iron Farm. Springs. Lives in the hot Australian outback a cheerful man named Sam Deal. You should have seen his workshop - just a covered shed, under which thousands and thousands of old pieces of iron, fragments of mechanisms, limbs of mannequins, machine parts, clock gears are scattered in disorder ... iron gull iron meat Bond iron stars iron hands The Iron Men by Stephan Alle. Cartoon Iron age. Sword of a Russian warrior. Having set ourselves the task of making a real sword of the XNUMXth century using authentic technology, we were forced to repeat the entire path of the ancient metallurgists - from building a raw furnace, recovering iron from iron ore and remelting the resulting metal into steel suitable for making a sword Tin Woodman iron donkey Iron record of BelAZ Yellow energy. Qiddycome Lemon Clock Science Kit Yellow Red. History of M&M's. To prevent chocolate from melting in the local hot climate during storage, Spanish confectioners covered it with icing sugar, and in this form it could be taken in hand without fear of getting dirty. Married to a rabbit. Tutorial. How I lived with an electronic hare who promised to wean me off the computer and improve my personal life Women's lot. Love and robots. Julia Hayman, director of the Research Institute for Sex and Human Reproduction at Indiana University, predicts that the first sex robots will go on sale as early as 2016. To rejoice or be sad about this, tried to figure it out Popular Mechanics Women's logic. quantum computer. Quantum computer runs at the speed of light, but gives an approximate answer Security victims. Bench tests of the engine. Testing the reliability of aviation equipment is a very cruel thing. Time, funds, special equipment and the efforts of many people are directed to the conscious destruction of equipment, and sometimes even living beings. All this is done to ensure that during the subsequent long-term operation of the aircraft, not a single person was injured. Crash test victims. Volunteers, animals, cadavers. In life there is always a place for a feat, and they know this firsthand. They fight in cars, fall from the top shelves of railway cars, are ejected at high speeds from the cockpits of jet fighters. They are thrown out with or without a parachute from a great height, they die along with helicopters that have lost control, they get knockouts from the latest airbags, they are sentenced to death from various types of small arms. They don't seek adventure, it's their job to die for us Victims of speed. Hydrofoil tank. You will not learn the details of the project 80 from military-technical reference books and historical books. Experienced warriors do not tell stories about tanks overtaking speedboats on the water: despite the fact that the project was embodied in metal, the vehicles never entered service with the Soviet army. The people who created the unique apparatus and brought it to mind are almost gone Burning rubber Living death: what is a biological weapon Live fast, die early Living metal Yuri Shurupov. Demon Karabas, angel Pinocchio and other steel monsters. Take a Volkswagen steering rack, a couple of car shock absorbers, some motorcycle strut springs, an aircraft turbine, a handful of bearings, add refrigeration compressors and bicycle sprockets. Can you make an angel out of all this? For the sculptor Yuri Shurupov, this is a common thing. Living light. Bioluminescence. Bioluminescence (Greek ?io? - life and lat. lumen - light) - the ability of living organisms to glow due to their own proteins or with the help of symbiotic bacteria Living factories: how to get animals to produce the materials of the future Liquid vigor. Energetic drinks. Drugs that drive away sleep and fatigue, increase concentration and give a boost of energy are sold legally in any supermarket. Liquid water, liquid air. Cryolang. Very little is known about the history of Soviet liquid air breathing apparatus - cryolangs. In fact, the only source of reliable information on this topic is an article in the journal Athlete-submariner for 1977, which describes the AK-3, developed at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology for Low Temperatures (KHFINT). But there are a lot of rumors about cryolangs Liquid scalpel. Erosion Liquid air springs. Hydropneumatics. For a long time, the springs of cars practically did not differ from those used on horseback spring carriages. But in the middle of the XNUMXth century, a fundamentally new suspension appeared. Life in high definition Life in a drift. Sideways. This type of racing has a lot in common with figure skating. The main thing for a drifter is beauty! Life in the intersection of cylinders Life at the epicenter. Strength Life is half an hour long: how long does a unit live in battle Life in five minutes. The fate of a motorcyclist The story of Bert Munro, described in the movie The Fastest Indian, makes you believe in the most incredible dreams. Was life brought to Earth from outer space? Questions and answers! The Life and Thoughts of Buckminster Fuller Life on the tip of a needle Rescue system Rescue systems can pull an astronaut out of hell Life on injections The life of the wrong molecule. Squirrels Life by wire Life under water. Yacht. Revolutionary yacht opens window to Neptune's realm Life at the origins of the universe Vest with pockets. I carry everything with me. Suppose I would carry my children with me in my pocket, said Rabbit. How many pockets would I need? - Sixteen, - said Piglet. “Seventeen, I think,” said Rabbit, “and one more for a handkerchief. Eighteen pockets in one suit! I would just be confused! Residential megaliths, survival grenade and other amazing photos Giraffe with rockets in his teeth. Armored exotic. The classic layout of a single-turret tank, which developed more than 60 years ago, tested by the six-year-old World War II and subsequent wars, led to the creation of a modern combat vehicle. But immediately after the Second World War, it became clear that the classic layout of the tank was already completely squeezed out. fat question Jomar Machadu: amazing car illustrator Journal mechanics. Printing house. From paint and paper to printing, there are already 1263 issues. Here's how it's done copier bugs Jules Verne. People. The predictions of the great science fiction writer did not always come true For two hares. This music will last forever. An ordinary salt battery is one of the most popular electrical products of the XNUMXth century. Behind the scenes of the Oscars: what special awards are given for Beyond the keys Beyond the Periodic Table: Why Looking for Transuranium Elements Behind rockets, to warm seas. Monster One hundred and first kilometer. High aspirations. In 45 years of manned flights at an altitude of more than 100 km from the Earth (where space officially begins), only 450 people have visited. But over the next five years, that number should at least double. Since 2009, amateur astronauts will fly into space every week A trillion years before the Big BangWhat happened a trillion years agoThe Big Bang theory has a strong competitor in the current decade - the cyclic theory Fun for the young. Toys. One of the most cautious definitions of artificial intelligence is: It's something that computers can't yet do. Eskimo fun. Extreme, however. Kayaking can be safely called a summer freeride - the athlete rushes down the mountain slope, among the rocks and boulders, almost not seeing the track in front of him. He usually has a fraction of a second to make the right decision. The price for a mistake is sometimes death Vertical run. Climbing run. The ability to move quickly in the mountains in the past was critical to survival. A hunter escaping from an approaching storm, a messenger with a message about the attack of enemy troops ... People who were fluent in this skill were highly valued Hammer the bolt. Crossbow test. The editors of Popular Mechanics once again went to test weapons. This time we are armed with three different crossbows, which can be officially purchased in the stores of our country Shoot an arrow. Throwing weapon. Popular Mechanics continues the manufacture of the medieval compound bow, begun in the last issue. While our bow dries, it's time to make bowstrings and arrows. Lost in America: Parallel Universe by Andrey Trokha Forgotten explosives. Explosive initiation. The year 1846 became a turning point at the junction of two eras of European civilization: chemists and humanists proposed to change the good old black powder for two creatures of hell - nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose. The first gave the world dynamite and nitroglycerine gunpowder, the second - blasting pyroxylin and pyroxylin gunpowder. As a result, the war finally lost the flair of romance and gentlemanship. The forgotten rival of the Big Bang. Peaceful alternative. The Big Bang theory is now considered as certain as the Copernican system. However, until the second half of the 1960s, it did not enjoy universal recognition, and not only because many scientists from the threshold denied the very idea of the expansion of the Universe. It's just that this model had a serious competitor Start with half a turn. History of simple things Let's hang out! Cheap vacation. No models can compare with helicopters in terms of design and control complexity. Factory TV. Do it yourself. Probably, many of our readers collected a radio receiver in childhood. Or a transmitter, or a tape recorder, or a guitar amplifier, or a music bell. According to the scheme or even your own design, from a designer or from improvised materials. But the TV was collected by a few Canyon Conquerors. Under the wing of a hang glider. From afar, it may seem that a flock of giant eagles is flying towards you. But hang gliding wings gradually become visible, and when ultralight aircraft fly even closer, you can see the pilots and their passengers. This is a camp of heavenly gypsies, with a flock of which a Popular Mechanics journalist flew for a whole week Tomorrow's world The riddle of physics: jets, or plasma jets in the cores of galaxies Mysterious Europe: is there life under the ice of Jupiter's moon Look into someone else's dream Look inside. Looking at the brain. The technique gives doctors previously unthinkable opportunities to see what is happening inside a living person. Look over the horizon. Universe Will the story speak. Language Tan as a black man. Sunglasses prevent tanning. Nature loves to joke. Oddly enough, there is a direct relationship between the physiological mechanisms of increasing egg production in chickens and improving tanning in a fair-skinned person. Both are regulated by the pituitary gland, which is connected to the optic nerve. Upload to the brain Hit the bass. Subwoofer. The subwoofer is perhaps the most controversial component of the speaker system and home theater. It can blast the air with a burst of low-frequency energy, or it can caress the ears with an almost indistinguishable sound that involves the subconscious rather than the ear. Thoughtful weapon. Accuracy is the courtesy of royal projectiles. We are at the range. A few kilometers away from us is a target the size of a tin can. Behind us is a set of adjustable artillery weapons Centimeter, reminiscent of a 152-mm howitzer. Shot. After a few seconds, nothing remains of the jar. We would not like to be in her place Lighting a laser in the sky Burning stadiums. High light on the sports ground. Very soon, the spectators of the World Cup will be able to see their favorite teams in the best possible light. In the literal sense of the word Through the Looking Glass. Camouflage. Camouflage of military equipment and manpower does not always aim at complete camouflage. Sometimes it's enough just to confuse the enemy, leaving objects visible ... but unrecognizable Roll into asphalt. Technique Canned time. Travel Closed firing positions: how to fight with enemy artillery Closing the circle of time. The Science of the Impossible Entertaining procrastination Interesting fact: who invented windsurfing and why? Seal at the seam Screen notes. iMAX technologies. For the new cinema, everything was created almost from scratch: film, camera, projector and sound system Bubbling. Ships in bottles. How does a sailboat model get into a bottle? One of the versions is that the craftsmen carefully saw off the bottom, and then, placing the toy inside, glue it back. In fact, everything is much more interesting Shoot into the sky. 90% of the ideas in the world of kiteboarding come from the Legan brothers. Today it is already difficult to imagine a sea beach without multi-colored kites fluttering over the sea. The soaring wing-arch is all the more surprising because its design is not peeped from nature - there is nothing like it there. And it was invented by two Frenchmen - the Legan brothers Parts for immortality. Investigation Burrow into the ground Charged for records Light the enemy in the eye. Combat lanterns. If it were a nightmare, it would be enough to wake up, and everything would have ended there. But everything is much worse. This is serious, and everything is just beginning. The noise from which you woke up can only mean one thing - someone else's in the house. If you are smart, you have a plan for this. For example, grab a cell phone from the bedside table and call the police, because its employees are specially trained for such situations. But even so, your family's life is still at stake, and you want to do something about it. Immediately. You pull out your dedicated .0.357 Magnum. But there is another means of defense, which is no less important - a tactical flashlight. Light up your ear. sound projector. At the large Yamaha booth at IFA-2005, two small rooms were almost lost, each no larger than 10 square meters. m. They hang an ordinary television panel, under which a small silver rectangle of the speaker system is hidden. There are thousands of models of such panels and flat acoustics at the exhibition. Nevertheless, visitors who enter one of these rooms freeze for many minutes: in absolutely empty rooms, a complete illusion of an expensive multi-channel cinema is created Shine straight into the brain Hidden horror. anti-personnel mines Lost in space. International space station. The International Space Station (ISS) is in huge trouble. And this time, the matter is more serious than a skittish Canadian robotic arm, absurd computers or strange technical failures. This time, two reputable scientific groups have publicly questioned the usefulness of the very existence of the ISS. Lost in Time. One of the most mysterious cars of the XX century. Thanks to his role in the film Back to the Future, the Delorean DMC-12 became known to millions of people around the world, while remaining one of the most mysterious cars of the XNUMXth century. Why is there a centaur in our stall? tanks Why are there leg irons in the tank (and other interesting things) Why do you need a chip? Chip cards. Since January 1, 2006 all over the world it is possible to pay by chip cards Why does water flow in water? Why ride on three wheels. Stabilizer. If the voltage fluctuates in your apartment, then a familiar electrician will advise you to install a stabilizer. In an aircraft, the vertical tail is called a stabilizer. Why is he in the car? Why do you flood your own ships? Why fortress wings. The golden era of strategic bombers. Does the American Flying Fortresses, the formidable bombers of World War II, and the Bolshevik coup in Russia, which went down in history under the name of the October Revolution, have anything to do with it? Oddly enough, yes. Fortresses are a product of military doctrine, about which staff officers and theoreticians of the whole world argued between the two world wars. The author of this doctrine was not an American or even a Russian, but an Italian Giulio Due Why ski tail? Ideal shells for virgin snow. Every year, several hundred people in the world pay with their lives for the inexpressible sensations that off-piste skiing gives on freshly fallen snow - virgin lands. No wonder the word powder in English is called both this most freshly fallen snow and cocaine. True, unlike cocaine, which can be quite easy to get off, having once sat down on virgin soil, it is impossible to jump off it. She appears in dreams, beckons in reality and often takes forever Why do people invent languages? Neo, Esperanto, Volapuk Why do people need wings. Parachute tuning. Modern Western parachuting myth-making attributes the invention of wing suits to the founders of the Florida company Bird Man, Robert Pechnik and Jari Kuosmo. In fact, this idea is as old as the human dream of free flight. Daedalus, and Leonardo da Vinci, and the tailor who jumped from the Eiffel Tower, and the mullah in white robes, jumping from the minaret towards the Sultan, tried to make wings for the flight. Why are they returning? Are airships needed today? Once having abandoned airships, today humanity finds more and more advantages and benefits in these aircraft. But the sight of a mighty ship sailing across the sky attracts you so much that just for the sake of this majestic spectacle, you want them to return ... Why take away the remote from gamers. Film effects. Director John Moore wasn't looking for the easy way out when he took on the film adaptation of the popular computer game Max Payne. He understood that films based on computer games had a bad reputation: as a rule, they turned out to be sketchy and uninteresting. Why do modern physicists need ancient Roman lead ingots? Why does a person need two eyes? King Kong will have to be re-shot again. This time in 3D To doubt that stereo cinema is tomorrow is as naive as to doubt whether there will be a tomorrow at all! (Sergey Eisenstein) Protection from friends Fool protection. My castle. There is nothing more stupid than lying with a fracture in a ski resort. Pillar protection. Motorcyclist outfit. It's hard to believe, but a well-equipped motorcyclist, when falling at a speed of under 200 km / h, can get off with minor bruises. Which, by the way, is constantly demonstrated by the pilots of the world championship in circuit racing The Death Star Star dust. Remains of ancient times. Seven years of travel and 4,6 billion kilometers - and the goal is finally achieved: the Stardust space probe sent home, to Earth, samples of the most ancient substances that have ever been met by man, crumbs of matter that existed even before the birth of the solar system Star Wars by Andy Hill. Tin Star Wars. And quite earthly disputes. Time has passed, NASA has gradually recovered from the shock after the death of the shuttle Columbia, the updated Discovery is again ready to launch, and long-standing disputes have resumed with renewed vigor. In 2010, it is planned to retire the old ship, but is it worth tormenting it until the most fateful date? Popular Mechanics asked for the opinion of two leading experts starships Star Islands. galaxies Star Patrols. Comet of your name. Any romantic with knowledge of the starry sky, with perseverance and a bit of luck, can become the discoverer of a new celestial body, comet or asteroid. You don't even need a telescope to do this. star wounds Star hour of the dragon Star hour. Medieval sword in action. It's done! Our project Russian sword of the XIII century finally came to its finale and apotheosis at the same time. The blade, forged with love and care by Vasily Ivanov, it's time to put it to work. Andrey Zimin, an expert in the field of historical reconstruction of the medieval battle, the head of the Spata Applied Fencing Studio, acted as a consultant and at the same time a model for filming Stargazer from Gwen Island. Quiet Brahe. The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe entered the history of science primarily as an exceptional master of precision observations, without which there would be no Keplerian laws. Stars on Earth. thermonuclear Stars on the ceiling Astronomy brutal high Call to the stars Sound architecture by sculptor Zimun sound projector Here you are not flat Green men. Film effects. A cute giant with a bad temper is back on the screens - Shrek 2 is released in the US in May The Autobots will save the earth. Our world. Their war. Technologies are common. Toy robots-transformers were born more than twenty years ago. At first they were just plastic figures, then an animated series was shot about their adventures, his characters with names like Bumblebee and Optimus Prime became the subject of cult, desire and reverence for any self-respecting young man from eight to twelve years old The earth is like a magnet. geomagnetic field. In 1905, Einstein named the cause of terrestrial magnetism as one of the five main mysteries of contemporary physics. Earth under a red sun. The Science of the Impossible Earth from above. Space archeology. To whom the inhabitants of the Nazca intended their gigantic drawings, which are visible only from a bird's eye view, is not known for certain. One thing is clear - unlike those viewers from above, modern archaeologists manage to read much more mysterious and meaningful signs of the past. All the same look from heaven... Amphibians enter the battle. Anti-landing mines. In the animal kingdom, there is a class of amphibians, or amphibians (in Greek, living a dual life), the first vertebrate creatures that switched from aquatic to aquatic-terrestrial lifestyle. Such amphibians also exist among military vehicles - these are floating tanks, armored personnel carriers, cars, as well as hovercraft, which move equally easily both on the water surface and on coastal beaches, thereby erasing the boundary between water and land. Actually, such machines are called amphibians. But, just as various predators prey on amphibians in nature, amphibious vehicles have their own natural enemies - amphibious mines Winter 2042. Future Winter shoes. Get your tires ready for the summer. Every autumn, drivers rack their brains over choosing winter shoes for their cars. And in the Nordic countries, winter tires have long become an indispensable attribute of a modern car. Serpent Gorynych and urka. Tumbleweed. Minefield. Since the beginning of the mass use of mines in World War II, overcoming minefields has always been one of the most difficult tasks for attackers. Serpent Gorynych clears a minefield Snake venoms: how they work and is it possible to escape Snake sport. Record-breaking kites. Sooner or later, humanity is trying to turn its technical achievements into sports. With kites, this happened late - despite a thousand-year history, the competitive spirit in this entertainment appeared shortly before the beginning of the XNUMXth century. Did you know that...: interesting facts about black caviar Signs and meanings of China: how they write and think in China The Golden Age of Viruses Golden Bridge, Robot Spy and Jesus Tree Gold standard. Final proof. Unprecedented accuracy of DNA analysis has called into question the validity of traditional forensic methods Zombies in a cage. Prions: diseased molecules Umbrella for the driver. Wiper. When the enterprising American Mary Andersen arrived in New York in the winter of 1902, she was touched by the sight of a streetcar driver. On a frosty snowy day, he was forced to drive with the windows open to control the situation. Mary showed feminine concern and took up invention - this is how the first workable windshield wiper was born LAW C-300: air defense in Russian Toothy and fanged: who lived in Russia before people And we will be happy ... Fuel. Last year, gasoline consumption in the US alone amounted to more than 537 billion liters (60 million liters per hour!). It is not surprising that the world is now more than ever stubbornly looking for alternatives to scarce fuel, trying to teach cars to run on hydrogen, electricity or biofuels. Technology, for its part, is beginning to catch up with market demands. And yet she turns And there are only eight left. Big eight. Over the past 15 years, astronomers have discovered many small bodies no smaller than Pluto. But now they have no chance to officially become planets And lightning, clenched in a fist And there are spots from the sun. A tan. Almost the entire twentieth century passed in the joyful conviction that looking tanned is very fashionable, sporty and good for health. But is it really so? And get a pen for it! Fountain pens. Writing instruments have come a long way since the days of the reed style. In the age of touch screens and computer voice recognition systems, even quite modern ballpoint and capillary pens seem archaic. Meanwhile, people still prefer to sign important government contracts and million-dollar contracts with the distant descendants of goose quills - ink fountain pens. Ignobel Prize-2014: both laughter and science Ignobel Prizes. Scientific laughter. Since the light has existed, there have been no troubles from laughter (S. Mikhalkov). These awards are given for scientific achievements that first make people laugh, and then think Ignobel 2011 The game of people. Digital analogue of humanity. The world of computer simulations is vast and diverse. If you want - sit at the helm of an airliner, if you want - drive a tank, train or yacht. It remains to simulate a person. For what? Andrew Smith's marble game. The otherworldly life of mechanics. In the song Junk, which was written and sung by Paul McCartney many years ago, there are these words: Buy it! Buy! says the sign in the window. - For what? For what? - answers trash in the yard Game for real men Away game Billion game Playing with fire. Steam engines of Yi-Wei Huang. Ask any steampunk fan if they have ever seen a real steampunk machine? Certainly! - he will say and remember the airship from the anime The Exile, the giant steam spider from the Wild Wild West movie or the mechanical computer in the city of Gnomeregan from the World of Warcraft game. If you specify whether your friend saw a steaming mechanical monster in reality, with his own eyes, or could touch it with his hand, he will most likely just twist his finger at his temple. And it will be wrong! The game is worth the candle. Ignition Churchill's toy soldiers. Weapons of the British militia. The final victory of Germany over England is now only a matter of time. Enemy offensive operations on a large scale are no longer possible. The chief of staff of the operational leadership of the Wehrmacht, General Jodl, who wrote these lines on June 30, 1940, was in an excellent mood. France fell a week before, and at the beginning of the month, the Anglo-French and Belgian troops barely managed to get their feet off the continent, leaving their equipment to the Germans. Billionaires toy Mind games by Julien Berthier. Sight. When Monsieur Bertier wanders the streets, he carefully looks around. And every counter pillar gives him food for thought. Returning home, Monsieur Berthier takes a sheet of paper and sketches what came to his mind. Sometimes Monsieur Bertier is not limited to a drawing, but creates a certain design. This is how art is born, which is very difficult to attribute to any genre. Fire games. Homemade rockets. These rockets burn the same fuel as the space shuttles, have twice the speed of sound, and rise to a height of 5 kilometers. Will you turn your tongue to call them toy models? Welcome to the world of extreme hobbies Light games. Optics. Scientists have succeeded in slowing down light or even stopping it altogether. But it's not so much the result that matters, but the way... The games we play The perfect checker. How to choose. Ironically, the cavalry got the perfect weapon when it was no longer needed. Ideal future. Brave new world. Futurologists have taught us that the future will be bleak. Therefore, any ideas that paint the future in a different light are perceived by us with great interest. Today, PM will talk about how radical economist David Friedman sees the future Perfect Patterns by Jennifer Townley The perfect jeep. prototype The perfect knot. How to tie a tie. How many ways do you know how to tie a tie? The vast majority of men in the world use one. Most likely, this is one of the seven classic knots: simple, new classic, oblique, crossed, double, windsor and half windsor Perfect Storm We go to a thunderstorm: how lightning is born identical to natural. Sweets From the depth From oak and fire: how a barrel is born From pawn to queen. Dive bomber. The question of whether the civil war in Spain (1937-1939) can be considered a dress rehearsal for World War II remains debatable, but one thing is indisputable - it was in the battles on the Iberian Peninsula that the latest types of military equipment of the USSR and the Third Reich first met and tested each other for strength . From the experience of these battles, lessons had to be urgently drawn, sometimes very bitter. Last but not least, this applied to aviation. From printer to sky From the kind of winners. Test Drive. The story of how Popular Mechanics met the spring and celebrated the eighth victory of the Mitsubishi Pajero in Dakar Eruption of the Void Chef's mockery. Potato chips Measurements at the Olympics: the evolution of precision Permeability measurements. Theory. An illustrated guide to the practical application of some of the data that can be gleaned from the technical data of the car Measure and kill. Scope kings: laser rangefinders. With the advent of high-precision rifles in our country, there was also a need for laser rangefinders. Without knowing the exact distance to the target, it is almost impossible to realize the potential of a good rifle. Like air, rangefinders are needed for arrows from powerful pneumatics and bows. They are also loved by golfers. They are bought by builders and even power engineers, who, using laser rangefinders, control, for example, the amount of sagging of the wires of power lines feigning hunger Ingenuity and artistry. Plastic bottle Inventing the future. Interview Invention of the century. Who invented Doshirak. Momofuku Ando was born in 1910 in Japanese-occupied Taiwan. His parents died when he was a child and he was raised by his grandparents who owned a clothing company. When Ando was 22, he started his own business and moved to Osaka Do animals hiccup X-boats. Wakeboard boat. Catalogs of wakeboard boats differ from others by an interesting feature - in a conspicuous place there is a photograph of a wake wave. It is the shape of this wave that determines the level and class of the boat Daughter names nominal particle. Physics of the end of the world I have a spacesuit, ready to travel Imperial artillery. Classic style. The ancient throwing weapons that the ancient Greeks and Romans made are the ancestors of modern artillery Ingeniators. Reconstruction. The name of this profession comes from the Latin word ingeniare - to create, to create. In the II century AD. some war machines began to be called ingenious (skillful, ingenious). And the people who built these ingenious devices and supervised the creation of complex artificial structures were called ingeniators (inventors) Indy 500. 15 ways to change the world Industrialization at home. Designer Kulibin, OOO ISTC Engineers of human bodies. Organs for growth. The first clinical experiments on the transplantation of artificial organs and tissues have already been carried out. Tissue engineering will solve many problems of transplantation Foreign car for the Navy. Purchase Alien aerodynamics. Mirage Invisible Inspector. Black box for car. Russian electronics engineer designed a black box for a car survival instructors Master tool. The art of achieving goals. Buying a Steinway piano alone will not make you a great pianist. In the same way, the most advanced sniper rifle that money can buy will not replace the skill of a shooter. However, modern high-precision weapons - a synthesis of design ideas, precision mechanics and high-quality optics - significantly expand the capabilities of a professional sniper. Chef's tool. Reactor food. In many countries, to sterilize and increase the shelf life of food, it is exposed to small doses of radiation. The Republic of South Africa is a recognized leader in the use of such technologies. For a long time, at least 12 tons of food a year have been irradiated there. Mostly spices. Special purpose tools Yogurt as a biological weapon. Whether it is necessary to treat a dysbacteriosis? Recently, advertising often scares us with a diagnosis of dysbacteriosis. This is the name of the violation of the microflora, which we are called upon to urgently treat with Eubiotics, Probiotics, Symbiotics and Live Yoghurts, in which hardworking Bifido- and Lactobacilli swarm, looking forward to getting into our inner world in order to create and create there, in the dark and warm, good ... In fact, most of this information is pure myths Iori Tomita: transparent mummification of sea creatures Spark or lead? Disaster at Baikonur Disasters in a confined space, whether in space or on a submarine, have a very large psychological impact, but relatively few people are endangered there. Another thing is preparatory operations at the start Promised spark. Electrical future. At the dawn of automotive history, it seemed that ahead was an endless era of oil prosperity. But already a hundred years later, the energy stranglehold brought motorized humanity to its knees, and black gold turned into a factor of political influence. What will happen next? Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place, says the world is on the cusp of an Electric Future Artificial star: how to launch the brightest satellite Artificial Art: Incredible Robot Paintings Constructed Languages: Klingon, Sindarin, Newspeak artificial intelligence for turkey Artificial intelligence: the people who made FaceApp The Art of War II. Strategy. Chinese military strategists on the methods of warfare in the new millennium The art of levitation The art of deception. Real geniuses and fake geniuses. One successful forgery of a great masterpiece can make its creator a millionaire. If you can fool the expert... The art of moving bridges. Bridge alloy. During the construction of the third transport ring, it turned out that the Andreevsky railway bridge across the Moscow River did not fit into the plan. The bridge had to be erected in a new place so that the railway tracks would not interfere with the highway The art of touch. Heptika is a technology of touch. We are witnessing the birth of technology based on touch. These include exoskeleton gloves that can dose force and respond to contact, these are remote-controlled surgical robots and touch screens that are ready to respond to your hand's touch. Let's shake hands with this virtual world! The art of destruction. Enthusiasts The Art of Secret Change Digital Fantasy Art: Why Neural Networks Dream of Electric Sheep Sizzling Beam Giants look to the sky The Use of Titanium Alloys and Other Best Reader Letters Trial by fire The true face of Jesus. The face of Christ. Criminologists restore the appearance of the most famous person The true face of the conqueror of space. The Science of the Impossible Elephant War History: Elephant Course History of giant robots. About violating the laws of robotics. Japan is uniquely associated with microelectronics, cars and giant robots among Europeans. The history of the zipper. An unbreakable biography. On November 7, 1891, Whitcomb Judson of Chicago received a patent number 504038 for an invention he named Shoe clasp: a series of hooks on one side and eyelets on the other, which were hooked with a special guide key (to disengage them, the key had to be turned over) The story of the pilot Artseulov - Aivazovsky's grandson, Chkalov's teacher History of the new time. Alternative History of one molecule. When sugar is bitter. The history of insulin is a whole collection of fantastic stories about how outstanding scientific discoveries are made. The history of attraction. Magnetism. Magnetism has been studied since ancient times, and over the past two centuries has become the basis of modern civilization. History of simple things. Post-it-notes stickers. The history of stickers is interesting primarily because for this fundamentally new product, consumer demand had to be specially created. And this is not surprising - the inventors themselves took 12 years to figure out where their development could be used. The history of the invisibility cap Source of inspiration. Drunk acoustics. The Japanese have found a new use for sake - high-end acoustics Fighter VIII generation. New Lancer Evolution. All cars are different, each has its own character, generating associations with other ground and non-ground vehicles: with a barge, a diesel locomotive, an airplane, a spaceship ... This article will talk about a car that, with its appearance, driving performance and character, begs for direct comparison with the latest generation jet fighter Business class fighter Disappearing packaging The disappearance of the balloon USA-2. Air So, you have decided to become a pop star. The way of glory. So far, you have not found anything better for rehearsals than a shed, but this does not mean at all that your music should equal the standard of a squalid room. With the help of a home computer and related software, you can achieve surprisingly refined and sophisticated sound on an astronomical budget. Italian-Chinese pride. And it's not a shame to hang on your ears. Who was the first - the East or the West - is difficult to establish, and it is hardly so important. Pasta dishes have long won the love of people of all nationalities. Fast, tasty, varied! To the far reaches. From the Sun to the very outskirts. In the 1970s, mankind ushered in a new era in the exploration of the solar system. In 1970, the Soviet automatic station Venera-7 first touched our closest space neighbor; five years later, Venera-9 and Venera-10 brought descent vehicles there, sending photographs of its surface to Earth. From 1971 to 1978, 12 probes went into space from Cape Canaveral, scanning space from the Sun to the last giant planet, Neptune. To Mars on the reactor. Explosive strength. Back in the early 1960s, designers considered nuclear rocket engines as the only viable alternative for traveling to other planets in the solar system. Straight ahead of the enemy. Demining combat vehicles. If in the XNUMXth century sappers could completely get by with shovels, axes, saws and other hand tools, today, in order to open the way for tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and infantry, heavy engineering vehicles are needed that can quickly make a passage in a minefield, build a crossing, fill up an anti-tank ditch, demolish wire fences, clear the road Ka-62: new Russian helicopter Caverns: voids in the bottom of the vessel, or how it works Cadillac that drives itself Each with a book. E-book To each according to his needs. Three-dimensional printer. A quarter of a century ago, the legendary programmer Bill Joy, one of the creators of the Unix operating system, stated that most of the smartest people in the world do not work for themselves, but for someone else. The titans who managed to turn a bare idea into a business have always been piece goods. Looks like times are changing Kazan: breadwinner of Eurasia Macondo case. Force Majeure Kiteboarding for dummies. Training course How Americans Destroy Chemical Weapons How Batman Became Batman. Demigod from the car. Batman is back. After two failed films about the adventures of the Man in the Mask, director Christopher Nolan took up the story of his life and chronicle of his exploits. The result pleased both critics and fans - they unanimously declared that at last the most tragic of comic book superheroes found a worthy embodiment on the screen. How to see subatomic particles at home Like in a tank. Combat robot of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Mechanics drove a combat robot at the Center for Special Risk Rescue Operations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Leader Like in a tank. Armor How the world's first icebreaker was built in Tsarist Russia How to blow up a locomotive. Instruction. In 2001, the book Rail War: Combat Operations of Soviet Subversive Groups on Railway Communications Behind Enemy Lines (1941-1944) was published by V.N. Popenko. The release of the book was accompanied by a noisy scandal, the book was demanded to be banned, and against the author (if found) they threatened to open a criminal case. However, the book is still sold today at bookstores and online stores. What is so terrible in the story about the exploits of Soviet saboteurs from Leningrad and Moscow? How Vladislav Starevich invented the technique of puppet animation How it all happened. Gulf of Mexico. The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform was bound to happen and was just waiting for its moment. Experts are now naming seven fatal blunders that caused the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. There are lessons to be learned from this catastrophe that will help avoid this in the future. How to choose a city scooter How to choose a drone for shooting: test drive cameras with propellers What Mathematics Looks Like: Real Embodiments of Abstract Formulas How to survive in the technological singularity? How to survive on Mars. You have to be ready for everything. The red planet is preparing cruel surprises for future explorers. Here are some examples of what they can expect How to survive after a nuclear attack How to leave the room How to cure diseases without drugs How the world's largest diamonds are grown: made in Russia How alcohol vapors burn: experience How advertising is done. Dream technology. This winter, a commercial for the Goodyear Ultra Grip Half-Pipe was broadcast on television in Russia, Sweden, Norway and Finland. In it, we recall, four bright red Audis performed tricks inside a snowy half-pipe - a halfpipe commonly used by snowboarders and skiers for their tricks. The video turned out to be memorable, advertising collectors bombarded the company with requests to send a copy of it How combat robots are made How processors are made: Mapper technology vs. Intel How fireworks are made in Sergiev Posad: Research Institute of Applied Chemistry How knightly spears are made for the most lethal tournament How to add muscle battery How helicopters are trained. Artificial intelligence. The helicopter does not like to fly. His constant desire is to roll over and fall to the ground, says Garrett Oku, an experienced model aircraft pilot. Flying a helicopter is like balancing a pole in the palm of your hand, echoes Peter Abbil, a member of a unique team of researchers trying to equip a rotorcraft with artificial intelligence. How does a chick breathe inside an egg? Answers to interesting questions As the Steel Was Tempered. How to do. The editors of Popular Mechanics followed the path of the gunsmith Fedorov and produced the famous Sample No. 1910 using the authentic technology of the 6s How time is measured at the races: the secrets of timing How is time measured in the World Rally Championship? How does $2 million sound? Absolut sound. Few audiophiles would argue about the brand of absolute amplifier - Mark Levinson. But when discussing acoustics, you will not find such unanimity. Each connoisseur selected speakers for himself. With the advent of home theaters, the problem has worsened: sounding great when playing exquisite jazz and perfectly conveying all the special effects of a movie are beyond the power of conventional technology. How the remains of Nicholas II and his family were identified by DNA How to make candy from a machine How to change the properties of the human psyche with ordinary water How to measure the speed of light in a... microwave oven? PM experience! How to invent something useful. James Dyson. James Dyson was born in 1947 in Norfolk. In 1966 he entered the Royal College of Art at the Faculty of Furniture and Interior Design. In college, he understood one very simple and very important thing, which became his motto for the rest of his life: Design is not how an object looks, but how it works. How exactly does smart steering help the driver? How to search for dark matter How they search for dark matter: details about the mysterious How to search for exoplanets: traces of extraterrestrial life in thousands of parsecs How to wakeboard on... icebergs: ice extreme How astronauts fight fungus and bacteria How people broke up with hyperbole. Demography How the human body changes in space: a detailed analysis At least equal to the Tiger How to inflate the Russian army. Deception How to find dark matter How we made the head. Evolution. The head that we so need on our shoulders, evolution has been creating for hundreds of millions of years. Vertebrae, gills, and scales were used. The skull either merged into a monolithic box, or turned into a movable openwork structure. Our distant ancestors were able to listen with their jaw, fragments of which live in the middle ear of homo sapiens. And the beginning of this exciting story was laid at the beginning of the Cambrian period, about 540 million years ago. How they made Moscow drunk. Moisture How do lizard bones come to life? Biomechanics of dinosaurs. Prehistoric monsters stomping and jumping on the screens of cinemas and televisions have long become a familiar sight, and sometimes you forget that no one has ever seen a single dinosaur or indricotherium alive. In order to understand how ancient animals moved, science has only their petrified skeletons, often incomplete. Meanwhile, the outcome of the struggle for dominance on land, which took place hundreds of millions of years ago, largely depended on the design of the propulsion system. How to revive a comic. And don't go broke. When director Zack Snyder began work on the adaptation of Frank Miller's comic book 300, he knew he didn't want to make a standard historical epic like Gladiator, Troy, or Alexander. The story of how three hundred Spartans, led by King Leonidas, heroically fought against the huge army of the Persian king Xerxes, became the reason for a fascinating experiment in transferring the style of a comic book to the big screen. How was the expansion of the universe discovered? Universe How to scare away a shark: ways and means How lighthouses move How to survive any disaster with minimal losses How do pilots fly a plane when it is on the ground? Like in the air. Pneumatic tires. The idea of John Dunlop to inflate tires with air was not original, but he proposed it only at the right time - at the time of the birth of the automotive industry. How to defeat the Predator and other alien creatures: a survival guide How to Land a Spaceship Softly: New Shepard How to build a camera lucida? How to build a laser microscope from a pointer and paper How to build a land hovercraft How to build a telescope How are postage stamps protected from counterfeiting? How to tie shoelaces correctly. Master Class. I bet you tie your shoelaces the wrong way every morning? What is wrong? So they'll probably untie you. But, fortunately, Ian Figen from Australia found the right way. And today we will tell about it How to lie on nails How to put on a kilt How to Dissect Oil How are airships escorted How to prolong youth? How flying titanium is made How to drill through a wall without hitting the wiring? How to test Perpetuum Mobile? How does an engine without a timing belt work? How the matrix of a large telescope works: details about the complex How does a tennis robot work? How light and sound weapons work How Focus Works: The Complete History of Focus How the electronic nose works: details about the complex How bionic prostheses work How UAV Operators Work How do robots reproduce? Film effects. And why do you need so many hairy little animals? director Chris Wedge asked Fox animation director Christopher Meledandri. - Let's make Robots better! How the Allied landings in Normandy are being reconstructed Like a burdock. Velcro closure. Tearing off the clinging burdocks from their clothes, many swear to themselves. And even the proverb stuck, as burdock is usually used in a very unflattering sense. Meanwhile, at least one person in the twentieth century, an ordinary burdock brought fame and fortune How a sapper robot and a firefighter robot were tested in the suburbs How robots judged a beauty contest: the future is here How a Russian doctor came up with a method for measuring blood pressure How to make a bazooka from a plastic pipe: do it yourself How to make a hologram using a smartphone How to make a pendulum out of a mug, teaspoon and twine How to film people frozen in ice How to create a submarine fighter project 705 How the combat ekranoplan Eaglet was created How Korobov's three-barreled machine gun was created How the helicopters of the future are created How to save nuclear submarines? How a unique church on the island of Kizhi is saved from destruction How Russian cosmonauts are saved: rescuers and their equipment How to hide your head in iron: battle helmets of the Middle Ages How satellites print on a printer: technology from Skolkovo How to become an astronaut: step by step instructions How to become invisible. Stains on clothes. The issue of invisibility worries not only science fiction writers, but also the military of all countries of the world How football stadiums were built for the 2014 World Cup How the Lakhta Center is being built in St. Petersburg How chimneys are built How Toxic ICE Emissions Turn into the Smell of Violets How to kill a drone How to kill the internet How to get away from the sun. Sun. Man has long guessed that nothing lasts forever under the Sun. In the middle of the last century, it turned out that our luminary is not eternal either. After 5,5 billion years, it will begin to slowly expand, and its surface will cool down... How to find out the weight of whales How to fly a helicopter. Technique How to fly the Goodyear airship How to control a spaceship. Instruction How to drive the Sapsan train. Instruction. Exactly one year ago, the Sapsan electric train began to run between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Artem Rudyuk, head of the operation section of the EVS turnover and equipment point, Sapsan, told Popular Mechanics about how the driver operates the high-speed machine Siemens Velaro RUS How to hear the sounds of 150 years ago? How hell works. Brief guide. Sooner or later it will be for everyone. It would be ridiculous to think that after such a life we will somehow be able to seep through the gates of heaven or deceive the archangel guarding them. It is worth coming to terms with the inevitable: it is not the booths and houris that await us, but the gloomy landscape of hell. And in order not to get lost behind the coffin board, it is worth preparing for this in advance. Moreover, you can find a whole bunch of authoritative evidence on how to navigate in hellish terrain. The main thing - do not panic How does a sighted vacuum cleaner work? How the 2014 World Cup ball works How does an underground aircraft carrier How the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre works How does vision work in living beings How the skyscrapers of Moscow City are arranged How are the headlights. Light How does a person perceive time? How a person is corrected with the help of bacterial genes: details about the complex How winter tire studs have evolved How the crew of the DC-10 liner fought for the lives of passengers What winds blow in the world of watchmaking What are the possibilities of changing the DNA alphabet? What kind of fairy tales should artificial intelligence read? What watches were worn by Russian monarchs What is the resolution of the human eye? Answers to amazing questions! Calendars: the arithmetic of the mystery. Calendar systems. For those who like to stretch the pleasure of celebrating the New Year, February gives a wonderful opportunity to once again congratulate friends and relatives on the next New Year, this time Chinese. This is also a good occasion to understand the mechanics of two ancient calendars, since these systems of reckoning are on everyone's lips. Caliber: how the game about special forces was developed Californian in Russian. Walk Galoshes for Gulliver. Tires. If the wheels of a giant mining truck wear out, miners face serious expenses: each such tire costs as many cars. You can save only on balancing - it is useless for slowly rotating wheels of dump trucks KAMAZ of the future. KAMAZ concept. This year, the professional automotive design web resource Cardesign.ru and the designer of the Porsche studio Marek Simko held an international competition of sketches and sketches KAMAZ Truck for Dakar Race in year 2022. Professional designers and amateurs were invited to reveal their vision of what a victorious rally truck could become KAMAZ in 10-15 years Infantry stumbling block. Hard nuts for the enemy. The bunker is not a rival to the tank, but it can become an insurmountable obstacle for the infantry, which does not have enough tanks and guns. For example, in mountains or swampy areas Camera shooting 580 frames per second Turtle camouflage and other weird stuff by Jonathon Keats Kapitoshka against gravity The whims of the weather. The most extreme weather conditions in the solar system. As you know, the most common reason to start any conversation is the weather. And if there is bad weather outside, this is an occasion for a long intellectual conversation and an exchange of opinions in the spirit of something, the weather has completely cleared up, that’s what it was like in the good old days !. But next time you complain about rain, wind, frost or heat, think about how lucky the earthlings are with the weather - it is much more severe elsewhere in our solar system. We offer you to get acquainted with the features of the weather conditions of