21 century inventoin

	Humanoids continue invading
...The 21st century is not the time, when people can be easily impressed, this can be refered to another, whether weird or wise, invention of the Japanese, that is a humanoid robot. On the other hand the most impressive thing is that people are still striving to create somebody, or something, to resemble themselves. This game has ended up in a demonstration of bots to help the aging population of Japan in their everyda...
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...ries. Stahlhut stated that phthalates should definitely be in the list of chemicals that require a careful study. It is worth mentioning that phthalates have been actively used for more than half a century. However, only now did scientist start thinking about the possible health problems to which the chemical might lead. Studies made on animals showed that phthalates consistently depress the levels of testosterone. Rece...
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	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...and colleagues in 1948); - fourth invention was declared the glass processing (circa 2200 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 proces...
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	Worms and Humans Are One Family
...object for research for almost any area of science, be it genetics, or be it paleontology. As for genetics, 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 r...
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	Public Phone Booths to Become Internet Access Points in Sweden
...rnet access. This equipment will enable Swedish to access Internet wirelessly virtually from anywhere near a phone booth within 500 feet. This way TeliaSonera intends to find a place in the wireless 21st century for the old telephone booths, which were prophesied to extinguish within a few decades. News agencies report that a user will need a laptop and a mobile phone, to retrieve a unique password for Internet access. ...
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	A Better Office Working Schedule Suggested by British Researchers
...tion of their work. Professor Thomas Redmond from the Durham University, JBA (a British consulting company) and Regus (an international company) have conducted a research called "Efficient work in 21st century", where over 1000 office workers from private and social organizations took part. According to this study, the 'classic' scheme of office work, i.e. sitting in front of the monitor entire week, surrounded by f...
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	The World Says Rest in Peace to Luciano Pavarotti
...cized for these alliances of classic and pop cultures, but the Maestro said he would do anything to bring classic music to a wider public. Today we say "Rest in peace, the Golden Voice of the 20th century"... The Secretary General of UN Ban Ki-Mun has also reminded everyone that Luciano Pavarotti was ambassador of peace of the UN, thus leaving a bright trail not only in music and world culture, but also in building ...
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	Cheney and Obama are distant relatives, Mrs. Cheney says
...ite while researching family history for her new book "Blue Skies, No Fences," on her life in Wyoming where she grew up. She said that her husband and Barack Obama have a common ancestor - a 17th century immigrant from France. Mrs. Cheney reported that it was "an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths. The...
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	Blondes Make Men Act More Silly, Study Says
...eotypes. In earlier studies it was discovered that people tend to walk slower in front of the elderly people. Experts say that blondes became a subject of numerous stereotypes and jokes over the past century. From the psychological point of view, many people associate blonde hair with childhood as babies are often blond at birth, thus people looking at fair-haired women may take them not too seriously. The study, was p...
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	Message from Aliens to Arrive in 2015
... the message is expected to arrive in 2015 from live forms from the Altair solar system. They say that the message will be the response to a radio-wave signal, which had been sent to Altair a quarter century ago by Hisashi Hirabayashi, a Japanese astronomer. According to Mr. Hirabayashi the response is likely to arrive in 2015. This is in case the intelligent beings received the message decoded it and sent an instant ...
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	The Secret of the Stradivarius Sound Has Been Revealed
... revealed. Scientists used a medical scanner to discover that the violin has a unique sound due to the extraordinary even density of the wood it is made of. It is worth mentioning that during a three-century period, various musicians and researchers tried to find an answer regarding the exceptional quality of the classical Cremonese violins created by such remarkable Italian artists as Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guar...
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	Caves With Stone Age Paintings Have Better Acoustics
...of Niaux in Ariege, most of the remarkable paintings are situated in the resonant Salon Noir, which sounds like a Romanesque chapel," said Iegor Reznikoff, an expert in the acoustics of 11th and 12th century European churches, who works at the University of Paris. He was the one to lead the research. Presumably these caves were considered to be places of natural power. This brings evidence to the theory that decorated cav...
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	Portraits and Writings Reveal Michelangelo as Ugly and Unclean
...exhibition also offers Michelangelo's portraits painted by some contemporary artists and an unsympathetic description written by Giorgio Vasari, who was an art historian and a painted during the 16th century. All of the works presented at the exhibition can explain why Michelangelo hesitated to pose for portraits. The artist was disfigured when a student broke his nose when Michelangelo was 17 years old. In addition he ...
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	Japanese Women Are the Longest Living in the World
...aster than other countries. The statistics show that nearly tenth of the population today is 75 years or older. The number of Japanese people aged over 65 is expected to double by the middle of the century. Thus, Japan would have to deal with the increased pension funding and find new ways of maintaining productivity. According to the last year statistics, Taiwanese women ranked the second in the list of longest lived...
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	Early Drug Recognition - Key to Successful Treatment
...etamine, crack or others; 24% of those aged between 18 and 25 and 12% of those interviewed admitted to have used cannabis, which is the most wide-spread illegal drug; and 18% of those aged between 18-21 had taken ecstasy at least once and 13% admitted to have experienced the LSD symptoms. And let's not speak about cocaine, heroine and crack, which are the most dangerous of drugs. One of the main problems for not offeri...
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