A person is biologically programmed to search for the propagation of the most impeccable partners, therefore, he will soon prefer a robot Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters Can robots and people have joint children? This is no longer a science fiction, but a question that scientific research is devoted to. Given the latest achievements in bionanotechnology and cellular biology, the topic has the right to life.

The Office of the Organization of Inquiry of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region launched a criminal case after in the summer of 2017 on the Rain television channel was a documentary about the entrepreneur Ilya Traber, who is ranked for the Tambov organized crime group, a familiar to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. It is reported by The Bell with reference to sources aware of the course of the investigation.

Scientists have established a probable reason why about 15 million Aztecs died in the middle of the 16th century - 80% of the population. Work about this was published in the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. During the epidemic that the locals nicknamed “Cocoliztli” (translated from the Nauatl language means mor), heavy fever, headaches, bleeding from the nose, eyes and mouth began. Scientists discarded such options as smallpox, measles, epidemic mumps and flu.

We continue the project of the Republic Talk - meeting subscribers with interesting experts. The first guest in 2018 is Anna Tsfasman, founder and general director of the international network of coffee houses Dabblebi . The main topic of conversation is how to create a successful city brand. Do you need to form consumer habits, or should you adapt to them? Is there enough coffee shop in Moscow? How to train staff? How to manage a fast -growing company?

The Kazakh linguists criticized the order of the president of the country Nursultan Nazarbayev by 2025 to abandon the Cyrillic alphabet and go to the Latin, the newspaper New York Times. Their main claim is a huge number of apostrophes. So, for example, the Republic of Kazakhstan in Kazakh will be written by Qazaqstan Respy'bli'kasy, and “Cherry”-S'I'i'e (pronounced as “Shi-ia”). The letter S with an apostrophe is “w”, and C ' - “h”.

As part of an anti -drug campaign launched in Chechnya, law enforcement officers torture forced the detainees to admit the use of prohibited substances (usually marijuana). This is stated in the investigation of Republic. According to Republic interlocutors, the detainees are tortured with electricity, beaten and mainly forced to record video features in which they say that they are addicted to prohibited drugs.

The word "sanitation", sounding at the beginning of the conversation, causes Alexander Lebedev sarcastic laughter. “So, that means it is called now,” the owner of the National Reserve Corporation is ironic. In last year's operations of the state to save the largest private banks, my interlocutor is inclined to see the non -civilized recovery of the sector, but rather a series of dubious precedents.

The largest manufacturers of traditional cars make more and more investments in electric cars. This is evidenced by Reuters calculations made after the International Motor Show in Detroit in early January. So, in particular, Ford Motors announced that in the near future he would invest $ 11 billion in the industry, thus doubleting his investments in the sphere of electric vehicles. “We are all in business. The only question is whether customers will be next to us, ”Bill Ford Jr.

Dmitry Medvedev on the plenary discussion "goals and values." Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS In Moscow, on January 16, the annual Gaidar Forum was opened, at which politicians, economists and large businessmen discuss the main issues of Russia's development.

The manufacturer of BlackBerry smartphones has released a program to protect unmanned vehicles called Jarvis (as artificial intelligence is called in films about an iron person). The novelty was presented by the head of the company John Jen at the Detroit car dealership. The new application checks the security of the software used in the production of unmanned machines.

Researchers came to this conclusion, analyzing the statistics of mortality during nine outbreaks in various cities of Europe from 1348 to 1813 Photo: Stephen Lam / Reuters The main carriers of the plague in Europe during the pandemium of the XIV-XIX centuries were human lice and fleas, and not parasites living on rats and mice. This conclusion was reached by a group of scientists from Norway and Italy.

The soloist of the Irish rock band The Cranberries Dolores O'Riordan suddenly died in London at the age of 46. This was reported by the RTE channel with reference to the representative of the artist. O'Riordan was in London at a recording session, her body was found in one of the hotels on the park lane.

Republic investigation of torture in Chechnya suspects of drug use does not correspond to reality and represent an attempt to “denigrate Chechnya’s internal affairs bodies in the eyes of the public’s eyes.” This was announced by RBC by a spokeswoman for the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov Alvi Karimov.

Photo: STEPHANE MAHE / Reuters “The European Union demanded 1.4 billion euros from Russia a year for the ban on pork imports,” Russian media scared last week. The chief Russian merchant negotiator, Medvedkov, had to explain how the World Trade Organization (WTO) works. She does not have bailiffs, police or army that would collect fines from countries that violate its laws. WTO is a voluntary organization. No one forces you to follow all the rules.

The Bitcoin course five years ago increased ten times in two months as a result of manipulations in the market of one or two traders. This conclusion was reached by several researchers who published in January 2018 the corresponding article in the Journal of Monetary Economics. Now the publication drew attention to TechCrunch.