some planets and their satellites pocket artillery Pocket artillery. Slingshots for the pros. In English, the word Slingshot denotes two types of weapons: one of the most ancient, mentioned even in the Bible, is a sling, with a stone from which David struck Goliath, the history of the second, an ordinary slingshot, barely has a century and a half. For all its primitivism, a slingshot is one of the newest types of weapons, because a person mastered rubber much later than gunpowder Pocket liner. Airplane for the people. Close your eyes and say slowly: I will fly in my own plane. Imagine a contemplative look from a height on traffic jams and other earthly vanity. And who did you feel like in moments of sweet dreams, an Arab sheikh or actor John Travolta? Carmen Almon: an artist who makes flowers out of steel Pictures of molecules. Watching Individual Molecules Cardboard engineering by Daniel Agdag cardboard reality Maps for unmanned vehicles: how it's done in Russia Carousel for adults. Tourbillon. In the world of watchmaking since the end of the XNUMXth century, the word tourbillon has been perceived as a synonym for superior craftsmanship, exceptional precision and cosmic prices. BUT for some watchmakers, the classic tourbillon is just the starting point for engineering experiments. Carousel for heroes. circling Carousel of death. Gatling gun. Since the advent of firearms, the military has been concerned with increasing its rate of fire. Starting from the XNUMXth century, gunsmiths tried to achieve this in the only way available at that time - by increasing the number of barrels Cassette death. When many small deaths are more effective than one big one. The history of the development of weapons is, first of all, the history of increasing their effectiveness, increasing their damaging capabilities. With the advent of gunpowder, a projectile driven by the energy of gunpowder combustion became a striking element that kills, injures or destroys. Naturally, two main questions immediately arose before the creators of the new weapon. The first is how to throw the projectile further, the second is how to ensure that it hits the target. These two factors primarily determine the effectiveness of weapons Magic Catalyst. Substances Boat, cards, two barrels. History of sports superboats. A two-time world champion and multiple record holder of sea racing, the creator of a family of speedboats, now known by the name of one of his first Cigarette boats, Don Aronov was shot dead on February 1987, 188 on Thunderboats Street - the legendary XNUMXth Street of North Miami (today the town of Aventura) in Florida New wave boats. Above the water. Man will never stop in his quest to build the most perfect boat. As a result, boats are born that glide over the surface, jump on it, jump, and others even break away and fly without touching the water. rolling stones Kafkaesque art by Theo Kakkufa Squaring a circleMaps. And in the age of satellite navigation, maps in the Mercator projection remain popular among sailors and aviators. Quantum cryptography: what is it? Quantum Sutra. Scroll two. In 1905, Albert Einstein created a new concept of space and time, which he later dubbed the Special Theory of Relativity. quantum teleportation. Tunnel. The Stargate series and the film Contact, not to mention the numerous books, made the idea of teleportation mundane, if not banal. Heroes instantly move between points of space - for them, these are familiar trips or routine work. Modern science admits such a possibility, but with the speed of movement, not everything is going smoothly Quantum lawlessness. exceptional particles. Scientists have experimentally confirmed the existence of particles that do not obey the standard rules of quantum statistics Quantum supremacy: all about quantum computers Quantum light. The history of one of the most important inventions of the 1902th century - the laser. In 1910, the French chemist Georges Claude invented and in XNUMX showed the public a neon lamp. In a couple of years, some inquisitive craftsman could well have attached side mirrors to it and, with great luck, by trial and error, made a primitive laser. Then the history of technology could have turned out differently. Kangaroo in the city. Jumper-XXI. Recently, an unusual test drive took place in the courtyard of our publishing house - Popular Mechanics tested shells resembling walking boots Ceramic gun. Bullet Cybathlon: The Olympics for Cyborg Humans Cybernetics-kinematics. Laboratory. The creators of IQ Key managed to combine the incompatible: with an age rating of 7 years, the set contains details and mechanisms that not every adult understands. Ease and speed of assembly, coupled with a variety of schemes, make the IQ Key an ideal platform for experiments. Nodding mastodons. Boom cranes. A giant skillful machine, which is still capable of moving itself, always arouses admiration, whether it is a mining truck or a walking excavator. Boom truck cranes of large carrying capacity can be safely put in the same row. These mighty hands of industry cannot but amaze with their strength, manufacturability and undoubted constructive elegance. Time killer. Paper weapon. Making weapons out of paper is a very popular hobby abroad. Entire communities of amateurs exchange recipes for making paper pistols, machine guns, rifles, machine guns and even grenade launchers. Popular Mechanics Offers Their Own Air Pistol Design From The World's Most Patient Material Kilobytes of gears. Life without computers. The creators of mechanical, electromechanical and hydraulic calculating machines of the past, of course, did not even guess that all their wildest dreams would one day fit into a microscopic point on a silicon wafer. These people just did their job and ended up going a long way from the era of stationery accounts to the era of super- and microcomputers. Kilowatts from Neptune. Evaporation Wakeboard. Wakeboard. Water wakeboards have replaced water skiing from rivers and lakes in just a decade Kinetic sculptures by Ira Sherman. Artifact. Looking at these sculptures for the first time, they can be mistaken for jewelry, surgical instruments or mysterious alien mechanisms. Kinetic sculptures by Ahn Su-jin Dakno Yun's Kinetic Ornaments Kinetic madness. The festival Cinema from stripes. strokes Cinema on the nose. Close view. Now helmets with built-in displays are usually associated with purely civilian things - computer games, movies, virtual reality. Everyone has almost forgotten that the roots of this technical idea lay in the history of military aviation. Fantasies about how a pilot directs a projectile to a target, simply by following it with his eyes, have been formulated for a long time, but they only emerged from the category of abstract dreams only a few decades ago. Cinema of the Jurassic period. What is a zootrope. December 28, 1895 on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris was the first ever film show. The blockbuster of the late XNUMXth century was the film Exit of the Workers from the Factory, filmed six months before the demonstration by the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere. Since that day, the brothers are rightly considered the founders of the cinema, although moving pictures appeared long before them. The brick heart of Nathan Sawaya. Cube art. If your student friend keeps multi-colored cubes on the table instead of notes and builds toy cities instead of dating girls, do not rush to take him to a psychologist. He probably won't become an engineer or a manager. But he can make an excellent sculptor Whale of desperation, mini motorcycle and personal aircraft China vs Russia. Victory will not be ours. The question is not whether China will attack Russia, but when. The author, deputy director of the Institute for Political and Military Analysis, believes that if a large-scale military aggression in the classical form is ever committed against Russia, then China will be the aggressor with a probability of 95% (if not 99,99%). Chinese Carlson: how to make a billion on drones Chinese space fleet Chinese weapons: powerful, modern, copied Rock and roll guts The well of the king of the sea Egoist class. Launching a radio-controlled yacht. Let's say right away that launching a radio-controlled yacht is a much more relaxing form of recreation than, for example, flying a model aircraft. A mistake in steering will not cost you a hopelessly broken model, and even blondes can manage a sailboat tolerably in two or three minutes. Cool racing. Man and machine against the sea. As the Offshore Class 1 ocean-going boats whizz past, the racing scene from the Star Wars movie comes to mind. Episode 1 class consciousness. Before proceeding to the description of the remaining large classes of passenger cars, let's try to deal with a question that you probably have. Still, is there any relationship between engine size and car class? Cellular automaton: is automatic life possible? climate stone Climate weapons: masters of the weather. Tsunami Blade in the stratosphere The key to the iron heart. Sensors When Berlin had already capitulated When the pancake is not lumpy When sickness becomes kinetic art When the tanks enter the city... The history of armored vehicles. The tank was born in the smoke of field battles to break barbed wire obstacles and destroy machine guns so dangerous for attacking infantry. No one expected that these war machines would have to fight in populated areas, but it happened almost immediately. Bundles of grenades flew onto the roofs of British and French tanks from behind the fences of the towns occupied by the enemy, and ... had to defend themselves When the air feels heavy When the ground slips from under your feet. Racing boats. All over the world, auto racing is much more popular than motorized water sports. Flying over the waves at the wheel of a racing boat, you understand that this is an unfortunate misunderstanding When the liner beats with its tail When the peak oil comes. When the oil runs out. Compared to the topic of global warming or even the very hypothetical threat of a collision between the Earth and the asteroid Apophis, peak oil production (peak oil, peak oil) in Russia is not often discussed. Resting on the laurels of a great energy power, we are much less likely than Westerners to think that exhaustible resources are exhaustible to someday run out When weightlessness is a burden. What are the astronauts talking about? Using the toilet in zero gravity is more difficult than on Earth. But much more exciting. When they arrive. Government plans to meet aliens. Every self-respecting government in the world has secret plans for the first contact with aliens. When the LHC goes out: what will happen to the hadron collider When will e-skin become truly smart? cognitive cuisine Codabra: how to teach a child to code Ball cocktail. Design Sausage transport. Vibrohod Shopaholic wheels. Super cart. In hypermarkets you can buy everything and often cheaper. But hours of wandering between kilometer-long shelves and long queues at the cash desk can bring even the most inveterate shopaholics to a nervous breakdown. Driving a heavily loaded cart requires considerable physical strength, which is why the head of the family usually goes to the shopping center and spends half the day off on an unloved business Wheel on wheel. Steam locomotives collimator sights. Mark shooting. In Hollywood action movies, the weapons of the participants in the skirmishes (and now in the news bulletins of the soldiers of peacekeeping and not very forces) are equipped with unusual sights. In some cases, they vaguely resemble the usual optical sights with short tubes and internal illumination. In others, they look like aliens from the future. They are united only by the presence of lenses and an internal glow that is clearly visible at dusk. These are the so-called collimator sights Moon bells. Way of the Samurai. Real Japanese swords according to the ancient original technology, dating back more than a thousand years, are made not only in Japan, but also in Russia British colossus. The secret ancestor of computers. The Colossus computer was created to open encrypted foreign correspondence, and the very fact of its existence remained a secret for more than half a century. This car was an undeniable miracle for its time, but for a long time it was known only from rumors and fragmentary memories of people who in one way or another came into contact with the important secret of the Second World War. Prick and cut! Prepare studded tires in the summer. Studded tires improve car handling in winter, but increase fuel consumption - a liter per 100 kilometers Cradle of yellow giants. BelAZ test drive. Popular mechanics visited a factory in the Belarusian city of Zhodino, where cars are assembled, the name of which in Russian has become a common noun for very, very, very large dump trucks - the legendary BelAZ. On warning signs in Russian quarries, regardless of the brands of dump trucks working there, they still write: Beware, BelAZ trucks are working Prickly solution. How to cross a hedgehog with a snake. The invention of barbed wire certainly changed the world. Though maybe not for the better. Stroller for an adult. Miracle bike. In many languages of the world, the phrase to reinvent the wheel means to do stupid and meaningless business. But this did not stop the Englishman Mark Sanders. In 1987, his Strida was born - a bicycle reinvented The commander of the aerobatics team Russian Knights Sergei Shcheglov about his profession Instrument Commander. And the best friend of lazy people. An ordinary TV remote control on your coffee table has a very difficult fate. Leading teams in the Auto X Prize race. Economy and environmental friendliness. The main goal of the Progressive Automotive X Prize is to identify the most economical and environmentally friendly vehicles Mosquito won't fly Combineogeddon. slaughter Combines: modern, Russian Communication theories of Marnix de Nijs Room clouds Berndnaut Smilde Computer in the butt. Smart weapon. The development of smart small arms encounters either technical difficulties or resistance from human rights activists Computers of the future. Fantasy technology. Rethink the role of the Windows-based personal computer in people's lives today. Imagine how computer design impacts the digital lifestyle - from increased productivity to mobility and entertainment... Computers on wheels. Automotive electronics. Now we will teach you the most interesting, - said a charming girl instructor from the BMW driving school in Salzburg, - cornering in a skid. Just do not forget to press the button to turn off the dynamic stability control system, otherwise you will not succeed, the electronics will not let you drive the turn as it should Who needs such a weapon? If you want peace, prepare for war. Which one is unclear. In the near future, the Pentagon plans to deploy a whole family of the latest exotic weapons systems. Skeptics argue that the lion's share of these expensive toys are focused on waging the wrong kind of war that can actually happen. Who needs religious rituals - people or parasites? Comfort from a vacuum. Active engine mount on the example of Toyota Highlander Osprey tiltrotor: expensive, unreliable, in demand. Rotors An end to culinary tears. Agrochemistry. There is usually little joy in the eyes of a cook who cuts onions. And there is no shortage of folk ways to defeat tears, but none can guarantee. However, perhaps scientists have finally come close to solving this problem - defeating tears while preserving the taste of onions. End of the world for 3 minutes. Solar eclipse 2008. This will start in the early morning in northern Canada. A giant celestial body will obscure the Sun, and night will come in broad daylight. Then the darkness will spread with great speed towards Greenland, cross the Arctic Ocean, run through Western Siberia and Altai and cover Mongolia, and then China ... However, do not worry. This is not a doomsday scenario, but just a description of one of the most beautiful celestial phenomena - a total solar eclipse that will take place on August 1, 2008 Concentrate of power concentric blisters Digger. Excavator test drive. The comfort of the operator of this car can be the envy of other limousine passengers. The only thing missing is a minibar... Ships for New Year's Wars Emperor's ship: how Poltava is being restored Horror ship. Trainer ship. Night after night, the US Navy warship Trayer either comes under enemy fire, then gets holes and desperately fights for buoyancy, then almost dies from a fire that has arisen on board. Confronting all these misfortunes, the cadets receive skills that may save their lives. Bomb Ship: A History of Naval Kamikaze Coral Reefs Courtney Mattison Corals: time and life Project 20380 corvettes. Fleet Roots drinking oil Fast speed box. Cam gearbox. If a regular car and a racing car with engines of the same power come out against each other in a double acceleration race, the latter will undoubtedly be the winner. The key to victory is the cam gearbox cowkilowatts. Disposal. For farmers who have a hard time making ends meet, a careful look under their feet can indicate a very affordable and reliable way to survive. Cows, fingers and zeros. Ignobel Prize. The Ignobel Prize was conceived by the editors of the sarcastic pseudoscientific journal Annals of Incredible Research. The entire event traditionally takes place at Harvard, the university that has given the world the most Nobel Prize winners. Queen of global politics Royal caliber. The final chapter in the history of superships. The afternoon rest of American soldiers on the island of Kagoshima on April 7, 1945 was interrupted by a monstrous explosion. On the horizon, a column of smoke rose into the sky to a height of 6 km, resembling a nuclear mushroom in appearance. It found its demise the most powerful battleship in the history of mankind - the Japanese Yamato, armed with nine guns of a fantastic caliber - 460 mm Harbor Kings. Test Drive motorsport kings snow kings The king of stone throwers. Wall power. As you know, David struck Goliath with a stone fired from a sling. The thousand-year evolution of this simplest weapon has led to the creation of complex gravitational throwing machines, that is, those whose action is based on the use of gravity (they are also called baroballistic). Their king is rightfully considered a trebuchet! The king is dead, long live the king! Precision rifles The king of packaging: how cellophane appeared Crown of the mechanical empire. Subject: Limited Slip Differential Crowned soda. History of the beer cap Corporation Micromotors: the smallest Russian engines Space Race-2 Space medicine: 56 km to the hospital Cosmic radiation: what is it and is it dangerous for humans? Space bombs. Die young. From time immemorial, supernovae have inspired poets and science fiction writers. This image represents a short but incredibly bright life. Space rain. Bombardment Space fighters. Satellite killer. Almost simultaneously with the launch of the first satellite, a specific task arose: how can it be brought down space hands Space super flywheels. Static electrically neutral black holes, which we talked about in the last issue, are not typical of the real world. Collapsing stars rotate and can also have an electric charge space thunder Space Klondike. Resources Space march for plasma and helicon. Batishchev Plasma Engine. Helikon is a wind musical instrument. physicists call this word an electromagnetic wave that is excited in a plasma in a magnetic field. perhaps in the future the word helicon will become a household name for plasma engines that will accelerate terrestrial spacecraft to distant planets Space debris. Fragments of the recent past. At the end of March, the new communication satellite Express-AM11 unexpectedly stopped its work, in connection with which television broadcasting was interrupted in the eastern regions of Russia and serious interruptions began in the Internet. According to the conclusion of the expert commission, the accident was caused by the external influence of some foreign object. Most likely, this mysterious something was space debris, randomly rotating in the orbit of the Earth. Cosmosols. Asymmetric response to the SDI program. In the summer of 1973, at one of the ranges in the Kazakh steppe, while testing new powerful combat lasers, the military encountered a strange phenomenon that was not observed in the factory. Despite the adaptive focusing optics, designed to compensate for atmospheric turbulence, and the monstrous power of the laser radiation, not a single target was put out of action. Cosmology in a trillion years. The Science of the Impossible Cosmonauts in the country Spaceport Sweden. North start. Many people associate Lapland only with snow and reindeer. Meanwhile, it is here that the northern space test site is located, which by 2011 will become the largest center of European space tourism. Space - to the masses. Private spaceship. A spaceport in the Mojave Desert is nothing like the glittering multi-level constructions of science fiction novels. Scorched steppe, sand, scattered vans. In a nearby town, also called Mojave, only a green road sign with an airplane indicates an oasis of a brighter future. Space is an experience for a lifetime. Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev. Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev - Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Earth record holder for the total time spent in space. Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of Russia. Currently - Head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Center. Yu.A. Gagarin Space on the needle. trifle Space for an amateur. Orbit Space. First 50. Pivot table. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Institution and an enthusiast for the history of space exploration, has compiled a database on spaceflight. PM journalists gave this data to Jan Schwohow, a German illustrator, who created this visual drawing by translating the numbers into vertical lines. Bonfire against vice. fortresses Suit for a torpedo. Sportswear. If you were weighed 3% in the store, 3% underfilled with gasoline, or ripped off 3% more taxes from you - this is bad. But there is no tragedy in this. But if you lose 3% of the speed in the competition, most likely you will not receive any medal. It is for athletes who set world records that Adidas has released a new JetConcept swim suit. It was created as the clothes of champions, and the legendary swimmer and multiple champion Ian Thorpe, nicknamed Torpedo, participated in the process. Bone Seal Hunting cats. Special Forces What time is it now? Exotic mechanics. This year we visited the largest international watch exhibition BaselWorld, held annually in Switzerland, and now we can confidently recommend you which watch to wear this season. All leading designer brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Calvin Clein, Chanel and Prada presented their models at the exhibition. The main trends in 2008 are the increase in the size of the dial and the increasing popularity of pink gold and diamonds in men's models ... coffee bike nomadic base Tire mechanic's nightmare. The element of dirt. Abandoned tank range with steep slopes, huge puddles, swamps and lots and lots of mud - this is a heavenly place for fans of off-road rides. But the main joy is that, perhaps, the most passable wheeled vehicles turned out to be at our disposal - all-terrain vehicles on tires with low pressure Identity theft. It's good to be a little paranoid these days. Trojans, zombies and others - now they navigate your own computer better than you do. Welcome to a scary new world populated by trojans, evil twins, zombies and more beautiful science We paint tanks. Basic painting techniques. Assembling the model is only half the battle. And if you count in terms of labor costs and time, then not even gender, but somewhere around 15-20 percent Rainbow colors. How to paint with polarized light. Polarized light, whose properties have long been used in industry and science, has been chosen by artists and photographers in the XNUMXst century. To be at the peak of modern art, for starters, a couple of special filters, a roll of cellophane, scissors and glue are enough Red Arrow. History of the world's first delta wing aircraft. On a warm summer day on August 28, 1937, there were a lot of people at the Tushino airfield of the Central Aeroclub, despite the day off. The buzz of another plane coming in for landing sounded quite normal. Nevertheless, this device attracted the attention of all those present. No wonder - after all, it was not a training cloth biplane that landed on the airfield, but a fantastic bright red triangular plane Krasnodar account. Sniper competition. Once every two years, snipers from special forces units gather in the Abinsk district of the Krasnodar Territory to find out who is the best at the International Sniper Pairs Competition dedicated to the memory of Viktor Lisovsky Red Gold The Red revives the Dead. The Dead Sea Red Star Foreigners Red carpet for blue laser. Disks. The VCR, which can now be found in every apartment, has become an integral part of home entertainment. Red colossus. Hammer of Ilyich. Ultra-long-range guns in the twentieth century were fond of the designers of only two countries - Germany and the Soviet Union Beauty for one night. Disposable tableware de luxe class. The New Year is only then joy, and first the chores - where, how, with whom to meet - and the eternal running around in search of gifts. Do you choose gifts easily? If not, then the PM is ready to share the idea. And not only an idea, but also instructions for its implementation. How about a festive ice set? Beauty is not made by hand. Shooting The beauty of repetition. Fractals. Fractals have been known for almost a century, are well studied and have numerous applications in life. However, this phenomenon is based on a very simple idea: an infinite number of figures in beauty and variety can be obtained from relatively simple structures using just two operations - copying and scaling colorful war A Brief History of the Russian Shushpanzer. Armored tractors. The tank is not cheap. Armor, weapons, chassis, engine, additional equipment, crew, after all. In the light of financial difficulties (and, of course, original thinking), a person has repeatedly tried to armor ... a tractor. And although most of these ersatz tanks were designed abroad, the Soviet military industry also gave rise to a number of shushpanzers. So, tractors, to battle! The shortest history of handcuffs: how people shackled each other Crash tests for wagons Creative outback Kremlin du Soleil. Tricks Silicon mechanics: how the atomic precision of the watch is achieved Silicon immortality. Consciousness Hold on tight, pilot! Transformer. One step to the goal - it was at this point that all promising flying car projects in the XNUMXth century stopped. Despite this, inventors are still striving to cross the cherished frontier. Armchairs instead of bombs: Tu-164, a business jet based on the Tu-160 bomber Chair rippers. How does a massage therapist work? A floor below our editorial office was a Panasonic massage chair. For a couple of weeks, it delighted employees of various editorial offices with four types of massage: shiatsu, Swedish, fast and deep. And in the interval between them slowly stretched the muscles and joints. But the editors of the PM were haunted by his device. One night we stole a chair and dismantled it to the very frame. So we learned how it works, and the rest lost their Japanese massage Dragon Curve. Paper fractal. The habit of crumpling, crumpling and tearing paper in moments of nervous stress or when heavy thoughts about vain haunt, is characteristic of many people. Why we are so drawn to violence against the great Chinese invention, let psychologists explain Curved mirror of the world. Antimatter. Although antimatter is theoretically an exact reflection of matter, there is a shortage in the universe. The cry of the newborn universe. The echoes of the Big Bang can still be heard today. We have already told in one of the issues of the PM about the discovery of electromagnetic induction, thanks to which people began to receive electric current on an industrial scale. Now we will talk about how electromagnetic waves were discovered at the tip of the pen. Cryptocurrencies: second generation Cryptokitties and other crypto collections Crystals at the tip of the pen. The Science of the Impossible. There are many problems in physics that have been recognized for many years as extremely important, but completely unsolvable. These include the theoretical prediction of the atomic structure, which provides the crystal with the desired properties under certain external conditions. similarity criteria. Moon Bloody footprints. Crime physics Blood business. June 14 is World Blood Donor Day. The method of replacing blood with a rejuvenating decoction is described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, but even then hardly anyone perceived it otherwise than a fairy tale. Both in ancient and in more enlightened times, doctors thought more not about magical blood substitutes, but about saving the wounded and women in childbirth and tried to develop a way to safely transfuse blood. Sneakers-cyborgs. There is no truth in the legs. But there is a computer. Test of the world's first smart running shoe - with built-in computer and electric motor Mole Michelangelo Mole. The underground ship will give Moscow a new metro. To prepare this material, we had to walk 6 km, and not on the ground, but deep under it. At the beginning and end of the path, we were waiting for jumping over bumps above the flooded bottom of the mine, pulling up to ladders that ended at the height of human growth, and other acrobatic exercises. No, this article is not about the tombs of the pharaohs, not about the secret mines of the gnomes, and not about hell. We visited the construction of the Serebryanoborsky overpass in Moscow Proportional circles. Slide rule Round the world racers. Jules Verne Prize. In 1872, the writer Jules Verne surprised his contemporaries: his hero Phileas Fogg, using the means of transportation that existed at that time, made a trip around the world in just 80 days. After 122 years, another Frenchman, Bruno Peyron, surprised the world community no less. Using only the power of the wind, he sailed around the world in 79 days, 6 hours and 16 minutes. Lace skis. On snow like dry. Distant relatives of tennis rackets will come in handy when hiking in virgin snow Steep climb Lifts. The developers of modern elevators are constantly looking for new opportunities to deliver passengers to the upper tiers of business centers and residential condominiums as soon as possible - sealed capsule cabins, pneumatic pumps and even giant magnets are used. Cool cars. Hi-tech for kids. Each of us in early childhood had a personal transport - a pram. Go to the park and take a closer look - modern kids move around in completely different devices Steeper beyond power. Empire. US military doctrines Harder than projectiles. Combat laser. The Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) shot down 30 targets, of which 26 were rockets fired from Katyusha I twist and turn - I want to play. A skiltoy is a toy that requires skill. With the help of the leading players in Russia, we got acquainted with three representatives of the world of skiltoi (skill toy - a toy that requires skill): astrojack, diabolo and spinning top Ranger crash. The recent wreck of a fishing boat. On Easter night, March 23, at 2:52 after midnight, a call for help was received at the Coast Guard post in Kodiak, which came from 1300 km away. Someone died in the cold waters of the Bering Sea. Alaska Ranger speaking. Our coordinates are 5-3-5-3 north latitude, 1-6-9-5-8 west longitude. There are 47 people on board. We are sinking. Water enters the steering compartment ... Winged wheels. The best disco. Popular mechanics has figured out how the most advanced car rims are made - the so-called forging Winged battleships. Heavenly fire. During the war years, the concept of perhaps the most unusual special-purpose aircraft, gunships, was born. Cruise Missiles: A History of Leadership. Armament of Russia. The history of Soviet cruise missiles can be traced back to September 1944, when the wreckage of the world's first operational projectile aircraft, the German V-1, was delivered to one of the Moscow design bureaus. However, following in line with the ideas of German designers was only the initial stage of work on domestic weapons of this type. Then I had to find my own way, creating unique technical solutions. Winged submarines. Underwater fighters and aircraft carriers. The aircraft detects the enemy from the air and delivers a disorienting strike. Then, having retired from the line of sight, the car sits on the water and plunges to a depth of several meters in a minute and a half. The target is destroyed by an unexpected torpedo strike. In case of a miss, the device rises to the surface in two minutes and takes off to repeat the air attack. A bunch of three similar machines creates an impenetrable barrier for any enemy ship. Designer Boris Petrovich Ushakov saw his flying submarine like this Winged Weather Institute Winged novel by Pasternak. Flying hotel. Already in the next decade, a new aircraft, designed by engineer Igor Pasternak, can push the planes familiar to us in the passenger and cargo transportation market. If this American dream comes true in metal, we can be proud of its Soviet roots. Winged Special Forces. Landing of a new generation. German company Freesky promises to turn defenseless skydivers into swift angels of death Wing against a nail. Lacquer coatings. Throughout the twentieth century, the favorite weapon of jealous wives and abandoned mistresses was the key, sliding with a musical rattle along the paintwork of the offender's car. In the near future, all the humiliated and offended will have to think about more relevant types of revenge. Wing with reverse sweep. Aerodynamics. The question is - why do we need a reverse sweep of the wing? Here is what one of the leading Russian aerodynamicists who directly dealt with this problem told Popular Mechanics Wing fan. fanwing. Whatever designs a person comes up with, conventional aircraft and helicopters have become widespread. Ring planes, gyroplanes, ekranoplanes exist, but they look more like curiosities than functional aircraft. Still there are people who don't give up Wing-transformer Wings as an option Wings of the sun. Clean flight. Currently, the duration of the flight of unmanned aerial vehicles is limited mainly by the energy reserve. Switching to solar energy will dramatically increase the time the UAV stays in the air Craig Breedlove. People. In November 1963, Popular Mechanics featured a super-streamlined vehicle on the cover of a super-streamlined vehicle that sped toward the horizon against an unearthly landscape. But it was not a picture from the future. No, it was reality - the world speed record when moving on the ground Who would have thought: generative design Who is the head in this house Who moved mountains? Who invented chewing gum and why? Who and how invented polyethylene Who and when invented the usual plastic dowel? Who and when invented the fuel canister? Who invented the paper coffee filter? Who invented the wheel. Evolution Who invented diapers Who will become a cheetah. Two against four. Half past five in the morning. Two marvels of Japanese industry rush along the deserted Moscow roads - Subaru Impreza WRX STi and Yamaha YZF-R6. On the account of the pilots of each device, dozens of road victories and not a single loss. But today one of them will be defeated. I wonder who? cubic kilometer of science Where do memories go when we forget: optogenetics Where are we going? Where to rush gentleman Where did the wagons go? Avtostilyaga mid-century. A long hood, adorned with an intricate figure or emblem, seemed to be an indispensable attribute of a car in the 1930s. But experts already then assumed that cabover trailers would appear on the streets Forge of electric shavers. Perfect shave. The announcement of the new Philips electric shaver took place even before the official presentation. It's just that every employee at the Philips factory and research center in Drachten that we saw wore dark blue shirts that said Senso Touch 3D: Our Ultimate Shave. And it was like the truth - all these people were clean-shaven Kulik's pride. swamps Cargo cult of Nikolai Polissky. Large Wood Collider. Faced with civilized aliens, the naive natives of Melanesia decided that the intruders were using magic contained in unknown objects. In order to put foreign magic at their service, the inhabitants of New Guinea and Vanuatu, with sacred awe, began to make sand planes and coconut radios ... Kurganets-25: a new Russian armored vehicle Hens with teeth and hairy elephants: how extinct species are resurrected Piece of wire. Stories of simple things. Walter Hunt has made more inventions than anyone else in the world. Among them are a sewing machine, a fountain pen and a safety pin. Clean Air Kitchen. Conditioners. No matter how spacious and richly furnished your home may be, the most valuable thing in it always remains invisible. Air! It is on its quality that the health of all the inhabitants of the house, the feeling of comfort and coziness largely depend. The correct preparation of air for residential premises has long been a separate and rapidly developing branch of knowledge and technology. That is why modern air conditioning, being basically the embodiment of the Carnot heat engine known for almost two centuries, is rapidly acquiring ingenious devices and devices belonging to the high-tech era. Foucault kitchen pendulum Labyrinths of consciousness Shaving laboratory. Hygiene. What do serious people in white coats think, burdened with powerful knowledge in the field of biology, physics, geometry and working in the research center of one of the most famous companies in the world? Day and night they meditate on the smoothness of their cheeks, the perfect shape of the beard and mustache, the neat sideburns and the flawless bikini line... Laboratory in the clouds Laser hyperboloid. Superweapon of Gazprom. The fire at the well in Karachaganak raged for almost a month. Specialists tried every conceivable and unthinkable way to tame the emergency front, they even threw tanks into battle. Combat vehicles went on direct fire and hit the mouth of the well with high-explosive shells, hoping in this way to break the metal structures of the drilling rig, which prevented the liquidation of the accident. To no avail Lasers and Beyond: The Future of Automotive Lighting The Lancet is an electric rocket: a weapon that will change the war Pinniped hunters. For cold-blooded game. You can catch fish not only with a fishing rod, but also with a gun. True, not one that shoots bullets or shot, but a special one - underwater. Instead of gunpowder, he has rubber or air, and instead of a bullet, he has a harpoon Leviathans of science. Very big science. Particle accelerators are strongly associated with big science Leviathans drinking oil. Supertankers Legal thrill. aquabike The legend of the airship in the subway. Tsiolkovsky's airship. Many have heard that the metal structures that catch the eye at the Mayakovskaya metro station in Moscow are parts of an airship. But few people know the details of this story: what kind of airship? when and by whom was it built? how did it get underground? Or maybe it's just an urban legend? Legendary experience Engineering legends: how Moscow skyscrapers were built Easy beautiful life Lightweight and smart With a slight movement of the hand. Pull the ring. Can with valve and ring - an invention that made life easier not only for beer lovers Light-winged dragon lady. The legendary spy plane. In the mid-1950s, UFO sightings in America inexplicably increased. However, these reasons remained inexplicable only for the bulk of citizens. The initiates knew for sure: no, it was not aliens that had arrived. Just the last ray of the sun that had gone beyond the horizon illuminated the long thin wings of a spy plane in an unattainable height. And a mysterious flash flashed across the dark sky... Lightness of Being. Dropping extra pounds. Do you want to lose weight? Drive to Neckarsulm, where the experts at the Audi Aluminum and Lightweight Design and Development Center fight every extra gram of automotive grease Ice and stone Ice and flames Ice and fire. Conditioners. A long time ago, in 1988, I lived in the distant and wonderful country of Yemen. On a cold winter night, the temperature in the central part of Yemen drops to about + 10 ° C, and on a warm summer day it can reach + 40 ° C or even + 50 ° C if southern winds blow - khamsins and sharavs. No wonder that air conditioners are installed on the windows of new houses already during construction. Let's try to figure out what a modern air conditioner is capable of - both in hot climates and in harsh conditions of the middle lane Ice and fire. Ultrasled. Cold ice and hot skates, power acceleration and filigree aerobatics, millions of TV audiences and technologies shrouded in darkness - all this is bobsleigh Chilling details. Worship of the Snow Queen. And we will remove the red noses in Photoshop, - our artist said when the editors of the PM decided to take a picture after the master class. We sat in the freezer for four hours, freezing to the bone. But we didn’t regret it for a minute: we learned how to make ice sculptures Battle on the Ice. Tires. How many times have they told the world: it is useless to argue about tastes, about women, and about thorns. And still, spears break in the editorial office every autumn. Supporters of studded tires once again accuse the soft-footed ones of cowardice, inability to drive a car in a skid, and at the same time, of neglecting their own safety. The same, in response, foaming at the mouth, prove that if it were not for the claws, there would not be deep ruts and dangerous ruts on our long-suffering roads Ice giant. We will go our own way. Northern Sea. Residents of St. Petersburg, walking along the embankments of the Neva, can see another future Guinness World Record holder - the world's largest nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Years of Pobeda, standing at the wall of the Baltic Shipyard. Popular mechanics not only saw this giant, but also visited it. Impressive! Ice giant. Icebreaker test drive. Looking at the image of the Yamal icebreaker, men ask how much horsepower it has, and when they hear the answer - 75, they click their tongues respectfully. And the girls just look at the photo and exclaim in admiration: What a redhead he is! And smiles! Icebreaker for special assignments. Lighter carrier. The captain looked from the bridge wing to the port side of his ship. The tugboats pushed the large barge into the aft lift and reversed. The elevator rose a few meters, and the barge lowered itself onto the carts standing on the rails. As the elevator deck drew level with the deck of the third cargo hold, the gates to the ship's huge cargo hold opened. Ice dream of Georges Mougin. Iceberg Ice weapon. Snow guns and guns. There are more and more people skiing and snowboarding, and less and less places suitable for skiing ice fist Ice paradise. Hotel at the Snow Queen. Despite the fact that there is no heating and sewerage, the queue of those wishing to spend the night in this hotel is scheduled for almost the entire winter season. Ice carriers. Paper boat. Discovery Channel MythBusters hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage decide to take on a longtime World War II project to build a boat out of exotic materials like ice and newspapers. Ice safes. All on cameras. How many chambers should a modern refrigerator have? Cure for radiophobia. All about radiation Leopard in a minefield. Armored vehicles of a new generation. The ocelot, or Leopardus Pardalis, is a feline predator native to Latin America. Due to intensive hunting in the middle of the last century, the ocelot became a rare animal. Its namesake, the armored car Ocelot, developed by order of the British army, on the contrary, promises to become the most massive military all-terrain vehicle, sending the famous Humvee into retirement. Forest of wonders in the land of magicians. The fifth went. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth in a series of adaptations of JK Rowling's novels about a boy with a scar on his forehead who must defeat the evil wizard Voldemort (and save the world, of course). The new tape turned out to be rather gloomy. Harry is going through the same thing as any teenager. He is angry at the whole world, - explains the lead actor Daniel Radcliffe. Of course, Harry has better reasons to be angry than his peers, and his misadventures won't be over anytime soon. Flying Atomic Laboratory. Reactor on board. In the February issue, Popular Mechanics talked about the projects of bombers with nuclear engines from Myasishchev Design Bureau. Our artists did such a good job that they misled some readers: it seemed to them that such planes really existed. Let's be clear: Myasishchev did not move further than paper projects. However, in the USSR, an aircraft with a reactor on board not only existed, but also flew. We are talking about, perhaps, the most secret Soviet aircraft Tu-95LAL. Even 42 years after his last flight to the Tupolev Design Bureau, he was very reluctant to talk about him. Flying pike. The most effective anti-ship missile. During tests, the KSCH missile sunk many more warships than any other anti-ship missile in the world. Flying aircraft carriers: military airships of the past Atamanov's flying car Flying bike. Bike trial. There is an opinion that if in Formula 1 the result of the performance depends on 80% of the quality of the car and only 20% on the skill of the pilot, then in the bike trial, on the contrary, the outcome of the competition is determined only by the talent and diligence of the athlete, his physical fitness, sense of balance, ability concentrate. However, not everything is so simple here either. Even if the living legend of the bike trial Hans Rey is put on, say, a road bike, he is unlikely to complete even a tenth of the distance Flying tadpole. Peeping. Dizzying chases in the movie Racer with Sylvester Stallone. People falling down the elevator shaft in the film Indemnification with Arnold Schwarzenegger, filmed as if the camera is flying into the abyss along with the unfortunate. All this and many other films, music videos and commercials were filmed using a miniature remote-controlled helicopter, which was invented by the Californian company Coptervision. Flying crutch. Jumpers on one leg. From traditional children's toy to modern extreme sport - one step Flying motorcycle in Russian: Hoversurf Flying locomotive. A plane with a steam engine ... By the way, the first ever official race Paris - Rouen on July 22, 1894 was won by a De Dion-Bouton car with a steam engine. This is not surprising, because at that time steam was the most common source of energy in the world. Machine tools and pumps worked on steam, steam was used on the railway and in industry, in everyday life and even in the field of entertainment. And of course, they tried to make the locomotives fly. Sometimes it even succeeded. Fly, pilot, fly. The Aviator, a film biography of the legendary Howard Hughes. The list of nominees for the 2004 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects consisted of cartoons, dystopias, and fantasy. The only exception was The Aviator, a film biography of the legendary Howard Hughes, a rich and eccentric man who built airplanes, made films, loved beautiful actresses and gradually went crazy. We're flying low. Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine Fifth Generation Flight Armor Flying Dutchman. Solve the quest and win a box of rum! The Flying Dutchman contest was published in the April issue of Popular Mechanics magazine. Our readers were invited to participate in an exciting pirate adventure. Purpose of the game: find the keywords encrypted on the pages of the invisible block, complete the quest to the end and win a box of rum! We invite you to get acquainted with the results of the competition and the winners Flying ship. Seaplanes. In the 40s, every country considered it their duty to build a flying superboat. The start of the race was put back in 1929 by the German company Dornier, who built the flying and floating giant Do.X Balloons fly across the sky. And people are waving their hats... From June 21 to June 28, MegaFon World Cup 2007 in aeronautics took place in St. Petersburg Flying over water. A century of hydrofoils. The concept of hydrofoils, which made it possible to dramatically increase the speed of ships, was proposed as early as the XNUMXth century. Since then, this design, embodied in thousands of ships, has come a long way and is now widely used in shipbuilding. Flying over water: what is hydrofoil and why is it cool Flying into the dark Libya: Toyota War. Samopal UWM League: XNUMXst Century Gladiator Fights Lemon Phoenix. Eternal number two. Coca-Cola rose to the top of the American soft drink market almost immediately after its debut. Pepsi-Cola went to mass recognition the hard way Lin Industrial: new Russian rocket scientists Linguistic homunculus: how to save endangered languages on the Web A lens called the sun Maginot line. Concrete against blitzkrieg. The Second World War, which began 70 years ago, was another confirmation of the well-known thesis about generals who are preparing for the last war. The memory of the positional meat grinders of the previous global conflict forced the authorities of a number of countries to start building defensive lines of colossal scale and equipment. Despite the effort and resources spent, none of these Chinese walls could significantly affect the outcome of the hostilities. It was already another war Mannerheim line. Pillboxes that come out lumpy. In 1939-1940, the Finns were able to prove to the whole world that the idea of \uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbdefending borders with the help of fortified areas had not yet become obsolete Battleships on wheelsx. Tsar Cannon. Giant railway guns in terms of projectile weight and firing range surpassed the largest ship guns of the Second World War Lithium-ion future. New generation batteries. Modern mobile electronics places ever higher demands on the power and capacity of energy sources. While nickel-cadmium and nickel-metal hydride batteries are close to their theoretical limit, lithium-ion technologies are only at the beginning of the journey. Liter with cap. Autolikbez Elevator for the ship. hydraulic engineering Elevator to orbit. New Tower of Babel. The dream of space elevators is back on Earth Dashing race on the dragon's tail. Veteran Face in the crowd. Big brother recognizes you. Hundreds, thousands of surveillance cameras - be it traffic police cameras or security services of a supermarket, bank, subway - today aimlessly broadcast the picture on monitors that no one really looks at. But tomorrow everything can change - the program of Russian scientists is able to identify in the human stream anyone whose three-dimensional portrait is in its data bank Frontal collision. Elemental Giants. Colliding beam accelerators - the main hope of nuclear physicists to confirm existing theories Elevator keeper. Elisha Otis was glorified by the brake. One day in May 1854, at the New York World's Fair, a man named Elisha Otis gathered a crowd of onlookers and journalists and showed them a deadly attraction. He climbed onto the open elevator platform, which was at the height of the fourth floor. Barrels and crates were already on the platform, so it was loaded. Otis waved his hand, and his assistants cut the cables Spin fishing. Beards are out of fashion. The reel is the most complex and perfect fishing tackle, a real work of engineering art. Catching ice smoke Trap for Heffalump. In search of a mysterious particle. Physicists are trying to grab the tail of a particle that has nothing but traces Dream catchers. Good alarm. The alarm clock is set for 8:00 am, but every time its signal wakes up the PM editor earlier than the appointed time. Monday at 7:44, Tuesday at 7:51, Wednesday at 7:35. Do not believe it, but this is how the device shows concern for the well-being of the owner Sun Catchers. The power of light. Australia is said to have 300 sunny days a year. Why not take advantage of this? 19 years ago, local motorists asked this question and came up with a unique fun - solar car racing. And they were so carried away by it that in two decades they learned how to make absolutely fantastic cars. For example, you can travel 1700 km in a day with the Aurora solar car without spending a single drop of fuel! How do the designers of solar cars succeed in such tricks? Spurious Correlations: How Nicolas Cage Affects Pool Death Bow of Odysseus. Let's start testing. The Turkish Composite Bow we started making four months ago is finally ready for its first test. Lunar observatory. Giant telescope. The absence of an atmosphere and deposits of available building material make the Moon an ideal springboard for building giant telescopes. Lunar alternatives. The USSR could win. As you know, the Soviet Union failed to outstrip America on the Moon. The H-1, the Soviet answer to the Saturn-V, the rocket on which our lunar hopes were pinned, tried to take off four times and exploded four times shortly after launch. Not wanting to spend millions and billions of rubles on an already lost race, in the mid-1970s the Soviet government forced designers to forget about the Moon. Lunar Treasures. Why do we need the moon. One of the crew members of the famous APOLLO lunar station undertakes to prove that the grandiose reserves of environmentally friendly nuclear fuel waiting for us in the bowels of the Moon will serve as the key to the future development of the Earth. Moon hare, potatoes and stars Lunar rover, the world of things in the rhinoceros and other amazing photos Death rays and the all-seeing eye. Radar Ice and silence All robots are submissive to love. The film without further ado. In the new work of director-animator Andrew Stanton, there are almost no dialogues at all. The filmmakers tell the story of a lonely robot without resorting to words - only with the help of drawings Favorite tool of genetic engineers. Magic wand. Bacteria harmful to agriculture turned out to be the best gift for scientists involved in the creation of transgenic plants Do you like to ride, love to carry a motorcycle Love and oars. What made the boat motor invented? Every whim: computer-aided material design A curious look from space. Photo espionage. The idea to use rockets and spacecraft (SC) to observe the earth's surface arose long before the flight of the first artificial Earth satellite. For obvious reasons, the military promoted this idea. People in uniform, far from the romance of interplanetary travel, really wanted not only to look over the neighboring fence, but also to do it regularly. And compared to classical aerial photography, spy satellites promised a constant presence, inclusiveness and inaccessibility to enemy influences. people in space People are like fish. Diving reflex. Although it is commonly believed that the prefix free means the diver does not have a supply of breathing gas, freedivers themselves tend to view their freedom much more broadly. Breath-hold diving means for them, first of all, freedom from any stereotypes People X. Honest mutants. This film is not fantasy, its characters are not wizards, they just have supernatural powers. The main goal of the creators of the picture is realism People who are building Russia. Layout Suite with eco prefix. Hybrid Lute of the Marquis de Sadeve. 