Discoveries in physics for 2007

	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...y since 1969). This year's first Nobel Prize was awarded for medical achievements to three scientists, who have dedicated their researches to genetics. Their researches have brought them to breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and ways of recombining the DNA code in mammals. These discoveries led to a new technology, named gene targeting in mice. This technology is applied in many areas of biomedicine, wh...
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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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	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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	Robot to Help Neurosurgery
...Surgery can take a huge step towards the future due to a new surgical robot system, developed at University of Calgary. Surgeons' mistakes will no longer take place because the NeuroArm is going to upgrade the level of neurosurgery as well as other branches of operative medicine. It it the first MRI-compatible robot in the world and its creator is Dr. Garnette Sutherland. For six years he has worked together with a lea...
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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
...Nanoparticles 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. Thu...
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	Animal Crew Returns from Space
...The Foton-M3 satellite, with mice, butterflies, lizards, 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, w...
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	Antarctic Microbes to Tell about Past and Future of Climate Change
...at because groups of invertebrates, as well as plants and microbes 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...
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	Computer Simulation Unveils Unexpected Process on the Surface of the Sun
...ecrets, which are still to be discovered one day. A mathematician from the University of Vienna along with his colleagues astronomers has simulated the solar granulations and has made some surprising discoveries. According to Herbert Muthsam, professor at the Mathematic Institute at the University of Vienna, the solar granulation is a process similar to the waves of boiling water in a kettle. It is a process during which...
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	Recordings on Predicting the Existence of Parallel Worlds Found
...A brilliant physicist recorded his theory on the existence of parallel universes. The tapes were recently discovered in the basement of his son's flat. According to the recordings, the idea about parallel universes came to the quantum physicist, Hugh Everett, when he was 24 years old. The year was 1957 and the physicist at that time was a graduate student at Princeton University. It is worth mentioning that the th...
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	Solar System Similar to Ours Discovered
...ing distant star more prominent. Scientists manged to discover as much as six stars, including the new ones. During the Scorpius event, they found several planets and this gives a hope for future discoveries. Dr Scott Gaudi, a leading researcher explained that new planetary system is like a scale model of our solar system and other planets that are "suitable for life" well co-exist unnoticed. The study is published...
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	The Evolution of the First Stars that Lighted Up the Universe Revealed
... The space investigations performed by scientists from NASA are currently focused on the oldest lights in the universe. Scientists discovered that cosmic neutrinos composed 10 percent of matter right after the Big Bang. For about five years researchers studied the Universe and came up with the idea that it took 500 million years for the first stars to bring light to the Universe. In 2001 NASA launched WMAP, the mission...
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	Scientists Discovered the Smallest Black Hole
...Scientists working at NASA have spotted the smallest black hole ever discovered. Its mass is less that four times the mass of the Sun and has the size of a large city. Scientists dubbed the little black hole J1650. Despite its small size and mass, the hole is still very strong. "This black hole is really pushing the limits. For many years astronomers have wanted to know the smallest possible size of a black hole, and ...
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	Terawatt Laser Beam Shot in the Clouds Provokes Lightning Strike
...In New Mexico, U.S., scientists tested a new ultra-high-power laser which provoked lightning. Scientists fired ultra-fast pulses from an extremely powerful laser thus sending several terawatts into the clouds to call down electrical discharges in storm clouds over the region. The beams send from the laser made channels of ionized molecules, also known as "filaments." Before the lighting strikes earth the filaments lea...
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	Research Secretly Identified Users of Mobile Phones Outside US
...y the positions of 100,000 people outside U.S. through their mobile phone use. They claim that the majority of people rarely go more than a few miles from their homes. This study is the first of its kind. It was performed by scientists from the Northeastern University. Though the study brought some specific results, it still raised a number of privacy and ethical questions due to the "spying" methods applied by researcher...
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