17 Scientific Discoveries That Are About To Revolutionize Our World

With each passing day, our world is getting closer to a sci-fi movie future, as an army of thousands of experts from different fields work every day to make it happen. Researchers never cease to amaze us: at times they announce a successful human head transplant, at times they show that they have sent a Tesla car into Earth orbit.

The last few years have seen great progress for everyone. And that’s why we incredible.club We have put together for you a list of the most important scientific discoveries of 2017 and 2018, which will be able to make our world much better.

A group of neuroscientists from Russia and the United States managed to do something almost impossible: give a paralyzed person the opportunity to walk. A man who was paralyzed for several years after falling off a snowmobile took part in an international experiment. The technology used by the scientists was applied for the first time. The patient got up with the help of electrical stimulators that were originally designed for another purpose: relieving pain. Now, thanks to electrical stimulation, it will be possible to restore full mobility to an injured person, even if he has significant spinal cord damage.

According to neuroscientists, the patient’s partial rehabilitation took 44 weeks. Today, man can stand alone, walk on a treadmill, and even move short distances. And all this with just a little help from the medical team.

Some New Zealand researchers made, for the first time in human history, a three-dimensional image using color X-rays. The new device is based on the traditional black-and-white X-ray machine, but uses Medipix’s particle tracking and capture technology. It is worth remembering that thanks to this technology, in 2012, at the Large Hadron Collider, elusive particles were discovered: the Higgs bosons.

Medipix works like a camera, but at the level of subatomic particles. As a result, high contrast images are obtained. Color X-ray images clearly show differences between muscle, bone and cartilage, including the size and position of cancerous tumors.

The Smart Vest looks quite ordinary, but it has special sensors and wireless electrodes that allow you to perform an electrocardiogram (ECG), record pressure and heartbeat sounds. And all this continuously, 24 hours a day. A person who purchases this miracle vest will be able to install a special application on his smartphone, where all the data on his heart’s work will be stored.

The developer and creator of this product points out that the application can diagnose and even predict serious heart problems, and the abnormal activity of the heart muscle becomes visible on the ECG 2 days before the attack happens. The vest has already been successfully tested on volunteers.

Can you imagine that very soon glasses for vision correction will no longer be needed, since their main purpose will be fulfilled by a few simple drops? That’s what a group of Israeli ophthalmologists are working on. Researchers have already successfully tested these drops on pigs. And the survey results exceeded all expectations. The drops showed a high efficiency in the fight against myopia and hyperopia. Also, according to scientists, drops can replace multifocal lenses.

Since the beginning of 2018, the police of the Chinese city of Zhengzhou have received the GLXSS smart glasses, equipped with facial recognition technology. The lenses are capable of taking pictures, recording videos in HD quality and displaying information thanks to augmented reality technology. This functional device has already helped to arrest almost 40 criminals, of which 7 are suspected of having committed serious crimes.

The GLXSS costs from around $635, but it cannot yet be purchased for personal use.

Finally, the problem of shoes that are constantly lost somewhere in the house may be a thing of the past, as slippers with wheels have been introduced by Nissan. They are also equipped with motors and sensors that use ProPilot technology. Thanks to this, the slippers return to the previously specified place by themselves. Today, anyone who wants to can experience this miracle of technology in one of the hotels in Japan.

The EHang 184 self drone is similar to a helicopter but has much greater functionality. Its capacity is 2 passengers, it can fly up to 15 km on a single charge, and also accelerate to 130 kilometers per hour. But the main feature of the EHang 184 is its autonomy. The creators believe that the commercial version of the flying taxi will work on autopilot. The person using the transport will only have to specify the end point of the route. It should be noted that both the engineers and the author of the project, as well as the vice mayor of Canton, a city in China, personally participated in the tests.

It is possible that this air taxi will soon be the solution to the many kilometers of traffic jams suffered by residents of big cities.

This news cannot be attributed to a recent scientific discovery, but everything that has ever happened in history is an excellent example of the enormous development of artificial intelligence.

In January of this year, an Argentinian woman posted on Facebook saying goodbye to her friends and family, accompanied by a photo of powerful tranquilizers. Her publication was instantly recognized by the social network algorithms that use artificial intelligence for these purposes. The program sent a signal to the site’s administration in the United States, which, in turn, communicated with the emergency services in Buenos Aires. Rescuers arrived at the scene and found the woman unconscious and, thanks to this quick operational response, managed to save her.

Engineers at the Federal Polytechnic School of Zurich have created a prototype of an exoskeleton hand that can be controlled with the power of thought. The device’s electrodes are placed in a special helmet: in previous versions, the electrodes had to be implanted under the skin. The exoskeleton is easy to handle and installation takes just a few minutes. The device has already been tested by people who have survived a stroke and spinal cord injuries. Engineers are perfecting the exoskeleton to launch it into mass production in the near future.

In 2017, it became clear that unmanned vehicles will become an integral part of human life. In the USA, the first place in this industry belongs to the Tesla company, which annually improves its electric vehicles equipped with unmanned systems.

Residents and visitors to Paris can now travel in an experimental unmanned minibus with an electric motor. And quite recently, the Yandex Taxi service tested unmanned cars, albeit for the time being only in closed territory.

In the coming years, we will experience a change in international traffic rules and witness the implementation of state laws that will ensure that unmanned vehicles on the roads of our planet are fully registered.

In 2017, the global economy faced an unexpected challenge: an unprecedented growth in the popularity of electronic money or cryptocurrency. Despite the fact that the first and most famous today, Bitcoin was launched in 2009, it became popular all over the world in the middle of last year. From August to December, the price of Bitcoin underwent drastic changes, rising from $2,000 to $20,000, and then dropping to almost $6,500 per unit.

Analysts from major financial organizations predict that cryptocurrencies will have a secure place in the global economy alongside the euro and dollar.

In 2017, humanity made significant progress in the area of ​​knowledge about its origin.
For a long time, it was believed that the homo sapiens, which currently inhabits the planet, was descended from an older species from approximately 200,000 years ago, originating somewhere in East Africa. Most of the currently known anthropological and archaeological data confirmed this version.

But last year, the journal Nature published an article produced by an international team of scientists, which discovered fragments of people over 300,000 years old. They lived in a completely different part of the African continent. Researchers say that if we put them in modern clothes and let them walk through a crowd, it would be impossible to tell them apart from us. This discovery demonstrated the inconsistency of the established theory about the origin of the human being, which scientists will have to try to unravel from the beginning.

In 2017, another completely new challenge was thrown at modern science. For the first time in the history of observation, a cosmic body of galactic origin has been discovered in the solar system.

At W. M. Keck’s observatory in the Hawaiian archipelago, astronomers discovered a unique asteroid that is not part of the solar system. That means it was formed somewhere in unknown galactic space. The asteroid’s hyperbolic speed will allow it to continue its journey through space, as the object is not subject to the center of our attraction, the Sun.

It is worth remembering that several scientists have elaborated hypotheses about the artificial origin of this asteroid. The matter reached such a point that a powerful radio telescope was pointed in the direction of the asteroid, with the hope of picking up signals from our “extraterrestrial brothers” in 4 radio waves.

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