40 string guitar. What is the perfect guitar? For some, this is an ordinary Leningrad six-string. For someone - a seven-string Russian guitar inherited from their grandfather! .. The whole soul is full of you, and the night is so moonlit !!! And for the Moscow musician Sergey Sadov, these are two necks, thirty-two strings, a special system, double strings to enhance the bass, Celtic and pagan symbols on the body Highways of the Third Reich. Giant Railway Project. The war was lost, the Soviet army was advancing rapidly, the allies were preparing to open a second front, but the belief in myth and contempt for reality among the supporters of the Third Reich were so strong that in recent years work on a large-scale project of cyclopean railways did not stop. Magneto magic. Born to crawl already flies. Professor Flitwick announced in the witchcraft class that they were starting to learn how to lift objects into the air, something they had all dreamed of since he demonstrated levitation on Neville's toad... It turned out to be very difficult. - J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Cosmic magnetism. magnetic fields. Usually magnetic fields are associated with planets and stars. But galaxies also have such fields. Magneto: what is it and who invented it magnetic parachute Magnetic shooting range. An experience Oil does not sink. Fleet Maybach for the cyclist. Energy Michelson according to Planck. Experiment Mining: it's not too late, and not just bitcoins Maximum speed: 360 degrees per second Maximum immersion. Is virtuality real? Although virtual reality technologies are now quite accessible to ordinary users, interest in them has subsided significantly. Why don't people move to the virtual world? Small boat for big fishing. Kayaks. We are witnessing the golden age of fishing from small boats, specially designed to please the fisherman. Little football. kicker Small-tonnage balancing act: how forklift competitions are held Kid in the shadow of Buran. Soviet light spaceplane. This year has brought with it two important events in the field of creation and operation of reusable space systems. Firstly, giant shuttles are leaving the historical scene, and secondly, test flights of the mysterious X-37B orbital drone weighing only 5 tons have begun. The emerging trend towards the rejection of gigantomania makes us remember that projects of light spaceplanes have appeared before. Including in our country Mom is anarchy, dad is the internet. Hacker vs Pentagon. A descendant of the North American Indians, the formidable Apache of the US Air Force, hovers over the night Baghdad. Base, observing a group of people. Some are armed. One of the unarmed men adjusting Canon on his shoulder is Reuters photographer Namir Nur-Eldin. Next to him is his colleague Said Shmakh. The pilot notices the grenade launcher, gets nervous. Base, request permission to fire. Pedestrians huddled together, discussing something. They still have a couple of seconds left to live - that's how much a fragmentation projectile from a 30-mm automatic cannon flies. As if water had been dropped on hot oil. Sand, stones, dust rise up, burying the destroyed under them. The pilot carefully finishes them off with single Mom, these are not toys. Mammoths and pyramids. Film effects. Historians are not recommended to watch this film. The fact is that its culmination takes place in Giza, where thousands of slaves and hundreds of mammoths are working on the construction of the pyramids. In reality, mammoths missed the Egyptian civilization not only geographically, but also chronologically - for several millennia. Barbecue on wheels. Car on the corner. Electric cars, waving the green flag of ecology with might and main, consume electricity generated by burning coal in thermal power plants. Isn't it more honest to throw coal into the tank right away? Manipulators and lamps by Eron Ristow. Devices Mancala: the game that took the world by storm Mark Levinson #33. Hi end. Mark Levinson's legendary reference amplifiers feature separate multi-kilogram toroidal transformers and 30 power output transistors per channel. What does this give a simple audiophile? Mars Science Guide Martian twins. rovers Martian Chronicles. Unfulfilled future. What now seems like science fiction, in the distant 1960s, no one had any doubts - a manned flight to Mars was then considered an almost completed event. Martian landing. From the blue planet to the red. In the 60s, the USSR was determined to send cosmonauts to Mars, although it had neither powerful launch vehicles, nor space stations, nor the experience of long-term stay in orbit, nor reliable marching jet engines, nor space power plants. Now we have everything to equip an expedition to the Red Planet. There is only desire Marty, we did it! March of iron keys. Typewriters. The collection of typewriters of the Moscow Polytechnic Museum regularly receives new interesting exhibits. Considering these novelties, many of which were made more than a hundred years ago, it is impossible not to think about what a deep and original mark these devices left both in the history of mechanics and in the history of culture. Mask, I know you! The history of the gas mask. The trenches of the First World War gave rise not only to chemical weapons, but also means of protection against them Butter oil. Fats Butter is not for a sandwich. Automotive Health Pledge. Engine oils not only protect the engine, but also reduce exhaust toxicity. But after 2012, the creators of oils will have a hard time. Boomerang master. He promised to return. Throwing a boomerang is half science, half art. And only a real master can make a real boomerang. Like Eric Darnell Toast Master Salvation Masters. Rescuers. At America's elite helicopter rescue academy, Coast Guard professionals are put to the test by ocean cliffs, sea caves and a treacherous stretch of coastline long known as the Graveyard of the Pacific. Popular Mechanics reporter took a course of real heroes in the school of fighters with the elements takumi masters Workshop of smiles by Ivan Pestalozzi. Holiday Skunk workshops. At the speed of the mind. The story of how skilled people broke all the rules and created the most amazing high-tech weapons in the world Mathematics as an art. What is behind the numbers? As you know, people are divided into physicists and lyricists. According to an ingrained stereotype, the first are stern scientists, alien to any sentimentality, techies, who in their free time deduce multi-level equations on a napkin that are not the first freshness. Lyricists - writers, artists and people of art - have a monopoly on all kinds of manifestations of love for beauty. Meanwhile, mathematical calculations, which are usually associated with dry numbers and multi-page tables, can be very visual and very beautiful. A material with a thousand uses. Bakelite. In the first half of the XNUMXth century, the word bakelite became a household word - a synonym for quality and progress. The Matrix is live. TV Mowgli in the city. Parkour. If on the street someone jumps over a fence in one fell swoop, does a handstand on the edge of a roof, or jumps from building to building, most likely it is a tracer. This is the name of people who practice one of the most popular types of extreme sports - parkour. Tracer is graceful, like a wild cat, and the city for him is a stone jungle Drowned flywheels. Above the water. Enthusiasts do not stop trying to create a bionic aircraft that will fly like a bird, flapping its wings. Meanwhile, the old idea of the dreamers has recently been embodied in a serial product. You won’t be able to fly on this winged device, but it’s easy to jump across the river and stay dry Michael Rea Time Machine. Wooden sculptures. Sculptor Michael Rea is most fascinated by the idea of time travel. His idols are Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, the source of inspiration is science fiction and adventure films. We have not yet been given the opportunity to move into the past and the future, but dreams do not have to come true Machine for nuclear burden. Test Drive Machine sound. car audio. When installing an audio system in a car, the main thing is to clearly define what comes first, the car or the sound. Time machines, or Hawking vs. Hawking Killer machines. Inhuman war. Combat robots are already involved in military conflicts. The main issue when discussing this topic is the division of responsibility between machine and man. Megabytes instead of millimeters. Dream factories are going digital. The film industry is on the verge of a revolution. According to George Lucas, 35mm will no longer be associated with film width for the next generation of cinephiles. The bear killed the hunter: why do people speak different languages Slow cars by Albin Karlsson. Time. You can endlessly watch how water flows, how fire burns and how an accountant pays a salary. This is not a joke, but a fact. But it does not reflect all the things that are pleasing to the eye for a long period. For example, the Swedish artist Albin Karlsson builds fantastic mechanisms, the activity of which can be watched indefinitely… slow light Copper and silk Between two oceans. Gate of Poseidon. The history of one of the most grandiose engineering structures - the Panama Canal Between you and the earth. Mountain boots. In 1935, Italian Alpine Club member and renowned mountain guide Vitale Bramani led a group of climbers who were to climb several peaks in the Italian Alps. At first, the weather favored the athletes, but during the ascent to the peak of Rasica (Punta Rasica), a narrow ridge with a height of 3305 m, a strong and prolonged snowstorm began. The rock wall was covered with ice, the descent turned into a real hell... Between head and snow. A helmet for the most reckless. The ski helmet invariably follows the well-known commandment Die yourself, and help a friend out!, Protecting the head of its owner from shocks and overloads Between heaven and earth. Weightlessness laboratory. In order to experience weightlessness, it is not at all necessary to fly into space. Astronauts get used to this extremely unusual state for the human body in advance - on board a specially equipped flying laboratory Between mind and hammer. Geology Interstellar flight Breakthrough Starshot: the project of Milner and Hawking Intercontinental ballistic missile: how it works Interplanetary rehearsal. When time stops. During the Mars-500 ground experiment, the crew will experience all the unknown factors of a long interplanetary flight Mental distortions: why do we think irrationally? Measures of our life. Biometrics. Biometrics is the process of collecting, processing and storing data on the physical characteristics of a person in order to identify him (Big Legal Dictionary, 2007) Dead men go to battle: military supersuit stimulates reflexes Metal dies for people Metal Trees by Anthony Howe Metal standard. The first plastic skis Steering metamorphoses. The difficult fate of the lamb. Steering is a complex set of technical and geometric problems that are still being solved by automotive design bureaus. Lightning Throwers Lightning throwers. Electric shock. The first mention of the use of electricity for military and police purposes is found in the myths of Ancient Greece - as you know, the head of the Greek pantheon Zeus was a thunderer and his favorite weapon was lightning. Today, engineers have once again decided to put electricity at the service of law and order. Catapult. The science and art of archery. Last fall, we talked about the revolution in the manufacture of such an ancient object as a common bow, invented over 50 years ago in Africa. A year later, we decided to return to this topic Throwing machines of the Far East. What did the Buddhists fight with? Mechanical artillery appeared at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent almost simultaneously, at the turn of the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries BC - in the west in Greece and in the east in China, and completely independently of each other Throw, not rush. Sport Maxim Riou sound extraction technique Mechanic in hell Mechanics of simple things. Mechanism Sleep Mechanics mechanical virtuality. Slot machines. For just a coin, they played with us, predicted fate, developed our dexterity, fooled us, entertained us with hopes of a fabulous win. Cumbersome, primitive in the current view, they gave humanity a virtual reality even before this concept arose. The remnants of the majestic army of mechanical and electromechanical slot machines, completely defeated by the computer army, have found refuge in museums. but what is surprising is that these museums do not complain about the lack of visitors Mechanical utopia Mechanical waves by Ruben Margolin Mechanical Dreams by Dale Mathis. tick tock Mechanical Animals: Master Yasuhito Yudagawa Mechanical mirrors by Daniel Rosin Mechanical guns. Artillery of basileus and caliphs. In the XNUMXth century AD The Western Roman Empire collapsed, it was replaced by ignorant barbarian kingdoms, goats began to graze on the ruins of Ancient Rome. Complex technical skills, including mechanical artillery, were forgotten for several centuries. Mechanical fish ArtMechanicus Dream of speed. Passion Dream and explore. Interview Dreams of immortality. Who wants to live forever. What is a sense of life? All answers to this question come down to one thing - to live. Live long and happy. Long life and healthy, active old age is the oldest and most cherished dream of man. But in order to defeat or at least push back old age and death, you need to know what the aging process is. A moment that lasts forever. Photo. Jeff Lieberman's show Time Warp on Discovery Channel shows us everyday life in such an unusual perspective that its footage surprises even venerable scientists. Jeff's recipe is a combination of exact science, the latest technological advances and unlimited creativity. MiG-31: world fighter MiG-35/35D: the latest Russian multifunctional fighter Flasher in Norwegian. Purity Michelangelo in numbers. Modeling. Oddly enough, the technology for creating computer game characters today is as close as possible to the art of ancient sculpture. To demonstrate this, 3D artist Nikolai Govako made a model of a victorious warrior, a fantastic transformer tank from the Second World War, especially for Popular Mechanics. Micro for long distance swimming. Yachts from Volgodonsk. At first it seemed that everything was gone. The pouring rain, with which the city of Volgodonsk met us, as luck would have it, took complete calm as a friend. We will probably succeed in seeing how Micro yachts are made in Russia, but we will certainly not be able to find out, see them in action ... Microbial militia. Biological weapons hangover germs Microwave reversed Micromechanics: how a fountain pen works Microrockets for large space: will orbit become the territory of private traders? Microscopy without a microscope Microchip under the skin. Human tuning. - In which arm will we implant the implant? - To the left: I'm right-handed. Despite the laconic answer of Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading (UK), the surgeon immediately understood what he wanted to say: if a scientist is destined to lose his arm, let it be his left Microchip. The scheme that changed the world Billion pixels. gigapixel. Panorama of the city at night: tiny lights of windows, red lanterns of car headlights, the distant glow of sunset. If you zoom in on the image, it will become blurry. Windows and headlights will turn into shapeless spots of light, a clear image will be replaced by a set of abstract shapes. Is not it? Absolutely not necessary. There are photos that can be zoomed in as much as you like with almost no loss of quality. They will be discussed Millions from a faucet Mimic skyscrapers, trendy virtuality and other amazing photos Mina on top. Armored vehicles to fail! New technologies and principles allow the mine not only to passively wait for the target, but to attack the enemy from the most unexpected directions - for example, from above Miners are no longer needed. Modern mines are rapidly getting smarter. Mines of the XNUMXst century must self-install and self-destruct. But what they should not do is cause significant losses to the enemy Miniature nuclear bombs. Micro apocalypse. US first strike nuclear weapons. How it works. Who is it aimed at? Mini firearm. Office potato gun. In one of the previous issues, we built a potato cannon - a powerful firearm capable of sending a potato on a journey of 250m. Now it's minus fifteen outside the window, and I don't feel like organizing street shootings at all. We decided to build a miniature equivalent of a potato gun for shooting indoors from office supplies. Minodav. Tank. In the Museum of armored weapons and equipment in Kubinka, near Moscow, in the pavilion with captured German armored vehicles, there is an amazing exhibit, unofficially called RoboCop by employees Mines are falling from the sky. Mine weapons of the new century. There was a Vietnam War (1964-1975). By 1968, the US Army was increasingly losing control over the territories of South Vietnam and was less and less able to counteract the movements of the Viet Cong forces, which was especially important for the conditions of that war. Lacking technical means of transport (airplanes, helicopters, motor vehicles) and unable to travel on roads, the Viet Cong and regular army soldiers of North Vietnam, which were becoming more numerous in the south, were forced to move on foot and accumulate material reserves for planned attacks on government garrisons and the US Army, carrying them by hand. For the Americans, disrupting such movements meant disrupting Viet Cong strikes on cities and garrisons, depriving the enemy of a chance to win. Frog mines. Like from underground. In many countries of the world, dozens of samples of jumping mines have been developed - from the simplest to the most complex, intelligent The world between sleep and waking Peace to the light. invisible rays. The most famous scientific discovery of all time became famous almost instantly The World of Divergent Worlds: A New Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics A world of precise movements Peaceful atom. Nuclear energy. Man has been using the energy of the atomic nucleus for fifty years. It is still much more difficult than burning a stove with coal or burning gasoline in an internal combustion engine. Peaceful sleep at the wheel. Autopilot Peaceful thermonuclear. Energy hopes of mankind. Half a century after the first military use, mankind has come close to using thermonuclear reaction for peaceful purposes. Worlds from the void. Birth Mission Luna. Routine work. The heroic era of space shuttles is coming to an end, and the need to develop a new habitable spacecraft is becoming increasingly acute - one that, over the next decades, will deliver us to the lunar surface in complete safety and then return home. Mr. Andy and his reckless tuning. Why not? There are people who cannot live in peace. Give them a refrigerator - they will take it apart and construct a galactic cruiser. There is no practical meaning in such an action - it's just that otherwise life seems too boring. Englishman Andy Saunders from Dorset is a typical crazy inventor. In his projects, he is guided by the principle Why not? The mythology of Gregory Brotherton. Lead Gallery. From computer graphics to running his own gallery, artist Gregory Brotherton is good at everything he does. The mythology of black holes. The Science of the Impossible Myths about IL-2. Armor. There are sometimes more legends around the legendary planes than real facts Michurin from rocket science Is the ISS doomed? Can the space station be saved? Lots of little deaths. cluster munitions Multifaceted Talents Species by Chris Fitch. Nature Mobile microscope Gravedigger Hi-Enda. digital amplifiers. Digital amplifiers will do away with subjectivity in the assessment of sound quality Can helicopters be used on other planets? Can animals replace diagnostic devices? Can air defense systems fire at ground targets? (and other answers to questions) Can fish fly. Aerarium Mighty Algae Fashion for the ages. Jeans. The classic story of the invention of jeans goes something like this: Levi Strauss, who arrived in San Francisco in the 1850s during the California gold rush, invented durable pants with pockets made from indigo-colored canvas for prospectors. In fact, this story is a myth of the purest water. Modders. Bucket tuning. When you get tired of looking at a gray or black computer case, the first thing that comes to mind is to hide it under the table. Most are limited to this. Some go further, namely to a computer store. Beautiful computer cases (the so-called premodded cases) are widely represented on store shelves. This is a factory modding, put on stream and therefore immediately lost most of its idea and beauty. Model from the pages of the magazine. Paper Can a helicopter fly without a motor? Can a computer teach you how to fly? How to control the baronIn the Master class section, we periodically assemble radio-controlled models, and then run them. We launch yachts and cars ourselves, but for piloting aircraft we have to invite professionals: the life time of a model in the hands of a novice pilot is calculated in seconds - this is not enough for our photographer Can an aircraft perform a fully automatic landing? Can the color of the iris change depending on the mood? Can a passenger liner break apart from turbulence? Can a modern passenger plane move backwards? Can robots be trusted? Machine dependency. What should humanity be afraid of - a possible uprising of robots or the inconvenience of life without them Is it possible to observe the phases of the Earth on the Moon? Can the ISS be sent to the Moon or Mars? Is it possible to go from the passenger cabin to the luggage compartment during the flight? Brain in turbo mode Brain and nerves of the liner of the future Brain of Leviathan The human brain: programs and viruses Brains from a vacuum. The Science of the Impossible. Fantasists have long discussed the possibility of a thinking cosmos. Recently, world-famous cosmologists and physicists have started talking about something similar. This idea already has its own name - the Boltzmann brain hypothesis. Brains to the light. Colored thoughts. MRI is perhaps the most expensive class of medical devices. At first, no one imagined that medical institutions would have the funds for them: the price of new tomographs is calculated in millions of euros. However, these devices have proved so effective that now there are more than 50 of them installed around the world, and demand is not falling. brainy phone Brainstorm My home is my studio. Creativity within four walls. Thanks to advances in the development of digital technologies, the gap between the technical capabilities of a professional and a simple amateur has been significantly reduced. The four guys about whom the story will go managed to fully realize their creative potential and find a grateful audience without leaving home. Wet submarine. The second wind of a scuba diver. There is an opinion that with the invention of scuba gear, the aquatic environment was finally conquered by man. However, we should not forget that a person with scuba diving under water is more a guest than a full owner. Wet business Wet place Molecules without chemical bonds Milk of a transgenic cow. It's so natural! If you put together all the domestic animals that have been cloned since the birth of the unforgettable Dolly, they will be enough for a large farm. With herds of dozens of cows, goats, sheep and pigs. With one (so far) horse and one (so far) dog. With a pond in which cloned fish of a dozen species swim and cloned frogs croak. And with a barn full of cloned mice being caught by cloned cats. And nearby there will be a small zoo with cloned wild animals, enclosures for 10-15 Hammer of internal combustion. How technologically to throw a woman. Surely, many of our readers were poisoned by a pile-driving hammer working nearby, driving piles into the foundation of a building under construction with a deafening roar. But for the most inquisitive, in addition to irritation, the hammer aroused genuine interest - how does it work? Most modern hammers are indeed very ingenious in design, representing, in fact, an elementary diesel engine. They are called - diesel hammers Distribution moment. Drive drive strife. Initially, the 4x4 transmission was the hallmark of true off-road vehicles like the Jeep Wrangler, an extreme travel icon. And today 4WD can be found even on cars. But few people know that the design of all-wheel drive varies depending on the purpose of the machine. Airwheel unicycle: a brief overview of the models Monolet Maximov: the fastest monowheel in the world monopoly bomb. Bomb on monopoles. The father of the American hydrogen bomb, Edward Teller, constantly thought about creating super-powerful weapons. Once he had lunch with the famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist Neil Turok, and he told me that he was working on magnetic monopoles - hypothetical particles that have not an electric, but a magnetic charge. To the horror of the interlocutor, Teller immediately began to figure out how to use the monopoles as stuffing for a superbomb. Monocycle. Wheel savings. Bombardier shows off its vision for the future of personal vehicles Monocycles. Less makes no sense. Exactly a year ago, with our questions about the unicycle EMBRIO, Denis Lapointe, Vice President of the Canadian company Bombardier, was pestered. We were most interested in how the Canadian unicycle would slow down from a speed of 250-300 km / h. To our disappointment, it turned out that this wonderful vehicle could appear in metal no earlier than 2025. But it's not just Canadians who dream of unicycles. Over the past year, we have been able to communicate with several designers of real monocycles Monster vs Pelican. Combat ekranoplanes. The combat ekranoplan, which was one of the biggest Soviet secrets of the 60s, may return to service Monsters in the palm of your hand. Office rallies. New vehicles for organizing office rally raids Installation at home. How to shoot correctly. Threw the camera away? Tired of making boring movies about fun travels? Tired of endlessly commenting on films, but nothing is clear without explanations? This article is for you! Frost with home delivery. Accurate to the degree. A refrigerator is an indispensable thing in the household, especially in the summer heat. It is no coincidence that this American miracle of technology was duly appreciated in the USSR, after the war, after the war, the production of household models was established. Frosty bite. When they fish carelessly. An ice screw alone is not enough to make winter fishing comfortable, safe and successful. Seasickness. Float Sea queen. Queen Mary 2. Although people have been crossing the Atlantic Ocean since the time of Christopher Columbus, regular transatlantic traffic began only in 1840, when Canadian entrepreneur Samuel Cunard founded the Cunard Lines shipping company in England specifically for this purpose, putting a steamer on the route between the Old and New Worlds Britannia. Since then, Cunard has been the leading transatlantic carrier for almost a century, and its increasingly large, magnificent passenger liners, whose names traditionally end in ia (Mauretania, Aquitania, Lusitania and others), most often held the prize for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic - the famous Blue Ribbon Sea winged guard. Barrier Sea and sky ghosts. An invisible threat. It is desirable for each participant in the battle - both the pilot and the sailor - to see the enemy as best as possible, but at the same time remain invisible. Sea launch: the fate of the floating spaceport is in Russian hands Moscow under sail. Regatta. In sailing, there are no words for right and left, and you have to speak mainly in Dutch. And yet, the yachting school Academy of Captains promised to train 12 chief editors of the Russian media in the basics of sailing skills in a couple of days and hold the Trophy-in-Chief race Moscow stars. Dome Bridge in motion. Modern technologies. Man invented the bridge about the time he gained reason. Throwing the log across the stream was not difficult at all. Over time, the design of bridges has become more complex, and the evolution of engineering has led to the emergence of dozens of different technical solutions. True, the general principle of most modern bridges has remained the same as a million years ago: a log thrown across a stream... Bridge to Crimea: projects of the past and construction in the present Bridge to the hidden world. The Higgs boson in the national economy Steam powered bridge. Tower Bridge. On Saturday morning, June 30, 1894, crowds of Londoners hurried to the Tower area. It seemed that not a single person wanted to miss a grand event: the most technically advanced bridge in the world, the Tower Bridge, was put into operation. Bridge towards the enemy. Pontoon bridge park. To capture the bridge across the river safe and sound for the advancing troops is a great success. Rarely do sappers present such a fabulous gift to the enemy. And sometimes a water barrier has to be crossed where there are no bridges at all. How to arrange a crossing in the shortest possible time? Bridges to the future. Building a bridge is half the battle. From the point of view of its main purpose, a bridge is a very simple thing. Its purpose is just the delivery of people and objects from one point to another. But if you step back just a step back, a much wider panorama will open - it will include an overpass leading to the bridge, and a road approaching the overpass, and lanterns illuminating the bridge, and much, much more. The complex interweaving of various systems, which allows the whole country to act as a single whole, is usually referred to in one word - infrastructure. Motomobil. How our car fleas were shod. Ultima's appearance is so unexpected that, seeing her for the first time, it is difficult to recognize her as a car. Pedal motorcycle. Pretty tricky sport. In BMX competition, the art of precise control of the bike is much more important than the strength of the cyclist's legs. Mochalkin blues. Music Dark Shadows The Wigman Diet Music in glass. Glass tools. Musical instruments are made from various materials. Wood, metal, leather, even plastic. But try right now to remember at least one musical instrument made of glass. I bet that this will not work right away - or not work at all. After all, glass, so familiar in our homes, is extremely rare in the world of music. But glass tools, of course, exist - we will talk about them. Cartoon Osteology Hyunko Lee. Skeleton of Bugs Bunny. What does the skeleton look like, for example, Tom the cat or Jerry the mouse? Their bones, judging by the cartoon, must withstand crazy loads and bend in the most unexpected places. Korean sculptor Hyunko Lee decided to give a definitive answer to this question. Trash heavenly. Flashlights. It's hard to believe, but sky lanterns, which are usually launched on holidays these days, were once upon a time a real weapon. It is generally accepted that the flying lantern, or the first balloon in history, was invented by General Zhuge Liang, who lived from 181 to 234 in China. The fires rushing into the sky terrified the enemies: they thought that God himself was helping the general Garbage fever. Help bacteria. Thanks to the bacteria Clostridium carboxidivorans, ordinary household waste may soon replace black gold. garbage wind We see you. All-seeing eye. The ubiquity of digital television and flat panel TVs is a boon for consumers. But it is possible that the special services will benefit much more from this - these two technologies make it possible to observe everyone. Right at his house! We are from the Future We are peaceful people, but our trams ... Civilian equipment at war. Had it not been for the Second World War, I would probably have designed equipment that would facilitate hard peasant labor, - said Mikhail Kalashnikov. The great designer, of course, is right: civilian technology is much more useful than military technology. But you can’t do without the latter, and in some cases, machines from everyday life are called upon to replenish the ranks of the armed forces. We are losing our brains. Survival of the dumbest Soap Bubbles Melody Young Rat race Muons are good. The Science of the Impossible Soft power: how to make silicone muscles yourself Soft and fluffy microbes. We try bacteria by touch. If any pathogenic microorganism gets into your hands, you should not immediately call the sanitary and epidemiological supervision. And do not throw it anywhere - it can roll under the sofa and get dirty Soft paws, sharp claws. Polygon. The word Hakkapeliitta was used to refer to the Finnish cavalrymen who served the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf during the Thirty Years' War. This word is based on the Finnish battle cry Hakkaa P??lle. With such a brave exclamation, we went to the Ivalo ice range in Finnish Lapland to appreciate the modern high-tech tire Meow in Russian Batting ball. How UEFA Cup balls are made. What can be difficult in a soccer ball? Indeed, for some time such a ball was a rubber chamber in a leather sheath. The only secret was how the craftsmen manage to sew the shell from pentagonal and hexagonal pieces, leaving all the seams inside. As football became a multi-billion dollar business, the stakes around soccer balls began to rise - many companies would give a lot to have their brainchild continuously flashed on TV screens during football championships. At no name altitude At an unnamed height. Our revenge on balloons. On May 1960, 14, one of the 75 missiles fired from the S-2 complex interrupted the flight of the legendary U-XNUMX spy plane over Sverdlovsk. Several more of his brothers were lost in the skies of China. The era of unimpeded flight of American high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft over the USSR has ended. But another one began - balloon Paddle across the ocean. How to cross the Atlantic on oars. Katty Spotz has never had a high opinion of her fitness. However, this 22-year-old girl from Ohio decided to become the youngest daredevil ever to attempt to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean. To war! How to become a military officer. Five thousand dollars and a little luck - that's all it takes to become a military correspondent On all wheels. 4x4. With this article, we open a series of publications about how a modern car works and how it works. On the brink of hearing On the crest of a wave. Biting indicators. If you ask even a person far from a hobby for fishing what he considers an indispensable attribute of fishing, most likely he will name a float. Indeed, this seemingly simple little thing has become a real symbol of fishing. But is it so simple, if dozens of design bureaus around the world are constantly developing new types and types of floats, using new materials, special primers, varnishes and coloring compositions to process them and create durable coatings? Get on the charger. Test Drive On mirrored sails. under the solar wind. The new Russian reusable spacecraft will be called Clipper. But this name, denoting a fast sailing vessel, would be more suitable for another spacecraft. On the needle. Best Audio. At the beginning of our century, marketers were faced with an interesting fact - among musical media, the largest percentage growth was shown not by cassettes, not by CDs, not by DVD-audio, not by SACD, but by almost written off gramophone records. On ion thrust. Homemade ionolet. Stop wasting your time on trifles! Popular mechanics decided to build an aircraft with an electric jet engine - an ion one. It's a distant relative of the ion thrusters that power some modern spacecraft. How high do balloons inflated with helium rise? Answers to amazing questions! In a carbon kitchen. Strength On claws. Rubber To the end of the world behind the liner. Industry On the edge of life. seconds of eternity. The athlete accelerates from zero to 100 km / h in 2,5 seconds, then immediately decelerates to zero at a distance of 3-4 m - this is a typical Formula 1 car dynamics. But the daredevil has no helmet, no racing overalls, no seat belts that fix him in a rigid monocoque. Of the clothes on him, only ordinary swimming trunks On a crooked mare. asymmetrical plane. Have you ever seen an asymmetric car? Certainly! For example, a mining dump truck with an offset cab. What about an irregularly shaped ship? Naturally, remember any aircraft carrier. But there were very few asymmetric aircraft in history. Let's say even more precisely: only two. The first of them was created in 1937 by the gloomy Teutonic genius, aircraft designer Richard Vogt. On the wings of the sun On the wings of dry It's written on the face: how computer facial recognition works Normal on the face To the moon for 20 million To Mars for water. Space thirst. Seven years after the first mission, carried out by the Sojourner rover in 1996, two new geological exploration robots of the Red Planet are sent aboard spacecraft from Cape Canaveral. The first one started in June. The launch of the second is scheduled for July. In seven months, the capsules with the Wanderers (in English - Rover) will land in the Gusev crater and on the Meridian plateau, where, according to scientists, there may be evidence of the existence of liquid water on Mars in the past. The crater is thought to be a former large lake, and the plateau contains the mineral hematite (iron oxide III), which is found on Earth near hot springs. To Mars, as to your home. Mission on a grand scale. Before sending the first astronauts to the Red Planet, the Americans are going to build an entire city on it. On one wing In pastures of greenery. Investigation. Since biblical times, cereals have been considered the most important agricultural crop. It is from them that the most nutritious and satisfying dishes in the human diet are prepared. Cereals are one of the cornerstones of modern human culture based on agriculture and animal husbandry. On the first or second ... pay off! New generation of cellular communication. To understand what 3G is, you need to understand what other generations are To the mowing, Mr. Count! Race It will be hot at the range Halfway into space. Leap from the stratosphere. Looking down at the clouds from the window of a passenger liner, you hardly feel like a great conqueror of the air element. You would feel completely different if you were on the other side of the window, in free fall, one on one with height On the threshold of hell. Kola superdeep well. Dr. Guberman, what the hell did you dig down there? - a remark from the audience interrupted the report of the Russian scientist at the UNESCO meeting in Australia. A couple of weeks earlier, in April 1995, a wave of reports swept the world about a mysterious accident at the Kola Superdeep Well. On the way to hypersound. hypersonic aircraft. At hypersonic speeds, the aircraft combines aviation and space technologies On the way to myelophone On a rocket to the moon. Astronauts with a satchel. If the domestic project of the 1960-1970s to create a settlement on the Moon had been implemented, then a whole set of amazing machines would have been waiting in the garage of the Lunarian - nuclear lunar rovers, tractors powered by isotope sources ... But the rocket pack promised to be the most exciting vehicle , which was designed by employees of the State Research Institute of Aviation Systems On fish fur. Extreme for adults. The success of fishing depends on skill, luck and the right gear. But the pleasure - in many respects from the right clothes and shoes Dog-drawn Get started, pay attention! On guard of the wallet On land and at sea. Container ship. Watching the Ideal X sail out of Newark Harbor, Longshoremen's Union Chairman Freddy Fields said through gritted teeth: I'd love to drown him. Three motors. Test Drive. Popular mechanics tested the most powerful hybrid car in the world - BMW Active Hybrid X6 On the plumbing flute What is the light on On parole and on one wing. Swoop. Piloting high-speed canopies, or swoop, is one of the most spectacular types of skydiving. And one of the few views where the audience on the ground can see all the action with their own eyes, and not through the videographer's camera. What will DNA computers of the future be capable of? On ethereal sails. Space sailboat. The romantics of space exploration have long dreamed of how gigantic majestic sailboats will surf the space ocean. Will their dreams come true? Observe the Universe. Telescopes. Our eyes are a general purpose instrument: their sensitivity and resolution are limited. The naked human eye collects only those rays that enter the pupil, and its diameter is limited and varies depending on the illumination. During the day - about 23 mm, at night - 67 mm Towards the explosion Above the horizon Parade of flying robots. The US Air Force is changing its structure under the onslaught of a new revolution - the transition to unmanned aircraft. And in response to the pressure of the military, political and financial crises, the Pentagon is ready to entrust robots with tasks that would have been difficult to imagine until recently. Superstructure over a rotary engine. 230 horses from 1,3 liters. In our very first issue, which came out in November 2002, we wrote about an amazing inventor named Wankel who didn't even have a driver's license. That did not stop him from coming up with the most beautiful engine of our time - a rotary one. But in that material, the main attention was paid to the person, not the engine. Today we correct the misalignment and write only about the Mazda RX8, which is built around a unique rotary engine. Inflatable planes are not a scam! Aviation. History has not preserved the name of the person who first had the idea to cross an airplane with a balloon. I would like to think that it was our compatriot, the legendary designer Pavel Grokhovsky, in whose design bureau a whole range of experimental devices appeared - from parachutes and jetpacks to ground armored vehicles. In any case, the palm should be given to him: Grokhovsky's design became the first inflatable aircraft to take to the air Alone with depth. Freediving. The records set by freedivers are quite modest by the standards of the ocean depths. But these people do not use either numerous cylinders with gas mixtures, or bathyscaphes with strong hulls. Everything they need for diving is always with them - these are the reserves of their own body. Alone with the sky. Jet Carlson. At an altitude of four kilometers above the ground, a person separates from the aircraft. After spending a couple of seconds in free fall, he opens ... no, not a parachute, but real wings. Four jet engines are switched on simultaneously and the turbines begin to spin slowly. After another half a minute, the winged pilot stabilizes the height, sharply shoots forward and turns into a point on the horizon. This is not footage from the latest James Bond movie, but a description of the real flight of the rocket man Yves Rossi Back to the Future Back from virtuality. Model Spite records To spite the records. The price of success. President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge in his speech at the opening ceremony of the XX Winter Olympic Games in Turin said: Athletes! You serve as an example for the youth. Your achievements inspire generations. I ask you to compete in a fair fight, do not use doping! Find the invisible. Submarine detection systems. An invisible ship capable of suddenly attacking from the most unexpected point - this is exactly how submarines were conceived and until very recently they remained that way. The secrecy of submarines especially increased after the appearance of nuclear and air-independent power plants (in the 50s of the XX century). The XNUMXth century may someday be called the century of submarines. In the XNUMXst century, the submarine fleet will either cease to exist altogether or change in the most radical way. Do accidentally swallowed plastic particles accumulate in the body? Energy storage: obvious and incredible Nanorobots inside us: how cells work Nanosculpture: 0,157 mm high elephant Racing around the world. Regatta Volvo Ocean Race. Domestic fans of sailing are waiting for an exciting action. On October 4, a Russian team will start the round-the-world regatta Volvo Ocean Race (for the first time in history!) And next summer, the famous 37-mile race will finish in St. Petersburg Printed cities. Construction printer. To earn the gratitude of descendants, it is enough to invent some useful little thing - a wine corkscrew or a hanger for a jacket. But it is much more pleasant to go down in history by creating something that will help solve several global problems of mankind at once. Drawn Fleet: How World of Warships is Made Nascar from the inside How far do you have to fly to leave our Galaxy Legacy of Nobel 2005. And new heirs. On October 3-5, the names of the new Nobel Prize winners for scientific research were announced in Stockholm. Coincidentally or not, but this year they were awarded to works that have both a deep scientific meaning and enormous practical significance. Heir of Energy The real history of QWERTY. History of simple things. The common myth that the QWERTY key layout slowed down typing speed is pure water myth. Currently, real drive Onion science. Anatomy of a classic wooden bow. Compared to the modern compound bow, the classic wooden bow looks extremely simple. But in fact, the formidable weapon of the Middle Ages is significantly superior to the sports equipment of our days, both in terms of manufacturing complexity and intricate design. The Science of the Impossible. Anti-fuel and anti-explosives. The active use of antimatter began in the middle of the XNUMXth century. True, only in fantasy The Science of Shocks. Catastrophe Nautilus on wheels China's Science Megaprojects: Huge and Expensive Science Olympiads: how it works and why Russia is in the lead Our agent in the atmosphere Our answer to Basel. We make wooden clocks. One can endlessly watch how fire burns, how water flows, and how others work. Sergey Udintsev, the head of the company Small-sized machine tools, gave us pleasure by demonstrating the capabilities of small-sized Unimat 1 machines Our road to heaven Russian way. On November 3, 1881, the captain of the first rank Mozhaisky received from the Department of Trade and Manufactories the Privilege for an airborne projectile - the first patent for an aircraft in Russia. On the basis of this document, for a long time it was proved that it was Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaisky, and not some Wright brothers there, who held the primacy in conquering the air element with the help of an apparatus heavier than air. Invasion: killer rabbits and other invasive species Our people in Bonneville: how Russian bikers set a speed record Do not the gods burn pots Don't be afraid of spiders. animal effects. When director Gary Winick told his friends that he was going to make a film Charlotte's Web, he was told in response: How cool! Just make sure you don't ruin anything Not in the eyebrow, but in the ass. Sick place. Tests of traumatic weapons on gelatinous volunteers Don't trust your eyes. Charm of strangers. Mirage [fr. mirage, from se mirer, to be reflected] - an optical phenomenon usually observed in deserts, consisting in the fact that in addition to objects in their true position, their imaginary images are visible, with a mirage, objects hidden behind the horizon become visible No music yet, no more noise No need, I'm on my own! Barber himself. About a couple of weeks ago, an interesting device appeared in our editorial office - the world's first Philips One hair clipper. Of course, we immediately decided to test it, but for the first time in the five-year history of the magazine, there were no volunteers. What to do - I had to substitute my own head under the typewriter ... Not a luxury Don't sleep! Stimulants. Both the ancient Vikings and the pilots of the Second World War - they all used substances that stimulate the nervous system. Leisurely. positive vibrations. A custom bike is not a product of high technology and not a high-speed vehicle. But every person involved in the creation of this masterpiece puts a piece of his soul into it. Not like everyone else. Steel pacers. Living legends of the motorcycle world tend to defy classification Not only with a shovel Don't kill, don't blind. Lighting systems. How many types of car lights do you know? Low beam, high beam, dimensions? Brake light, direction indicators and their repeaters, front and rear fog lights… Hella experts are convinced that this is not enough for safe driving It won't sink, it will burn! Non-aircraft carriers-2. Russian aircraft carriers. Part two. A brief history of the creation of domestic aircraft carriers. In the last issue, Popular Mechanics began a story about the tragic history of the creation of Soviet aircraft carriers. Read the second and final part Heaven and sails. soaring Heavenly Democracy. Astronomy is an aristocratic science Sky collection. The fall of a big company. Flying towards the ground at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, the fragile structure, the preparation for the construction of which took four hundred people 15 months on a budget of $ 2 million, lasted less than seven seconds. But the builders were not upset at all. Heavenly innovations: android workers, 3D printing and a suitcase with a SIM card Heavenly stones. Fell not only from the moon. One of my acquaintances is very proud of a clumsily made ring with a nondescript yellowish-green stone. No, this is not an item from a family collection, and it is unlikely that anyone will shell out decent money for this masterpiece of jewelry craftsmanship. It's just that the stone in the ring is much older than any mineral that can be found on Earth. He is 4,5 billion years old. It is this age that the vast majority of meteorites have, and about the same age, as it is believed, our solar system Sky sailboats of the five oceans. Wind. Man mastered transportation at about the same time that he learned to hunt. At first, water transport obeyed our ancestors, which is not surprising: there is no simpler means of transportation than a log on the water. Soon a sail appeared, and the design of ships became more complicated, with the invention of the wheel, expanses of land were conquered, but for a long time it was possible to plunge into the fifth - air - ocean in only one way: falling from a cliff ... Heavenly Jewelers. The heaviest helicopters. Complicated construction and installation work with the use of heavy helicopters has been going on for a long time, but they have not become commonplace Heavenly eye. The Hubble Space Telescope is fifteen years old. Hubble needs to be repaired for a long time, but continues to work - it is searching for worlds at the very edge of the visible universe Heavenly constructor. Puzzle Sky ship of dreams Heavenly cult of hot air. Airships. Over the quiet expanses of the Connecticut River Valley, in New England, an outlandish airship is slowly floating - an airship whose shell is filled with hot air. Will this device open a new era for those who like to fly slowly and low, or will the limit of its capabilities be to entertain the surrounding onlookers on a summer morning? Heavenly hammer for an aircraft carrier. Breakthrough Heavenly heavyweight. UFO Russian assembly. A few years ago, Metaprocess specialists were given a task from the field of logistics. It was necessary to deliver to the Ryazan region a 600-ton hydrocracking reactor built at the Izhora plant near St. Petersburg. 