How was our world born and what is its future? Are there other worlds and other dimensions? What is life and reason and how did they arise on our planet? Is it possible to create artificial intelligence and what will its creation lead to? What secrets does the Earth's hydrosphere contain? What is the relationship between sunspots and ionospheric storms? How to teleport information and make a quantum decoder? The author of the book, O. O. Feigin, an academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, a brilliant popularizer of science, considers these and similar questions through the prism of recent achievements in astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology. At the same time, news from the very front edge of natural science is discussed, including string theory, dark matter and the origin of life. For anyone interested in the problems of modern science