The inability to hear the sound of one’s own steps, or their muffledness, apparently impairs proprioception — the sense of the position of one’s body parts in relation to each other and in space — and this can lead to an increased risk of falls and trips.
Scientists came to this conclusion when they discovered that with muffled sounds, a person who walks in place and with his eyes closed moves 14 centimeters further from the starting point than those people who do the same thing, but hear everything as usual.
This could affect future manned interplanetary missions: astronauts will stumble and fall due to the fact that the suit greatly muffles the sounds of the environment, including the sound of footsteps. The researchers suggest taking this into account when designing spacesuits, for example, equip astronauts’ boots with a microphone.
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Belarus is being sanctioned for «effectively supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine,» according to the South Korean Foreign Ministry. The ministry did not specify what measures would be taken, but said they would be applied in a manner similar to measures already taken previously against Russia.
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Roskomnadzor (RKN) restricted access to the websites of Mediazona and Republic (included in the register of media-foreign agents) at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office. This is evidenced by the data of the RKN service.. However, the editors said that they will continue their work.
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Nvidia (which previously also suspended the sale of video cards in the Russian Federation) announced that it was stopping the sale of its products in Russia
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Alfa-Bank will continue to issue Visa and Mastercard cards after the systems’ announcements about the suspension of activities in Russia. The press service of the credit organization reported this on Telegram.
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Netflix suspends work in Russia, Variety magazine reports, citing a statement.
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Finnish chocolate and bakery manufacturer Fazer is halting all activities in Russia.
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The American corporation PVH Corp., which owns clothing brands such as Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, has suspended operations in Russia since March 7.
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TikTok suspends live broadcasts and distribution of new content in Russia
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The Yonhap agency, citing the South Korean Foreign Ministry, reports that the Republic of Korea will suspend transactions with the Central Bank of the Russian Federation due to the situation around Ukraine.
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Roskomnadzor blocked access to «Snob», «Agency» and «Interlocutor». The sites of publications were blocked by the decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office, which indicated that they published unreliable socially significant data or calls for extremist actions.
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Danone will continue to manufacture dairy products and baby food in Russia, but will suspend investment projects, the company’s press service said on Twitter.
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The Russian authorities are not going to disconnect the country from the global Internet, RBC was told in the Ministry of Digital Development. The cables, which say government sites need to switch to Russian DNS servers and move away from foreign hosts, set out “cyber hygiene guidelines” to protect against attacks from abroad, the agency said.
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Georgia was not allowed in the journalist of the Dozhd TV channel Mikhail Fishman. From Tbilisi International Airport, Fishman was sent by plane back to Baku, from where he flew
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The Chinese government’s working paper, which was handed over to the National Legislative Committee on Saturday, emphasized Beijing’s opposition to any secessionist activities aimed at Taiwan’s independence and foreign intervention.
Beijing considers Taiwan a part of its territory, and regards the actions of the United States and their sale of weapons to Taiwan as a violation of its sovereignty and contrary to the «one China» policy.
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The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia) reported significant progress in the development of agrophotovoltaic energy. It involves the creation of such installations for the desert area, which will simultaneously generate energy and collect water for watering plants. The technology was named WEC2P and successfully passed the first tests.
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All Allegro St. Petersburg-Helsinki trains have been full for a week now. About two-thirds of the passengers are Russians, one is Finns, the Yle portal writes. In the opposite direction, the trains run almost empty.
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Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a drug called UTSA for obesity. The mechanism of the drug is to block the cytochrome P450 8B1 enzyme, which interacts with cholesterol and causes obesity.
During the work, scientists gave laboratory mice this enzyme for seven days, while the diet of the experimental subjects included a large amount of fats and sugars. Due to the effect of cytochrome P450 8B1, no changes in body weight were observed in animals. The drug is expected to help develop new strategies for the treatment of insulin resistance leading to obesity
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NASA has ordered three Crew Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX. They will be used in missions to deliver people to the ISS.
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Six foreign directors are leaving the board of directors of Polymetal, Russia’s leading gold and silver producer, the company said.
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Trade turnover between Russia and China for the first 2 months of 2022 increased by 38.5%, amounting to $26.431 billion — RIA Novosti with reference to the customs of China.
Imports from Russia to China reached US$13.8 billion, an increase of 35.8 percent, second only to the pace of purchases from Indonesia among China’s major trading partners.
The volume of exports from China to Russia in the first two months of this year increased by 41.5% and amounted to 12.6 billion US dollars, which was the highest among all its major trading partners.
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After checking the documents, Ural Airlines issued permission to operate the delayed Sharm el-Sheikh-Moscow flight, the Egyptian aviation authorities said. The plane has already returned to Russia
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New Zealand has imposed sanctions against more than 100 Russian politicians, businessmen and their relatives
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One of the world’s largest audit firms, KPMG, is shutting down business in Russia and Belarus and cutting off offices in those countries from its international network.
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Dairy company Valio and coffee maker Paulig are leaving Russia, corporations say
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