500-ton carts and special barges were purchased, the port on the Izhorka River was deepened. Delivery over a distance of 1000 km cost $5 million and took 45 days. Then the engineers asked themselves the question: is it possible to deliver such a cargo by air? Grigorovich's Heavenly Fleet. Seaplanes. The first ever takeoff from the water took place in 1910, but already in World War I, flying boats were successfully used in combat operations. Sky in diamonds. Diamonds. Expeditions for valuable resources were the driving factor behind the Age of Discovery. Something similar may be in store for us in the future. What will these resources be? Maybe giant diamonds are the basis of electronic equipment capable of operating under the most severe conditions? sky through Sky of Siberia Heaven will find you. Courage and aerobatics. Modern flight simulators are so realistic that real pilots enjoy playing them Incredible, but... meat: the food of the future Incredible production in Russia. Presidential Guard Weapon. In the small Russian town of Tarusa on the banks of the Oka, a two-hour drive from Moscow, there is an amazing Tsar Cannon company in a small one-story building. Even if she had put on stream the manufacture of those very tsar cannons, she would not have become more amazing. The Tsar Cannon is known among high-precision shooting professionals for its rifles. The most accurate in Europe. No more, no less invisible universe. Eagle eye of mankind. X-ray astronomy, which began with satellites to detect nuclear explosions, now helps unravel the mysteries of space Invisible strike force. Attack ships of a new class. Everything happened in a matter of moments. A second ago, a routine refueling operation was in full swing. And in the next moment, the crew of the landing ship USS Cole struggled to keep the missile cruiser afloat. These events turned out to be a tragedy for the families and friends of the 17 dead sailors. invisible glass. How the optics were illuminated. Even at school, Katherine Blodgett made a firm decision to become a scientist. But, although her grades in physics and mathematics were excellent, it was not easy to do this - at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, such a career was considered unsuitable for a woman. Helped by chance invisible heroes. Flight fixation. Only one person can see the tricks of a skysurfer with his own eyes - an air videographer. The author of the survey and the editors of the PM urge readers not to attempt to repeat this survey without sufficient qualifications and experience. Ski jumping with a bar and camera mounted on it is difficult and dangerous Invisible friends of the driver. Trusted by electronics. A modern car is noticeably different from cars thirty years ago. It consumes less fuel, its exhaust is cleaner, it is more comfortable. Finally, in the event of an accident, it will inflate the airbags and reduce the severity of the accident. But, perhaps, the most important difference is the constant presence of some invisible friend in the interior of a modern car. Electronic guardian angel will do everything to prevent an accident Invisible Fleet. From the Varangians to Asia. The submarine nuclear tanker has no competitors on the Northern Sea Route: it is not afraid of either stormy weather or ice fields There is no impossible. The real Escher staircase. One of the main areas of creativity of the great Dutch graphic artist Maurice Escher was the depiction of impossible objects. Closed circular staircases leading only upwards, self-intersecting squares and triangles - Escher rethought three-dimensional space, trying to convey his vision of geometric paradoxes on canvas The impossible EmDrive engine: into space without fuel High Science Week Non-children's toys. Explosion Non-children's toys. General designer. Are you reverting to childhood? - asked me a relative from the Urals, who arrived for the weekend, when he saw the inscription LEGO on the box. But an hour later, he, a former design engineer of mining machines at the Uraltransmash plant, together with me enthusiastically assembled the first tracked vehicle from the parts of the kit: this is how Popular Mechanics decided to refute the opinion that LEGO designers are children's toys Bad fellow. Combat railway missile system. This year has brought sensational news: the trademark weapons of Russian missilemen - combat railway missile systems (BZHRK) remain in the combat composition of the Strategic Missile Forces Undocumented features. Story Underdeveloped pioneers. Metamorphoses Unfeminine work by Tatjana van Wark. Physics Non-female labor. Dishwasher. Josephine Garis was born in 1839. Her father, a civil engineer and jack-of-all-trades, built mills and sawmills on the Ohio River and, after his wife's death, took up the position of Indiana State Waterworks Superintendent in Valparaiso. Inanimate with scythes Open space. Polygon with a view of the future. Located in the desert, the airfield provides an opportunity for aviation and space enthusiasts to make their contribution to world history. Non-freezing Unearthly beauty. Astronomy. New cameras aboard the Hubble Space Telescope reveal the artistry of the universe Heavenly tour. Space tourism. Speaking of cosmic success, we usually mean that the next lucky person has earned an astronomical sum and made a fortune. A little less often, this means worldwide fame and universal popularity (apparently, it is assumed that we have no brothers in mind in the Universe). And finally, the last thing the author of this expression would think is that a person can literally give space to everyone who wants it, as the designer Bert Rutan did Heavenly Machines. Near Saint Petersburg. The Sea of Thirst is not filled with water, but with dust. That is why it seems so unusual to people, so attracts and fascinates. Fine as talc, drier than the calcined sands of the Sahara, lunar dust behaves in the local vacuum, like the most fluid liquid. If you drop a heavy object, it will immediately disappear - not a trace, not a splash... It is impossible to move on this insidious surface, except perhaps on two-seat vacuum cleaners specially designed for this. Arthur Clarke, Moondust, 1961 Invisible care. Hydraulic systems: Nissan Patrol Furious sailboats. The most outstanding modern sailing ships. The history of sailing boats is rich in interesting ideas and amazing finds. But only in the era of lightning-fast computers and practically weightless structural materials, sailboats appeared that go beyond traditional ideas and refute scientific experiments. The inexhaustible energy of Jeff Lieberman Neutron piggy banks. Isotopic stories. A team of physicists at the University of Michigan at East Lansing have succeeded in producing superheavy magnesium isotopes with more than double the excess of neutrons over protons. Non-circular world Non-flying vehicle. Cyclo fat. Projects of original aircraft appear regularly. An aircraft with a closed wing contour was built in Belarus, an Englishman Patrick Peebles designed a fan wing, and in Ulyanovsk, work is underway on a locomoskyner-type airship. All these ideas are not new - their prototypes were created at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, at the dawn of aircraft construction. Non-flying saucer. Avro Canada. On February 11, 1953, the Canadian newspaper Toronto Star published a sensational report that at the Avro Canada plant in Molton, by order of the military, a fantastic vertical take-off and landing aircraft was being built, reaching speeds of up to 2400 km / h. Five days later, under public pressure, the Canadian Department of Defense was forced to officially confirm the information, but refused to disclose the details of the project. Extra energy Inhumans. digital actors. Digital heroes look like real ones, but they don’t pull complex dramaturgy Some cash. Currency. Evgeny Garkushev is a well-known Russian science fiction writer and journalist, laureate of the prestigious Roscon Literary Prize (2010), published since 1994. Author of 18 books and author's collections - both solo and in collaboration with Andrey Egorov, Daria Bulatnikova and others, compiler of several science fiction anthologies. The most famous books - Nothing but Magic, Space Convicts cycle, Plush Samurai collection Silent movie. Inappropriate perfectionism. If not for inventor Abner Doble's unbridled pursuit of perfection, we might still be riding silent steam cars today. Unusual smartphones: with ultrasound, Geiger counters and echo sounders Unusual human genes: where and why they appeared Incorruptible car. Cash machine. James Ritty was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1837. His father, Leger Ritty, emigrated from Alsace to the United States and opened a small pharmacy where he sold various medicinal herbs. Three of his five sons - Sebastian, John and James - were born inventors. Heavy money: the myth of the suitcase with gold The impermanent eternal Impenetrable battleships and explosive superguns. A heavy share of dreadnoughts. During the Crimean War of 1854-1855, the allied fleet drove the Russian sailing fleet into bases. However, the Anglo-French sailing and steam squadron for a long time was afraid to come close to the Russian coastal batteries of Sevastopol and Sveaborg, not to mention Kronstadt - Russian cores broke through the sides of the daredevils Nerve cells do not regenerate? unreal helmet Non-Resonant Resonance Stainless Geometry Ann Lilly Non-Russian slides. Folk fun, brought to technical perfection. Today, car traffic along the four-kilometer mountain road connecting the two small Swiss towns of Davos and Kloster resembles urban traffic: either motorcades of politicians and financiers hurrying to the next high-altitude summit are passing by, or cars loaded with skis and snowboards and buses with skiers are crawling into the mountains. And at the end of the XNUMXth century, the road was deserted and people rode on it much more often on sleds than on any other mode of transport. Unbending. Knives Indestructible Non-drying clay Unhappy Unions. Tragedy. In the entire history of Soviet cosmonautics, there were only 2 cases of death of cosmonauts, both times it happened during descent from orbit, and both cases are associated with the Soyuz spacecraft No pilot, no problem. UAV on demobilization. Unmanned aircraft, without which the military can no longer do, are now ready to serve in the civilian world Non-silent gliders clumsy sport Non-traditional orientation Unformatted. Oblique fathom. When I unpacked my brand new widescreen TV and hooked up a DVD player to it, I discovered a lot of new things. For example, that the concept of a wide screen is different for filmmakers and television people. At least 27% Oil is alive and dead. Where did black gold come from? Experts perceive the widespread forecast of imminent (in 30-50 years) depletion of oil reserves in different ways. Most - with respect (and they are), others are skeptical (oil reserves are limitless!), and others with regret (could be enough for centuries ...). Popular mechanics decided to look into this issue Oil fever. The fat of the earth. Vast deposits of oil sands in northern Canada. To take away the black gold from nature, here, at the end of the world, large-scale developments using cyclopean mechanisms are needed. But is the game worth the candle? Inhuman race. Self-propelled carriages. You are lost in the desert, you are thirsty and suddenly you see that an SUV loomed on the horizon. Hoping to escape, you rush towards it with all your might, but a few meters before the target you find that there is not a soul in the moving car! You say that this could only happen in a nightmare? Wrong, nowadays it can happen to anyone The inhuman factor. Robots. In the Australian outback scorched by the sun, an exemplary team of robot miners day and night gnaws out hundreds of thousands of tons of iron ore from Mother Earth. In terms of intelligence, hard workers cannot be compared with the Deep Blue chess player. But with discipline they have complete order! Inhuman business. Shot Not a drop of blood. Blood test without traces. The hour is not far off when in the medical laboratory the needle, which is unpleasant for all of us, will be replaced by a completely painless non-invasive device. Not a speck of dust: how to achieve perfect cleanliness Not a word about tightrope walkers! Line Thread, needle, motor! Sewing machine. In Gorky's Childhood, little Alyosha Peshkov, who was brought up by his grandfather and rarely saw his mother, remembered her by her dress with a number of small buttons from the collar to the hem. Such fashionable dresses at the end of the XNUMXth century could not become mass without the improvement of sewing machines. Sewing on buttons by hand is a thankless task, and fashion has forced engineers to urgently set about creating mechanisms for sewing on buttons with two and four holes and with an eye UFO of the Soviet assembly. By trophy technologies. If a person claims to have seen a flying saucer in the early 1950s, do not rush to think that he fell into insanity Nobel Prizes 2010. Nobel and Schnobel Nobel Prizes 2013 Nobel 2006. Who became a millionaire. This year, the most prestigious prizes awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for scientific achievements went to the Americans. Nobel 2015: simple diseases, neutrino transformation and DNA repair New Toyota Camry: test drive New armored doctrine New moon race. Sat on the moon - get money. Winning it is very simple - just recruit a team, build a spacecraft, charter a launch vehicle, land on the moon ... and get a large cash prize The new reality of stereokino. Avatar. Receiving an Oscar in 1997 for the super-successful Titanic, James Cameron proclaimed himself the king of the world. For 12 years, the director has been preparing to return to the big screen with a project worthy of a crowned person. Cameron is sure that Avatar, where there was a place for an adventurous plot, action scenes and an interstellar love story, will change the audience's perception of cinema. The newest Tu-214ON: a spy in law The new dimension of television. 3DTV A New Beginning New Horizons New robotics laws: how robot rights are regulated in Europe New Wings of Europe New worlds New songs about ancient heroes. A saga told by a computer. Beowulf is the oldest monument of Anglo-Saxon poetry, an epic about heroes and monsters, about exploits, battles and omnipotent fate. The scriptwriters managed, following the letter of the ancient source, to make the poem accessible to the modern audience. Ever since working on Forrest Gump, Robert Zemeckis has been hatching plans to make a film with just XNUMXD animation... New Creators. Games played by the gods. The boundary beyond which a person acts as a Creator has already been overcome. Artificial life has been created. True, it's a semi-synthetic half-life New Bell helicopter and other amazing photos New Palace of the Heavenly. Space New Kalash. Details The new boat of the king. Volga ellipse. The first ship of a young Yaroslavl company was bought by the King of Jordan New maize: will Russia build a biplane of the XNUMXst century A New Paradox of Quantum Mechanics: The Quantum Cheshire Cat Phenomenon New order. Without a government. Once Jim and his girlfriend were sitting in a cafe. She asked him what he was thinking about so intently. He replied: I am thinking of the moment when evolution becomes revolution. The quick-witted girl asked: Well, what legitimate government are you going to overthrow? In response, she heard: I believe that not one will stand The new dawn of solar energy. Solar power plants. For more than half a century, solar energy has pleased researchers more with its fabulous prospects than with specific electricity flowing into the grid. Today, solar power plants are becoming a serious source of energy. New World The new mind of the king: how the best machine learning systems in the world are created New quadruped Knives and fantasies by Evgeny Charikov. Art. The cultural heritage of the Ancient Caucasus, the gloomy visions of the famous Dutchman and the artistic traditions of St. Petersburg became sources of inspiration for Evgeny Charikov, a Vladikavkaz master who makes very unusual knives. Knives that can be broken. New sharp edges. The Iron Age is coming to an end - space and aviation materials are coming to replace steel in the kitchen: zirconium ceramics, titanium, composites and teflon. Time-honored steel blades will have to endure the battle with today's high technology. Humanity's Night Selfie and Other Stunning Photos The night Watch. A way to find a black cat in a dark room. “Mr. Obersturmbannfuehrer,” someone whispered. “I see them,” Repp answered. The scope is on. The screen lit up. He saw the first one, a flickering, humanoid patch of light against the green darkness. Then, behind him, another, and behind him a third. He jerked the shutter and aimed the dark crosshairs of the Vampire at the first figure ... Around 22:00, 11 shots were fired silently and in complete darkness, all eleven hit the target Night in broad daylight. Full eclipse. It got darker and darker, blacker and blacker. At last it became dark as in a mine, and the whole crowd howled in horror, feeling the breath of a cold, mysterious night wind and seeing twinkling stars in the sky. Here it is, total eclipse. Mark Twain, A Yankee in King Arthur's Court Night. Fishing rod. Flashlight. Fishing. Night fishing. The evening dawn is ending. It's getting dark. Most anglers pack up their gear and head home or wander off to cozy campfires and tents to continue fishing in the morning. Meanwhile, night fishing is an occupation no less interesting and productive than daytime fishing. Night Day. Filming in the dark. A year ago, Popular Mechanics spoke in detail about the design of night vision devices (NVD). As a cheap alternative to real nightlights, we recommended camcorders with NightShot mode - video recording in complete darkness Do we need a Tsar Rocket? Start Zero step The guts of a tank. Props Dive into the TV. IFA-2008. At the annual IFA Consumer Electronics Show, a XNUMXD future peeked out from behind a TV screen. He looked at us cunningly and winked... About mice and genes About pilots and mechanics. Vitaly Petrov. During the 60-year history of the Formula 1 World Championship, pilots from 38 different countries have passed through it. Only Russia was missing. Vitaly Petrov opened the scoring not only for the Russian drivers in Formula 1, but also for their achievements: at the Chinese GP he won the first points, and at the Turkish GP he showed the fastest lap in the race. We asked Vitaly a few questions about the technical side of racing and how he perceives his profession About the benefits of mold. Healing fungus. If a biology student brings a piece of moldy cheese to college, this does not mean that he is very hungry. He goes to a lab to look under a microscope at the Penicillium fungus, which has changed the history of medicine and helped defeat some seemingly incurable diseases. Say a word about cholesterol. Fat bastard? We say cholesterol - we mean atherosclerosis. We say atherosclerosis - we mean cholesterol. But is it fair? What is the transformer buzzing about What are the icebergs singing about? Feeling of snow. Antarctica, an icy desert with unbearable climatic conditions for living creatures, is perhaps the most inhospitable place on our planet. However, it is she, unfriendly and icy, that increasingly attracts the attention of the scientific world. Here, climate scientists are trying to find the key to understanding what is happening to our planet. Overtaking planes. The fastest wheel-rail train in the world. Popular mechanics have been on trials of the AGV passenger train, which will soon become the fastest passenger wheel-rail train in the world Overview of gift microdrones by February 23 Clouds rule! The wreckage of a U-2 spy plane Optical illusion glad to be deceived Sniffed. Min no! Enriching reality. AG technology (Augmented Reality). By adding computer-generated objects to the dull gray world of our everyday life, we will get a completely new world. Burnt time: how enamel dials are made Shell for the super brain. Progress placebo rituals. Placebo and nocebo. No one knows how it works, but everyone uses it. It is based on scientific conclusions about the effectiveness of drugs. It itself can sometimes act as medicines and successfully replace them. Incomprehensible, like human nature itself, mysterious and contradictory, like everything in medicine, is a placebo Public transport: The swarm principle Lens under the blades. Panoramic shooting. Professional photo and video shooting using radio-controlled helicopter models is, if exotic, already quite widespread in the world. Even individual shots of Hollywood action films were shot in this way. But it's one thing to hear something about it, and another thing to see firsthand how pilots and photographers work together to create breathtaking high-altitude panoramas. Volume matters. vacuum bomb. Six and a half years later, Popular Mechanics again turns to volumetric detonating, thermobaric and other vacuum bombs. During this time, we were able to communicate with the developers of this amazing weapon, and we want to share the knowledge gained with our readers. Playing with God: how artificial DNA is made Vegetable artillery. We are preparing the gun. The inhabitants of the house with windows overlooking our office now have cause for concern: we have built a potato cannon, and it works! Vegetable mechanics. Cooking as an exact science. There are thousands of cookbooks. Using the detailed instructions of these storehouses of culinary knowledge, you can cook a wonderful dinner (if you have the skill). But practically nowhere is it explained - why do you need to cook this way and not otherwise? What chemical processes take place in the products during cooking (and most importantly, how to optimize these processes)? Therefore, despite the fact that cooking is traditionally considered an art, we decided to start a series of articles on the scientific methods of cooking. The first article in the series is devoted to vegetables Oganesson and Seaborgium: how elements get people's names Fire wheels. Technologies of modern archers. Spiteful critics say that modern bows shoot no better than those that were three thousand years ago. Let it be so, but they are lighter, stronger and more reliable Fire Snails by John Sarriugarte Gunshot katana. Trunks Fire and steam over the Volga Fire, water and pipes. Steam locomotive test drive. Now, when I proudly tell my friends that I rode a real steam locomotive Eu, threw coal into the furnace with these hands, and even sat in the driver’s seat, poorly concealed surprise and envy flicker in their eyes. After all, an old, but in excellent condition, locomotive is not some BMW 760 Li worth 150 thousand euros. Remember, in Alice in Wonderland: Do you know how much smoke from a steam locomotive costs? A thousand pounds - one ring!? Fire, earth and snow. sappers Can't find the fire? Investigation Robbery by… Money Protect and destroy Ode to the chief designer Clothes for vacuum. How space suits work. A modern space suit is a small autonomous spacecraft in which an astronaut can spend up to 10 hours a day in outer space. The editors of Popular Mechanics are pleased that the best spacesuits in the world are made in Russia, in Tomilin near Moscow Clothes for life. Microclimate. If you wince at the word extreme and don't consider yourself an outdoor enthusiast, it doesn't mean that high-tech has no place in your clothes. obsessed with motors Alone in the field warrior: crazy tractor-record holder One day with Neptune: a ship seeking oil and gas for Russia Home Alone One cartridge for two elements One steering wheel for two. Looking ahead. In experienced crews, the navigator controls the car to a greater extent than the pilot One with a zombie is not a warrior. Advantages of digital technologies. It's the epitome of a timeless plot - one man against the world, says director Francis Lawrence of his new film I Am Legend, an adaptation of Richard Matheson's hit 1954 science fiction novel. The hero of the picture is called Robert Neville (Will Smith), and he is the only one who survived in New York after a terrible virus destroyed most of humanity and turned the rest into bloodthirsty zombies Landscapers of Antarctica. Warm house. In November of this year, a ship with valuable cargo will head from Cape Town to the South Pole. Materials will be delivered to the coast of Antarctica for the assembly of the Belgian Antarctic station Princess Elisabeth (Princess Elizabeth) - the world's first polar base, which will operate from renewable energy sources. PM visited the inauguration of the station in Brussels Lake battery. Batteries Lake of speed. Salt Lake Bonneville. If premium gasoline flows in your arteries, if your heart is a turbocharged eight-cylinder engine, and your favorite scent is the smell of burning tires, then you need to visit Bonneville at least once in your life. Ocean spaceport. Low start. On July 7, 1998, the Russian nuclear submarine missile carrier Novomoskovsk (K-407) made an unusual missile launch. From an underwater position in the Barents Sea, a Shtil missile (a modified serial combat missile RSM-54) was launched, which instead of a warhead carried two telecommunications satellites - TUBSAT-N (8,5 kg) and TUBSAT-N1 (about 3 kg) ocean filter An eye for an eye. Great wheel. The London Eye Ferris wheel (London Eye) is so popular that British Airways even came up with a special program for those wishing to visit this wonder of the world and opened a website dedicated to it on the Internet. So far, Oko is the largest attraction of this type in Europe. But not for long. In a couple of years in Moscow, in the Vorobyovy Gory area, the Mir company will build a higher wheel Shackles for water. Hydroelectric power plants - pros and cons. In the wake of interest in renewable energy sources in the world, hydroelectric dams are being built here and there. Some of them amaze the imagination with their grandiosity. But, paying tribute to bold engineering solutions, it should be remembered that the huge masses of water held by dams are fraught with terrible destructive power. Ringed planet. Facing Saturn. NASA specialist comments on the fantastic picture obtained by the cameras of the Cassini space probe Ringed aircraft. Ring plane. An airplane with a closed wing contour cannot fly - time has proven. Ring planes have been tried since the time of the Wright brothers, and not a single such structure could stay in the air for even a few minutes. But the human mind does not give up. In 2007, after 100 years and more than 20 attempts, such a device still took off. And proved to be a maneuverable, light and durable aircraft Winged underwater. Soaring. If you are bored with ordinary water skiing, surfing, windsurfing or wakeboarding - take off to a new level on hydrofoils Inspired. From Swallow to Dolphin. Top officials in the West were well aware of the love of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU for good cars. Therefore, the party garage was soon replenished with high-speed foreign cars. Leonid Ilyich, in turn, did not remain in debt and thanked the technique for the technique. The heads of other countries received hydrofoil boats as a gift from Brezhnev. The General Secretary knew that Alekseev's high-speed vessels were revered all over the world. Popular mechanics visited Nizhny Novgorod, the homeland of Russian cruise ships Inspired by India Olympics for the smart Olympic science. Technodoping Olympic Science. Physics and physiology in the world of sports. Why is swimmer Michael Phelps considered the perfect athlete? How does gymnast Nastya Liukina do her incredible jumps from the uneven bars? Let's understand the physics and physiology in the world of sports Olympic Science: Winter Session. Sport. The Vancouver Winter Olympics are over. Athletes from five continents showed what they are capable of. Sometimes it seemed that they knew how to subordinate the laws of physics and gravity, not to mention the remarkable will to win and excellent physical fitness. Well, let's look at the Olympics from the point of view of science Olympic technique Tin soldiers. Games of room commanders. Strictly speaking, they were not always made of tin, and even now this metal is rarely used in its pure form - usually we are talking about its alloys. But the fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen is very memorable to everyone since childhood. Remember: The old tin spoon had twenty-five sons? Tin soldiers. Miniature fighting robots. It is possible that on the battlefields of the future there will be no place for a person at all - miniature robots will fight among themselves. He promised to return. Terminator 4. A quarter of a century ago, a film was released that forever changed cinematic fiction and created a whole world where, moving in time, heroes-saviors and cyborgs-killers are fighting for the existence of mankind. How the next round of confrontation between people and machines will end, Russian viewers will find out on June 4 She drowned. The flagship of the Swedish crown. With this catchphrase, King Gustav II Adolf could answer the question of journalists, what happened to the pride of the Swedish royal fleet - the heavily armed galleon Vasa, which crashed on its very first voyage They were the first. The oldest stars They enter the brain. Experiments on people Is liquid smoke dangerous and what is it Are drugs released into the environment dangerous? Dangerous gnome Operating system Operation Bagration: Blitzkrieg to the West Operation Reef. The benefits of underwater barriers. In the USSR, they became interested in artificial reefs in the early 60s, when the first consequences of the technogenic impact of industrial cities appeared on the sea. Ahead of time. Leonardo da Vinci. The profession of an inventor is akin to the craft of a fortune teller. Both are trying to see into the future. late for the war. Missile tanks Identified flying object. Kaemochka - the main thing in a plate. A flying saucer (of course, not the one that is a UFO) is familiar to almost everyone. Why not just use this simple thing: they carry water in it, they fan the fire under the barbecue with it, they put dog food in it. And she can fly too! Identified flying object. frisbee Editorial Experience: A Flame That Goes Down Experience with kinetic sand Experience: how to get dry sand out of water Orbital kitchen. Cooking as an exact science. When I was in elementary school, my father once brought me marmalade in a tube from Estonia. My delight knew no bounds - after all, it was precisely such food, according to the opinion prevailing at that time, that the astronauts ate. But all my attempts to stuff borsch or something else into a tube were unsuccessful. It will be easier for those who read this article - Popular Mechanics has figured out the secrets of Russian space food Orbital crowbars Orbital maneuvers Search warrant. Spy Arsenal. The purpose of many of the instruments presented here became known to the general public many years after the death of their owners. More spy gadgets still cleverly masquerade as household items to this day. Originality above all else A weapon of truth and revenge Ghost weapon. Soviet intelligence did not believe in the existence of this gun until the end of the war. At 5:35 on June 5, 1942, a thunderous sound shook the valley near Bakhchisarai, which in 20 years people would have mistaken for a thermonuclear explosion. At the railway station and in the houses of the townsfolk in the southern part of Bakhchisarai, windows flew out. After 45 seconds, a huge projectile fell north of the Mekenzievy Gory station, a few tens of meters from the field ammunition depot of the 95th Infantry Division. The next seven shots were fired at the old coastal battery No. 16 south of the village of Lyubimovka. On June 5, six more shots were fired at an anti-aircraft battery of the Black Sea Fleet. The last shot that day was fired at dusk - at 19 hours 58 minutes Weapon exotic: Kalashnikov KSZ-223, exclusive carbine Weaponsmith of Champions. New Khaidurov pistol. The legendary Soviet athlete and designer of sports weapons Efim Khaidurov, after a twenty-year forced break, presented a new model of a sports pistol for high-speed shooting SP-08 Weapons of the future. Promising developments. Winston Churchill once said that generals always prepare for the last war. Who, then, is preparing for the wars of the future? First of all, these are design engineers and developers of various types of weapons. In many ways, it depends on them and their works how the war of the near future will look like. Weapon of the century: artillery. The best guns Weapon of the century: bombs. Best Bombs Weapon of the century: armored vehicles. The best armored vehicles Weapon of the century: helicopters. The best helicopters Weapon of the century: ships. The best ships Weapon of the century: air defense - missile defense. The best missile and air defense systems Weapon of the century: missiles. The best rockets Weapon of the century: aircraft. The best planes Weapon of the century: small arms. The best small arms in 100 years Weapon of the century: submarines. The best submarines Weapons are illegal. 10 banned weapons Weapon of a wealthy boyar. How to build a bow. All of us in childhood played Indians and made our own bows. As a rule, these were straight branches of trees about two centimeters in diameter, pulled together by the edges with a nylon rope. Arrows were made from window slats and bird feathers. However, the compound bows of epic heroes were the subject of real envy. Popular mechanics realized childhood dreams and made a real composite bow of Russian warriors of the XNUMXth century Weapons of mass destruction Weapons of the irreconcilable. RPG-7. Black market bazookas and rockets kill American soldiers. What to oppose them? Weapon of victory. From grenade to fighter. There is an opinion that the Soviet Union won the Great Patriotic War more by numbers than by skill. However, putting weapons into the hands of every soldier in such a large army is the greatest skill for designers, workers and all rear servicemen. Weapon of Poseidon. The enemy will be hit. The Russian analogue of the American naval missile Harpoon was born in pain for more than 20 years Special Forces weapon. The arsenal of the army elite. Special operation - the word itself speaks for itself. Specially trained personnel, using a wide range of specially designed materiel, take purely specific actions in an unusual situation. Somewhere specialists lead a cavalry raid of freedom fighters, somewhere they help smoke out evil tyrants from their secret underground shelters - always and everywhere American special forces have the most modern and most effective weapons at hand. We illuminate the future. Technologies of tomorrow. Don't throw away burnt out light bulbs! Your grandchildren will be able to pay for their higher education by selling them as antiques. Electric lamps have served us for more than a hundred years, and now it is their turn to go to the dustbin of history, following whale oil lamps. The contender for filling the vacant position is the light-emitting diode (LED). Most often we encounter him, wielding the remote control from the TV - he is there at the very tip Exploration of the Arctic: The Northern Sea Route returns Riding the wind. The history of the kite. On November 30 this year, the patent for the most unusual invention in the field of aerodynamics in the last XNUMX years, the inflatable kite of the brothers Leganu, or a curved wing with an inflatable structure, as stated in the patent application, expires. High-explosive downpour Dazzling orchestra. Brilliant performance. Eurovision 2006. 13 meters of stage, 500 rotating spotlights, 12 light guns, 250 square meters of animated LED panels, a network of 16 servers, 280 suspension chains, 200 meters of metal trusses and 180 kilometers of cables. And all this is at the disposal of one person - the lighting designer Stop, rot! Antiseptic. What do you do if you get scratched? Smear the scratch with iodine or brilliant green, cover it with a bactericidal plaster. For what? A strange question: so that microbes do not get into the wound and it does not fester Caution: lemons on the road! Island of the future. Technology territory. A deserted island in the middle of San Francisco Bay could be the most prestigious area, the preserve of the most expensive real estate in the world, a showcase where the latest examples of sustainable building are on display. Now, when 75% of the world's resources are consumed in cities, this would be more than relevant Dream Island. floating resort. If the flight of thought is not interfered with, sometimes fantastic things are invented. For example, a floating resort the size of a small island, with its own monorail, yacht harbor and accommodation for 10 people. What is the price? Three and a half billion dollars... Octopuses: intelligent, cephalopods Touching beam. XNUMXD scanners easily copy the world around them From artel to empire: how Chinese companies rise From top to top. Funicular. In December, the most grandiose cable car in the world will start working - it will connect two large mountain peaks in the most famous mountain resort in North America. The gondola will carry passengers over a distance of more than 3 km over the gorge between two support towers. Through the windows they will see the bottom of the valley four hundred meters below them. From the heroes of yesteryear. Search From division to synthesis. Neutron bomb. A Tale of Even More Powerful Fusion Munitions From a dream From fire and master keys. Safe means safe. Unfortunately, there are no safes that save you from all misfortunes. From Paris to Chelyabinsk From station to metropolis Counter attack. Red versus blue. VMD enters the battle of future digital video disc standards based on blue laser, Blu-ray and HD DVD Give voice to the machine. Voices from the urn Electricity-free hotel, floating island and solar probe test Patriotic army Where did lead additives come from in fuel? Where did lizard bones come from? Excavations. Paleontology is the science of the totality of ancient extinct life. Scientists are also interested in the petrified remains of tiny mollusks, and traces of bacteria that lived hundreds of millions of years ago, and the pollen of unimaginably long faded plants. But still, nothing strikes our imagination so much from childhood as the miraculously preserved skeletons of ancient vertebrates. Measure the dose. Dosimeter test Frozen transport. On what they are taken to the tundra. This year, real snowbikes appeared in Russia. Snow bikes instantly replaced snowmobiles and took the place of the leader of winter extreme technical entertainment. Treasure of travelers. Bags on wheels. In the 1970s and 1980s, a desire to change places swept the world. But it was not easy for travelers - in the literal sense of the word: a fair part of the way they had to carry luggage in their hands or on themselves 'Oumuamua, or 1I/2017 U1: the first object that arrived from another star Office typography. Black and white printers will soon become a rarity. The times are still fresh in my memory when, to print a large graph, you had to travel somewhere to use a plotter, in which a mechanical hand moved a felt-tip pen over the paper, and the only non-industrial way to get a decent quality color image was to use photographic paper. But, slowly, felt-tip plotters died (today all plotters are actually inkjet printers), and less and less often we run to the darkroom. The reason for this in recent years has been the explosive development of color printing technologies. Office Formula 1. Models. When you see a magnificent Ferrari model on the table of a colleague, take a closer look. It could be a real racing car Hunting without gunpowder. Killer pneumatics. The cost of a shot from an airgun is much lower than from a firearm. And the pleasure from a quiet and light shot is no less than from a loud and stunning Vampire hunting. mosquitoes Hunting for big fish Microbial hunting. Biology. The laboratory of a young biologist is sold in educational toy stores. Even adult researchers will envy the digital microscope that comes with this toy Hunting for the invisible. A laudable serial murder. We told how night vision devices are arranged. But without a test drive of the instruments themselves, we wouldn't be Popular Mechanics. The choice between night binoculars, monoculars and sights definitely leaned towards the latter - we are a men's magazine. We got the sights pretty quickly. The question arose of what and whom to shoot. Shooting at paper targets in a shooting range with extinguished lamps did not suit us Hunter hunting. Hey, I see you! Security saves only from the second shot, - says the saying of the special services. Knowledgeable people usually add: Only very good security Planet hunt. Neptune. The struggle to discover Neptune - the last (eighth) planet in the solar system, the only one that cannot be seen from Earth with the naked eye - is a real Anglo-French detective story with an intriguing plot of rivalry for scientific priority Hunting for laundresses. All about washing in modern machines. Owning a modern washing machine is good, but owning the right washing machine is even better. So that the inquisitive reader does not make a mistake with the choice, we found out how some washing machines differ from others and in what cases which of them is preferable Aircraft hunting. Planespotting. At almost any American airport and at almost any time, you can find a mysterious bunch of people who are closely watching the take-off and landing conveyor, relentlessly photographing planes passing by. The local police do not suspect these cranks of terrorist plans, realizing that planespotting is just a hobby. Hunter in ambush: getting acquainted with the Mi-28N attack helicopter shark hunter Aircraft hunters. We do not fly ourselves, and we do not give to others. The biggest nuisance for the Soviet attack aircraft of the Second World War, flying out to storm the German tank columns, were the German self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (ZSU), which met our planes with a hail of fire. Soviet tankers were deprived of such protection Treasure hunters. How to search for treasures. The most modern equipment and scuba divers who prefer to work the old fashioned way. A company founded by the king of American treasure hunters manages to find Spanish gold in Florida waters. Very little football. Nanobot Football League. Moving rapidly, the attacker goes to the empty gate. Goal! The referee's whistle announces the end of the match, and with a score of 3:0, the Swiss become the first world champions. Nanofootball. Among robots Resurrection Queue Invisibility glasses Andrey Sakharov's mistake Immunity error. Allergy. It is unlikely that in our time you can find a person who has not heard anything about allergies. Alas, in one form or another, this disease occurs very, very often. Unfortunately, even allergy sufferers themselves have little idea of what exactly they suffer from. Mistake engineer Tupolev. Flat-bottomed torpedo bombers. Few people know that the Soviet torpedo boats of World War II were giant floats from seaplanes. Pentagon mistake. Who said hafnium? A bomb based on the Hf-178-m2 hafnium isomer could become the most expensive and powerful in the history of non-nuclear explosive devices. But she didn't. Now this case is recognized as one of the most high-profile failures of DARPA On rails to hell. Supersonic Death Express. The railgun resembles a toy railroad for adults: electric current also flows along parallel rails, only instead of a train, a supersonic express of death rushes along them Fall on health. 10 km without a parachute. Survival guide for falling from a ten-kilometer height. Fall speed - 190 km / h, fall time - 3 minutes PAK FA vs F-35: who will be the winner Broadsword on the Tomahawk. Anti-missile rapid fire. The sound of the ship's automata makes a big impression. 170 shots per second - a wild howl, unbearable to the human ear. Because of this, our naval officers prefer AK-306 mounts with a slower rate of fire than AK-630 and Broadsword Paleonuclear bomb Palette of one paint: the author's method of creating images on metal In memory of the Little Prince Memory in black holes Panama Canal 2.0. Wider, safer, more technological. World shipping is gaining momentum, the size of ships is growing, and now this miracle of engineering, a miracle of human organizational abilities, what is commonly called a big ditch, does not cope with the duties assigned to it. It's time to significantly expand this waterway Panacea, daughter of Asclepius. Can there be an old dream of doctors - a cure for all diseases? There is no panacea - it is in this context that the term is most often heard. This is not entirely true. It is at least in Greek mythology. But the more we learn about the human body, the more elusive the hope of getting a real panacea becomes - to create a universal pill (in a narrower sense) or a treatment technique (in a broader one) Pandemic: identikit Panoramic world. The big city is full of advertisements. Not so long ago, my eyes lingered on a catchy slogan: Panorama - in a few seconds! Rotate 245°! The poster depicted a new digital SLR designed specifically for panoramic photography. Yes, today the panorama has become a simple matter, but the history of the development of panoramic photography has known its triumphs and defeats. Carapace caterpillar and armor plate. Armored exotics. Stagnation has long been observed in world tank building, gradually turning into a crisis. Exhausted internal reserves to improve the classical model. Fresh ideas are urgently needed. Experiments and the search for new solutions sometimes lead to rather exotic results. For example, to the creation of combat vehicles with a non-standard hull shape and tanks with an articulated double-hull chassis Shell for hydrospace. From the wrath of Neptune. The underwater suit fits like a good suit, is forged like a sword, and moves underwater like a helicopter. Dad was wrong. Traditional automotive wisdom is becoming obsolete. Many of us grew up considering our father as the bearer of the ultimate truth and an inexhaustible source of answers to all traditionally male questions. Dad was always happy to explain in detail how to hammer a nail, how to fight off bullies, how to turn on the TV and, of course, how to handle a car. Unfortunately, not all of daddy's car admonitions correspond to modern reality. Let's not talk about hooligans and nails, but cars have changed significantly since his youth. For exemplary sons and daughters, we will tell you about the most common automotive misconceptions Steam on the table. Steam machines. Our material about the history and design of the most beautiful mechanisms of the XNUMXth century - steam locomotives - received an unexpected continuation. It seemed that steam engines had successfully migrated from rail transport to office desks. Parallel Humanities: Stories of Lost Chance Parametric architecture: what is it Steamers. Quiet freedom. Imagine that the aircraft you are flying in has lost its engines. Perhaps this is one of the worst nightmares. This is probably why aircraft capable of flying for hours in the air without motors evoke almost mystical feelings. We decided to start our acquaintance with gliders with their miniature copies - models. And with one of the most difficult varieties - free-flying. That is, without radio control Period park Parking at the height Sound parking. One problem less. And I know how to park by the sound! - you say, - you smoothly move off and move towards the next car until you hear a slight boom. It is a pity that you will not be able to pass the exam in the traffic police with such skills. Don't be upset, it's better to be happy for your future children: they may no longer have to pass either the entrance to the garage or the parallel parking, as the cars will perform these maneuvers without the participation of the driver Pair race. 300 km/h on a steam engine. The longest-lived land speed record must be broken this year. The record holder, the 1906 Stanley Rocket steam car, finally has a worthy competitor. Steamers: fast, silent and simple. Steam cars. At the beginning of the last century, steam cars overtook airplanes. Steam Phantom Fuel. Bruce Crower's 6-stroke engine In Bruce Crower's XNUMX-stroke engine, burned fuel does work again, coming back to life in the form of hot steam. Steamer. Industrial Revolution. There is a legend that James Watt invented his steam engine by looking at the steam coming out of the spout of a boiling kettle. The share of truth in this myth is less than the efficiency of the first steam engines. However, none of the graves of Westminster Abbey has such a respectful epitaph as Watt's. Steam punks. Steam history. From a conversation with friends, I accidentally found out that many people have no idea what steampunk is. Parthenogenesis. Undivided motherhood. Most of the living world is divided in half. By sex. For gender female and gender male. By making the production of offspring a matter of two individuals instead of one, nature has taken a step forward, as the mixing of genetic material gives a chance for the appearance of more viable organisms. Sail and wing Stepchildren of the Luftwaffe. Aviation Gramophone of the XXI century. Turntables. Anyone who has seen a Transrotor turntable at least once in their life will never forget this name. And whoever heard it will forever get rid of the idea that the time of vinyl is irretrievably gone Patriarchs of the computer age. Semiconductors: less is more. During the heyday of amateur radio in the first half of the last century, simple home-made devices were popular, with which you could listen to the transmissions of nearby radio stations. Spider web and sand. A man-special effect... And again there is no rest for the inhabitants of the glorious city of New York. A simple fugitive from justice, Marco, turns into the Sandman, a bank robber gifted with supernatural abilities, and a simple newspaper photographer, Eddie, into a black Venom who sows death and destruction around him. And only one Spiderman (in the world - Peter Parker) is able to stop this chaos. Unless, of course, the newfound frenzied popularity does not go to his head ... Web under water. Cable Powerscope. Passion for magnification. - Do you want me to show you a reality show? - the editor-in-chief asked the editorial staff, who were peacefully celebrating the New Year that had not yet arrived at his house. Everyone was silent and looked at him in surprise. Plowmen of ice. How icebreakers work. The desire to the North led the Russians to the invention of the icebreaker Pegasus can't take two. Air bag. Failed hovercraft test drive Ashes, ashes, you are mighty! Is flying dangerous? In the footsteps of the volcano, the April transport collapse clearly demonstrated that in order for planes to fly smoothly, the presence of volcanic ash in the air will have to be considered not as a force majeure, but as a weather factor. Can a modern airliner pass through a cloud of dust? The world's first Goldberg chemical machine Russia's first private launch vehicle: how it's done First green First space mile. Orbit First Swallow World War I: weapons of the Russian army The first synthetic drug. Aspirin. Aspirin became the first fully synthetic drug that has no direct analogs in nature. Primal robots: in the beginning they were First whites The world's first tanks: the birthday of the car of death First atomic. 