2006-2007 inventions & discovery

	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
... B.C in South-Western Iran); - fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century; - invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions; - the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in India; - brass processing in about 5000 B.C. on the present territory of Turkey has taken the eighth entry in t...
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	Aggressive women - genes' fault
...ith two psychological tests on anger and aggression. It showed that those women who had one or both variation in serotonin receptor 2C gene also show a low level of aggression on test results. This discovery presents an increased interest not only for psychologists, but also for those doctors who deal with diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases and glucose metabolism. These conditions are known to have a relation wit...
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	Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
...ill draw the latest technology, including robots and satellites, to make an observation on minor changes in ice thickness. The meetings held on previous polar year sessions were mainly focused on the discovery of Arctic and Antarctic areas, these being largely unexplored. Now scietists pay more attention on taking immediate measures to convey the core of the problem to policy makers rather than proving the existance of gl...
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...cal, found in nearly everything including plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, lubricants, paint and soaps, is strongly connected to abdominal obesity and insulin resistance in adult males. This scientific discovery was made by the University of Rochester Medical Center. Scientists think that even in low doses the exposures to phthalates and several other common chemicals might reduce the levels of testosterone in men. Richard...
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	Now one blood group fits everyone
...A new discovery was made by international scientific team who established a way to convert one blood group into another. The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, ...
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	Russia's Internet Award Was Given Away
...test. The "ROTOR-2007" Award had over 25 categories, where one web site or person has taken its, his or her prize. Here are the most important nomination of the Russian Internet Award: Web-Discovery of the year - awarded to the Russian Digg clone - www.habrhabr.ru;Web-Journalist of the year;Web-Producer of the year;Web-Man of the year;Web-Editor of the year;Web-Event of the year - taken by the web-conference of...
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	Invisibility is now one step closer
...ly represents a big challenge for the scientists. "In principle, this cloak could be arbitrarily large, as large as a person or an aircraft", he said. This nanotechnological research is based at the Discovery Park of the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue. In 2006 several researchers published their findings on optical cloaking device. Shalaev mentioned that the mathematical requirements for the device were quite ...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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	Worms and Humans Are One Family
...ics, it has found that the human brain is in a continuous process of evolution and people in the 21st century are more developed than their ancestors. Two years ago paleontologists made a sensational discovery: they dug out a petrified brain. And here we are today with the molecular biologists saying that we are direct relatives with worms and insects - how encouraging! German biologists have run a series of tests with...
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	Women Find $70,000 on Junk-Yard
...per, glass and cans, when they ran onto a rather impressive sum of money: something equivalent to $70,000. Jose David Castaneda, the public prosecutor in the Department of Casanare, said that this discovery was a simple accident. The finding was reported by one of the relatives of the women, thus the police could retain the money to start investigating their origin. The police reports that it is their main task n...
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	Software Programmers Cannot Reach Supercomputers
.... In case computers will continue increasing their performance just like they did during the last few years they will all soon be multicore. Multicore computers are required in such fields like: drug discovery, climate modeling, the design of military weapons and improving manufacturing. Due to the fact that each PC, or core, should receive its own set of instructions, multicore computers are in need of parallel computer...
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	Levitation Possible in Real World
...ing friction in the works. The scientists from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, claim they have discovered a way how to reverse the Casimir force to make it push tiny objects apart. Their discovery could lead to the development of micro machines that will be free from friction, with levitating moving parts. Micro-electromechanical systems are of major importance for example in tiny mechanical devices trigge...
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	Scientists Found a Way to Store and Erase Memories Long After Their Formation
...constantly in order to keep one's memories going. Researchers were also able to find that in case the machine is briefly jammed this can lead to the erasure of a person's long-term memories. This discovery should be useful in finding ways to treating memory problems. Prof. Yadin Dudai and a Reut Shema, a research student, and Todd Sacktor, the representative of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center, made experiments on...
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