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The global hunger specter: agriscience vs. grim forecasts

Duration: 0:35:12

Scientists say that by 2050 the world's population will grow to about 10 billion . This will lead to an increase in demand for agricultural products by about 50% compared to the current one . By 2030, if proper efforts are not made, more than 600 million people will go hungry . Science must become an aid to farming, says Baltic Agro Armands Brachs .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceAgriscience2050

Arctic and Antarctica: what is happening at the poles of the Earth?

Duration: 0:35:30

The guest of the "Nature of Things" program is a man who has been to Antarctica 16 times . What is ice from a scientist's point of view? What are its types and how are they formed in water?

Language: Russian
Topics: AntarcticaScience

Leah Vedensky on the nature of human genius

Duration: 0:34:57

The guest of the Latvian Radio 4 program “The Nature of Things” is Lea Vedensky, a scientist, psychologist and writer from Israel . We will talk about the techniques of abundant thinking, the development of genius on the scale of an individual family and an entire nation .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceBrainPsychology

The brain: what do we know about its work?

Duration: 0:35:00

The most mysterious organ in the human body is the brain . Scientists are well versed in how, for example, the kidneys work, what happens in the heart and blood vessels, why do we need a liver, pancreas and other organs is more or less known how the spinal cord functions .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceBrainNeuroscience

Immunity. Molecular wins and crashes

Duration: 0:38:28

Maxim Kazarnovsky: How does the immune response to infection occur? What is a cytokine storm? How do our cells learn to distinguish between "us" and "them"? Why is there lifelong immunity for some infections, and only temporary immunity for others? Is it necessary to "strengthen the immune system" and is it really possible to do this?

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceBiologyImmunity

Algorithms for playing "cat and mouse" and the mystery of the crime

Duration: 0:18:34

Tatyana Ustinova is the author of more than fifty works based on a detective story . She is also a television host and hosts the My Hero program on television . Why are we so fascinated by homicide investigations? We will dissect the detective and understand its essence .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceEngineeringAlgorithms

Genomic selection: fields of the past and future

Duration: 0:36:25

Plants have surrounded man for thousands of years, giving him shelter and food . But man himself actively interfered in natural processes, trying to create new types of plants for his needs . Rim Gubaev, a bioinformatician and co-founder of the start-up of genomic plant breeding OilGene, is visiting the Nature of Things .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceGenomicsBiologyPlants

Extreme Biology: Animals Can, Can Humans?

Duration: 0:35:52

Today we will be talking about freshwater hydras that are only one centimeter long, huge sperm whales, small mosquitoes and some amphibians with Oleg Gusev, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Head of the Laboratory "Extreme Biology" of the Scientific and Clinical Center for Precision and Regenerative Medicine of Kazan Federal University, Leading Researcher of the RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical Research.

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceBiologyExtreme Biology

Crystals: From Apocalypse to Absolute

Duration: 0:34:29

Oksana Reznichenko: Crystals are the most mysterious objects that scientists around the world are studying with interest . One of the popular scenarios of the apocalypse, written by the famous science fiction writer, a chemist by education, Kurt Vonnegut, is connected precisely with crystals. It is interesting that crystals can not only grow like living organisms, but also reproduce themselves .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceChemistryChinaKurt Vonnegut

Is artificial intelligence changing human nature?

Duration: 0:35:00

The Nature of Things is a program about everything that surrounds us. Today in the program we are talking about artificial intelligence and man with the doctor of engineering sciences, RTU employee Egons Lavendelis .

Language: Russian
Topics: ScienceEngineeringArtificial intelligence
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