50 years of the Russian nuclear fleet. On December 3, 2009, Russia's civilian nuclear fleet is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Exactly XNUMX years ago, the world's first nuclear-powered icebreaker was put into operation, which received an incredibly honorable name for that era - Lenin The world's first children's constructor for creating neural interfaces The world's first polyphonic music synthesizer ANS First on the slope. Ratrak The first after God. Surfing First record holder. On fuel cells. Auto racing has always been in the hands of ordinary cars. At first, manufacturers struggle to create the best racing car, but in the end, sporting achievements settle down on production cars, making them more efficient. So when Ohio State University students approached Ford Motor Company in 2005 to join forces to build a record-breaking hydrogen fuel cell car, the automaker jumped at the idea. First current First step into the sky. Paragliding. Do not fall on your knees in front of the sky or familiarly beat him on the shoulder. To the sky you need to turn to you and reach out with a smile Changeling. A tumbler ship. The shape of this device slightly resembles a giant baseball bat. It is called FLIP (Floating Instrument Research Platform), has a displacement of 700 tons and belongs to the Navy, although it is operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Animal language translators: how to talk to your pet Inflections in place. Paper is patient. It is believed that origami is a purely Japanese tradition, but the art of folding arose wherever paper appeared. Director of the Moscow Origami Club Roman Sviridov told us about the tricks of paper art Laser energy transfer: how it works Reshape reality. The best movie effects of 2006. When lush fantasy trilogies, historical epics and obvious blockbusters suddenly disappeared from the screens - Pirates of the Caribbean does not count - high-quality special effects have not gone away. Superheroes and super agents, vampires and cartoon animals continue to delight us. Filmmakers are no longer so interested in recreating reality, rather they are trying to reshape this reality. Read about the most curious, witty and original effects of 2006! Blood transfusion for rejuvenation, parkour tracers and other letters of the month variable stars. About the stars that change their shine. In a variety of objects of the Universe, even in ancient times, stars were noticed that change their brightness. Such a star was the beta of the constellation Perseus - Algol (from the Arabic word Al Ghul - the eye of the devil). Perseus holds in his hand the head of the Gorgon Medusa. One eye of Medusa winked at the shocked ancient Arabs, for which it got its name. Luxury crossing Reprogramming instead of cloning. Organs and tissues in reserve. Researchers at Harvard University have published the results of experiments that may help solve controversial problems in the medical use of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) Table periods Permanent revolution Sand Wars: An Available Resource That Might Disappear The colorful magic of the Rubik's Cube. Rubik's Cube Petrovskaya field gun: how it works Gene printing Cave of bones: the strangest archaeological find Seamstress pilot. Paragliders in Russia. According to the qualification characteristics, a seamstress-minder of the 1-2nd category must know the design of universal and special industrial sewing machines, be able to adjust the tension of the threads, check the quality of the work performed, prevent and eliminate defects, observe the safety rules and industrial sanitation ... And the seamstress is also obliged skydiving or paragliding at least once in her life, at least if she works for the Paraavis plant The pilots remain on the ground. Drones Pill of happiness. Hit the pill on depression! According to the World Health Organization, about five percent of all people in the world suffer from depression. Sometimes it’s just a blues, sometimes it’s a complete inability to cope with a life situation, up to a desire to commit suicide: according to statistics, about half of all suicides in the world are committed by people with depression Penguins over Africa. Film effects. After the impressive results of the full-length digital cartoon Madagascar in 2005, DreamWorks began working on a sequel. Heroes of the new picture Madagascar-2. Escape from Africa - civilized inhabitants of the New York Zoo, who, after the crash of the plane of the brave airline Penguin Air, end up in their historical homeland - Africa Strategic pioneer Green Fever Pioneers. hybrids. According to the forecasts of automobile concerns, the chances that in twenty years the buyer will choose a familiar car, a hybrid or a hydrogen electric car, will be approximately equal. Without waiting for such times to come, we compared three alternatives Pirate and the sea. Fifteen special effects on a dead man's chest. When three years ago the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, based on the Disney attraction, triumphantly passed through the screens of the whole world, it became obvious that we could not escape the continuation Pirates at the end of the world. Chest with special effects. The third part of the Pirates of the Caribbean is the adventures of familiar characters and the emergence of new exotic characters, the continuation of the storyline of the first two films and original techniques, design finds and, of course, impressive special effects. Making a movie like this is no less interesting than watching it. Pirates of the Land of the Soviets. Giant battleships. The subtle features of the silhouettes emerging from the darkness were indescribably beautiful with that cruel beauty of architecture that could delight only a professional sailor of the classic battleship school. It was impossible to see the details, the distance hid their features, but the heart sank from the beauty of the predatory creatures of human genius. So in the novel Option Bis, Sergey Anisimov describes the feelings of an enemy admiral who noticed a squadron on the horizon led by the battleship Soviet Union Write always, write everywhere. Miracle pens. A famous joke says that NASA spent several million dollars to develop a special pen that can write in space. The Russians used pencils. Both parts of this joke are not true. Pistol Lebedev Writing tree. Alphabet. Paying tribute to Saints Cyril and Methodius, we sometimes forget that the history of our writing began thousands of years before the birth of the Thessalonica brothers. Considering the bizarre Arabic script or the openwork weaving of the Indian letter, few of us think that we have in fact the same letters we know, only written a little differently. Special Purpose Python. Combat reconnaissance vehicle. For the design of samples of military equipment, equipment and technology, professional designers are rarely involved. One of the few well-known examples of cooperation between the military and designers is the Israeli TAVOR rifle, during the development of which the designers were tasked, in addition to ensuring the high combat qualities of the weapon, to give it the most futuristic look. Without waiting for an invitation from the domestic military, a graduate of the Ural State Academy of Arts, Alexei Bystrov, developed a vehicle for special forces. Combat reconnaissance vehicle (BRM) Python will be able to deliver a group of 3-4 people and the necessary equipment to the site of the operation and provide a quick withdrawal Floating plates. Absurd Floating base Plasma Miracles. Plasma pistol. Where plasma is not used in science fiction novels - from weapons and engines to plasma life forms. The real professions of plasma, however, look no less fantastic. Garbage planet: what to do with tons of human waste Planet of orange twilight. Venus is the brightest planet. Venus is the most visible and brightest inhabitant of the earth's sky after the sun and moon. Sometimes it can be observed with the naked eye even in the daytime. planetary defense. Asteroid Patrol Plans for the future Plastic history: from heyday to decline. Polymers. The most common material - plastic - is being replaced by bioplastic. Despite the similarity of the name and properties, there is very little in common between them. plastic rockets. Rocket materials, part 2. We continue the conversation about rocket metals, which began in April 2007, and talk about those materials that are replacing the current favorites of designers plastic army Plastic symbol of America. Corvette. Patriots of America sports car celebrates its 50th anniversary this year plastic harvest Playboy Ark: Reporting from Quantum of the Seas Digital Vessel Splash D-flat! Glass organ. Who would have thought that, having started making a prototype for the master class section, we would eventually produce an exhibit for the artifact section. Having learned about the project even at the level of an idea, both professional musicians and figures of contemporary art immediately became interested in it. No wonder, because the idea is crystal clear and close to the Russian soul: this is a keyboard choir of singing glasses High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Weaving: The Art of Janet Echelman flat stars. accretion Planes and Sounds by David Letelier Swim, spin, run plus two Pneumatic mail: principle of operation Pneumatic machine gun. Banks and beyond. Popular mechanics loves everything that shoots and mechanical. Therefore, on our pages you can often find materials about bows, crossbows, trebuchets, ballistas, etc. So today we will continue the conversation about air rifles. The most real works of mechanical art along a ballistic trajectory. Planes that never flew. With the light hand of journalists, the Sukhoi Design Bureau aircraft with a reverse-swept wing was recorded in the prototype of the fifth-generation Russian fighter. But it was a completely different, unique project of the Russian carrier-based fighter The wind is faster than the wind. Phenomenon. Remember the famous explanation why Achilles will never catch up with the tortoise? In much the same way, inventor Rick Cavallaro explains why a tailwind will never overtake his sailboat. The only difference is that Cavallaro's apparatus works in real life. On the other side of the screen. Despite the massive advance of projectors, LCD and plasma panels, projection TVs are not going to give up their positions Rope to heaven Running on the moon Cry on the moon! Is there water on the moon and how to find it? Having smashed their ship in the middle of one of the lunar craters, a group of NASA engineers plans to unravel the mystery of lunar ice in a very short time and for little money. Over the seas, over the waves. In white foam. Directed by Peter Weir, when starting to work on the film Master and Sea: At the End of the Earth, he insisted that it should not look like a standard film with special effects. Effects, he said, should work for the narrative, not replace it. In the image and likeness. Artificial intelligence. Even an artificial brain, in order to grow wiser, must study, study, study A huge gorilla walked around the island. Newsreel. He is the main one. Others are trying to remove him from his pedestal, but the ruler of Skull Island will trample everyone. He is the embodiment of terrifying destructive power, yet beautiful in his humanity. This is how Empire magazine commented on the results of its April poll on who should be considered the most frightening monster in the history of cinema. King Kong, the giant ape from the 1933 film, took first place. In the past 70+ years, there hasn't been anyone scarier in movies. By handkerchief size. floppy disks In the wake of a disaster. mechanical investigation. Their goal is to save people from future disasters, recreating bit by bit those that can no longer be averted. On the trail of an anomaly. The riddle of wandering satellites Following the bullet. Special effects in the Matrix. The film Matrix Reloaded, the second part of the trilogy of brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski, was released on Russian screens. The first story that the world is just a computer simulation created by evil machines to feed on the energy of people came out in 1999 and collected 1 million in America and 9 million worldwide. Now, when the fearless hacker Neo, the beautiful Trinity and the stern Morpheus are preparing for a new fight with the Matrix, it's time to remember how it all began Pipe to the future On the other side of words. Emotions By magic. Russian stove, twenty-first century. Many songs are sung and fairy tales are composed about the Russian stove: it, dear, is ready to heat, feed and melt the bathhouse in any weather. However, in modern country cottages, stoves are different. Matrix win. Film effects. The two sequels to the cyberpunk blockbuster came out months apart and became the loudest, most loved and most hated project of the past year. The creators of Reboot and Revolution had a difficult task not to deceive the trust of the audience, who were waiting not only for answers to philosophical questions, but also for the next portion of shock special effects. Conquering madness. Virus Side effects of space climate lord Lord of the Ice Fields. Ice machines. Ice filling machines Zamboni - a mandatory attribute of hockey competitions, performances of figure skaters and skaters Lightning lord. The man who set fire to the sky. Most of the inventions and discoveries of one of the most mysterious scientists of the last century went with him to the grave. Lord of the Flies. Fish hooked on technology. Fly fishing is a unique and beautiful way of fishing that combines conservative classics and the latest high technology. Tsunami master. Anatomy of a tsunami. Scientists hope to better understand the mechanism of action of tsunamis - single destructive waves that threaten the inhabitants of the ocean coast. To do this, they are trying to artificially recreate such waves in the laboratory. shock absorbers. For a beating. The myth of gas shock absorbers is so strong that some companies specifically make oil shocks softer and gas shocks harder. Talk about nothing. Story Dive into the future. Diving equipment. Visionaries predict the time when the mask will be able to tell you how much air you have left, and nanobots will extract nitrogen from your bloodstream, preventing the threat of decompression sickness Immersion in sound Under water? Above the water? Under gas. Spray some nitrous into your cylinders. The word nitros a year ago did not say anything to an ordinary motorist Under hypnosis. Truths and myths about hypnosis. In a deep hypnotic sleep, a person completely submits to the will of the hypnotist ... Stop! There are two fundamental errors in this short phrase. Under the blueprint. History of simple things Under an icy sky. Ice swimming. For an ordinary person to be under the ice in winter is a nightmare. But there are people who climb into the hole of their own free will, using special underwater equipment. Ruled by Mars Underwater cunning Underwater threads Submarine manned vehicle Argus Underwater flight. Submarine. Until now, people have explored the ocean by diving into its depths in submarines, supported, like airships, by the balance of gravity and the force of Archimedes. Graham Hawks intends to change this situation with his underwater plane Underwater spy thriller. Secret developments. There has always been enough cynicism and hypocrisy in politics, but the years of the Cold War will be remembered especially in this respect. While the leaders and diplomats of the opposing powers bickered from the UN rostrum, declared their commitment to international law and the cause of peace, and smiled coldly at each other at protocol meetings, the military on both sides of the Iron Curtain received orders that had nothing to do with law and more than once put the world on the brink of war conflict Give it gas. Gas turbine locomotive. Despite the fact that the first gas turbine locomotive in history was built back in 1938, this type of locomotive was not widespread either in Europe or in America. Nevertheless, at the end of September 2010, the newest Russian locomotive, the GT1-001 gas turbine locomotive, left the gates of Kolomna OJSC VNIKTI. Why did Russian engineers make the paradoxical decision to develop such a machine? Cold War Dungeons. Underground submarine base. There are not many places left in the world where an ordinary citizen, not a military man, not a historian and not an engineer, can literally feel the scale of the Cold War arms race with his own skin, without substituting dry numbers for statistics and the bravado of newspaper headlines. One of these places is Balaklava Underground rivers of Moscow: a journey through pipes under the city Underground space: vacuum trains. Pipe Underground parachute. Soft protection. It is impossible to jump with such parachutes. Yes, and not very jump underground. Nevertheless, they exist. The most mysterious parachutes in the world are underground Throw the atom into the furnace! Nuclear locomotives. Now it seems strange, but just some decade after the bombing of Hiroshima, which showed all the delights of radiation, the world literally fell in love with nuclear energy. The designers of the USSR and the USA were enthusiastically thinking about what other transport to put a nuclear reactor on. In addition to nuclear submarines and icebreakers, which exist to this day, nuclear aircraft, cars and even airships were designed. And the engineers of the mid-twentieth century seriously dreamed of giant trains that would be pulled into the distance by a diesel locomotive with an atomic heart for thousands and thousands of kilometers. Like the birds Drones in detail: police, fishing and others More about space: what and why is the Curiosity rover doing now? Jurisdictional art by Michel de Bruin. Is it easy to become an artist? Canadians love artists, especially young ones. In order to support such an intangible substance as inspiration, the organizers of the Sobey Art Award every year present themselves, in their opinion, to an outstanding artist who has not exceeded the forty-year milestone, quite a tangible $ 50. Last year, the eyes of the jury most often fell on the four-meter ball of chairs by Michel de Bruin, baring its legs. The train of the future. Strong as a lion and gentle as a lamb. Welcome aboard the computerized, ultra-efficient and satellite-guided transportation revolution The train leaves in any weather. Climate bacteria eaters Go there without knowing where... In search of materials for articles. Wherever the editors of Popular Mechanics went in search of stories! While I breathe I hope. Climbing Everest. Every spring, the foot of the highest mountain on Earth - Everest - is full of tents. Hundreds of people come to try their luck. But all of them can be easily divided into two groups: some will breathe oxygen from cylinders during the ascent, others rely only on their own strength. While the candle sparkles Until there was light: the prehistory of the sun and the solar system Bog conquerors. Raid The battlefield is space. First space. When the Chinese blew up their satellite in space, a wave of indignation swept the world, and a cloud of its fragments scattered in space. How would you like to understand this explosion? Like a gesture in a political game, or like the start of an arms race in space? Useful tips: how to cut the first time Flight of fighting whales Flight to glory. Wright brothers engine. It turned out to be a difficult task to recreate the engine that turned the propeller of the Wright brothers' plane. For starters, they never made blueprints Ball flight. How the 2010 World Cup ball works. To the numerous and rather strict requirements that the official ball of the World Cup must meet - size and shape, weight, degree of moisture absorption, elasticity, as well as the stability of all these characteristics - this year one more was added. Now the ball, developed by Adidas engineers, is blown through a wind tunnel like an airplane. Electric flight Flight over the red desert Flight of the Roc bird. Takeoff Bullet flight. Fundamentals of sniper business. As you know, not every shooter is a sniper. But every sniper is definitely a shooter. 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The phrase crimson ringing in the soul of each of us responds with bright images of the golden-domed churches of Rus' and the bright, iridescent chime of bells calling the faithful to the festive service. Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary defines crimson ringing as a pleasant, beautiful, soft bell ringing in timbre. Get, fascist, a grenade! Yakov Taubin's superweapon. The Soviet Union is the birthplace of the world's first automatic grenade launchers. It is a pity that we learned about this only half a century after their invention. Waving arches on the wings Tomatoes with teeth. Food that tastes of fear? Genetically modified plants are a very popular horror story. Meanwhile, you should not be afraid of them at all. Remember your ancestors! Smell the gunpowder. fuzei Try the taste of real wrestling. Fights of reenactors. These are ordinary modern people. But from time to time they pick up a sword and shield and turn into formidable warriors of the Middle Ages. Hit the warhead. Triumph. Over the more than 60-year history of the creation of anti-aircraft missile systems in the Soviet Union, and subsequently in Russia, three generations of air defense missile systems were designed and put into service. The main developers of these systems were and continue to be NPO Almaz for complexes in general and MKB Fakel for anti-aircraft missiles To get into the top ten Get in line. hydropneumatics Popular Mechanics, 2025. Exclusive content from our future. We dreamed up what Popular Mechanics would look like in 2025. It turned out to be an entertaining fantasy. So... popular formula. Aerodynamics. Formula 1 cars are so nimble thanks to their aerodynamic properties. The creators pursue two main goals - increasing the force that presses the tires to the road surface, and reducing the drag force that interferes with driving forward and reduces speed. As always in Formula 1, the ultimate goal is to outperform the competition without sacrificing safety. popular formula. 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But the workers of the autodromes should make sure that the accidents (without which motorsport is impossible) do not have fatal consequences. popular formula. Motor. Competition and big money - that's what feeds the veil of unchildish secrecy that surrounds everything related to Formula 1. But nothing is more jealously guarded than the most complex, powerful and expensive part of a Formula 1 car - its engine. popular formula. Setting. Formula 1 tracks are not alike. Therefore, the cars for performances on them should be different. The characteristics of the fireballs going to the start can be fundamentally changed due to the settings popular formula. Suspension. It is known about the suspension features of a racing car of the Supertourism class of the Russian Championship in circuit racing. But there it still retains the main features of conventional passenger suspensions. There are much more differences in the chassis of Formula 1 cars - it is difficult to draw analogies with traditional suspensions here. popular formula. Road checks. Before the start of each World Championship, all Formula 1 cars must be subjected to a series of rigorous crash tests. To protect pilots as much as possible, the testing program is constantly being upgraded. The facts show that these measures are justified popular formula. Rubber. One of the additional intrigues of the World Cup is the confrontation between two tire suppliers for the participating teams. At the same time, the speeds of cars are growing - and safety is declining ... popular formula. Super tires for super cars. Without going into technical details, let's try to figure out what are the fundamental differences between the tires used in Formula 1 and ordinary car tires. popular formula. Formula 1 technology. Formula 1 drivers have taken the sport to the heights of science, art and mathematics. They need to evaluate each turn, determine the speed, grip, road curves, braking and cornering features, as well as risk. All this under the influence of significant overloads that they experience while in the cramped cabin popular formula. Formula 1 technology. The regulations in Formula 1 change almost every season - sometimes significantly, sometimes in some particulars. 2004 in the field of rules is not a year of revolution, but of evolution popular formula. Brakes. Why effective brakes make a race car go faster is the next spread. And this one is dedicated to the device and operation of the brakes of Formula 1 cars popular formula. Control center. The control center stuffed with electronics - this was not always the wheel in Formula 1 Popular rally. Rider fights. Formula 1 is called the queen of motorsport. However, rallies (especially in the WRC class) are no less interesting competitions that have their own circle of fans. In the end, who said that the fights of racers should take place in sterile conditions of perfectly smooth asphalt and a distance studied up to a centimeter? Attempt No. 40WD-40. Rusted nut? No problem! Do door hinges creak? No problem! Chewing gum stuck to your clothes? And in this case, the universal remedy WD-40, well known to motorists, will easily save the situation. Time to tie! Node. Each of us knows how to knit knots Port cranes: a big story about powerful technology Portrait of genes Portrait on the background. Chinese J-20 and Russian SU PAK FA The piston is free. Free piston engine. A modern internal combustion engine is, by definition, not the most outstanding product in terms of technology. This means that it can be improved indefinitely (Matt Trevitnik, President of the Rockefeller family venture fund Venrock) Last breath. Chemical weapon Last turn. aliens The last argument of kings. What a fool is. In the XNUMXth century, Cardinal Richelieu ordered that all cannons cast in France be minted with the inscription Ultima ratio regum (The last argument of kings). A century later, the Prussian king Frederick II decided to follow his example: on the Prussian cannons, the inscription read: Ultima ratio regis (The last argument of the king) Last single. Round the world flight without refueling. A single non-stop round-the-world flight without refueling is perhaps the last great record that can be set in aviation. To achieve this goal, Bert Rutan, a famous designer of aerospace vehicles, turned to his main support - the guys from hangar 63 for help. Pilot's last chance. Rescue shot in the air. When the plane crashes and it seems that there is no escape, the world's best ejection seat K-36D-3,5 can give the pilot another chance Last fight. Land speed record. Britons Richard Noble and Andy Green can rightfully be called the fastest people on the planet. Together, these two gentlemen have held the world land speed record for 26 years. Listen to what your brain is thinking. Forces of thought. Scientists claim that a new method fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) allows you to track the work of the brain with such accuracy, which has never been dreamed of before. Now everything secret will become clear - both when you tell a lie, and when you fall in love ... Obedient plants of Diana Scherer View in 48 hours. Self-destructing DVDs. New York-based manufacturer Flexplay Technologies calls them EZD. Once you open the disc's sealed package, you can watch it for 48 hours, after which it will self-destruct. But don't expect smoke like in Mission: Impossible. The chemical reaction will make the surface opaque, preventing the laser from reading data from the disc. Beginner's guide. Let's gut the video camera. Camcorders are rapidly evolving following the increase in the resolution of television screens and computer video compression technologies. However, the increased functionality often confuses novice operators about the new features. Camera prices can vary quite a lot, as can recording formats. To help you understand how a modern video camera works, we disassembled this JVC digital camera. Built and forgotten. History of monorails. In the November issue, we talked about the Moscow Monorail. She has a rich pedigree Descendants of catapults. Bullet throwers. For more than a century, gunsmiths around the world have been trying to invent a weapon without gunpowder - a mechanical centrifugal machine gun. No cartridges, shutters, complex automation. And - unprecedented rate of fire Descendants of the lord of the winds. Instead of a heart - a plasma motor! Next year, research in the field of electric propulsion (EP) will be XNUMX years old. The most promising among electric propulsion - plasma - designed and manufactured in Russia Descendant of a monster. We are testing the ekranoplan. Mechanics tested a small ekranoplan - the heir to the Soviet military giants, which struck the imagination of CIA specialists Descendant of the shuttle Descendant of the bayonet. Opener. In 1795, the French government promised a prize to anyone who could develop a method of long-term storage of food, essential for Napoleon's army. In 1806, the confectioner Nikola Apper proposed a conservation technology, for which he received the title of Benefactor of Humanity from the emperor. Stunning nail art: John Bisby's work Stunning glass sculptures by Jack Storms How much is a pound of pepper. Spices. What are spices (spices) and why even small amounts of them can completely change the taste of familiar dishes Why is there so little antimatter? Why did Belka and Strelka fly into space, and not Murka and Dymka? Why the revived IL-76 was digitized Why do cows fly. Aerodynamics of cattle Why horses sometimes lift their upper lip and freeze in this position Why does pasta stick together in boiling water? Why do aircraft routes from Europe to America sometimes pass over Greenland Why do mammals usually have such boring colors? Why sea birds are not harmed by sea water and 9 more amazing facts Why do we start sneezing in cold weather Why do we laugh. Neurology. A Catholic priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant priest walk into a bar. The bartender asks: Did you decide to joke? We are not joking, this is serious science. The answer to the question What makes people laugh? important for neurologists Why do we get so annoyed when someone nearby is talking on the phone? Why don't skyscrapers fall? Depth Why you can’t carry liquid on an airplane and other answers to questions Why do some birds walk and others jump? Why do the engines of the plane stop after takeoff and it seems that it is falling? Why does food taste different after brushing your teeth? Why do aircraft engines break? and other best letters from readers Why is it so difficult for robots to work with us? Wanderings Why Planes Don't Collide: Robot Locators Why is the world getting fatter? Scientists have come to a sensational conclusion: the virus is to blame for everything! For decades, the world has been plagued by an obesity epidemic. The population of not only rich, but also poor countries is rapidly gaining weight. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 30% of Americans and 22% of Brits are obese. The population of Italy, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Albania, Arab countries, Australia, China and the Pacific Islands is getting fat Why does a snake have a forked tongue Why mushrooms break through the asphalt Why does the wick emit thick smoke when the candle goes out? Almost pilots. Wheel jumping. Supercross racers spend more time in the air than on the ground An almost invisible thread. It will securely bind the fisherman and his prey. One can easily imagine fishing without a rod and without a reel. But without a fishing line, you can’t fish Almost serial fireballs. Anything that is not allowed is prohibited. If you are told that a WRC rally car has nothing to do with a production model, don't believe it. In fact, they have a lot of the same parts. Body, door locks and handles, again, one of the antennas on the roof... Singing paper tape Singing dinosaurs. Steel throats. When the dinosaur rider presses the PLAY button, the giant's 124 throats open at once with a total power of 10 kW, and the surroundings turn into a huge concert hall. But the main thing in this dinosaur is not only a powerful sound. Prolozavr - the first demo car in Russia, created from scratch Singing snails. Acoustics as a work of engineering art. The most legendary recording studio - London's Abbey Road - is packed to capacity with products from the legendary acoustics manufacturer - the English company Bowers & Wilkins, better known as B&W. Well, the most legendary B&W acoustics are the legendary Nautilus snails. Is it true that the astronauts who flew to the moon did not have a toilet? Is it true that there are no snakes in Ireland? Blockchain rules: what is it and how does it work Buttermaker's rules. Lubricant Right-hand drive: why we still drive cars Beautiful Selena. Our closest neighbour. Our ancestors from time immemorial deified the moon. Almost all polytheistic religions personified her as a female deity, perhaps due to the coincidence of the periodicity of the lunar phases and the duration of the menstrual cycle. The first astronomers also took up the changing face of the moon refraction of sweet Prize 2009. Folk craftsman. To win this competition, you need brilliant wit, perseverance and a good supply of healthy idiocy - otherwise you would never create a super mechanism for crashing cars, a rocket of inconceivable sizes or a mysterious solar-powered pedal contraption. humanity does not yet realize that without all this it cannot live. Congratulations to the winners of the Popular Mechanics magazine contest! Aborted flight. Soviet plates. Russian flying saucer could become a stealth reconnaissance, firefighter or superliner We press tin Contenders for the big sky. step Precision medicine. Ten ways to beat the disease. The medicine of the future will make even those non-targeted therapeutic methods that are widely used now meaningless. A new era of targeted, targeted treatments is dawning, and the key to this era are technological breakthroughs such as cancer-hunting nanoparticles, virus-killing lasers, and near-weightless heart implants. In this article, we will talk about ten innovations that will help doctors defeat the disease with precisely delivered blows in the coming years. Train arrival. Now virtual. We saved the studio billions! director Robert Zemeckis says. Every minute in his new movie, The Polar Express, was valued by the Wall Street Journal at about a million dollars. The picture is entirely made in three-dimensional computer animation, and the main characters are played by live actors, transferred to the screen using Motion Capture technology Hello from the underworld. Booby traps: deadly wit. In war, such mines are ineffective. Rather, it is a weapon for terrorists Hello from afar. Shot for 2 km. Many shooters from rifled weapons remember the first shot with a telescopic sight all their lives - subconsciously they want to press their eyes closer to the eyepiece of the sight, and as a result, when fired, the neophyte firmly gets the sight right between the eyes. And the larger the caliber and the stronger the charge, the brighter the mark on the forehead, often to the point of blood. As a rule, the lesson is remembered for a lifetime - you can only get hit in the forehead again in the heat of hunting passion Vaccination or death: how to overcome the most terrible disease of the XXI century Nature's judgment Ghost Destroyer Applied clairvoyance cool medicine I'll take a taxi Signs of the XNUMXst century: how the Yandex.Weather service works Prince and mice. Work on special effects. Seven books by British writer Clive S. Lewis about the magical land of Narnia are a great gift to filmmakers and viewers who cannot console themselves after the end of The Lord of the Rings. Princess on the Pea. Suspension. Car suspension is always a compromise. On country bumps we dream of a soft feather bed, and on the track we dream that the car turns into a hard kart. Adaptive suspension allows you to change the car beyond recognition in a fraction of a second, turning the royal carriage into Formula 1 Axolotl principle Pretenders. Government vehicles. Looking at the cars of the first persons of the state and the cars of the special services, the Soviet people thought that in front of them were the usual ZiSs, Pobeda and Volga. However, our citizens were mistaken: the cars had by no means a serial filling Dimension problem. Measurement. Leonid Kaganov (born 1972) is one of the leading modern Russian science fiction writers, a master of small form, the author of a number of stories that have acquired a cult status. Winner of numerous awards, including the Golden Caduceus, Wanderer, Roscon, Bronze Snail, author of more than ten published books Blue blood problems Supergiant problems. Big dreams, big challenges. The Airbus A380 was supposed to be the future of aviation. When will he finally fly? Awakening Cthulhu Stress check. The Science of Fear. Is it possible to predict human behavior in the face of danger? What will prevail in him - courage or cowardice? An attempt to answer this age-old question gave rise to a whole discipline - the science of stress. Predictions of the future from Jules Verne, Hiram Maxime and Winston Churchill Progress and nostalgia. Formula 1 Walking through a black hole. The Science of the Impossible Walking with excavators. Walking forever. Everything and nothing is known about walking excavators. Even children have heard about them, and all adults have seen them at least once in the Vremya program. On the other hand, everyone is baffled by the simplest question: So how do they walk? Death Seller. Man and machine gun. British subject of American origin Hiram Maxim was a talented inventor. He perfected the light bulb before Edison and built the airplane before the Wright brothers. But now no one remembers these achievements of his. His name has become a household name in another area: he went down in history as the inventor of the deadliest weapon of the late XIX - early XX centuries. Air vendors. Cryoenergy Air vendors. Packing material. January marks 50 years since Sealed Air launched one of the world's most famous packaging materials, Bubble Wrap. Car Sales Depend on the Weather: Applied Psychology Advanced pickups. Loading. Pickup is cool. The pickup truck was driven by Tough Walker, who administered justice in Texas. You can throw a bunch of very cool things into the back of a pickup truck, for example, a racing sportbike or a jet ski. Finally, in youth slang, the word pickup (pick-up) means a quick acquaintance with a completely unfamiliar and mostly beautiful girl, which is also considered very cool. Project Void: total immersion in virtual reality Arctic Ice Clearing Project: Back to the Future Origin of the legend. Pajero history. In the annals of the Japanese automotive industry, the Mitsubishi brand has a special place. Starting mass production of the Model A passenger car in 1917, the concern actually became the first automaker in the Land of the Rising Sun. The Mitsubishi brand was worn by Japan's first T1 truck (1918) and Japan's first diesel bus (1935) Ride the Panther Curse of the center Spans over the Hudson: how one of the widest bridges in the world is being built Intermediate. Tricycle Run down the line piercing the sky Breakthrough of the Year 2013 A simple wishing machine. Design Just watts. Boom Boom Just music Just press the button. History of simple things Simple Machines by Christopher Miskia Brain prostheses Against the wind. Aerodynamics. Train TGV (Train XNUMX Grande Vitesse, high-speed train) Paris - Nantes departs from the Paris Montparnasse station almost silently. Having passed the outskirts of Paris, the train increases speed, but passengers practically do not notice this - the path lies through flat fields, there are no poles or trees around, so nothing flashes before the eyes of people sitting in comfortable chairs inside the cars Against scrap. Heliogarbage Against ice and birds Nazi air locks. Anti-aircraft towers. The last days of the storming of Berlin were coming. The capital of the Reich was tightly encircled by Soviet troops, and the armies of two fronts quarter after quarter cleared the city of Wehrmacht soldiers, SS men and Volkssturm fighters. However, Adolf Hitler continued to hope for a miracle. He believed that the army group of General SS Steiner, which was fairly battered in battles, and the 12th Army of General Wenck, hastily put together from fledgling cadets, striking from the north and south, would save his hopeless cause. Anti-personnel combine. Tank support combat vehicles. Soon, specialized anti-personnel monsters will be added to the anti-aircraft tracked vehicles of the Tunguska in tank columns. The tanks themselves are not able to protect themselves either from helicopters or from fighters with grenade launchers. Anti-missile coercion. PRO: Russia and America. A strategic anti-missile system that would allow hope for an advantage in a global nuclear conflict has never been created. It is unlikely that it will appear in the foreseeable future. However, the shadow of the anti-missile sword has more than once become a trump card of skilful diplomacy. Recent events testify to this. Prototype geologist Prototype shining Professionals from MP3. MP3pro. The first hardware players supporting the MP3Pro standard appeared on sale. What do the extra three letters give Profession - seer. Peter Horbury Profession - power tool. What is the difference between a professional instrument and an amateur one? What does the term "professional" mean here? The most direct and correct interpretation is intended for works put on a commercial basis, that is, bringing income to the master. The popular point of view that the difference between a professional instrument and a household (amateur) one is only in the level of manufacture, to put it mildly, is incorrect. This means that it is impossible to determine the difference by technological features alone. Prokhorovka in the country. How to become a Guderian. If Guderian's laurels haunt you, you have a whole tank fleet at your disposal - from office cars to real monsters Farewell to the ferry. History of locomotive building. From this issue we open a new section Guide. In it, readers will be able to find articles about the most interesting exhibits of museums and exhibitions in our country and neighboring countries, which we recommend to see with your own eyes. For readers of the PM in museums there will be special conditions for visiting Jump tank. What are tanks afraid of? In the thirties of the last century, many designers worked on the creation of new ultra-modern weapons - tanks capable of overcoming deep ditches, funnels and trenches Jumping from the stratosphere. Stratostats. In the early morning of November 1, 1962, eyewitnesses who happened to be near a military airfield near the town of Volsk near Saratov could observe an unusual picture. Before their eyes, a giant drop-shaped object gradually grew up, in which only a specialist could recognize a stratostat - an apparatus lighter than air to reach great heights. Jumping from heaven. Parachute - theory. Skydivers are divided into two categories of users - those who slow down and those who fly. The first category includes skydivers involved in precision landing jumps and dome acrobatics. In the second - individual acrobatics, group acrobatics, freestyle, skysurfing and freefly. People jumping with the so-called forced disclosure is a special article. They are not engaged in sports, but tourism Jump without a parachute. Trucks in flight. With this material, Popular Mechanics opens a series of articles on one of the most interesting sections of technology - landing cargo by transport aircraft. Jump above the head. Freestyle. Flying on an overturned motorcycle without hands at the height of a three-story building is the everyday work of an athlete performing in the discipline of motofreestyle Jump from the depths of the sea. Underwater parachute. We are used to the fact that the fate of the fall-preventing (as the name parachute is translated into Russian) is mainly connected with aviation and astronautics. But it turns out he found a job underwater Leap from the stratosphere. Break the record. The goal is to break the record. Make the longest, fastest long jump. This means - to make an exit into the rarefied air of the stratosphere and rush to the ground, accelerating to the speed of sound. This year, two daredevils are eager to race towards this accomplishment. However, the most difficult stage of the event is to be able to climb to the planned height. Bird of happiness tomorrow. We fly well. The film Sky Captain, or the World of the Future is one global special effect. No scenery, no props, no shooting on location - everything was created on computers with a standard set of editing programs. And only real actors, but what kind of actors - Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie! This film was made by obsessed geeks for the likes of them, says producer Jon Avnet. And adds: Botanists - won Birds and Planes by Martin Smith Birds from nowhere. Evolution Birds over fire. Aircraft against fire. When big wildfires get out of hand, it's time to call in the strike force - air firefighters. The frightening life of Dmitry Kavarga Bubble in a cube, or soap tesseract Remote for a good boy Project 12322 Zubr ship commander's control panel The bullet is a fool, the vest is well done! Last chance. The battle between projectile and armor has been going on for centuries. At first there was a shield against arrows and a sword, later - knightly armor against a spear ... With the advent of firearms, the problem with shields (more precisely, with individual protection) worsened The bullet is a fool, the beam is well done. Laser. Helicopters in the air. There are tanks on the roads. Along the roadsides of the chain of soldiers. Smoke, screams, explosions. A lonely clearing strewn with black plastic bags. I caught a bullet, ”the guy with glasses says from the bag. You know, it's very unpleasant to lie here, - says another. But this is not a horror film about zombie soldiers, but a report from the Arirang channel dug up in the bowels of YouTube about military exercises of South Korean troops using laser firing and defeat simulators. May there always be a song. Sound management. Record a song. Not so long ago, this phrase conjured up a soundproof room, expensive microphones, a Record button on a tape recorder the size of a bedside table, and a thoughtful man in headphones at a console the size of a quarter of a football field. The coils rotate, the man meditatively pushes the faders back and forth on the console, the door to the studio scares people passing by with a red luminous sign Quiet, recording is in progress Guiding stars. The Pentagon is a traveler's best friend. It's time to deal with modern methods, namely GNSS (global navigation satellite system) Journey from the center of the sun. Nothing in the world is eternal. This also applies to the luminary, to which we owe our existence. The luminary, to which our planet, and its biosphere, and human civilization owe their existence, is quite banal from the point of view of astronomers. Journey how to build a starship, interstellar walk Journey through strange lands. SCI-FI The path of hot wheels. Made in Russia Path of freedom. From serial ducklings to racing swans. The appearance of a modern sportbike is a living embodiment of the heroic history of road racing. Fluffy skis. Sport. The essence of skiing (especially in the slalom part) is to cut across unruffled lakes. When there is nothing but fiberglass between you and the blue depths, when you pave the way, raising 5-meter spray, and your friends, relatives and potential girlfriends goggle in amazement. At least that's how it used to be Cannon feed. Mortar in 2 hours. After the story about the potato gun in the March issue of the magazine, we received many letters with questions: where to find PVC pipes, how to glue them together, how to build an efficient ignition system. This time we will talk about a weapon, the materials for which can be bought at the nearest supermarket, and assembly is unlikely to take more than two hours. Meet the Instant Tennis Mortar! Graviton gun Russian Island Cannons: How the Voroshilov Battery Instilled Fear in the Japanese Toy guns. Little Gods of War. