Amazing scientific discoveries and invention in 2008

	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...Mendeleev's periodic table of elements was the most important discovery the humanity made... even more important than the discovery of iron. The Community has published a list of 10 most important discoveries the humanity ever made. The results of this research were based on answers of a survey conducted by the community. According to that survey: - the second most important discovery, following the Mendeleev's pe...
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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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	Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...ticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist. According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thus it is...
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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...Right after the Ig Nobel Prize Awards has taken place, serious people from Stockholm have come into play. It is a fact that the most renown and prestigious scientific award is the Nobel Prize, which takes place once a year in the Swedish capital. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five nominations: Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace and Economics (the latter only since 1969). This year's first Nobel Prize was awarded for me...
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	Inventor of LSD Drug Dies
...the drug such as the stories of the people committing the crime or suicide under hallucination led to the ban of LSD in US and other countries. Hofmann is thought to take the drug occasionally for scientific purposes and insisted that it was not addictive. However, he agreed that in the wrong hands LSD can be very dangerous. After his retirement from Sandoz firm, Hofmann was mainly occupied with traveling, writing a...
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	Biofilm Bacteria Protect Themselves With Chemical Weapons
... that biofilms use in order to defend themselves against the attack of phagocytes. Teamed up with colleagues from Australia, Great Britain and the United States, scientists are now publishing their discoveries in the popular specialist publication PLoS ONE. The finding states that biofilm bacteria apply chemical weapons to protect themselves. Until recent findings, researchers could not understand the core of the biof...
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	Scientific contribution in Iraq war undermined
...ainst Iraq's threat take place in both Britain's and Iraq's laboratories. Their previous contributions were highly appreciated in earlier Iraq's operations, such as Telic campaign, were the number of scientific forces reached its highest point. This could only be compared with the World War II concentration of researchers. Whereas their participation was acknowledged and more than 100 of Dstl scientists were awarded with ...
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	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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	Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says
...atus, and return to a normal level of well being, individual differences still matter. After a revision of the studies, where the most important factor proved to be the adaptation to life events, new discoveries were made to prove the counter evidence. First of all, it was proved that the level of happiness is not a standstill state only perturbed by negative and positive events. Some major disturbances may affect your h...
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	Aggressive women - genes' fault
...level of serotonin will contribute to feelings of happiness, emotional gratification and be an effective stress killer. The genetic study of Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Program aimed to find scientific proof to the link between alterations in the serotonin receptor 2C gene and aggressive behavior. The research took place in Behavioral Physiology Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, where 550 women of Eur...
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	Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
... one of the organizers of the Arctic Science Summit on global warming, pre-opened the summit with a speech that was to make everyone realize the problem of the environment. She asked everyone to join scientific and policy efforts around the globe. The summit represents a first step for the International Polar Year that is expected to end in March 2009. For this period the environmental experts are going to explore in d...
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
... this chemical, 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 m...
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	Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking
...up in their pajamas in the middle of the road and being interrogated by a police officer. Fortunately, there were no death reports of sleep-driving. These reports from citizens have also gained some scientific background, as there is a series of institutions, foundations and scientists to run various tests in this sphere. Such examples of scientific proof were given by Laura J. Liddicoat in Wisconsin. She made a presen...
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	To live or die - computer will decide
.... The accuracy of both human and computer decisions coincided in over 78 percent of cases. Although these findings showed that computer choice could be not less effective than human decision, this scientific idea remains quite questionable due to the ethical matters. The substitute of the personal decision shouldn't be ignored even if calculations were proved to be accurate. Wendler and his colleagues say that even clo...
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	Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy
...eft far near the end of the drug list. This latest study raised the question that government's drug policy was not paying enough attention to modern state of affairs and didn't take notice of the scientific findings. There should be no surprise that ecstasy drug was placed almost at the end of the list. One person a day dies from acute alcohol poisoning in comparison to 10 people a year who die from ecstasy overdos...
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