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The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think |
 ...ughs in science.
Medicine
Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, was awarded for the in-depth report that analyzed "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects".
Biology
Dutch researchers Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands was applauded for the study of all the insects, bacteria, fungi, shellfish, mites, ferns and other li... |
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A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria |
 ...of defeating a certain bacteria in laboratory, but they tried to find a way to 'help' the body's own defense systems defeating these bacteria.
Pradeep Singh, associate professor of medicine and microbiology at the University of Washington and the senior author of current study, explained that there is a critical fight for iron between the alien bacteria and the human body. Thus the function of the cells defending the hum... |
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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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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 |
 ...ow on if someone says that 'you think like a worm', it would not be that offensive. As a matter of fact, it is now a scientific fact, as results of a research of the European laboratory for molecular biology in Heidelberg show that the human brain and the entire human nervous system finds its roots in the most primitive creatures - such as worms and insects.
The human brain has always been a very attractive object for ... |
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Bird Flu - Back to Europe |
| ...he German Ministry of Consumer Right Protection, Food Supplies and Agriculture. The H5N1 type of bird flu is the most dangerous type of this virus to people.
Tests in German laboratories for microbiology have proven that three swans were infected by the dangerous H5N1 strain in a lake near Nürnberg, in the Southern land of Bavaria. Scientists also examine two other specimen taken from a wild duck and a wild goose... |
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Scientists Found a Way to Store and Erase Memories Long After Their Formation |
 ...The Head of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department, Prof. Yadin Dudai, together with his co-workers tried to answer questions related to human's brain, and namely what really happens inside our brain when we try to remember something and are our memories recorded in a stable physical change, like writing a permanent inscription on a clay tablet.
Scientists found that the process, during which a person stores... |
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Animal Crew Returns from Space |
 ...snails and cockroaches on board, will land in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after 12 days of experiments.
During a 12 days' flight there were 26 unique experiments conducted in chemistry, biology, physics and bio-technology, funded by Russia and the European Space Agency.
Mice were placed in air-tight module cells equipped with life-support system, were they were videotaped. Scientists tried to study the i... |
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Antarctic Microbes to Tell about Past and Future of Climate Change |
| ...robes inhabit only a small portion of a huge continent, most scientists did not take them into consideration seriously.
However recent discoveries and technical advances in the field of molecular biology and biogeography help scientists find that these plants and microbes are indeed very important for understanding the glacial history of our planet.
Pete Convey mentioned that the new study may contribute to answer... |
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Evolution of Animal Vision - New Facts Discovered |
 ...sensitivity evolution in the animal. They are aware its predecessors existed approximately 600 million years ago.
According to senior author Todd H. Oakley, the university's assistant professor of biology, there are only a few cases where scientists have discovered and documented the very specific mutational events that have led to new features during evolution.
As Mr. Oakley mentioned, anti-evolutionists often argu... |
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Late Risers Protest to Change Work Schedule |
 ...searchers proved that one in four people are night owls while only one in ten are early risers, the rest fall somewhere in the middle.
Harvey Moldofsky, director of the Centre for Sleep and Chronobiology at the University of Toronto says that it is important to recognize that late rising is genetic and their natural wake-up is delayed.
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Prizes $27,000 Worth For the Best Undergraduate Inventor |
 ...n event meant to encourage young inventors will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 11th and 12th in the University of Wisconsin Madison.
The UW-Madison Invention Days competitions will house 14 inventions designed and built by 49 UW-Madison undergraduate students. Among the presented inventions there will be solutions for ice fishermen, for tailgaters, for potato farmers, for modern laptops and even for airlines.
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Scientific Breakthrough: Extinct Animal DNA Revived in a Live Animal |
 ...anian tiger and inserted it into a mouse and it functioned.
Though reviving the genes doesn't mean that the extinct animal will be reborn, it holds a potential for further research, revealing the biology of extinct animals and developing new biomedicines.
This breakthrough means that scientists can one day get the knowledge of much older specimens.
The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine was the world... |
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Research Secretly Identified Users of Mobile Phones Outside US |
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Mr. Barabasi said that he didn't consult with any ethics panel. According to Hidalgo, researchers did not require to check with any ethics panel due to the fact that their experiment did not involve biology, but physics.
"There is plenty going on here that sets off ethical alarm bells about privacy and trustworthiness," said Arthur Caplan, bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. In an email he wrote that studi... |
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