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian army needed miniature artillery pieces. But despite the fact that a number of advanced developments were proposed by talented designers, Russian toy guns were not destined to prove themselves in battle. Puff with meaning. Designer Fischertechnik Profi Pneumatic II, 5830 rubles. The creators of the Tu-4 bomber, who copied the captured American B-29 to the last ashtray, knew well that in order to understand how the machine works, you need to take it apart. This is known even to children who first take apart a toy car, and then their father's old Zhiguli. But how many children and adults are lucky enough to dissect a hydraulic excavator? Spotted storms. Sun. Mankind has known about sunspots since time immemorial. With luck, they can be seen even without any optics. To do this, it is better to observe the Sun when the air is very dusty, scattering sunlight. Fifth wheel. Fast rollerblading requires sacrifice. In a small store located in the basement of a Moscow building, the abundance of roller skates hung on the walls with multi-colored boots and shiny frames dazzled the eyes. And at first I could not understand what was wrong in one of the couples. Even a pretty customer did not distract her attention, who, leaning on the hand of the seller, wrote out awkward circles around the demonstration site on ordinary rollers. I looked again at those red and silver Rollerblades, and then it dawned on me: they have... five wheels. Fifth ear, or Kick of 1000 watts. A new word in audio technology can be felt. A person has a right ear, a left ear, a middle ear, an inner ear ... And there is also a fifth point. It is she who is offered to use the creators of the device with the eloquent name ButtKicker to listen to low-frequency special effects in computer games, movies and music. Five main questions about life on Earth. How can they predetermine the direction of searches in other worlds? Scientists have found life in the coldest, hottest, most seemingly unsuitable corners of our Earth. Further search area - Mars, Titan and everything beyond them Five Years with Tesla: Editor-in-Chief Personal Model S Auto Review Work at height. Crane test drive The work of invisible forces. Pressure Working with fire Works longer Working mutants The workhorses of space For the sake of silence and cleanliness: electric container ships Once - and in the eye We disassemble the Airwheel unicycle: how it works Bomb Mars Fast neutron scout Building a fire with a battery: editorial experience Educational toy. Toyota Prius. The third generation of the Toyota Prius hybrid car has finally begun to be officially sold in Russia Recreational weapon. Male toy. The TPG-1 rifle (Taktisches Praezisions Gewehr - tactical precision rifle), developed by the Austrian company Unique Alpine, is a unique weapon of its kind. For various reasons, we decided to classify this completely serious sniper tool with fantastic accuracy as a recreational weapon. Conversation with a classic Interview Conversations with the sky. Global networks. Go there, I don’t know where, and don’t forget to call from there - this is how you can formulate parting words to the buyer of a satellite phone. But we should not forget that most satellite phones will not work anywhere in the world. Size matters. The best of the best. Paul Eisenstein talks about the largest and smallest devices Reproduction and gender: why we are divided into men and women Disassembled Cameras and Accordions: Art by Todd McLellan Destroyers. A tolerable profession. The work of demolition specialists is a rigorous science and sophisticated art The Mind and Feelings of Christopher Busgate. Art. How would the world react to Salvador Dali if he printed his works on a color printer? Sculptor Christopher Busgate creates his amazing creatures on industrial machines Smashing Sword: How Soviet Infantry Learned to Fight Pegasus XL rocket and other stunning photos Rocket in the paddock. What will the racing of the future look like? What will happen if the wing of a Formula 1 car is replaced with a pair of wings, a highly accelerated internal combustion engine is replaced with a rocket engine, and a race track is laid across the sky? The answer is Rocket Racing League competition. The rocket aircraft racing championship starts already in 2007 and promises to be the most spectacular technical competition. Rocket Wasserfall. Hitler's missed chance. A quarter of a century after the end of World War II, former German armaments minister Albert Speer called one of his decisions made during his tenure as minister a grave mistake. It was about choosing between two missiles - ballistic V-2 and anti-aircraft Wasserfall Rocket against rocket. American air defense base. The American missile shield is designed to use interceptor missiles to destroy incoming enemy ballistic missile warheads. A Popular Mechanics reporter went to one of the military bases in Alaska to look at the missile defense post and what is the real combat readiness of this ENTIRE system Rocket with pedals. Bullet Man. Is it possible to ride a bicycle, with the help of muscular traction alone, in an hour to travel 90 km? Of course not, you will say, and you will be right: so far no one has been able to do this. But perhaps it's a matter of time. At least there are a few enthusiasts in the world who are persistently and not unsuccessfully moving towards this goal. Rocket mail. Leisure Rocket mastodons. Missiles at the cost of the city. Giant rockets were created with one single goal - to jump ahead of the space achievements of a competing superpower rocket metals. How steel and other metals were tempered. What materials are used to build spaceships that surf the vast expanses of the Universe? Missile maneuver Rocket planes for science and battles. Soviet orbital fighter. Even before Gagarin's flight, at the very beginning of the era of space exploration, our designers created projects of amazing aircraft, with their outlines reminiscent of starships from science fiction films and novels. Rockets to hit. Blow up before flying. In an effort to create a private spacecraft, a group of Texas rocket enthusiasts will not be afraid to blow up a couple of their vehicles. Intermediate and short-range missiles: new threats Rally of the wise. Annual desert storm. In terms of speed and complexity, the marathon race is not inferior to the WRC. But it lasts much longer. Homemade rally. Gas turbine engine from a fire extinguisher. The annual competition among those who are able to make their dreams come true has revealed ten winners. As befits readers of Popular Mechanics, these people are smart, stubborn and slightly sick in the head. Get loose. ballet technique. Thesis In the field of ballet, we are ahead of the planet The whole country has been repeating like a spell since the 60s of the last century. Much has changed since then, but even now, from a distance of four decades, the Soviet ballet of that time looks like the undisputed world leader. Investigation: what do Sherlock Holmes and a cat have in common? Soluble heat. Warm body and soul. Among other things, he found several tins of liquid cocoa with detailed instructions on how to open them, and immediately used it. In the designated places, he made holes in the bottom of the jar with a key, and it immediately began to heat up. Soon he could barely hold her in his hands. Then he opened the jar from the other end - cocoa almost boiled without any help from matches or fire. HG Wells, War in the air, 1908 Do salts dissolve in heavy water in the same way as in ordinary water? Grow your hair, grow it! New remedies for an old problem. Men are divided into bald and shaggy. Bald - on those who are more or less indifferent to the shine of their head and suffer from it in the range from moderate to unbearable. Some hair growth products really help. Sometimes Vegetable accounting Shaking gyroplanes. Revolution in the air. Autogyros to some extent justify their funny name: like obese people, they move too slowly in space. However, there is hope that fat people can be made to fly at the speed of piston aircraft. Texas inventor Jay Carter even knows how to do it. Fighters: what awaits us at the Tournament of St. George Jet microaviation. Turbo models. Many aircraft engine designers were convinced that it was impossible even theoretically to build a real turbojet engine for model aircraft. Nevertheless, such engines not only exist, but have been flying for more than ten years. DIY jet engine Do-it-yourself jet engine continued. Beginning - in the August issue Jet flamethrower: RPO-A test drive from Popular Mechanics Jet steam jet. steamer Jet sprint. On a liquid track. Water sports can be much more spectacular than the usual car racing Are passenger ballistic missile projects realistic? Resuscitators. How legendary planes are being restored in Novosibirsk. Glittering with silvery wings in the rays of the setting sun, the Seagull comes in for landing from the direction of the forest. The fragrant summer wind slightly sways light dresses, women hold on to their hats, a pot-bellied plane with a red star on board is already rumbles on the grass of a Siberian field airfield, taxiing to the parking lot. Rubber for non-rubber Rubber apocalypse. Machine gun with their own hands. What can a clockwork, woodcarving, rubber bands for wrapping banknotes and slightly hooligan mischief have in common? All this forms the basis of an exciting hobby - the construction of wooden crossbows. Resonators to the rescue: how to prevent earthquakes Rivers of gold Noise reconstruction. Imitation Repair and fabrication of tissues from the customer's cells. And nerve cells are restored. Summing up the achievements of biology in the XNUMXth century, the journal Science ranked the production of the first lines of human embryonic stem cells in third place after the discovery of the structure of DNA and the decoding of the human genome. X-rays by Nick Veasey. Through Human reproductive cloning is possible Republic vs Empire. Fighter Darth Vader. The fact that the starships from the Star Wars movie saga never existed in reality does not at all prevent them from having a high-quality technical concept and a detailed design. The illustrations you see here are by Hans Jensen and Richard Chasemore. Retroviruses: the fifth column Retrograde Moon. Turn the light back Roman war machine: how to become a legionnaire Roman roads: the lace of empire. Construction. It's hard to believe, but even at the end of antiquity, more than a thousand and a half years ago, it was possible to travel from Rome to Athens or from Spain to Egypt, almost all the time staying on a paved highway. For seven centuries, the ancient Romans entangled the entire Mediterranean world - the territories of three parts of the world - with a high-quality road network with a total length of two earth's equators The ring is a mile long. Short and fast. Unknown in Europe racing sprint - a competition for the most skillful and fearless pilots Drawing objects in the air with a 3D pen Draw with wires: hieroglyphs of electricity Drawings on the skin. On the needle. Fashion for tattoos has swept the world. But know: getting a tattoo is easier than getting rid of it. Drawings on milk Drawing in the dark. performance Ritual photography by Wayne Belger. Artifacts. Some shoot on powerful digital SLRs. Others - on ordinary tourist soap dishes. Still others - for antediluvian, but prestigious and cult Watering cans. But in comparison with the devices that Wayne Belger creates, any devices seem banal and mundane. The camera must contain a part of the subject, - says the master - and puts his statement into practice Robin Hood from the pub. A sharp eye, a faithful hand and a mug of beer. Having hung a target in the editorial office and received darts as a gift, we joined the noble sport with its legends, champions, advanced technologies and high fashion Robocop-5. Heat in Zelenograd The robot enters the field Robot with a human face. Geminoid Robot: made in Russia. Intelligence Robot actor: a machine that awakens emotions Robotics. Transatlantic robot regatta. If you happen to cross the Atlantic on a liner this fall, you have every chance of colliding with a ship - or even several ships - without a crew. But do not be alarmed: most likely, this is not a flotilla of gloomy and mysterious Flying Dutchmen, but participants in the first ever transatlantic robot regatta Window cleaning robots: big test drive Robots take off! Pilots RoboChop At exactly four in the morning Horned cavalry. Fighting moose. Unsung Heroes of the Finnish War - Soviet Tame War Elks Horned steering wheel. Humanity is unlikely to ever stop reinventing the wheel. A modern racing bike costs more than a business car The birth of a giant. Shipyard report. To turn tens of thousands of tons of steel into the most powerful warship in the world, the creators of the new Ford-class aircraft carrier make extensive use of virtual reality Birth of the blue giants. Nothing is simpler than a star. - Arthur Stanley Eddington. Touching upon the topic of the origin of stars in conversations with students, the philosopher Socrates said: All this will forever remain a mystery to a mortal, and of course, the gods themselves are sad to see a person’s desire to unravel what they have forever hidden from him. Auguste Comte repeated the same words in his treatise Popular Astronomy in the middle of the XNUMXth century, adding: Even their temperature will forever remain undetermined. Comte did not live only three years before the discovery of spectral analysis, which makes it possible to determine the temperature of everything that can emit or absorb light. The birth of the dreadnought. Sea colossi: who is bigger? PM continues a series of articles on the golden age of naval artillery - the age of battleships Birth of a magazine. Print report The birth of the superliner. Giant shipyards. The most magnificent ships in the world are those built not for war or commerce, but for pure pleasure. The world's greatest cruise ship is now at one of the Finnish shipyards. Builders are engaged in its assembly, joining each other parts of colossal dimensions. The birth of electronics Born again. James Bond changes priorities. The creators of the new James Bond film faced a serious problem. In recent years, the image of the elegant and fearless agent 007 has faded somewhat. And while the latest Bond movie, Die Another Day, grossed $2 million worldwide, the producers felt the audience was tired of Bond. Spectators without any enthusiasm accepted the invisible car, the ice palace and the laser machine in outer space. Indeed, how many megalomaniacs can be presented to the public before it finally loses interest? cornucopia Rocketman Lead romance. Hardball. Hardball is a military game invented in Russia. It differs from paintball and airsoft by powerful weapons, metal bullets, enhanced protection. In a free translation from English, the word Hardball can be described as a person with iron nerves. To test the strength of our own nerves, we went to a hot spot - the game Death Flight 90210 The Romance of the Steel Roads Fifth generation luxury The luxury of the digital age Russian pulse-rocket powered drones Russian unmanned vehicles: Cognitive Technologies Russian combat robots Platform-M and Uran-9: test drive Russian gliders: Popmekh tests flight without a motor Russian aircraft: how the MS-21 bench model was tested Russian satellites will track the movements of sea and large river ships Russian hydrofoils: for the first time in the XNUMXst century Russian aircraft engine PD-14: the revival of industry Russian 5 generation fighter: the best in the world? Russian quad rider in Dakar: how it's done Russian invisible. Fifth generation fighter. There are only a few months left before the long-awaited fifth-generation Russian fighter is shown to the general public. But the wait is already unbearable, and Popular Mechanics decided to put together everything that is known about this aircraft at the time of the magazine's release, as well as fantasize about its appearance. Russia in armor: again about the coolest knightly tournament in the world Russia in the circle of friends. The strongest armies in the world Rostselmash: big PM report about Russian harvesters To chop or to stab - that is the question ... Blade. Choosing a sword for historical reconstruction, we had to rack our brains a lot. Over the entire history of the existence of this famous and in some ways, one might even say, sacred weapons in Europe and other countries of the world, many different types of swords were created, from a short Roman gladius to almost two-meter giants of the Renaissance Handy Carl Armed Raptor Hands on the table! A computer Hands are not for boredom Guide for the space tourist. Lunar tourism 2042 Teeth Growing Guide Hand to the edge of the universe. Home planetariums. People have been trying to draw the starry sky since ancient times, but they learned to create an almost complete illusion of the night sky overhead less than 100 years ago. Since then, planetarium equipment has evolved from precision mechanics to soulless digital, giving rise to ever more spectacular spectacles. The man-made life of Ken Rinaldo. Robots. Modern artists and modern scientists sometimes differ little from each other. Creatures born in the workshop of the sculptor Ken Rinaldo, with equal success, could have been born in one of the experimental robotics laboratories of some technical university. Handmade star. thermonuclear bomb. Many of our readers associate the hydrogen bomb with the atomic bomb, only much more powerful. In fact, this is a fundamentally new weapon that required disproportionately large intellectual efforts for its creation and works on fundamentally different physical principles. Drive into the future Russian hand in Hollywood. How we shoed the California flea. Installations for filming car commercials and chase scenes in Hollywood blockbusters are made not just anywhere, but in the Russian city of Tula Russian technology: graphene nanotubes Russian space: the Korona project and other developments of the Makeev State Space Center Russian oversize. gravity Russian trace in the Andes Russian trace. in the American sky. The USA is a country of immigrants. But the emigrant wave from Russia after the 1917 revolution was special. People came who later brought fame to their second homeland. Among them were the future founders of the most famous American aviation companies - Igor Sikorsky and Alexander Prokofiev-Seversky. Russian ring Russian delicacy: 5 facts about black caviar The pen washes the hand Fisherman at the edge of the galaxy Submarine fishermen: underwater drones Fishing with a kite: how it's done Fishing hi-tech. From a cannon to minnows. Scientific and technological progress does not stand still, every year offering anglers new devices and gear for catching fish Redhead zzzzzver. Steering wheel sample: Nissan 350Z. In the age of hybrid engines and computerized transmissions, purely mechanical cars continue to provide the greatest pleasure to the sophisticated driver. Knights of the Future: Blacksmith Fighting Robots from Russia Rambo on wheels. Mules Ripples of space-time. Hunting for violators of everything. Gravitational waves, theoretically predicted by Einstein back in 1917, are still waiting for their discoverer From the race track to the moon With the long sight With a hole in the right side. Punctures without consequences. This spring, the most fashionable topic in the queues for tire fitting is the new Run Flat tires. Still, you can forget about the jack, spare wheel and mount. True, and you will have to pay for four tires as for five. Popular mechanics tried to figure out if it's time to rush to change tires to new ones With the smell of food. Flavors With a wing at the ready Enjoy Your Bath. Locomotive With a bow for fishing. Hunting. Most of our compatriots learned about bow fishing from the last movie about Rambo, although there is a whole industry in America that caters to this type of hobby. Archery fishing has reached us. Popular mechanics visited one of the first fish hunts in Russia With love for nature: the year 2020. Design of the future. The latest competition from Electrolux was dedicated to environmentally friendly technology of the future. Introducing eight finalists from around the world From the spot - in flight! Non-airfield takeoff. An aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing has many restrictions on the mass of weapons and flight range. And the usual one requires a long runway. How to combine the advantages of both without adopting the disadvantages? This is how the idea of short takeoff aircraft was born. From the world to the beat With the world on a string. Supercomputer. From the time of the creation of the first adding machine to the present day, scientists of all specialties continue to complain about the lack of computing resources. For complex calculations, prohibitively expensive supercomputers occupying entire buildings are used. But the same tasks can be performed using ordinary personal computers and even game consoles - if taken by the whole world From heaven to hell. Hit From heaven to earth: why is the number of Russian launches falling? With steam against ice. The first Arctic icebreaker. Especially for its readers, Popular Mechanics organizes free tours. In February, we invite you to visit the Museum of the Navy (Moscow) With hip lift With super prefix With a gun in my head. Air defense Ilyich. Sixty years before September 60, 11, Stalin foresaw that perhaps the tallest buildings in the capital would be the enemy's first and most important target. And he ordered to put anti-aircraft guns on Lenin's head With a gun for diamonds. Jewelry. Speaking of diamond, the word most can be repeated over and over again: the hardest, the most brilliant, the most wear-resistant, the most expensive, the rarest, the most heat-conducting... With a scooter between my legs. Combat Bikers. At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, combat bicycles were still a secret weapon. Accurate to 0,0001 seconds. Speed. On September 9, 2007, driver Logan Gomez won the Chicagoland 100 race of the IRL Indy Pro Series championship. He beat the second-place winner by 0,0005 seconds, setting a fishish density record in world motorsport. What equipment can measure time with such accuracy? How to start the morning: Popular mechanics decided to collect (and dispel) the myths about coffee, tea and cocoa From the highway to heaven! flying car Saga about dietary supplements. Biologically active additives. What are dietary supplements? Can they, as their sellers claim, cure many diseases? Or maybe all dietary supplements (or most of them) are useless and even dangerous? Let's try to figure it out Garden steam locomotives. Male hobby. Do you know how much smoke from a steam locomotive costs? A thousand pounds - one ring! (Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice saw there, or Alice Through the Looking-Glass) Saiga-12: the world's best weapon for practical shooting Salon flew away Himself a rocket scientist. We take off on our own. Few of my peers were not fond of building model rockets. Maybe it was the worldwide passion of mankind for manned flights, or maybe the apparent simplicity of building a model. A cardboard tube with three stabilizers and a foam or balsa head fairing, you see, is much simpler than even an elementary model of an airplane or car. True, the enthusiasm of most young Korolevs, as a rule, evaporated at the stage of searching for a rocket engine. The rest had no choice but to master the basics of pyrotechnics Himself Ferdinand Porsche. Dream car. In order to create the car of your dreams, today it is not at all necessary to have a design diploma or know the gearbox. Enough desire and access to the Internet The deepest sub. There is such a record. For many scientists, the real cutting edge of science is the world hidden from us under the ocean. Over the years, researchers have developed many ways to go where no human has gone before. They conduct research at great depths, where the pressure is so high that it could flatten a car to the size of a beer can. The most dangerous butterfly: the anatomy of the balisong The most Russian Yamaha Samovar of the third millennium. According to the precepts of the ancestors. Samovar - a water-heating vessel for tea, mostly copper with a pipe and a brazier inside - a definition in the Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by V.I. Dalia (1860.) Homemade heat: do-it-yourself chemical heating pad S-class scooter. Farsightedness on the road. What car is the most comfortable to drive in traffic jams? Well, of course, on a small, brisk, with an automatic transmission, you say and you will be wrong. The new Mercedes S-class is much more preferable for this purpose. Airplane in the garage. Light aviation. About ten years ago, I watched a program about a small American town where officials from the US space agency NASA lived. Cozy houses stretched along the only central street, which, in general, was not a street, but a runway All-knowing aircraft Plane out of the box. Plane out of the box. All my friends in childhood made aircraft models. Most often, the contour of the aircraft was cut out of plywood, the MK-17 engine was ordered through Posyltorg, two steel wires were pulled through the wing - and a cord model was obtained. She could fly only in a circle, performing only one aerobatics - Nesterov's loop. When you got tired of twisting the loops, you could arrange an air battle for a couple: ribbons were tied to the tails, and the winner was the one who chopped it off the enemy’s tail Plane plus plane. In conjunction with the aircraft. One plane is good, but two is better. It was this principle that guided the inventors of composite aircraft systems. Howard Hughes' ambition plane. Aviation Airplanes without wings. Between a glider and a helicopter. If you happen to come across a craft with the funny name autogyro, take it seriously. Maybe this is your ticket to heaven. Aircraft without rudders and ailerons Aircraft in the lead role. Scenes in the sky. The planes assembled for the filming of the film Lafayette Squadron would be enough for a small aviation history museum. But most importantly - they could fly! Planes on skis: how it works and why you need it Airplanes-transformers. An unpromising prospect. Variable geometry wing planes flew poorly and fought poorly, but were built in huge numbers on both sides of the ocean Self-propelled double-barreled. Shoot both. In the new twenty-first century, long-range field artillery will face amazing metamorphoses. The largest statues in the world: why are they being built? The fastest in the Soviet Union. Soviet formula. Thirty-five years ago in Kharkov, within the walls of the Automobile and Road Institute, an unusual revival reigned. Journalists and photographers constantly came here, and the phone of the High-Speed Car Laboratory did not stop for an hour: they called from the capital, they called from abroad. Kharkiv residents designed an apparatus that, for the first time in history, was supposed to reach supersonic speed without taking off from the ground The coolest watch of 2016: all gadgets BaselWorld The most unusual technologies in elevators The most self... Distributed mind. Something amorphous, similar to a puddle of liquid metal, can be seen on the dirty asphalt. But here it smoothly and quickly flows to its own kind, puddles merge into one whole, again and again. Part of the formless liquid metal suddenly rises, and the outlines of a humanoid robot clearly appear. This is fantastic - footage from Terminator 2. But the idea of a robot assembled from many particles without a single control center, capable of repairing itself and changing its own shape as needed, has long been in the minds of robotics specialists. The most English billiards The largest engine Saturn-V. It was the most powerful rocket ever built. It served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned lunar missions. So, probably, it can be called the most famous rocket The largest amphibious assault ship The fastest ice Bobsled. One of the most technically advanced luge and bobsleigh tracks in the world is located in Paramonovo near Moscow. Now we know her firsthand. The fastest electric bike The most distant object in the solar system The most beautiful designer The world's smallest robot. Micro. The creators claim that it is so small that it can turn around on a coin. And he needs even less space to park. We are talking about a robot with a height of only one centimeter, which the inventors believe is the smallest robot in the world. More precisely, the smallest handmade robot The most powerful aircraft engine in the world and other amazing photos The most powerful magnet in the world. Tesla. How to slow down a loaded locomotive at a distance of a quarter of a million kilometers - just that much separates us from the moon. A magnetar, that is, a magnetic neutron star, which is called SGR 1806-20, is the strongest source of a magnetic field known to us in the Universe. The most unusual flying car: Terrafugia TF-X The most preserved mammoth The most durable skyscraper The heaviest bulldozer The most human bot The best. Steering wheel test: hybrid Lexus RX 400h. Popular mechanics took a ride on the most technologically advanced car in the world and looked under the hood Sleigh in summer Luzhniki. What Russian doesn't like to drive fast (especially when watching Formula 1 races on TV)? Fortunately, the joy of speed can be felt not only in a multi-million dollar race car or gravimobile, a half-million dollar non-motorized high-speed machine. One of the most affordable options is a super-fast skateboard, or street luge. Stand up paddleboarding: the amazing ride on an inflatable board Satan vs Peacemaker. Intercontinental ballistic missile. The R-36M was indeed the largest and heaviest mass-produced combat missile in the world. On the one hand, you involuntarily begin to be proud of this fact, and on the other hand, you ask yourself: why? After all, Soviet microcircuits were the largest in the world, but this did not cause pride Sugar for export. Desert Shoot down on the way. Active protection. The tank, the most beautiful and powerful ground combat vehicle, has become a favorite and main object of hunting in modern warfare. Fresh blood: how to slow down aging with blood plasma Let's check the clock? Theory of relativity. Objects are compressed, space is bent, time is slowing down... Fiction? Not at all. This is the reality that surrounds us Super deep diving: can a person live at a depth of 700 m? Supersonic and silence. Without sound, faster than sound. Almost any school physics textbook has a problem: How fast should a passenger plane fly so that, having taken off from Vladivostok at 10 o'clock in the morning, it could deliver passengers to Kaliningrad on the same morning by 10 o'clock? The solution is simple - it must move at the speed of the Earth's rotation. At the equator, this speed will be approximately 1700 km / h Ultra small caliber. Miniature weapon. Every boy at least once imagined that his toy army comes to life and begins to independently conduct military operations. The only obstacle to fantasy may be ... physics. Indeed, how to arm such an army? How to ensure the performance of a tiny weapon? These questions were answered by Tula gunsmiths Superconductivity: time to understand Superconducting transmission lines: how it's done in Russia The light of the future Light and rails. Pocket flashlight and toy trains. What do battery powered flashlights and model trains have in common? At first glance - nothing. Meanwhile, the author of these familiar things is one and the same person. My light, mirror. DLP projector. No sooner had Texas Instruments (TI) released the latest model of its DMD-crystal - HD-2/Mustang, than the first projectors and TVs made using this technology appeared in Russia. Earlier than in many other countries The light of the dancing stones Light experiments by Martin Hesselmeier Luminous Servants Date with the future. The new Pivo 2 concept car. We have a word in Japanese called kawaii, which means adorable, friendly, cute, says Pivo 2 Chief Designer Masato Inoue. - When we started designing the Pivo 2, we knew for sure that this car had to be kawaii in terms of looks. Moreover, he had to become something like a partner or a pet, in order for a bond resembling friendship to develop between the driver and the car. This is how we came to the concept of Pivo 2 Iron Witnesses. Black box. They routinely stand on laboratory tables - some are just like new, others with traces of a long stay in the ground, others are deformed or burned. Only paper tags glued to them remind of the tragedies that were written about in the newspapers so much. Lead Storm. Separation Whistle and rustle Suite of stars. Exoplanets. Scientific predictions that boil down to the famous It can’t be, because it can never be, often lose their meaning already at the moment of pronouncing Free thinking by Niklas Roy Half brothers. Platform test. Test of three cars built on the same platform. Car companies tend to build different models on the same platform. For manufacturers, this approach makes life easier, but is there something good in it for us consumers? To understand this, we tested three pairs of cars built on the same platform. Your home in orbit. Above the roof. In five years, a new generation of owners will appear on our planet - people who own unearthly real estate. Or, rather, movable. The housing of these gentlemen will rotate in the orbit of our planet Yours among strangers. Races that didn't exist. One day the great world rally champion Colin McRae challenged the great world champion in Formula 1 Michael Schumacher to a double duel. McRae suggested to Schumi that he drive Formula 1 cars around the ring track and then meet at the rally stage driving WRC cars. However, Schumacher did not accept the challenge ... With my own eyes DIY: how to make the world's fastest paper airplane connected by the same network. Does the weapon of the future have a future? After spending fifteen years in research and development, the US Army has provided soldiers with the most advanced equipment that will allow them to cut through the powder smoke of a future war. So why don't the soldiers like it? Rising sun connection. Phone of all trades. i-mode technology, which owes its success to Japanese mobile communications, will be launched in the Russian MTS network in autumn Holy of Holies. Alligator Phase shift. Engine Get the wave pierced. Tasmania builds the best ships in the world. As part of the creation of ultra-mobile armed forces, the Pentagon is going to purchase ultra-modern high-speed catamarans. This news would not be surprising if these technological marvels were not produced by a company from the Australian island of Tasmania, known until now only for marsupial Tasmanian wolves and extinct natives. Make a beauty! We collect the yacht. Who in childhood did not rave about sailboats? So when we were deciding which mode of transport the Popular Mechanics mini-shipyard would launch, everyone settled on the yacht without reservation. Well, first of all, it's beautiful. And secondly, the editors thought that building a yacht would take less time than any vessel with a motor. We made a big mistake with the second one. northern giant Safe in your pocket: Anti-theft Henderson jackets and wallets The secret of gas production Secret fuel. Food of the gods. The recent accident of the Dnepr rocket, a space launch vehicle converted from the R-36M UTTKh military rocket, has again sparked interest in rocket fuel. The secret weapon of the gods. How Indra hit Vritra with a vajra. People have always regarded lightning as a weapon of the gods. Among the ancient Greeks, Zeus the Thunderer commanded lightning, among the Hindus - the king of heaven, Indra. The ancient Vikings, gorged on fly agaric, could clearly see Thor's lightning-fast fist in the sky. Broad-hearted Slavs generally armed everyone with electricity - from the pagan god Perun to the Christian prophet Elijah. References to the exceptional power of thunder weapons can be found in any religion. Secret weapon of Byzantium. Building a flamethrower Secret Stalin order. Heavenly thunder. One of the main reasons for the failure of the Red Army in the winter war with Finland was the lack of heavy guns. Airliner secrets. Forward and upward. A hundred years after its birth, civil aviation has become a completely everyday part of our lives. We are so accustomed to passenger aircraft that we have almost lost our curiosity and no longer think: what do they have inside? White Powder Secrets Secrets of burglar thieves: what is the difference between door locks? Farsense Secrets. Interception. The official website of the world's largest intelligence agency, the US National Security Agency, has a permanent section where declassified documents of historical interest are regularly posted from secret archives for public access. The number of pages in the intelligence materials published in this way, which until recently were labeled SECRET and TOP SECRET, today amounts to many, many thousands. The informative value of these documents, of course, varies very widely, but there are also genuine gems. Secrets of ancient water. Mineral General. Do you want to know where the bubbles in mineral water come from? the editor-in-chief asked me. I answered in the affirmative and began to wonder which of the office soda machines he had taken apart. But everything turned out to be more serious: the photographer and I were sent to the Georgian town of Borjomi, the homeland of the most popular mineral water in Russia Secrets of the ski pole. Technological and reliable support. It's hard to think of anything simpler than ski poles. But under this external simplicity, a lot of high technology is hidden. Secrets of the Russian track. Our route. An incredibly fast sports car sliding on the ice of the track and raising fountains of snow. Fascinating, enchanting spectacle! Secrets of digital filmmaking. An unexpected convergence of film and television. Whenever anyone talks about all-digital cinema, the question of standards hangs in the air. Almost no one knows the exact answer to the question In what standard are digital films shot? Noise Canceling Secrets: How to Hear Your Voice Through the Rumble of a Jackhammer Selfie Drones: Overview of Models Family sport: Land Rover Discovery Sport test drive Seven Reasons Not to Build a Steampunk Machine. And one strong argument for. Inspired by the work of Yi-Wei Huang, we were inspired by the idea to get our own steampunk steam engine in the editorial office Cut off seven times, and also pinch off, drill and wind. Kitchen Seven feet under the skirt. Amphibians Sensation: the birth of new eggs in adult women was recorded for the first time sensory practice. Sensors Senor Robinson. To work in a helicopter. Many dreamed of helicopters comparable in reliability and price to cars, but only one person was able to make such a helicopter. His name is Frank Robinson Gray bone of civilization Heart of time. Mechanics of eternity. Four thousand years ago, people could more or less accurately arrange a meeting only at dawn or sunset Silver clouds. Atmosphere. Just a few hundred years ago, the Earth was full of the unknown, and in order to paint over the blank spots, hypothetical natives with dog heads and human faces on their stomachs were drawn on geographical maps. Since then, mysteries on our planet have diminished. The more interesting are those that modern science still cannot unravel ... Silver bird of the Third Reich. On a rocket to New York. The Third Reich, having existed for only twelve years, collapsed under the blows of the allies. The winners got rich trophies, and among them are real miracles of technology, decades ahead of their time. serial reincarnation. Disposal. Old household appliances in Japan are not taken to summer cottages and are not thrown into landfills. She is killed with the help of professional equipment destroyers. Serial future. A revolutionary package of hydrogen fuel cells. On June 16, 2008, at the newest assembly line of the plant in the town of Takanezawa, an hour's drive from Tokyo, Honda began serial assembly of a car powered by Honda FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cells. At the opening ceremony of the assembly line, company president Takeo Fukui said: This technology is vital to civilization. Honda will strive to make hydrogen cars affordable and mainstream Pandora's web Squeeze and rotate. Made in Russia. In 1979, Head of the Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Finely Dispersed Materials of the Institute of Chemical Physics (ICP) named after V.I. N.N. Semenov Academy of Sciences of the USSR Vadim Gennadievich Nikolsky and his colleagues conducted research on composite materials. Polymer mixtures in the laboratory were subjected to intense compression up to 5-20 thousand atmospheres using the so-called Bridgman anvils with simultaneous rotation of one of the anvils relative to the other. The results were promising: from a heterogeneous mixture, polymer films were obtained with a degree of uniformity that no one had been able to achieve until then. Squeeze harder. Turbo If you simply pump more fuel into the cylinders, it will not burn. Combustion requires air, and the blower helps deliver it to the engine. Siberia and Alaska - two coasts Strength in persistence The power of thought. Telekinesis trainer. The XNUMXth-century English psychic Daniel Douglas Hume became famous not so much for summoning spirits as for his telekinesis and levitation abilities. In front of an astonished audience, Hume lifted objects into the air - and himself. When Hume was on his deathbed, his wife asked him: Douglas, why don't people fly? Because they don't want to, he said. But we, the editors of the PM, want to fly and, as a first step, we decided to train our telekinetic abilities The power of thought. To open a program, think twice about the icon. In the middle of the last century, science fiction writers wrote that in the future people will learn to control technology with the power of thought alone. And this is the future. The first such devices are now being bench tested at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology (IVND and NF) of the Russian Academy of Sciences Tension strength. Golf. Advertisements for new golf clubs that will provide a clear win come by email as often as offers to lose weight quickly, get rich quick, or become a sex giant. New clubs appear on the market so often that it's time to introduce the category Club of the month Silicone dream. Sweet heaviness in the chest. Silicone implants are no more harmful than false teeth. Both those and others are used for two reasons - if there are no natural or for beauty. Hollywood has long pleased our eyes with snow-white porcelain and elastic silicone. Let's talk about the last Silicone ears. Sound Force spiral By the power of thought. The transformation of an intangible thought into a sounding word becomes a reality. There is something more than thoughts, but something less than speech: the desire to say something. When we want to say a phrase, but we say it not out loud, but to ourselves, our brain has time to send a signal to the muscles of the silent vocal apparatus. On this fine line, the Audeo device works, which allows you to control a motorized chair with almost the power of thought or make synthetic speech through a computer. Symmetry and rotation as sources of beauty god simulator. Make yourself an idol. The idea to replace real actresses and photo models with computer beauties is not new. Creator simulator. Maths Blue baron. The current model. Electroplanes - the fastest way to small aviation Synthetic Biology: The Artist Making Life Blue bird astronauts. Special vehicle. An amazing thing - without a front wheel, almost lying on its side, the car still continued to move, overcoming gullies and potholes. Then the frame changed on the videotape, and she was already confidently walking through the dunes, along the virgin snow, undergrowth ... From the shore she jumped into the river and rolled along the bottom until the wheels were pulled out, and then she swam, raising a white breaker behind the stern ... Enough roll a car into the belly of a transport aircraft or hang it from a helicopter - and it can be delivered to any region of the country Citiethers: white hacker competition The Sith retaliated. The most technologically advanced swords in this part of the galaxy. George Lucas wrote the screenplay for a strange film in 1972 about distant planets, brave Jedi, talkative robots and beautiful princesses. Lucas' love of new technology has since become legendary. So, it was for the first in the history of Star Wars that the famous company Industrial Light & Music was founded. Shining threadTungsten thread. The tungsten filament is not Coolidge's only development. He also invented an inexpensive X-ray tube (with a tungsten cathode, by the way) The legend of the wandering reactor. Soviet mobile nuclear power plant. In the dim light of the polar day, a column of caterpillar vehicles crawls along the snowy tundra in a dotted line: armored personnel carriers, all-terrain vehicles with personnel, fuel tanks and ... four mysterious cars of impressive size, similar to mighty iron coffins. Probably, this or almost this would have looked like a journey of a mobile nuclear power plant to the N-th military facility, which guards the country from a potential enemy in the very heart of an icy desert ... Robot Tales. Once upon a time there was a Terminator. Director Jonathan Mostow, who directed the film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, considered the main compliment of his work not at all box office or critical reviews. He rejoiced when he heard something like well done, they did without computers, they worked with real destruction and real stuntmen Scalpel for the chef. Cooking as an exact science. The fashion for knives from Japan has long reached Russia. A high-quality Japanese knife, made in strict adherence to the national tradition, is by no means a cheap thing. To answer the question of what a modern Japanese chef's knife is, let's turn to history. Scandinavian standard. Forgotten wires, free hands, blue teeth. King Harald, who ruled Scandinavia in the XNUMXth century, had no idea that his nickname would give the name to one of the most advanced technologies that combines many electronic devices. Suit for the tunnel. Severo-Muysky tunnel. Having completed the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, the longest in Russia, the Severo-Muisky Tunnel was built for a quarter of a century. In December last year, the first train passed through the tunnel. Full commissioning is scheduled for the current IV quarter Through the donut hole. Synchrotron. The radiation of giant synchrotrons reveals the secrets of the microcosm Through my teeth History of simple things Through the eye of a needle. Guns with conical barrels. For a century now, the best anti-tank ammunition has been fast-flying scrap. And the main question that gunsmiths are struggling with is how to disperse it faster Through the ice We make our way to the fish. Where winter lasts longer than summer, ice fishing is a very popular pastime. But first you need to drill through the ice sheet Through the clouds Aircraft handwriting. Aircraft also leave traces in the atmosphere. Sometimes you can even see them. Skijoring: the sport of the Vikings Lean towards victory. Strength Slippery type. Teflon. This amazing plastic with unique properties was discovered by accident. In the early 1930s, General Motors (GM) developed a family of substances - chlorofluorocarbons, called freons. How old is this mummy? How scientists date organic artifacts. Have you ever wondered how exactly scientists manage to understand what era this or that mummy or bone belongs to? It's all about the half-life of radioactive isotopes. One of the methods for dating organic fossils is the analysis of their carbon-14 content. How much junk is in our DNA? How much fuel does an airplane take with it on a flight? How many feelings does a person need? The speed of thought. Computing center. Scuderia Ferrari is a complex living organism, a racing team with a fiery scarlet heart. However, in Formula 1 racing, above all, a cool head is needed. The brain of the legendary stable that never sleeps and knows no fatigue is a computing center from AMD Clip. Unite, sheets and nations! Discreet charm of electronics Humble crusader. Unscrew, turn. Phillips screwdriver - an indispensable attribute of any tool kit The sculptor burns. A very large piece of art. Unlike the classical poet, the sculptor of the XNUMXst century cannot burn hearts, but he can burn faces Glory or death. Speed. After the end of World War II, many enthusiast racers tried to become the fastest on the water. Realizing the dream was not easy. According to statistics, only one pilot out of five managed to cheat death. The rest died in pursuit of a world record Sweet mechanics. For dessert - high technology. We present a cake made by a confectioner-artist from St. Petersburg Zhanna Zubova and her assistants Olya Shilova and Andrey Bishkov especially for Popular Mechanics. Why do we need a cake? Of course, we love to get together and drink tea, and even more we love to surprise our readers. But it all started, of course, with high technology Sweetness in a cube Slalom indoors. Winter games all year round. Downhill skiing in winter? Why not? A computerized ski simulator is as much fun as real skiing watch yourself Traces of cosmic catastrophes. Everlasting memory. What do gamma-ray bursts coming from very distant regions of the Universe testify to - about the most powerful destructive processes of star death ... or about nuclear battles of galactic civilizations? Traces of unseen beasts. Fairy tale effects. The story of the fabulous land of Narnia, the entrance to which is located behind a wardrobe, was composed by the British professor K.S. Lewis. In Narnia, fauns, centaurs, dryads, gnomes, giants and talking animals languished under the rule of the evil White Witch - and this continued until the curious Pevensie brothers and sisters, sent to the village away from the bombings of World War II, climbed into the closet and found a magical land Blind flight. Altimeter. Despite the rapid development of aviation, which began in 1903 with the historic flight of the Wright brothers, by the 1920s the ideology of flight had changed little. The main instruments of the pilot were still the eyes and the vestibular apparatus, so flying in darkness, fog or low clouds was fraught with great risk. As soon as the pilot stopped seeing the earth or the sun, he lost his orientation in space, which inevitably led to a stall in a tailspin Fly to the 101st kilometer. Space. In a few years, for little money, it will be possible to become an astronaut for a short time. In Zhukovsky near Moscow, in the hangar of the Experimental Machine-Building Plant named after Myasishchev, there is already a ready-made prototype of the world's first suborbital tourist spacecraft C-XXI Snail Too Fast, Readers' Argument, and Other Best Letters of the Month Words and sounds by Rafael Lozano-Hammer. Pulse Word games by Jim Jenkins. Alphabet Masculine. Coffee Broken Time by Roger Wood. Mad watchmaker. In some Eastern cultures, breaking a clock is a bad omen. Yes, and it would probably be unpleasant for everyone to drop a brand new alarm clock on the floor and smash it to smithereens - a thing after all, and we are so attached to things! Imagine how you pick up a broken chronometer from the floor, gears and springs stick out of it, and it ... goes. And it goes exactly right. Exactly such - broken in appearance, but good inside the clock and makes the master Wood from Toronto Elephants and cars The elephants were not hurt. Technology for the triumphant. Previously, the world was conquered by military leaders, now it is the lot of Hollywood directors. For his new film, Alexander Oliver Stone received a 150 million budget. He filmed in England, Morocco and Thailand, hired horses from Spain and Germany and had lead actress Angelina Jolie strut around the studio with snakes wrapped around her neck. Ultra Precise Time Service Serving the elements does not tolerate fuss. Forecasts of the Hydrometeorological Center. How are the weather forecasts that we see daily on TV screens or hear on the radio prepared? listening to the universe. The future of radio astronomy. The creation of radio telescopes was the first stage in the emergence of astronomy beyond the narrow boundaries of the visible spectrum. Smartphone on wheels Smartphones are dangerous, or how gadgets destroy social connections Change your face. plastic surgery. A new technique that will allow the victims of terrible misfortunes to find a face is received ambiguously Deadly power in the hands. capture Deadly racing. Autotuning. Paul Barthel's film Death Race 2000 was released in 1975. The dark dystopian action movie was a huge success, and powerful armored vehicles equipped with machine guns, bazookas and oil canisters spawned a whole trend in the art of tuning and airbrushing Death scare. Carousels. Have rides become more dangerous due to breakneck speeds and heavy g-forces on corners? Deadly spit. We are building a cumulative ammunition. What is the cumulative effect and how it helps to break through the thick armor of modern tanks Deadly babies Deadly steampunk. gas artillery. Steam weapons are now not uncommon - they are abundant in books and computer games. But did it really exist? Death to crows! A serious weapon for hooligans. Bullpup (English bullpup) - the layout of the mechanisms of rifles and machine guns, in which the percussion mechanism and the magazine are located in the butt behind the trigger. Thanks to this arrangement, it is possible to increase the length of the barrel without increasing the overall length and mass of the weapon, which has a positive effect on range and accuracy (Wikipedia) Mixed reality. Conceptually! A few months ago we wrote about the construction of the Soviet Lunokhod. The latest Toyota Triathlon concept uses a similar powertrain, only made with XNUMXst century technology Meaning by ear Chukavin sniper rifle Rocket heart shell Snowmobiles from aviators. Our sledges are moving by themselves. In 1903, the Wright brothers took off from the earth with a device heavier than air, and a year later, another element was conquered with the help of an engine and a propeller. Horse-drawn transport has ceased to be a monopoly of snow expanses. From now on, snowmobiles could also ride on the snow, the first sample of which was designed by Sergei Sergeevich Nezhdanovsky Snow kiters. Snowsailers. Five years ago, in one of the first issues of Popular Mechanics, we wrote about winter kites and even tried to ride one of them, but without success - there was no wind. This winter, we decided to return to the topic - so far everything is in order with the snow-covered plains in Russia, and this sport seems to have been specially created for our frozen country. This is confirmed by statistics - sales of winter kites in Russia are growing by more than 50% per year Snow Leopard. Winter sportbike. Before we had time to write in the last issue about the revolutionary Canadian snowmobile Bombardier MX Z-REV, which is a mixture of a traditional snowmobile and a motorcycle, a real snow sportbike appeared in Russia - the Yamaha RX-1. While - in the singular Snow pattern. Cut out beauty. The art of growing ice crystals is not available to everyone: you need a diffusion chamber, a lot of measuring equipment, special knowledge and a lot of patience. Cutting snowflakes out of paper is much easier, although this art is fraught with no less creative possibilities. Waking dreams by Gregory Barsamyan. fantasies From all sides. digital attack. Talk about the imminent and inevitable death of chemical (analogue) photography has been going on for a long time. Today I was convinced that a digital attack is carried out not only from cameras With the speed of the wind. Water Dog-lovers. Legendary astronaut dogs. When the English Society for the Protection of Animals protested about the martyrdom of dogs, the Soviet industry in response urgently released Laika cigarettes with the image of the legendary dog. Not at all secret Top secret capacitor. Atomic guns. On May 25, 1953, on the deserted French Plateau in Nevada, a huge 280-mm semi-stationary gun T-131 was tested, outwardly resembling the guns of the First World War. A shot rang out, and after 25 seconds the desert was lit up with the brightest flash, eclipsing the sunlight, and a moment later a mushroom cloud began to rise to the sky. For the first time in the history of mankind, a nuclear weapon was fired Soviet maglev Soviet shuttle. Storm around Buran. Until now, disputes have not subsided, but in general, was Buran needed? There are even opinions that the Soviet Union was ruined by two things - the war in Afghanistan and exorbitant spending on Buran. Is it so? Why and for what purpose was Buran created, and who needed it? Why is it so similar to the overseas Shuttle? How was it organized? What is Buran for our cosmonautics - a dead end branch or a technical breakthrough that is far ahead of its time? Who created it and what could it give to our country? And of course, the most important question - why does it not fly? We are opening a column in our journal in which we will try to answer these questions. In addition to Buran, we will also talk about other reusable spacecraft, both flying today and those that have not gone beyond design drawing boards. Modern physics and looking glass. The Science of the Impossible. The mirror matter hypothesis was first clearly formulated in an article by Igor Kobzarev, Lev Okun and Isaak Pomeranchuk, published in 1966. Modern Painkillers: No Morphine Modern Russian icebreakers Connect forever. An unbreakable bond. Apparently, the first confirmed historical fact of the use of glue is the creation of unknown artists in the Lascaux cave in France (dated to the XNUMXth millennium BC). To keep the painting on the damp walls of the cave as long as possible, the artists of the Upper Paleolithic mixed paints with glue. Pottery finds dating back to the fourth millennium BC show that even then people learned to use glue as a means of quick repair. Connect forever. Super glue. The substance that forms the basis of all superglues has been discovered twice. And the same person did it - Dr. Harry Coover Eating is unforgivable. Artificial intelligence. DARPA is funding the man-eating robot project, the Pentagon is building a fighting vehicle that devours corpses instead of refueling - with such headlines there were numerous newspapers and magazines talking about the EATR (Energy Autonomous Tactical Robot) project. Moreover, not only the yellow press sinned with prophecies about carnivorous iron monsters, but also very authoritative technical publications, such as Wired or Popular Science Will parallel mirrors create an infinite number of reflections? Creator of new life. J. Craig Venter. Genetic engineering pioneer J. Craig Venter was not an excellent student at school, but suddenly surprised his father by building a glider according to the drawings from Popular Mechanics. Now he considers this his first foray into the diocese of science. Treasures of the deep. Search. Near the rocks of Gibraltar, at the bottom of the sea, lie the most expensive remains of a ship in history: 300 years ago, a sailboat sank here with gold coins worth a billion dollars in today's prices. If only it could be lifted... The soldier of the future is coming Salty dreams. speed and flatness. During race week, hundreds of homemade cars grind their tires on the surface of the dry Bonneville salt lake in Utah. Participants are preparing to break a lot of records and pretty ruffle each other's nerves Salty kilowatt. Osmosis Sundial on a 3D printer: download and print Sunny city. The house where we will live? Eighteen student teams built, if not a city, then at least an entire sunny block. A demonstration site was created in the US capital, where the latest technological advances in the field of energy saving and solar energy are exhibited for everyone to see. Solar Express. Around the world - on the power of light. Flying an airplane 37 kilometers in 15 days using solar energy will require the most advanced aviation equipment, smart engineering and very good weather. One brave traveler is sure it's possible Sun racers. Test Drive. Looks like a UFO, accelerates like a turtle, but can drive non-stop until the sun goes down. These are the impressions left about the car Continuum - the likely winner of future solar races, created by students of the University of Michigan Sun worshipers. The brightest show in the world. This telescope is designed to observe a single celestial object. But what! Solo in techno style. Game technique. Everyone can break the strings on a guitar, but not everyone knows how it works. Meanwhile, ultra-modern guitars have little in common with the instruments of the Beatles. A straw for a cocktail. Everyone is after her. Legend has it that the first artificial straw for a cocktail was invented by Marvin Stone, the owner of a factory for the production of paper cigarette mouthpieces. The husk from a natural rye straw in a cocktail irritated him, so, taking a strip of paper, Stone smeared its edge with glue, wound it around a pencil with a screw, and then removed the resulting tube Sleep from the car. Brain Sleep is not in hand. The best cure for insomnia. Science has 82 types of sleep disorders, including such exotic as respiratory arrest during sleep - sleep apnea. The study of such disorders is the special science of sleep - somnology. Sleep of minds Resistance is useless: experimenting with magnetic levitation World creation. Miniature railroads. Miniature railways fascinate no less than the perfect mechanisms of Swiss watches. Both those and others in Europe have always been considered objects of technological art. Earth shaking social money. New methods of protecting banknotes. It was in Belgium. In the Belgian outback, which wakes up from its half-asleep existence only once a year - when a Formula 1 race takes place here. However, this awakening is relative - and regardless of any World Cup, in three small towns around the circuit, all institutions (including a few banks) do not work on Saturday and Sunday. A group of Russian journalists, including the author of these lines, stayed at an expensive private hotel. Her owner did not exchange currency and wanted to receive Belgian francs for hospitality (there was no euro then). We brought from Moscow, of course, dollars Rommel's asparagus and amphibious assault. Operation Overlord. Living in a world that has not known major wars for two-thirds of a century, it is not at all easy to imagine the scale and intensity of the great battles of World War II. The success of the Anglo-American-Canadian troops on D-Day - June 6, 1944 is a well-known fact that has entered the history books. But can we imagine what those who stormed the French coast, bristling with death, experienced and endured from the sea? After all, the enemy, already rapidly losing strength, was still insidious and dangerous. Salvation is not up to the mark Salvation from heaven Bless and save Save our souls. Help Life Savior. Kevlar: stronger than steel. These things are so firmly and naturally inscribed in the world around us that we tend to forget about the history of their origin. Popular Mechanics decided to fill this gap Savior of millions. Three-point seat belt Elephant savior Save the iron worm: Bert's giant tunneling shield is being repaired in Seattle Save, kill, forget. Fantastic. Julius Burkin (born 1960) is a famous Russian science fiction writer, poet and musician. Author of ten novels - both solo and in collaboration with Sergei Lukyanenko (the cult novel Ostrov Rus) and Konstantin Fadeev. Author of numerous articles in popular science magazines and four authored collections of science fiction and fantasy stories. Winner of the Wanderer Award for Flowers on Our Ashes Special item. How to bake a tank. The most exotic nuclear charges were developed for small arms Special effects 2008. Red monsters, green monsters and other evil spirits. There are so many curious, witty and original special effects in the cinema that you can’t tell about everything in the monthly issues of the magazine. Remakes and sequels continue to dominate the screen, and each new film in this category seeks to reimagine the old one. Speedriding: we fly off the coils. Extreme Cut down the fly. Non-lethal weapon of self-defense. There are two types of people: some with a gun, others dig, - said the famous cowboy Clint Eastwood, squeezing the handle of a revolver. If you like the first one, please keep reading. About how we chose a lighter in case they asked for a cigarette in a dark alley Sleeping in class: is it possible to study in a dream? The spinal cord of a car. car mystery Spokes and Flags by Dave Cole Solid Gembec I bet she spins? Sports for two fingers. Fingerboard. If we had not seen this with our own eyes, we would have decided that this was an April Fool's joke. Lumberjack sport. Cabin of captains. A real lumberjack must ideally maintain a perpendicular, masterfully own a cut, a saw cut and a half cut, delicately reduce two cuts into one and not leave cuts deeper than five millimeters. Sports with the letter yo. This is wow! Even in ancient times, the world fell ill with yo-yo. Thousands of years later, the epidemic of a rotating disk has reached us Gym on a boat, drawing with drones and other cool projects by Carl Ratti Sports posing. Test drive Easy-Glider. The owner of a luxury sports coupe is often hidden from admiring glances behind tinted windows. The cabriolet driver is only half visible. The motorcyclist is visible all over, but puts a helmet on his head. Do you want to bathe in enthusiastic views entirely? Ride the Easy-Glider! Sports hopes Can plants see? Brake on the right, gas on top Asked about cats, planes and cars? We answer Ask in human language. speak Sprut-SD: a tank pretending to be a self-propelled gun There is nowhere to hide. View of the battle from above. High above the Iraqi urban battlefields, small radio-controlled scouts hover. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they relay vital video information to coalition forces. Report from the Battle of Fallujah Satellite Launcher Matryoshka Hangover Cure: A Scientific View of the People's Problem Bet on hypersound. Speed Focus on simplicity. What are people drawn to? Things should not be multiplied unnecessarily (Occam's razor principle), Achieving simplicity is an extremely difficult task (Leonardo da Vinci), Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler (Albert Einstein) - in early October, such slogans could be seen in entrance to London's ExCel Exhibition Centre. And inside, Philips designers showed how they managed to simplify our future. Bets are placed, gentlemen! Bet. A real Englishman never jokes when it comes to such a serious thing as a bet. A glass with a voice. sound recording The ocean has become small Stalin route. The path of heroes. Chkalov, Baidukov and Belyakov flew over the North Pole to America and set a flight distance record. This fact was inscribed in golden letters into the mythology of the achievements of socialism. In fact, everything was not quite like that - more complicated and dramatic ... Steel without stains Steel box of happiness Steel kites of the Soviet Union. Track Steel horses and bison: the amazing art of John Lopez Steel wasps. In meat. On a Sunday afternoon in late September, a small crowd of curious men gathered in the empty parking lot next to our office. A large pork ham stood against the wall, and 50 meters from it, the shooter pulled on a block camouflage bow. After that, with five-second breaks, he sent three arrows at the target, which fell with a spread of 4 cm. Two of them pierced the carcass through and through, leaving terrible wounds, the third got stuck in the tibia, splitting it in half. Men approached, respectfully examined the bow and the result of his work. Popular mechanics tested hunting arrowheads Old pepper. Hand firearms. Man has always dreamed of killing two birds with one stone. Better not two, but twenty at once. Therefore, small arms were overgrown with trunks, like a hedgehog with needles. There were pistols like duck paw, double-barreled shotguns, multi-barreled machine guns. As a result, evolution came to a multiply charged single-barreled weapon, but there was another forgotten branch in it, the creations of which were not very functional, but very beautiful. Their name is pepperboxes Star Trek 50 Old train, fast train. Smooth-Economical-Fast-SilentTorrey Pines town in southern California. On one side are cliffs plunging steeply into the sea, on the other, the concrete arteries of the federal highway No. 5. Between them, a barely noticeable village of general atomics is hiding. Here was born and lives the only train in the whole of America, operating on the principle of Maglev (magnetic levitation). Three years ago, the company's electromagnetic systems department built a test track for such trains here, which is the embodiment of the idea of a maglev missile launcher developed at Livermore National Laboratory Statistics and cats: how warm cats became part of a science book Become a seagull. Why don't people fly? .. They even fly! The seagulls of the Gulf of Finland did not take me for their own. It's weird because we have so much in common... Sink shells. Sushi secrets. Unraveling the secrets of Japanese cooking is as difficult as extracting a clam from its mother-of-pearl house. Glass and steel McLaren's glass fortress. Workshop. Let you have all the money in the world, but without an invitation you will not get to us, they like to say in the McLaren Technology Center. One of the forges of British high-tech hid in the green groves southwest of London and almost pretended to be nature. But we were invited there and even given the opportunity to see the place where the famous Formula 1 cars are designed and built, as well as supercars for the extravagant rich. And all this in conditions of downright medical cleanliness. Glass microbes by Luke Jerram Glass brick. Architecture. At the dawn of civilization, the main materials in architecture were clay, stone and wood. Thousands of years passed, cities began to grow rapidly in height, and the era of concrete and steel began. Glass has become their constant companion, enlivening boring multi-storey boxes with sunlight. Today, some daredevils from the camp of major league architects are proposing to replace concrete and steel with load-bearing glass structures. stereo war We sterilize the cards. Gasoline versus electricity. To balance the pros and cons of gas and electric propulsion, Discovery Channel's top legend busters took apart an innocent brand new gas kart and converted it into an electric car that revs like crazy without polluting the air. Steampunk in detail. A short guide for Victorian inventors. Although steampunk is a fantasy genre, it takes us back to the bygone Victorian era and requires special technical accuracy to look believable. Washer of tomorrow. My holeless. For more than a hundred years of its existence, the design and capabilities of washing machines have not undergone any major changes. But it is possible that in the next ten years, washing machines with fundamentally new functions will appear on store shelves. What kind? The table that will change the world. digital furniture. Forget the keyboard and mouse - with the next generation of computer interfaces, we will communicate by the laying on of hands. Welcome to the era of digital furniture carpentry savvy I'm standing on the grass, shod in skis. Summer sport. When you meet a person with ski boots in the summer, do not rush to twist your finger at your temple. Maybe he just goes for grassski or grass skiing. Letter Guardians. First postage stamp. The British Royal Mail, established in 1510, by the beginning of the XNUMXth century had become an inefficient bureaucratic mechanism. Postage was paid by the recipient, which left many opportunities for deception: for example, secret notes were made on the outside of a folded sheet (envelopes were rare), which the recipient read and then simply refused to pay. In addition, the system of tariffs depending on the distance and weight of letters was complex and confusing even for the postal employees themselves, and the mail worked slowly and inefficiently. Country of highway giants. Australian trains. Traveling around Australia by car can not be called insanely exciting. But on the local roads you can meet real iron monsters Passion at a distance. Bob, Alice and the quantum repeater. Is it possible for something, without performing signal functions, to propagate with infinite speed? Strategic weapon of the future. rockets Bear strategist Stratospheric airships. Competitor to communications satellites. There is a renaissance of airships all over the world. This is not only reflected in areas where airships have traditionally been strong (tourism, cargo platforms). A completely new area is being born before our eyes - stratospheric airships Strahbord. Asphalt surfers. From the outside, riding a dirtsurfer looks like madness. It's actually easier than riding a bike without hands. There is no more terrible bride of the beast. Film effects. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has come up with a playful Stephen Sommers Scale that defines the difficulties of creating special effects. The top bar is called What Steven Sommers Wants, and it comes right after the one that says Oh my god, the computer is about to explode! Terrible and invincible. Russian unicorns. In the early morning of August 12, 1759, 48 thousand soldiers of the Prussian army of Frederick II, called the Great by German historians, attacked the positions of Russian and Austrian troops, near the village of Kunersdorf on the banks of the Oder. The bloodiest battle of the Seven Years' War began Shooting balloons: how to do it Shooting at radio models: legal and interesting! Building atoms. Getting new items. Russian and American scientists have created two new elements of the periodic table, using a metal commonly used in fire alarm sensors. Virus builder: crazy or savior? strongboat String Concerto for the Universe. Maybe or maybe not? That is the questionIn the near future, physics may return to the Pythagorean idea of world harmonies. But, of course, on a new level Students, hybrids and the future. Racing prototype MADI. In May, three dozen bizarre sports cars could be seen at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the United States. Like downsized Formula 1 cars, they drove almost silently. All cars were student-built hybrids for the Formula Hybrid competition. Teams from the USA, Canada and ... Russia competed among themselves Chair with wardrobe. We save space. The project of Yulia Erokhina, a student of the St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy, saves space and protects our belongings Stewardess at the helm. Flight simulator. The news that a simulator imitating the cockpit of a Boeing 737-800 was opened for public use in Moscow did not surprise us. After all, we already flew a Su-27 fighter simulator a year ago - and did not expect anything new. Nevertheless, the editorial team went to Kutuzovsky Prospekt to study the simulator - and did not regret it. Because there really are no analogues to the TFT simulator Su-34: Newest Russian Bomber Su-35: smart, modern, deadly Submarine is high. Investigation Judgment Day. What does he have inside? Unlike what we see in TV dramas, a real forensic investigation is not done in an hour. Shipping Arctic The fate of the Chinese man: medical experiments with people The Scout's Fate The fate of the universe. Variants of Armageddon. All mesons decayed, / All neutrons decayed, / All visible light was emitted. / According to Coulomb's law / Protons scattered, / There is no hope for leptons. (D. Froman, Ballad about an astronaut from the book Physics are joking) Crazy canals and seas: Atlantrope and water Sahara Crazy building of the century. PM invites readers to get acquainted with the craziest architectural projects of our time. Pyramids that are larger than Egyptian ones, buildings over 3 km, skyscrapers connected to each other by a dozen bridges - all these architectural masterpieces can appear on our planet before the end of the next decade. Their projects already exist. It's up to potential customers who will help architects materialize their fantasies Crazy yachts. Buera. What is the maximum speed you can develop under sail? Almost 50 knots, you say. And you'll be wrong. World record among boats - 188 km/h Supertugs. Supertanker tug. Entering the harbor, the giant tanker is completely helpless, and then port tugboats come to the rescue. Only the most powerful ships of this class in the world are able to cope with the ocean giant Super skyscraper. Above the stalinok. Popular mechanics have long tried to write about the project of the tallest building in Europe - a skyscraper in the Moscow City. But Moscow officials are stubbornly silent. We managed to contact the famous company Foster and Partners, founded by the legendary architect Norman Foster, according to the design of which the skyscraper will most likely be built. Vacuum superhero. Vacuum cleaner man storms the skyscraper A supercar in a smokeless future. Survival Supercomputer. Progress Superman for half a minute. Well done with a backpack. The roar of rocket engines in the respectable suburb of Mexico City, Cuernavaca, is already accustomed to and tolerated. What can you do if your neighbor is Superman! Supertrain for Britain Supergun. space cruiser. Today, few people remember that before the only launch of Buran, the Energiya launch vehicle flew into space without a shuttle. Even fewer people know why she flew there. Newsreels of those times usually show Energy from such an angle that the payload is almost invisible. Only in a few photos can you see a giant black cylinder docked to the Energy. With its first launch, the most powerful launch vehicle in the world was supposed to launch a battle station of unprecedented size into orbit. Supertech from superman. Super flywheel and super variator for a super car. During the heyday of ancient culture, when a person who was perfect both physically and spiritually was considered a role model, scientists were probably the same as Professor Nurbey Gulia. A weightlifter and a walrus, a respected teacher and an excellent storyteller, the author of both scientific and artistic books, as well as the inventor of technology that has found the widest application - all this is about him Superheavyweight. Sky trucks. About the world's largest cargo aircraft An-225 Mriya with a carrying capacity of 250 tons, the whole world knows. Few have heard about the alternative project M-52. Popular Mechanics Fills the Gap - Project Worth It Super bully. Wheel dream. The search for the best rider led to the creation of the best motorcycle Severe samopal. A gun Days of speed. The most-most race. Do you know why the ignition switch is located on the left side of the steering wheel on all production Porsche models with left-hand drive? This is a tribute to the brilliant victories of Porsche cars in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which until 1970 practiced a Le Mans-style start: the cars lined up on one side of the track, and the drivers on the other. Land cruiser. Hundred ton tank. The First World War became an arena for testing various types of completely new weapons. For some new products, such as tanks, the tactics of application have not yet been thought out, so they did not make much of an impression. After the war, the military began to develop ways to use armored vehicles, based on the experience of naval wars. British military theorist John Fuller wrote: Fleets of these machines would maneuver between fortified forts, destroying each other by naval maneuvers. Does a nanoweapon exist? Do races exist in a biological sense? Machine gun fight. Box comparison. When buying a car with an automatic, be sure to specify which one. The monopoly of boxes with torque converters is a thing of the past. Today, lazy drivers will have to choose between a hydromechanical gearbox, a CVT, a robot, or a high-speed DSG robot. Popular mechanics tested four types of gearboxes and drew their conclusions happy adulthood Sons of Adam. Genes, history and geography. With the marks left by random mutations on the Y chromosome, you can trace your ancestry through the male line all the way back to Adam. True, not biblical Pill for love: is it possible to cure feelings with chemistry Pill for old age. Gerontology. The elixir of immortality (or, at worst, ways to prolong life and youth) has been searched for for thousands of years by shamans, priests and alchemists. They say that some of them have achieved significant success, but mankind never knew about them. The sorcerers took the secret of eternal life with them to the grave Tablets in the garden. Forces of artificial nature. Genetically modified plants will help feed the hungry and cure the sick. They are also able to save the taiga from deforestation and even neutralize mines. Weight loss pills. Kilograms. Story Secret of Mars. The missing water case. The Red Planet was once completely saturated with water. Where did she all go? The mystery of the Nobel laureates. Viagra. Boosting a car engine, described in this issue (see the article Under gas), strongly resembles the process of increasing an erection, if you approach the matter from a scientific point of view. And nitrogen oxides are introduced into the cylinders of the forced engine, and into the cavernous bodies, which work wonders. In both cases, a sense of superiority returns to the man. The secret power of pheromones. Pheromones. Cosmetics that guarantee (according to the manufacturers) success with the opposite sex can be bought not only in specialized stores for adults, but also in any pharmacy or perfume shop. But how much can you trust the promises on the labels of Casanova perfumes? The secret life of plants: they hear, communicate and scream Secret soft life. creatures Secret underground war. tunnel networks. On the eve of the First World War, no one could have imagined that enemy fortifications would spread horizontally and go deep into the ground, turn into a giant system of trenches, dugouts, shelters, machine-gun nests, barbed wire, which artillery would not be able to gnaw through in all four years great european massacre Mysterious Garage #56. The most unusual car of 2012 Secrets of the green screen (and not only) Secrets of information intrigues Secrets of the Red Planet. And on the far horizon, ferocious Mars is burning with fire ... It is believed that the first star catalog was compiled in Babylon in the XNUMXth century BC during the reign of the great legislator Hammurabi. The anonymous authors of this work paid special attention to the five inhabitants of the night sky, which moved against the background of an unchanged pattern of other luminaries and changed their brilliance. Secrets of the constellation Ursa Major: how different peoples saw it Typhoon-M: defender of Poplars and Yarsov It's so easy to get out of yourself. Exit from the body. Where does our self end and the world around us begin? Why do we feel that our body belongs to us and we are able to control it? Is it possible to take a foreign object for a part of yourself? For those to whom the answers to these questions seem simple and obvious, we will try to offer food for thought. Taxi from heaven, neat monster and constant luxury on the water Where time began. Portrait of the universe. The Hubble Space Telescope created a unique baby portrait of the universe Where light is born There, beyond the clouds. Electronics flies off the rails. Stealth. Invincible and elusive stealth planes controlled by artificial intelligence are the latest word in modern military technology. However, science is powerless in a collision with the ancient forces of nature: a lightning strike is enough to drive the onboard computer crazy. And it would be fine if he then limited himself to pirated downloading of songs from the Internet - no, he is ready to bring the world to the brink of the Third World War. This is the plot of the new film by Rob Cohen, which is called Stealth. Tandem in half. There is no point in two wheels if there is one. From cyclists you can hear a funny story about how two athletes, Abby Kelto and Adori Killips, nicknamed AK squared, rode a tandem bike. During the descent from the mountain, the fragile tandem broke in half, and each girl was riding a one-wheeled projectile. This case did not upset the athletes at all. On the contrary, they became the world's first fans of unicycles, unicycles. Tandoor, barbecue and an abyss of taste. Science skewers Executive tank. Tiger. The technical stuffing of the Tiger could be the envy of many limousines of the middle of the last century The tank we didn't expect. The last defense myth Wedge heel Carden-Loyd and her heirs. Supply Tanks are powerless and omnipotent. Defeats and triumphs of the Great Patriotic War. Possessing significant tank forces, the Red Army in the first months of the war, however, was unable to hold back the swift blows of the smaller German tanks. Quantity did not become quality, and maneuver warfare had to learn from the bitter experience of defeats Tanks in the air. Fantastic weapon. Günther, junior observer of the German border combat airship LZ-329, held out his hand for binoculars. Something in the clouds caught his eye. Putting binoculars to his eyes, Gunther saw a completely incomprehensible object. As if he was flying there... he was flying there... It can't be! This is a tank with docked wings. Flying Tank! And on its planes... no, it's incredible... huge red stars! Tanks at the pole. Cold War. Imagine a picture: the years of the Cold War, Greenland, polar night. But life at the American air base does not stop: radars are spinning, heavy planes are taking off and landing - thick cigars of transport workers and narrow graceful flying fortresses. Suddenly, the attention of the airfield attendants is attracted by hundreds of running ghosts in white coats. Mirage? No, not a mirage, T-34 tanks jump out onto the concrete runway with a roar, opening machine-gun fire on the move. In minutes it's all over Tanks vs fortresses: how a tank works in urban combat Cyborg tanks and radio terror. Remote-controlled unmanned tank. During the Civil War, on all fronts, the whites used only 200 tanks of English and French production. Nevertheless, the tanks made a huge impression on the leadership of the Red Army. IN AND. Bekauri decided to strike while the iron was hot, and already in the mid-20s he proposed the creation of a remote-controlled crewless tank, which would now be called a cyborg tank. Weekend tanker. Test tracked ATV. There is a huge field ahead, covered with a meter layer of snow, but I categorically declare that I will cross it on a quad bike. The people around me look at me like I'm crazy. Not now, I add. - We need to improve the car Tank ram - the weapon of the brave Dancing in the ring. PM takes the fight. The Popular Mechanics robot Factotum (lat. factotum - do everything) turned out to be both a good fighter and an excellent dancer Dancing with fire. Fire show Pole dancing. Through the valleys and up the hills. Telemark is a sport for those who do not depend on slopes, ski lifts and ski fashion Cockroaches: where do they come from in the house and where do they go The ram is the weapon of the brave! Ram planes. In the early 1930s, aircraft designers from the leading countries of the world began to think about new, hitherto unseen types of aircraft. One of the unusual design ideas was a special fighter designed to destroy an enemy aircraft with a ram attack. Professor Roy's plate. Wingless aircraft. Last summer, news feeds were circulated by a message that a patent for a flying saucer had been received in the United States. In fact, one could not pay much attention to this news, since news of sensational inventions, which later turn out to be the usual PR of conceited dreamers, comes almost daily. Tachanka of the XNUMXst century Hard currency. Money money money. Every day we hold them in our hands, but mostly we pay attention only to numbers. Meanwhile, coins are not just money, but also a cultural phenomenon, living evidence of the history of the technological development of mankind. Theater of one pilot TVs with ears. Children's electronics. For many years, children - as a target audience - remained outside the interests of the electronic giants that produce consumer electronics. Companies have consistently mastered other niches: audiophiles, family people, bachelors, connoisseurs of exquisite design, and finally, teenagers Telescope the size of the solar system: gravitational lens Telescope? Pour it! Phone for photographers Dark side of the universe. Engine of the universe. The fate of the Universe is not controlled by baryon or even dark matter - the expansion of the universe is subject to dark energy Dark side of the universe. Beyond the world. On its pages, PM has already talked about the mysterious neutrino particles, for the study of which underwater, underground, and even under-ice installations are being built. It is possible that neutrinos have other neutral counterparts. And although almost nothing is known about them, scientists do not stop trying to detect their traces with the help of ultra-sensitive detectors. Dark side of the Moon. The first photographs of the invisible side of the moon. For thousands of years, man has looked at the moon, but at the whim of gravity, he sees only one side of it. In all ages, pundits have been building hypotheses, and science fiction writers, until recently, have painted vivid pictures of the life of the Selenites. But as soon as the right tool was in the hands, humanity did not fail to look at the dark side of the moon. Dark fields of blood. Diagnostics. Blood is an amazing creation of nature. It can be said without exaggeration that it is the source of life. After all, it is through the blood that we receive oxygen and nutrients, it is with the blood that the waste products of production are carried away from the cells. Any ailment necessarily finds its reflection in the blood. This is based on a number of diagnostic techniques. And charlatans too Dark lights. brown dwarfs The dark passions of Chris Eckert. Religion Dark space. The weight of the invisible. The belief that we and our immediate environment are made of the same bricks, electrons and baryons (protons and neutrons) as the entire boundless cosmos is an illusion. Tennis for two. Video games. In the modern world, video games are taken for granted, they are so commonplace that no one even thinks about which inventor gave the first impetus to this now multi-billion dollar industry. Theodore Roosevelt. Authors PM. Theodore Roosevelt became the first sitting president to publish in Popular Mechanics. In 1904 he wrote a short essay Woods and the Life of the Nation Conspiracy theory. Power system failure. Who is not blamed for the massive power failure of the American Northeast Warm without sables. Technology keeps you warm better than any fur. Electrified clothing (or blanket) is ordinary clothing that has an insulated wire inside. An electric current is passed through the wire as needed, warming it to a certain temperature. Thanks to this, electrified clothing heats evenly and well. Grigory Adamov, Vladyka's expulsion, 1946 Thermal picture of the Universe. And her cold-blooded observers. NASA's Large Observatories will be replaced by a very large one in the near future. In 2013, it is planned to launch the James Webb telescope with a 6,5-meter mirror into orbit Heatstroke. New furs for old heroes. The Ice Age is over and Global Warming has begun. This is not a weather report, this is the plot of the animated film Ice Age 2: The Meltdown Warm place. Steel planetary pulse sensors. When the research station collapsed under the onslaught of molten lava and steam, volcanologists came up with a new solution - they created stainless steel spiders. Warm Robots by Tobias Frehley Warm bun. Let's go - let's warm up. What will be the technology of the future? First of all, smart. She will take care of her master even when he himself does not think about it. Warm welcome The torment of water. What does Moscow drink Thermonuclear? Set it on fire! Energy Thermonuclear hail. Satan can carry a warhead to Mars. For a novice, the launch of the world's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile, the SS-18 Satan, is invariably a disappointment. Fusion reactor will heat plasma up to 150 million degrees and… change the future thermonuclear steampunk Patient material. On what the office writes. Finland is famous not only for fishing and sauna. This country is a leading producer of high quality magazine paper. Most European (and Russian) glossy magazines are printed on Finnish paper. including Popular Mechanics Robot morality test: to harm a person or not? Test drive BAZ-6402, tractor S-400 Triumph BMP-3 test drive: Popmekh at the helm of the famous car Stealth bomber test drive: what will replace it? Test drive of the Typhoon-K armored car: combat KamAZ Fighter test drive. Flight simulator Su-27. Eminent test pilots and just aviation enthusiasts come to Aviaclub 27 to ride on the Su-99 interceptor fighter Test drive MiG-3. From the Murmansk swamps Test drive monster truck X-MAXX: the most powerful RC model Test drive of the T-72B3 tank: PM growls, but does not shoot Testing real weapons on a virtual training ground Testing noise canceling headphones Paper casting technique. Vintage Equipment in the battles for Berlin. Storm of Berlin. The storming of Berlin on April 21 - May 2, 1945 is one of the unique events in the world history of wars. It was a battle for a very large city with a lot of solid stone buildings. Time splitting technique. High speed cameras. The human eye is a perfect instrument. He sees the surrounding reality with clarity unattainable for many representatives of the animal world and in all its amazing multicolor. And yet man's passion for knowledge has long exceeded the possibilities of the precious gift of nature. It took extra work of the mind to see the moment Drawing technique of Balint Boligo. Graphic arts Technokino Technology of political assassination. How did presidents die? Football Technology: GLT Head Lock System Hockey technologies: how they play in the XNUMXst century technological doping GTL technology eliminates the fear of running out of oil Madness technology. Flying on a thousand balloons. Probably, it seems to you that climbing higher than the peaks of Elbrus on a bunch of balloons is a completely crazy idea? You seem right. But to find out exactly how crazy this idea is, only one person in our country decided. Along the way, setting a world record that has not yet been beaten by anyone, and perhaps will forever remain inaccessible Plug knockout technology. Cork Recipes. A personal car is our faithful servant and assistant. It gives us the freedom to move from point A to point B at any time of the day or night, regardless of schedules. It provides the comfort and privacy that we don't get when crammed into buses and subways. And only in one case the roles change and the beloved car turns from a servant and assistant into the owner of our freedom and our time. Of course, this happens when we are stuck in a traffic jam. Technology Award Covert Strike Technology technology of terrorism Timothy Jacob Jensen. About form, function and emotions. Simplicity is the key to success In March, Timothy Jacob Jensen, director and leading designer of the Danish family bureau Jacob Jensen Design, flew to Moscow. PM took the opportunity to ask him a few questions Circulation - one copy Titanic: Made in China Titanic of our day. Safety. Even the most modern cruise ships do not guarantee the survival of passengers in a shipwreck. Silent revolution. Diet car. I'm standing in a traffic jam in a powerful two-ton sedan. The gas tank is practically empty, and a gas station on my way will not appear soon. But I don’t blow my mustache! I'm driving the most fantastic car of our time, the Lexus GS 450h hybrid car. It uses less fuel than a subcompact, accelerates better than other sports cars, and costs even less than its non-hybrid counterpart GS 430. Stalin's Pacific Wall. Seven samurai and long-range artillery. In the 1930s, grandiose construction was launched in the Far East ... Quieter or cheaper? How to make planes even less voracious? Jet civil aviation, which largely determined the face of the modern world, still remains a source of concern for environmentalists and raises a number of problems for airlines and the aviation industry. Silence and freedom Silence on batteries. Turn up the anti-noise louder. Active noise-canceling headphones not only play music, but also protect against noise better than earplugs Fabrics with superpowers The loom, the great-grandfather of computers. Program She will howl like a beast ... Then she will cry like a child. If the classic lived today, he could write these lines about analog synthesizers Either a mast or a sail. Wind Tolerant day after tomorrow Thick planet. The Science of the Impossible Only without legs. Tricycles Only without hands! Testing car headsets. If today someone on the road begins to wag strangely, it never occurs to us that a drunk is driving. It's just that someone is talking on a cell phone. Thomas Alva Edison. Authors PM. In 1903, Thomas Alva Edison wrote an article for the American edition of Popular Mechanics (PM). The article was about the mysterious radiation that radium, thorium and uranium possess. Thin ice. Until summer comes. Neither 20-hour nights, nor temperature drops to -60 degrees - nothing disturbs the peace of mind of truckers moving along the grandiose Canadian ice track. They are afraid of only one thing - a warm day Fuel of the future. Alternative. Fossil fuels will suffer the same fate as dinosaurs Fuel of evolution. Beer develops. Anthropologists suggest that drinking beer spurred human development. Today, this most traditional drink is brewed using very unusual technologies. Top action cameras: strength test The ax floats Top fuel dragster. Technique Snow merchants. Artificial snow. Last winter, BBC reporters searched Moscow for the hero of their future sensational interview. They wanted Dmitry Korichnev, owner of SFX Studio, Russia's largest snow dealer. They found Dmitry, and he did not disappoint the English TV people brakes on progress. Technological metals. A modern mobile phone contains no less than forty different metals. 20 years ago, there could only be two of them in a telephone set - copper and iron. Adding machines and typewriters in the last century were made entirely of vanadium steel, and a modern home computer already contains 60 different metals. Some experts believe that the shortage of so-called technological metals will come before the last drop of oil burns in a car engine. Can't slow down Brake alternatives. Quick stop. The rule The more expensive, the better in many cases fails. For example, if you equip your VAZ with the brake discs of a Formula 1 car, you will not stop faster. We decided to see how much the brake systems differ depending on the cost and purpose of the cars. Brake - slow down! ABS. The ability to brake correctly is a quality characteristic of a competent driver ... and ABS! Tornado-S: new long-range missiles of the Russian army Torpedo Fizik: stealthy and deadly Spot work. laser sculptures. PM continues to answer questions from readers. How are XNUMXD pictures obtained inside glass prisms? - asks us a Muscovite Marina Ma Sharpen, cut and rejoice. Blade Point with report Points of life. Road marking. These road markings have more lives saved than belts and airbags. Points of view. Looking at optical illusions for a long time is dangerous for the psyche. They say you have to see to believe. Not always. In the case of visual illusions, to see is almost certainly to be deceived. Precise fit. High tech fly. A remotely piloted aircraft with a system for landing on an arbitrarily oriented surface. Author: Denis Svistulin, St. Petersburg Herbs: from medicine to poison. Phytotherapy paradoxes. Pharmacy under your feet - this is sometimes called the flora of our planet. And it's true, many plants hide in their depths valuable biologically active substances that can affect human health. However, self-medication with infusions and decoctions can be just as dangerous as self-medication with pills. And in some cases, deadly. Why? Let's figure it out Tractor without a tractor driver Extreme tractor drivers Highway M-11 Moscow - St. Petersburg: computers on a modern road Trevor Paglen: artist who photographs secret military installations The tracks are off! Yo. Today, the DJ profession is one of the most desirable. What could be better than towering over the dance floor in the beams of lasers, changing discs on a turntable and driving the dancers into a frenzy? Or is the job of a DJ still a bit more complicated? Virtual reality simulators for the Russian army: PM test drive The third eye for the extreme. Funny gadgets. There is such a company Oregon Scientific, known primarily for its weather stations. But besides them, she also produces other funny gadgets that have become cult in certain circles. For example, these are the ATC 2K (0) action camera, popular among extreme sportsmen, and the EB612 ultraviolet radiation sensor, appreciated by beach lovers. The third way of nuclear energy XNUMXd hobbit witchcraft. The motion control system of the camera on the set of the film The Hobbit Three days in October. Prize Three mighty letters Three thousand kilometers per liter Three cycles per turn. Rotary engine. From July 2 to October 6, 2002, the centenary of Felix Wankel, the creator of one of the most underestimated mechanisms of the XNUMXth century, the rotary engine, was celebrated in the German city of Lindau. 1:10 scale trial: off-road models Faraway shaft. Killer waves. Mathematicians explained the nature of giant single waves that can break huge ships Tritium is not superfluous Triumph of Archimedes. Cruise ship Oasis of the Seas. Oasis of the Seas is the largest passenger liner in the world. This is a real floating city with living parks and gardens, casinos and theaters, attractions, sports stadiums and a population of over 8000 people. Ternary Computer: Yes, no, maybe. Logics Trojan War. The Trojan War, as you know, unfolded in two areas at once: mortals fought on earth, and the gods argued on Olympus. Rumors that in the new film by Wolfgang Petersen, Troy of the gods will depict some sort of digital clouds, have not been confirmed: there is no Olympus in the picture at all. But there is a giant scenery of Troy, a wooden horse and 998 digital ships Trojan horses of war Trojan eagle Translation difficulties. My yours do not understand. The old dream of many people - to be a polyglot, to understand and speak fluently in any foreign language - today has partly become a reality. To quickly understand the essence of a foreign text, an English-language website, and even ask a passer-by in an unfamiliar country how to find a hotel, we are helped by electronic polyglots - translation programs, or machine translation systems A corpse in a space capsule. Biomechanics Tu-144. aborted flight Roundtrip Roundtrip. Boom around boomerangs. Most of what you thought you knew about the Australian miracle is not true Tunnel to the nanoworld. Looking at the world, one cannot help but be surprised! Kozma Prutkov. After the invention of the optical microscope, people for several centuries peered into the amazing world that opened before them: cells, organelles, crystals, huge molecules ... As optics improved, more and more new details literally came to light Dead end. Andrey Burtsev (born 1954) Turanor from Rivendell. Around the world Turbine in the heart Bruce Gray's Thousand Genres A thousand and one plates. The alchemist Avedis was looking for gold for himself, but he found it for all the musicians of the world. In the XNUMXth century in Turkey, the alchemist Avedis experimented with alloys of copper, tin, silver and other metals. Avedis's father, an Armenian who fled to Constantinople, fleeing the persecution of Armenians in Eastern Anatolia (the Asian part of Turkey), cast metals in the service of Sultan Mustafa the First. Avedis decided to go further than his father both in the art of metallurgy and in life Tuning in a career Tuning Kalash: additional gadgets for the famous machine gun Brain tuning: nerve cells are restored Is our Mace heavy? rockets Heavy equipment is easy! Heavy metal biogenesis. origins At the airside. Urbanism At the source of the electric river. The attraction of discovery. Thanks to the remarkable physical discoveries of the XNUMXth century, man not only understood that electromagnetism underlies all chemical and biological phenomena, but was also able to derive considerable benefit from this knowledge. Every car has a different smell. We develop a sense of smell for problems. Remember how your new car smelled? However, not so long ago, this smell in new cars has practically disappeared - under pressure from trade unions, to save the health of workers on the assembly line, automakers began to use solvent-free adhesives in car interiors The king is in the head. A statue Kill playfully. Armament of tomorrow. Every two years, the leading manufacturers of modern weapons for the ground forces gather in the suburbs of Paris for the largest specialized exhibition - Eurosatory Killer batteries. Ancestral weapons. According to their characteristics, medieval bows are inferior to modern models. But this did not prevent the armies of warriors and detachments of steppe nomads from winning amazing victories. Mastery of this weapon was more than ever at its best, and combat strategies were extremely well thought out. Killer air. Let's try pneumatics. Hunting with pneumatic weapons in Russia is more of an oral folk art than a real hobby. The only thing that is really developed is shooting within the city, mainly in garbage dumps, at crows from low-powered, as a rule, Russian pneumatics, the purchase of which does not require a permit Aircraft carrier killer. The tragic story of the weaving T-4. Throughout the post-war history, the USSR has continuously tried to find a cheap antidote to fight the kings of the oceans - American nuclear aircraft carriers. Soviet asymmetric solutions included submarines with ultra-high-speed missile torpedoes or cruise missiles, nuclear missile cruisers with hypersonic anti-ship missiles, or supersonic bombers with intelligent missiles. Killer number one. Catastrophe Civilization killer. electromagnetic bomb. An electromagnetic bomb could instantly throw civilization back 200 years. And terrorists can make it for $400 Big TV killers. We try comrades for color. Thinking of buying a widescreen TV? Drop this idea! We have a much better offer for you. Mine killers. Antikiller. A Department of Defense official with big stars on his shoulder straps bent over an anti-tank mine and waved a magnet over it. Mina did not respond. You said that the range of your weapon is 50 meters? And here it is already one and a half times more! Are you sure it was correct? - turned one of the military to the developer. It's been 20 minutes, so the effect should be gone by now. Try to move it - he suggested in response. But the patience of the mine ran out: she reacted to an attempt to touch it with a pop of a control detonator Robot killers. electromagnetic bombs. The main goal in the wars of the future are not soldiers, but the brains of the enemy. Electronic Propeller assassins. Night hunter vs Alligator. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has finally decided on an attack helicopter that should replace the legendary Mi-24 Crocodile. Within nine years, it plans to purchase 67 Mi-28N attack helicopters. The losing competitor will not be forgotten either - 12 Ka-52 helicopters will be purchased over the same period, mainly for special operations Noise killers. Headsets. To make the interlocutors speak more often Speak more quietly! You can hear perfectly, you need to use a headset. But not simple, but noise-canceling. Popular Mechanics Tested Three of the Most Advanced Noise Canceling Wireless Bluetooth Headsets Do photons from space increase the mass of the Earth due to participation in photosynthesis? See the invisible. How shock waves are photographed. Visibility depends on how the visible body reacts to light. Let me start with the basics, then you will better understand the rest. You know very well that bodies either absorb light, or reflect it, or refract it, or perhaps both. If a body does not reflect, refract, or absorb light, it cannot be seen by itself. So, for example, you see an opaque red box only because it absorbs some of the light and reflects the rest, namely all the red rays. If the box did not absorb some of the light, but reflected it all, it would be brilliant, white. Remember silver! - wrote H. G. Wells in 1897 in his novel The Invisible Man See warm. Hot pictures. Modern thermal cameras help build energy-efficient housing, detect power failures, save people in emergencies and win wars. And, of course, hunting. For example - on a boar Carried away by moisture Carbon puzzle. Separating carbon dioxide is not an easy task. Even more difficult is to figure out how to get rid of it. Scientists are trying to find places to bury carbon dioxide, which is formed when burning fossil fuels and adversely affects the climate of our planet. Carbon chauvinism Threat 1: Asteroid-comet. Asteroid impact. There are more than 7000 near-Earth asteroids today. 6000 of them are classified as hazardous, and 1000 of them are of high danger. Threat 2: Solar flares. Sun. During solar flares, the level of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation of the star increases. The sun throws out streams of high-energy charged particles that reach the Earth in a matter of hours. Threat 3: Alien Invasion. Close contacts of the VIII species. Since the American businessman Kenneth Arnold stated that on June 24, 1947, he observed unidentified flying objects over Mount Rainier, Washington, humanity has not known peace: in the second half of 1947, more than a thousand people said that they had seen aliens! Threat 4: Supernova explosion. Death Stars. 450 million years ago, the Ordovician extinction occurred on Earth, as a result of which more than 85% of marine fauna species disappeared. One of the possible reasons for this could be a gamma-ray burst or a supernova explosion not far (by cosmic standards, of course) from the Sun Threat 5: Space junk. Not harmless trash. Space debris is everything that is launched into orbit by mankind, but has already ceased to serve it. According to existing data, there are up to several million objects of artificial origin in near-Earth space, and, as you can see, this cloud of trash is not at all harmless Threat 6: Space Plague. Biorisks. Theoretically, microorganisms or their spores can travel in space on the surface or inside meteorites, steadfastly overcoming cosmic radiation and even temperature changes when entering the Earth's atmosphere. Threat 7: The militarization of space. Space Wars. Space communications, navigation, cartography, remote sensing of the Earth - all these technologies were originally created for military purposes. Developing in the same direction, further progress will lead to the appearance of impact systems in orbit Threats and accusations of Henrik Jacobsen. Combination of the terrible with the ordinary. To appreciate the creations of this 42-year-old Dane, in addition to a taste for Scandinavian laconicism, one must have a passion for black humor and good mental health. Otherwise, the art of Henrik Plenge Jacobsen may bring a whole swarm of sad thoughts to you. A blow to the face. New kudo helmet. Martial arts should not be taken as violence. Realizing his warlike instincts in a friendly duel and suppressing them in everyday life, a person develops physically and spiritually. Azuma Takashi Hit from under the water. Silent threat. On land, mines never left the category of auxiliary, secondary weapons of tactical significance, even during their peak, which fell on the Second World War. At sea, the situation is completely different. As soon as they appeared in the fleet, mines pressed artillery and soon became a weapon of strategic importance, often relegating other types of naval weapons to secondary roles. Strike from heaven: how the Javelin anti-tank missile system works Let's hit it full Impact work. Eardrums and sticks. If suddenly in a club where a rock band performs, the electricity on the stage turns off, then most of the musicians will be out of work. The finest hour of the drummer will come! He must give out such a solo that the audience will not get bored until the moment when the electricians fix the malfunction. Then the concert will be saved! Punches are not for the ring. Jaguar XK The amazing history of black holes. End of Star Destiny. According to famous astrophysicists Igor Novikov and Valery Frolov, this is perhaps the most fantastic of all the concepts created by the human mind. Amazing Laser Sculpture: Martin Tomsky Derek Hugger's Amazing Wooden Mechanisms The Amazing Muscleballs of the Seawell Airfield Amazing zepellans: a substance that refutes gravity Dinner engine. Diet car. For 115 years, gasoline has been the most sought-after food in the diet of the Otto engine. However, there are other items on the spark motor menu - more tasty and healthier. Heartbreaker Dinner. Myths about aphrodisiacs. Official medicine considers aphrodisiacs (means to enhance love sickness, named after the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite) a relic of the past and considers them as part of the cultural heritage of various peoples Know the asteroid in person Winston Churchill. Authors. Although four decades have passed since the death of Winston Churchill, any mention of his name evokes the image of a British bulldog in a raincoat, chewing a cigar. The man who stood at the helm during the darkest moments in British history. But there was another, or rather, many Churchills, each of whom was the forerunner of a great hero. This is a young soldier, a boastful journalist, a die-hard politician, a skilled artist, a charismatic speaker, and, finally, the author of Popular Mechanics (PM) Serpent tamers. Having curled up in a ring, he sprang into the air and flashed in the sun like a narrow ribbon ... Deciding that at our age it was undignified to fly small kites, we spent money and purchased a giant model. We soon realized we made a mistake The Taming of the Devil. Stubborn substance. Truly, the devil is sitting in explosives, ready at any second to start destroying and breaking everything around. Keeping this creature of hell in check and releasing it only when required is the main problem that chemists and pyrotechnicians have to solve when creating and using explosives. The taming of the vacuum cleaner. Test Drive. Cleaning is one of the most hated activities for men. But soon it will no longer be perceived as a hard routine - robots come to the aid of a person. The Taming of the Shrew. A tale of insidious hydrodynamics, or the most stupid vehicle in the world, the first and second models Fly away on soda. We build country Baikonur Smile! You are being watched. Advanced surveillance techniques. The gambling establishments of Las Vegas can be seen as incubators in which the most advanced methods of spying on the clientele mature. The spy gear used in this Sin City is a role model for the rest of the business world, from governments to banking institutions. Robot smile. Soul machinery. Talking heads, female terminators, emotional machines - yesterday this could only be seen in the movies. Today - in institute laboratories and at exhibitions of robotics. Well, tomorrow, according to the forecasts of scientists, these beasts invented by science fiction writers will inhabit our streets and houses Listening skills. Stethoscope. René Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec was born in France on February 17, 1781. When he was six years old, his mother died of tuberculosis, and soon his father sent him to his brother. At the age of 12, the boy moved to Nantes, and there, inspired by the work of his other uncle, a professor at the medical faculty of the university, he firmly decided to become a doctor. Die on Mars Smart Matter: Will the Objects Be Made of Nanobots? smart ass Smart Energy Wings. Electric generators. The electric generator was invented more than a century and a half ago. Wind wheels have driven millstones since time immemorial. So why do modern wind turbines - those flagships of green energy flapping giant wings - require high technology to produce? And will we, in Russia, be able to set up the production of such machines, or will we again have to spend petrodollars and buy, buy, buy? . Smart electronic eye look Smart ice rink and road clothes. Sandwich Smart suit, unknown Jules Verne and other best letters of the month A smart gun is a stupid idea! Self defense. Intelligent weapons may not recognize the owner at the most crucial moment Unique race cars for tractor pulling Unique sculptures pretend to be internal combustion engines Walkie-talkie. Portable radio stations. What is the advantage of portable radios (Walkie Talkie) over cell phones, besides free communication? Firstly, instant communication - you press the button, and you are immediately heard. Secondly, the ability to simultaneously communicate with a large company - no need to call everyone in turn. And thirdly, radio stations work where cell towers have not yet appeared. In general, they are indispensable in ski resorts, hiking and other outdoor activities. Fall at will: rope jumping Time management Simplification of the shrew. Mind and simplicity. Every year, the possibilities of consumer electronics are becoming richer, and control systems are becoming more complex. But Philips believes that things will be much easier in the future uranium ammo. Shells. A fast-moving crowbar made of hard and heavy metal is still the best weapon against a tank The lesson of omnipotence Extreme Survival Lessons: Ed Stafford and Rob Greenfield Idea booster. Ken Ishiwata. In early summer, the legendary Japanese Ken Ishiwata, the chief developer of Marantz, visited Russia. We were going to talk to him about amplifiers and the Marantz company, but the conversation suddenly turned to discussing the fate of Hi-Fi equipment manufacturers in general. Soothing with electricity DuckTales. History of simple things Refined execution Iron of the seas Iron in orbit. New Russian. Almost a year ago, the leadership of Rosaviakosmos made an unexpected announcement about the development at RSC Energia of a new six-seater manned spacecraft, moreover, reusable (with a reservation in part) Iron in the service of the CIA. magnetic strips Training machine for the future ace Training starts Went on a hike... Subway. We dig deep. Nuclear underground cruiser and other ways to travel in the depths of the Earth Fablab in Russia. replicator Sam Lanyon Design Factory. Concept Factory of life. stem cells. The isolation of human embryonic stem cells is considered one of the three most important discoveries of the XNUMXth century in biology. The other two are the concept of the DNA double helix and the decoding of the human genome Smell factory. Perfume. Through the efforts of writers and filmmakers, many of us at the word perfumer imagine a disheveled genius loner with a phenomenal scent. In fact, in perfumery - as in many other areas - the days of singles are long gone, and behind a small bottle of your wife's favorite perfume is the work of hundreds, if not thousands of people. However, reality is no less fascinating in its own way - there are no less secrets, mysteries and intrigues in it than in Syuskind's novel. Star Factory. Salute secrets. Together with the head of the shop, Pavel Porokhovnikov, we are walking along the territory where the main production of the Research Institute of Applied Chemistry is located. High-altitude fireworks, which we mistakenly call salutes, are not at all harmless things - each of them has its own TNT equivalent. Therefore, the factory territory copies any other ammunition production Reincarnation Factory. Life after death. A Popular Mechanics journalist attended a car funeral, then followed the remains of old cars from a crusher to an automobile factory assembly line. Fanaticism and a bit of luck. How rubber is vulcanized Fantastic machines of the island of Nantes. Attraction Fantastic future of flying cars Phantom with a scalpel. Scientists are working on creating electronic clay. Since Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus coined the term programmable matter in 1991, the first steps have already been taken from theory to practice. Probably, remembering the clay from which the Lord God molded the first man, a group of researchers promises us electronic clay in the future, from which it will be possible to mold almost anything Farnborough: Pictures from the Winged Fair. Irkut vs Airbus. When two piston Spitfires of the Second World War parted ways, and the mighty Dreamliner flew away into the high sky almost like a candle, it became completely clear that any fair is a vanity fair and even the most ingenious iron must be able to sell. Preferably with pomp Fascists from the moon. Movie Federation: Russian manned spacecraft Federico Uribe: amazing sculptures made from shells and wires Farm bodies Figure skating under the ice. Investigation. Balance weights as an independent type of bait for winter fishing appeared in the 60s of the last century, they became known to domestic fishermen only in the 1990s. And now they are so popular that they noticeably replaced traditional vertical winter baubles. The Physics of Art: Kinetic Installations by Koichi Okamoto Physical experiments for school: children's pranks Philippine knives: not only a butterfly The Philosophical Devices of Benjamin Cowden Financial pyramids. Leisure. Do you remember how Carlson received a prize of 10 crowns for exposing a flying spy satellite seen over Vazastan? Carlson himself was a companion, but this is not the main thing. The main thing is that he asked for the award to be issued in five-er coins. There are 000 eras in one crown, so you can calculate how hard it is to carry away such a prize. The editors of the PM almost repeated the feat of Carlson formula in the city. Organization Formula Air Reliability formula. As an advertisement. Motor engineers often emphasize that engine oil is one of the most important elements of engine design. It is oil that ensures the interaction of all parts of a complex mechanism with each other and allows it to adapt to a variety of conditions and operating modes. Photo by hand. Optics made two revolutions in painting. Art historians wonder why, by the end of the XNUMXth century, a real revolution had taken place in the portrait genre in just a few decades. Tense, frozen faces were suddenly replaced in the paintings by lively, full of feelings features, approximation - by the accuracy of details ... Disputes about this do not cease to this day, and the American artist David Hockney offered his own version of what happened: in his opinion, Renaissance painters adopted the most advanced achievements then science, creating with the help of optical instruments something similar to a handwritten photograph Camera on knee. Cameras without optics. How much does a camera cost? Perceptible to the wallet? Nothing like this. Literally in 20 minutes, I designed a camera, the cost of which is equal to the cost of the film, plus a little more Photos do not melt. Stop, snowflake, you are beautiful! How to Capture the Unique Shape of Snowflakes for History Photo for memory. bubble chamber. In the 50s, the era of bubble chambers began in elementary particle physics. She gave an unprecedented sense of the reality of the microcosm, allowing you to literally look at the traces left by the particles. Photon mines Fruit and vegetable percentage. Investigation. As children, my brother and I were very fond of tomato juice. But parents allowed me to drink only a glass a day. For control, dad left a mark on a three-liter jar. The solution was found quickly: instead of stealing drunk liquid, we added exactly to the mark of water. And with each new jar, we tested the taste differences in the terminological chain juice - nectar - juice drink Fujiko Nakaya: Beyond the Fog Football as an engine of progress. High definition game. At IFA 2005, Europe's largest consumer electronics show, the Philips booth featured a real World Cup in 2006. What does football have to do with consumer electronics? The most direct! Football carpet. Charming herbs. Almost all sports equipment of football players at the World Cup is made of synthetic materials. But one thing is still XNUMX% natural - the grass on the field Fuhrerbunker. Hitler's bunker. April 1945. Gotthard Heinrici, commander of the Vistula Army Group, whose defenses are cracking under the onslaught of the Soviet offensive, arrives in Berlin to tell the Führer the bitter truth about the situation on the Eastern Front. Seeing the burnt ruins of the Imperial Chancellery, he says in a half-whisper to Colonel Eisman accompanying him: Just think, three years ago Hitler ruled all of Europe from the Volga to the Atlantic, and now he is sitting in a hole underground X planes. Secret options. A lot of them. Competing experimental aircraft projects blur the barrier between atmospheric and space flight Hi-tech in hetman style. Onion Khanty-Mansiysk sledges. Rolled. The number of attempts to come up with an alternative to skiing and snowboarding is second only to the number of attempts to invent a bicycle Tailed flashes. gamma burst Tailed wanderers. From superstition to astrophysics. With the exception of supernovae, which flare up in the sky by no means in every century, comets have always been the only violators of the eternal and unchanging order in the circle of calculated luminaries. These celestial bodies were repeatedly honored with colorful descriptions in legends and historical annals. It shone with daylight and dragged a tail like a sting of a scorpion, the ancient Babylonians wrote about the comet of 1140 BC. Of the 1036 comets included in the fourteenth edition of the International Catalog of Comet Orbits, published in 2001, four hundred were known before the invention of the telescope. Chimeras. Frankensteins among us. Chimeras by nature. A man with two DNA Chemical memory key Chemistry won't take you far. What engines will American interplanetary ships be equipped with? October 4, 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, which marked the beginning of the space age. However, only machine guns fly into deep space so far Chemistry, chemistry, all the dishes are blue. Reagents. In Soviet times, the Young Chemist set confidently occupied the first lines in the ranking of the most desirable toys. We enjoyed testing its modern version. Palmistry of the XNUMXst century: is it unscientific to study the lines on the palms? Surgical sniping brain surgery Sly beasts. Install cannot be disabled. Modern mines, stuffed with electronics, turn into weapons endowed with intelligence. It's almost impossible to fight them. The Predatory Things of Yip van Leeuenstein Whip of Poseidon. Supertorpedo. Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers and Hollywood movies foist on readers and viewers the notion that submarine warfare tactics resemble a leisurely game of chess. However, these ideas are long outdated. Hops, malt and myths The Cold Life of Christopher Conte. Mysterious sculptor. What happens when the talents of a sculptor, a physician and a mechanic are combined in one person? The result can be frighteningly beautiful. Cold winter 2018: What was it? cold lava Cold energy. superconductors Cold delight. Cooking as an exact science. What could be better on a cold winter evening, when a blizzard howls outside the window, than freshly prepared high-quality ... ice cream? But after all, you need to go to the store to get it (but do you remember about the blizzard howling outside the window?) ... Don't be upset! Popular mechanics will teach you how to make ice cream yourself, without leaving your home, from the simplest products (cream, sugar, eggs) and in a matter of minutes. Unless, of course, you have a liter or two of liquid nitrogen at home Cold dwarf and its inhabitants. Is there life on WISE J0855-0714? cold space Cold end of the earth. The most important thing is the weather in the house. To develop a research station of the future that can operate in the harshest conditions of our planet, in Antarctica, was the task of an international competition announced by the British Antarctic Survey (British Antarctic Survey) Cold fire, or Cook me a rat! Best Film Effects 2007. Every year special effects in cinema become more and more complicated and interesting. You can't tell everything in the monthly issues of the magazine, but how can you miss a rat who prefers a career as a chef, a motorcyclist chasing hellish demons, or a fabulous faun? Or a girl with a grenade launcher instead of a leg, or a witch releasing green fire from her palm? Cold calculation. Superfluidity, superconductivity. Nobel Prize 2001: a new state of matter obtained at ultralow temperatures Cold light. Physics of luminescence. Darkening the hall and turning on a very strong ultraviolet lamp, I flooded the hall with what the French called Lumiere Wood (Wood's light), making the teeth and eyes brightly phosphorescent, and various tissues glowing with a soft glow. The dress of one lady in the center of the hall shone with a bright red light, attracting everyone's attention. Everyone looked at the neighbor's glowing eyes and teeth, and there was a burst of laughter when I explained that the false teeth remained as black as coal. William Seabrook, Robert Wood. Modern Physics Lab Wizard Cold Fusion: Myth and Reality. The Science of the Impossible Good news of the new year good iron boy Well forgotten old and other best letters of the month Porcupine Temple Keep forever: how the global seed vault in Svalbard works Keep warm and cold. Thermos. Every modern person at least once in his life used a thermos, which celebrated its centenary in 2004. This word has long become a household word and entered into all dictionaries. Meanwhile, the inventors of the thermos prototypes were far from commercial. Lame formula. Sidecar motorcycles. This car is so unusual that it simply defies classification. It is no longer a motorcycle, but not yet a car. Half a century of evolution has led to the fact that from an ordinary bike with a sidecar, the racing side car has turned into a kind of Formula 1 car made of the strongest aluminum alloys, titanium and carbon. Looking at these magnificent fast cars, one involuntarily wonders: three wheels - one extra or one missing? Chronicle of the Resurrection. Tragedy. Six cameras for seven years will record the process of resurrection of the site of the tragedy Chronicle of the death of the liner. Drama Chronicle of a diving glider. First flight. The electric motor spins the blades of the glider, the mechanic takes a run, throws the device forward - and it ends up in the sky. Anxious anticipation sets in. Now all hope for the pilot. The glider soars higher and higher, but at a height of about 40 m dives down. This is the first flight of Popular Mechanics' radio-controlled glider. Grass artist. Peaceful lawnmower. Familiar things in the future promise to receive a new set of functions. We'll watch movies on the phones, and the lawnmowers might paint pictures on the lawns. An artist who paints... with nerves and neurons The Deformer Artist: The Art of Destroying Cars Sky artists. Fireworks. Immediately after the celebration of the New Year with champagne, he ran out into the yard with prudently bought rockets. He grabbed the largest of them by the wooden tail and lit the fuse. The rocket was torn into the sky, but he held it tightly. Soon there was an explosion next to him... Cyborg Artists by David Bowen. Art. I wonder what plants and animals would tell us if they could speak? With the help of unusual technical devices, artist David Bowen endows representatives of flora and fauna with the ability to communicate with the outside world in the language of graphics. Hooligan inventions. Cheap & fun. The potato gun and its other frivolous counterparts - a jet machine, a desktop trebuchet and much more - combine a good knowledge of physics, the availability of free time, the desire to squander it merrily and a healthy ambition on the scale of their native village. This is American folk art. Do you have an extra 30 bucks? We'll show you how to spend it. Cai Guoqiang and his explosive inspiration The Tsar Cannon is not a cannon at all. What is in the Kremlin. The Tsar Cannon has long been one of the symbols of Russia. Almost no foreign tourist leaves Moscow without seeing the miracle of our technology. She entered dozens of jokes, which featured the Tsar Cannon that never fired, the Tsar Bell that never rang, and some other non-working miracle Yudo like the N-3 lunar rocket. Tsar Cannon #2: land battleship Star color. Modern telescope. Who among us did not want to have a telescope in childhood? 20 years after graduation, we made a dream come true Flowers of death. Expansive bullets The cost of mistakes. Correction fluid. Snow-white correction fluid, which allows you to correct errors on paper, has significantly simplified the work of secretaries-typists Valuable tips Unmanned Knowledge Center Chain hound. Variable speed drive. The device of a continuously variable variator (aka CVT, Continuously Variable Transmission) was not studied even in advanced Soviet driving schools, where dozens of academic hours were devoted to the theoretical foundations of car design. And it's no wonder Potassium cyanide: what is it and how does it work Circus with drones and other amazing photos A circus that has become a weapon. Difficult birth of aircraft carriers. The Americans were the first to try to take off from the ship, the British created real-life aircraft carriers, the Japanese proved their combat effectiveness, but lost the carrier war to the Americans ... Air figure. Who needs digital TV. And in Russia, the digital television standard has finally been adopted. Who invented digital TV, where it is distributed, why it is needed and who benefits from its introduction in our country digital culture. How to make a TV show. It is unlikely that you, sitting at the TV, think about how the programs that we watch are created - be it news, author's programs or television games. Unless the number of names in the credits is sometimes surprising Digital Defense Digital Hollywood. Fantasy programming. In today's digital Hollywood, footage is counted not in frames, not in meters of film, but in bits, and computer wizards are ready to concoct anything from this stream of bits - from unthinkable monsters to battles on mountain peaks. Cinema is dead - long live cinema! Digital envelope. The secret of electronic correspondence. Who owns the information, he owns the world - says the saying. It is not surprising that in the modern world, information security tools are equated with the most lethal weapon. Digital money. Banknotes. Will the second decade of e-cash be its last? TsKIB: who makes the coolest small arms in Russia Tea and ropes. The invention of the tea bag. In 1904, tea merchant Thomas Sullivan took the first step that would change the entire tea industry. He supplemented the traditional packaging (tin cans) with small samples packaged in silk bags. It was purely a marketing gimmick, but some customers have taken to brewing tea directly in these bags, and this has proven to be a very convenient method. Kettles, strollers and cleaners: the life of the future in science fiction Chuck Yeager. The first supersonic man. In 1947, a young pilot, World War II veteran Chuck Jaeger became the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound. In November 1987, after 40 years, he wrote an article for Popular Mechanics, where he told about everything that happened then. Charles Kettering. Authors RM. In 50 years, from the 1910s to the 1950s, famed inventor Charles Kettering wrote three long articles for Popular Mechanics (PM). His insightful comments ennobled PM's automotive articles, and his numerous inventions provided editorial fodder. Watch Vanguard Ghost Particle. Neutrino. While you were reading the short title of this article, 1014 neutrinos flew through your body unhindered. Private space business. Commercial flights into space. A collaboration between an amateur engineer and an internet mogul could lead to a revolution in space travel technology. If it turns out to be successful, then commercial flights into space will become a reality very soon. Clocks and pendulums by Marcel Betrizet. tick tock Hours change hearts A watch that has passed 130 sophisticated durability tests The Grail. Plastic container What a woman doesn't want. Investigation. On the eve of March 8, the PM decided to attract men to perform routine work in the kitchen. The incentive for them was the opportunity to play with mechanical kitchen gadgets. Man in black. Wing suit. Man differs from the rest of the animal world in that in the process of development it is not the body that changes, but the mind, says Jeb Corliss. It is very important for him to be original in order to push progress forward. The same purpose is served by devices that allow you to fly and land freely. Man is homeomorphic to... spinner: how to explain it Man and flavor Man and lamp. Kinescope. The old man was well over seventy, and he continued to work. But only the first half of the day. Then he came home, sat down to dine with his wife Katerina, and often in conversations with his wife, like many people of his generation, scolded the TV. Which, however, almost did not look. With this device, which has long turned from a miracle of technology into a source of annoying advertising and unpretentious entertainment, Vladimir Zvorykin had his own personal scores. After all, it was he - a Russian genius with an American fate - who gave mankind television Man and vacuum cleaner. James Dyson dreamed that his name was associated with a vacuum cleaner in the same way as the name Hoover (Hoover) with a similar apparatus in America. But in England, a different meaning of the verb to dyson has taken root - persistently paving the way for your new ideas. Man and vacuum cleaner. James Dyson. Design in its original meaning died in the 1930s, when marketers realized that it was possible to increase sales by changing only the appearance of the product, without introducing any new consumer qualities. James Dyson takes a sip of tea from his cup. This is the second visit of the legendary English inventor, engineer and designer. In the five years that have passed since our first meeting, James received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, which, however, did not change him in any way - the treatment of Sir James simply makes him laugh. He continues to preach the art of engineering and design around the world with the passion of Don Quixote, while not forgetting to sell his legendary vacuum cleaners. Man and smart parts. Sensors Man from the fifth dimension Man of steel. History of simple things The man who measured the sky. Johannes Kepler. Kepler lived a not too long and very difficult life. Despite this, he enriched science with amazing achievements that required not only brilliant insights, but also many years of exhausting work, the scale of which surprises today. The person who is ready. The inventor of the multi-tool and the founder of the company of the same name, the legendary Tim Leatherman spoke to our magazine about himself and his vision for the future. And Popular Mechanics is holding a new competition, the winner of which will receive a Leatherman Charge Ti universal tool with an authentic autograph of the creator engraved on the blade. The man who invented karaoke The man who invented the wheel. Review. In 1891, at a conference of building engineers in Chicago, the city that was to host the 1893 World's Fair, Daniel Burnham, director of the exhibition, called on engineers to outshine the Eiffel Tower, the highlight of the 1889 World's Fair in Paris. The man who put the world on skis. How a failed writer changed the way we think about skiing. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History has an exhibit dedicated to a boring engineer who knows everything. This is how loved ones described Howard Head, the inventor who revolutionized the sports industry. The man who moved the earth. The scientific revolution of Nicolaus Copernicus. From time immemorial, astronomers have placed the Earth at the center of the universe. Nicolaus Copernicus took away the title of the center of the universe from our planet and placed it in an ordinary circumsolar orbit, laying the foundations for one of the greatest scientific and philosophical revolutions in the spiritual history of mankind Gorynych man. The art of fire tricks. Fire is a special, most recalcitrant element. All kinds of living organisms live on land, in water, in the air. Nothing living can exist in fire. Animals are terrified of fire, and people consider its conquest their greatest achievement. Humanity universe. Why is the universe the way it is? Thanks to the special structure of the cosmos of our Universe, chances were given to exist for as long as it took for the appearance of thinking beings capable of thinking about whether their mortal existence was accidental or not from the point of view of the wise sciences. It may sound ridiculous, but recently scientists have been able to notice a lot of curious coincidences in the structure of the world. The human factor: why planes crash What animals get sick: autism, leprosy and migraine How is Denisovan man different from Homo sapiens? How to respond to a bow. falling buildings What does space smell like? Cosmic sense of smell. The smell of a freshly welded bicycle frame and fried steak - this is how American astronauts assessed their feelings when they first appeared on board the Russian station Mir Chamberlin and the stolen Mellotron. Music Imitation Champion Inventors Championship. Electrolux Design Lab. We have changed, but household appliances have not. Participants of the design competition Electrolux Design Lab 2008 had to fill the resulting market niche with products World Lumberjack Championship: how it works Robot Cleaners Championship. Big cleaning. Robot toys are gradually entering the life of a person. But the real revolution will be useful household robots. The first of them - robotic vacuum cleaners Sandpit Champions across the border Turtle on ice. Pole Black Widow. Anti-personnel horror. Black Widow - Black Widow, this name was given to this Soviet mine, known in the world no less than the famous Kalashnikov assault rifle, and just as widespread Black Hole: Project 877 Warship Black cat in a dark room Black energy. Underground forces. Huge reserves of coal are hidden in the bowels of the Earth. Grandiose mechanisms work in the mines, raising so much black gold to the top that it still remains significant even against the background of other types of fossil fuels. There is nothing left - to figure out how to use coal without harm to the environment Chernobyl. 25 years later. Catastrophe Black Wings of Russia black and so on The black swan of the internet Black fire Black, white and some gold. And rounder than all predecessors. This is the main projectile of the main sporting event of this year - the World Cup Four elements of climate Four wheel chopper. muscle car Four year pregnancy. How new cars are designed. Pregnancy in elephants - the longest among mammals - lasts almost two years. In the world of inanimate nature, the period of bearing offspring is even longer. For example, the development of the new Citroen C5 took about four years. Using this model as an example, we learned how new cars are designed Chingachgooks of the XNUMXst century. Colorful wars. In February of this year, at the largest American weapons exhibition Shot Show in Orlando, a couple of our compatriots discovered at the booth of Bowtech, a fairly well-known manufacturer of compound bows, a rather funny device - the Airow Gun, designed for archery with paintballs. The device was installed without any problems on almost any bow and was a cylindrical tank with a piston, the rod from which was attached to the bowstring, and a paintball barrel on top, connected by an air duct to the tank. This fall, these devices have reached Moscow. Armed with them, the editors of Popular Mechanics went to the Moscow region to play Indians Clean machines. Moidodyry. In the cause of the emancipation of women, washing machines have played a greater role than all the movements of suffragettes - second only to birth control pills. Chkalov is too tough. 3D aerobatics. At the 3D aerobatics show, the audience freezes in a daze, not daring to believe their eyes. The goal of the masters piloting radio-controlled models is to demonstrate in the air such figures that a real aircraft is not physically capable of performing. Cho Woo Ram: Mechanical Life Forms. fantasies Why I didn’t sokil, why I don’t lita. Wings Reading and rewriting the brain: the technology will appear in 5 years? Reading by touch What happens if all the material in the asteroid belt comes together What to take with you to Elbrus? What is written there? Decryption. Modern science is already able to prove that the content of the book makes sense, but is not yet able to decipher what was written by a crazy medieval alchemist. What will replace the SVD: self-loading carbine SK-16 What did Kulibin invent? What do intelligence tests actually measure? What was found during the construction of the new harbor of the Baltic Fleet What do letters and skyscrapers have in common? What do exploding pants and submarines have in common? What do SpongeBob and an airplane have in common? What do dreadnought and solar wind have in common? What do gold and ice cream have in common? What do gut flora and Antarctica have in common? What do space and gray hair have in common What do rabbits and volcanoes have in common? What do spiders and asteroids have in common? What do Perm and Picasso have in common? What do the tides and Europe have in common? What do crayfish and satellite television have in common? What do violins and interstellar travel have in common? What do chemical weapons and peaceful atom have in common? What do exoplanets and clean glasses have in common? What are Hox genes: how do mutants arise What is yeast? What is a cat and why we love it: a scientific approach What is polyethylene? What's under the moon's mantle? What did the octopus Paul learn. Tote What do people with superpowers do? What has fallen is horrible. Sport To make the girls scream. Driving school of autostunts. How many times have they told the world: it is useful, pleasant and fun to study the physics of car movement, engage in emergency response training and train sports driving techniques. But no! The driver does not want to learn materiel and go to an extreme driving school, but instead asks him to tell him in a nutshell how to make girls squeal and friends to enthusiastically shake hands with him. Get it, sign up! To keep the stars from twinkling Feeling of attraction Cast iron forehead. Take care of your head. Protecting the head from bullets and shrapnel is much more difficult than the rest of the body. Miracles from the Ironwood. Circus of the Sun. Cirque du Soleil (Circus of the Sun), created a quarter of a century ago by Guy Laliberte, a street musician and fire-eater from Quebec, has turned over the years into a real transnational corporation and a kind of circus team of the world Miracles of levitation. microscopic robots. Scaling is the most important concept for promising areas of robotics. In our age of drones and electronic dragonflies, flying robots will surprise no one. But if we want the robots of the future to fly through the eye of a needle, then they will have to be built on completely different principles. It is unlikely that it will be possible to manage with reduced copies of existing copies. The miracle of packaging: how DNA is folded, or a chain 20 billion km long Miracle tanks in June forty first. Miracle Tank Fiasco Chukchi refrigerator. Technologies of today. Geothermal energy? Power plants on geysers and volcanoes, as well as other exotic ... And if the geysers are on the other side of the globe, and damp clay squelches underfoot, in which potatoes grow so badly? No problem. And from clay, from the frozen water of a nearby pond and even sewage, we can get what is worth more and more expensive in the world today. Energy! The technology exists for this. Scarecrow. They have sawdust in their heads. I spent my childhood in Chukotka, and my father began to take me hunting from the age of eleven. In the eighth grade, I was overwhelmed by an acute desire to make a scarecrow - painfully beautiful specimens came across. Decided to start with a rare duck. Armed with special literature and set to work. After a couple of weeks, the scarecrow was ready. A shapeless bag filled with sawdust and covered with feathers, with a slight smell of rotten meat. Step by step Step and jump. Americans on the Moon. It was the most famous step in history: 40 years ago, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong first set foot on the surface of the moon. This event was a real triumph for all mankind. A step towards artificial intelligence. Intelligence SHAQ 12: large-caliber meat grinder A chance for the wings of victory. Search Balls for rollers. Let's get out of here?! The insect-like creature that rolled out onto the Champs Elysees instantly captured the attention of the public. Some opened their mouths in amazement, others shied away in fright, but soon both began to smile. A joyful human face peeped out of the shell, and the sucker tentacles, upon closer examination, turned out to be roller wheels. All eyes were on Jean Yves Blondeau, the inventor of the Buggy Rollin, a new concept that linked speed, body position and the pleasure of movement. ball hegemony Checkers - to battle! How to cut. Making a first-class checker is one thing, testing it is quite another. It turned out that people who own these weapons in our country can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Silk of pure science. Nylon. DuPont did not patent the name nylon as a trademark, making this a household word Whisper of death: how a weapon silencer works The whisper that kills Sixth element. Carbon Six handshakes to Queen Elizabeth Chimpanzees and humans alike understand hierarchy Effervescent idol of America. The taste of freedom. For 120 years, this carbonated drink has been considered one of the symbols of America. And its name - Coca-Cola - remains the most expensive brand in the world. sizzling revolution Email encryption. Computers. Worried about strangers reading your personal email? Encrypt it with PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) School of the XNUMXst century: what education will look like in the near future Sand Dunes School. Desert ships. Driving a car on loose sands is a special art that has nothing to do with other motorsports. Chocolate is the food of the gods. Cooking as an exact science. The history of chocolate has almost three millennia. The Aztec word xocolatl, converted by the Spaniards, means hot bitter water. This was the name of the drink, available only to priests and rulers of the highest nobility: cocoa was considered a gift from the gods Road astronauts. Ground-to-ground-to-ground rocket vehicles... Fantastic acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in less than a second. Instant acceleration to several hundred kilometers per hour. Rapid braking with a short-term overload of more than 10 g. Such are the everyday life of rocket car pilots The show is not for the audience. Supermoto. On November 18, we visited one of the largest events in the history of Russian motorsport - in Moscow, at the Olimpiyskiy sports complex, a stage of the SX Tour world series in supercross was held Show first. Motomaniacs. Stunt riding is a virtuoso control of a motorcycle and the most difficult acrobatics. But first of all - an incendiary spectacle Chauffeur included Storm ride. Offroad kings. How to climb a 45-degree slope, swim out of quicksand and climb huge boulders without (almost never) tipping over on your back like a cockchafer. Welcome to the world of real off-road driving. The local rides are worthy fun for tough guys, although all this was not built for fun at all Strokes on paper Assault Lego. Weapon. In the last issue, the PM talked about the large-caliber part of the world's largest arms exhibition Eurosatory-2008. Now it's the turn of small arms Kaiser's Stormtroopers: Stormtroopers in the First World War Joke of geniuses Joke of geniuses. Flexagon. In a country where a person's height is measured in feet, the distance to a neighboring city is calculated in miles, and fuel is poured into a tank in gallons, officials write out certificates on Letter-sized paper. The American official sheet is shorter than the usual international A4 by 18 mm. If not for this difference, perhaps we would still not know about flexagons - an exciting toy, puzzle and interesting mathematical model discovered in the first half of the XNUMXth century. The jokes of nature on the crown of creation. Anomaly Bristlemowers: the fight of the strongest. Experience the most advanced electric shavers. In February, Popular Mechanics was voted the most buzzing editorial in the publishing house. We tested the most advanced electric shavers. So far they are not silent Evolution: unintelligent design. Eye - hack, brain - well done. The evolution of life on Earth is so vast and striking in its results that it is tempting to see some intelligent design behind it. But modern evolutionary biology insists that Darwin's brilliant guess about natural selection as the driving mechanism of evolution is still relevant today. New scientific discoveries do not contradict the fundamental foundations of the theory of evolution Eureka, gentlemen! Eddie Van Halen - god Einstein Was Right: Gravitational Wave Astronomy exotic universes. Universe from the mixer Ecocity-2025. Grass Ecological transport. Flying buzzers. Our magazine has written more than once about radio-controlled models of cars and aircraft. But neither one nor the other can compare with helicopter models in terms of design and control complexity. What we actually found out... Ecomlet Screen in the sky. Avionics. Head-up indicators (HUDs), which have become a familiar element of modern military and partly civil avionics and are even used in some cars, owe their appearance to two inventions made more than a century ago. At the turn of the 1860s and 1870s, the English physicist William Crookes created the first prototype of a cathode ray tube, and in 1901, in the same place, in England, an optical sight for ship guns was patented. Extreme cars. The largest radio telescope in the world. World's Largest Radio Telescope, Supercomputer to Link 10 Antennas to Open a Window to the Early Universe elastic future. Tires Electrical Smoothness Electric thirst. Sober forecasts The good news is that the cars of the future will be more convenient to maintain than mobile phones. If the owner of the car does not have enough time for normal recharging, he can quickly refuel it with gasoline. The bad news: Cars will be more expensive in the future than they are now. Italian electric mill electrical mimicry Electric bullet. Race Electric wings. Future Electric breakwater Electric taste simulator: details about unusual technology Electric storm. How to avoid electrical hunger. In the next ten years, electricity consumption on a global scale promises to double its current level. How to avoid energy hunger? Electricity to the touch and other best letters of the month Electric bikes: do they have a future (and a review of the most interesting models) Electromagnetic gun: railgun and its prospects Electric inflating. Wind Electronics rules. Ferrari F10 driven by Fernando Alonso. In modern Formula 1, two-way telemetry is prohibited. Race engineers can see what's going on with the car during the race, but they can't remotely change its settings. Meanwhile, the constant change in the state of the track and tires, a change in strategy and even changes in the driver's well-being require optimization of the car's settings. The pilot acts as an intermediary between the engineers and the machine. The controls for the gearbox and suspension, engine and aerodynamic planes, differential settings and a host of other parameters are concentrated on the steering wheel. The shape and configuration of the steering wheel are developed individually for each rider. It takes more than 30 hours to assemble the steering wheel circuitry alone. The cost of the formula steering wheel exceeds Є30 Electronic fever. Modern metal detectors. I don’t know about you, but as a child I dreamed of treasures - starting from some treasure island and ending with a capsule with dull coins buried in my grandmother’s yard. I read books to holes with descriptions of places where pirates and conquerors hid their treasures, and I considered the work of an archaeologist to be an ideal profession. True, having matured, I did not go on a romantic quest, but into the army. But the fact that the dream is alive, I realized as soon as I looked at the modern tools of treasure hunters - metal detectors electronic molecule. magnets Electronic behind the scenes Electronic night vision: how to see in the dark Electrical appliances will be united in a network of networks Power plant on wheels: how to use the car as a charger Item #13 Element number one. Hydrogen Embryos of galaxies. Dark business. Although scientists still do not know exactly what dark matter is, there are several hypotheses in science. Andy Gracie: biological experiments as art Energy value Alaska Energy Surprise. Current from underground. The story of how in a remote provincial resort where $1000 was spent daily on diesel fuel alone, they learned how to save that money by digging into natural resources that no one usually pays attention to. Energy of the future. Sun, air and water are our best friends. Oil is becoming more expensive, and its prospects as a source of energy in the future are very uncertain. Five new methods of generating energy - from wave power plants that can take energy from sea waves to bacteria that generate electricity from sewage - can breathe new life into our old world Energy of the future. Personal power plant. Miniature gas turbine engines developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and powered by hydrogen could be the basis of clean, quiet and economical personal power plants Vacuum energy. Energy from the vacuum. Casimir effect Energy to the wind. Industry Energy straight from the sky. Wind The energy of cyclones: is it possible to use hurricanes for your own purposes EON-18: a secret expedition of the Northern Fleet Epigenetics: genes and something from above Age of acrobats. Single railroads. At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, unusual gyroscopic devices appeared almost simultaneously in England, Germany and Russia. It seemed to the delighted spectators that the calculations of the creators of the machines were correct: the future belongs to two-wheeled cars and single-rail trains. The Age of Mercy. Medicines. Until the XNUMXth century, drug discovery and development was largely an empirical process. A classic example is the invention of one of the most popular drugs of the last century - acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), better known as aspirin. A squadron of flying horses. Aircraft test drive. The first ever flight on a sports plane is an adventure, new knowledge and new feelings. Eskimo Tales. Updated karma. Visitors to the InterAuto 2007 exhibition looked with surprise at the unusual QarmaQ concept car exhibited at the stand of Hyundai. Visitors approached the car, felt it and asked with disappointed surprise: Plastic? And the doors are also plastic? But the consultants, instead of being embarrassed, proudly answered: Yes, plastic! And the doors, and the wings, and the roof, and the glazing - the whole body is plastic! That's the whole point! This music won't last forever Those mysterious blondes. Everything about them, except for jokes. What is it - blondes? Why are women blonde? And most importantly - is it true that in two hundred years there will not be a single blonde left on Earth? Ethical issues of robots This serious, serious karting ... In an adult way. Four wheels, steering wheel and motor from a lawn mower. Thus began the history of the most massive form of motorsport on the planet Study in warm colors An etude on antiparticles. Antimatter, antimatter... What is it? Antimatter is physically and chemically no different from matter. Actually, this is the same matter, only turned inside out. For procyonides, our physical and chemical handbooks are just as valid as they are for us. They describe the same patterns, the same reactions with the same elements. Only for them our matter is antimatter. The question of which side to look from (Krzysztof Borun, Antimir, 1963) Ether from wheels. Mobile TV station. The first live broadcasts were conducted back in the late 40s and were a necessity, then there was no equipment for recording a video signal, and in order to give viewers the opportunity to see a hockey match or a ballet, it was necessary to organize a live broadcast Lucas effect. The art of star wars. The first episodes of Star Wars not only drove moviegoers crazy - they revolutionized the process of filming. Since then, each new series for director George Lucas is a new breakthrough in special effects technology, sound quality and camera work. Effects 2003. Rating of film effects. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will only announce the Oscar nominees on January 27, but Popular Mechanics magazine is summing up the year now. Young tinsmith. Constructor Yuhanguang in space. Chinese space program. The launch of China's first manned spacecraft was scheduled for October. Thus, China wants to become the third country capable of independently sending a man into space. I am a cyborg. Testing walking boots. Mechanics tried to improve their body with artificial legs I am a spy satellite. I sit high, I look far away. Thanks to Google, each of us can feel like a little spy looking at enemy territory from space. I see everything: Subaru XV test drive I'm not afraid of vaccines. Vaccination. The advances in medicine over the past century are associated not only with the development of new drugs that cure the sick, but also with vaccination - the introduction of vaccines to those who have not yet become ill. I'm not afraid of injections. We train immunity. Flu season is the perfect time to talk about vaccines. And not only anti-influenza, but also from a variety of diseases - even such as senile dementia and nicotine addiction I am robot. Interview Devil apples. Mines-spiders. During the Second World War, the soldiers of the British 8th Army, who fought in North Africa, nicknamed the huge minefields stretching from the Mediterranean coast to the Qattar depression, the Devil's Gardens. With heavy fighting to break through these minefields, the famous battle of El Alamein began in the fall of 1942. Nuclear bomb with your own hands. Model. Once we had an idea: why not make a nuclear bomb with our own hands! Judging by the fact that this issue of the magazine did go to press, you can guess that we did not achieve absolute success. Nuclear winter. Cool devices. To cool the red-hot cores of modern processors, air conditioners, exotic metals and liquid nitrogen are used. Nuclear energy in space. Atom Nuclear deja vu: is there a nuclear-powered rocket Nuclear plowshares of America. Explosions without attack. In the December issue, Popular Mechanics already wrote about Soviet peaceful nuclear explosions (they were also called explosions in the interests of the national economy). In the USA, a very similar program was carried out. Poisonous plant ten. Investigation. Ranking plant poisons is even more difficult than animal ones. The fact is that even plants of the same species growing in different conditions can accumulate certain substances (including toxins) in different ways. Different parts of the plant contain different amounts of toxic substances. Poisonous article. Zootoxins. The animal world is quite cruel, in it someone is constantly eating someone. It is clear that the prospect of being eaten in the prime of life does not appeal to anyone. You have to adapt, fight for survival - your own and your kind. One of the most effective means in this fight was biochemical weapons - poisons. Poison rating. Top 10 most powerful animal toxins. Trying to figure out which poison is the strongest in nature is doomed to failure in advance - too many variables affect the results. Nevertheless, if we take only one parameter - the average lethal dose, only one type of living beings - laboratory mice, only one route of administration - intramuscular, evaluate not whole poisons, but their individual components, then one can get some idea of ideal killers Eggs for Science Yandex.Station Japanese minimalism. Japanese in space. The Land of the Rising Sun also demonstrates its traditional values in space - moderation and accuracy Fair machines Sophie Naylor. Mechanism. The first automaton was created by God in just five hours. God collected dust from all corners of the world, then molded a golem out of it, and then breathed a soul into it - and put it on the ground. Why not an automatic? In the same way, a mechanic designs a mechanism, installs an engine, and then presses the start button. Yaroslavl hydrofoil boats: world class Rage with the motor. Snowmobile flights. These wood shavings are hand sawn for better ski glide - such a joke could be heard from the organizers of the off-champion round of the Red Bull Fuel & Fury Snowmobile Freestyle World Championship. There is a lot of truth in these words: F&F is a carefully prepared rare sports spectacle The clearest indication. Laser Brighter than the sun. Atomic bomb. A mysterious device capable of releasing gigajoules of energy over an indescribably short period of time is surrounded by ominous romance. Needless to say, all over the world, work on nuclear weapons was deeply classified, and the bomb itself was overgrown with a mass of legends and myths. Let's try to deal with them in order Ash with a reactor. The most secret Russian submarine. In a year, the Russian nuclear submarine fleet will be replenished with a fourth-generation ship Yacht - plane Yachtsmen-lumberjacks. Saw. What can you do with a chainsaw? Drive away bloodthirsty associations inspired by Hollywood horror movies. The chainsaw is a creative tool - as powerful as a motorcycle and as precise as an artist's brush.
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