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Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability |
 ...that have a certain vulnerability. This is made by tricking people to visit rigged Websites or by affecting a trusted site.
In a security alert, which was sent to the customers, McAfee said that a sample code has already been posted on the Web. The code is meant to show the vulnerability of the system. The security company mentioned that the malicious software that exploits this vulnerability "has been observed in a wi... |
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Now one blood group fits everyone |
 ...d groups.
After test trials new blood where A, B and AB blood groups will be converted into O group is anticipated to be used in hospitals.
The National Blood Service now has 40,000 of blood samples that can be enough for about five days.
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Timeline of the events in Tallinn, Estonia |
 ...rights violation in Estonia in the recent days. Estonian Prime-Minister says the economical blockade will not do much harm to the country. Russian retailers refused selling Estonian candies and other goods. The activists stop blockading the embassy in Moscow. Estonian ambassador left Russian territory. Condolisa Rise expressed her support to Estonian authorities, in relation to calling the Russian and Estonian sides for a... |
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New students forced to take pregnancy tests |
 ...lth checks of the new students and the test on pregnancy is also included in the check.
It is worth mentioning that the technical college gatheres all the girls into a hall in order to pass urine samples on to doctors. Among all girls from the college those that are aged 17 and 18 represent 70 to 80 percent of all new spring semester students.
The Beijing News said that in case a student with an abnormal result i... |
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Robots Assist in Rescuing Disaster Victims |
| ...d wreckage to map the disaster scene, locate victims, discover hazardous leaks and determinate tanker placards in order to identify the substances they carry.
Some robots will get a task to collect samples of unidentified substances for chemical analysis. The entire process will be remotely controlled from a safe distance. The ground robots involved in the tests will be portable, agile, or even throwable. Among the sens... |
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A New Tech to Trace Your Habits From a Drop of Sweat |
 ...Police will be able to find the information on suspect's sex and eating habits taking a drop of sweat and a fingerprint as a sample.
Researchers from Imperial College London discovered that person's fingerprints contain a lot of useful information about his or her habits and can even tell if the person is a vegetarian. The new technique that will be useful for police will reveal eating habits, gender, smoking habits ... |
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Ancient Microorganisms May Revive in Melting Glaciers |
 ...e DNA of such ancient, for-centuries-frozen microorganisms. The scientists didn't know for what period of time cells could stay viable after they've been frozen. Bidle and his colleagues melted five samples of ice that were 100,000 - 8 million years old to discover the microorganisms kept inside the ice.
First, the researchers made sure that they were able to detect microorganisms at all – it turned out there were m... |
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Genes Permanently Turned On by Smoking |
| ...the BC Cancer Agency, together with a team of Canadian researchers, examined the lungs of former smokers, those who still cannot get rid of smoking and people who never for it. Researchers took lung samples from all of the three categories of people and then used them for making libraries. They used a special technique called serial analysis of gene expression. This technique serves for identifying patterns of gene activ... |
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Scientists Discover Clays to Fight Deadly Bacteria |
 ...sands of people a year.
Scientists who conducted the laboratory experiments were surprised to see that the clay could destroy bug colonies in just a day. Over the same time period, MRSA's control samples that were not treated with agricur, increased 45-fold. The clay also destroys other deadly bacteria - salmonella and buruli, a flesh-eating disease, a relative of lep rosy.
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NASA's Phoenix Finds Ice on Mars |
 ...The spacecraft landed in the Martian arctic plains on May 25 and the mission will last around three months.
The Phoenix Mars Lander's 8-foot-long robotic arm is used to dig the ground to take the samples that will be tested in the laboratory. The dirt and ice taken from Martian surface will be sent for test in a number of small ovens to be heated. The resulting gases will be examined to make a conclusion for traces of... |
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Women Use the Web to Have Abortions |
 ... Simpson, the director of Northern Ireland FPA.
The anti-abortion campaigners stated that they were shocked by the existence of such websites.
"This is very worrying indeed. It represents further trivialization of the value of the unborn child. It's like taking abortion into the shadows. These drugs have side-effects and tragedies will increase," said Josephine Quintavalle, a member of the group Comment on Reproductiv... |
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Beijing is Ready for Sex Tests for Olympic Athletes |
 ...king at the lab, which is located at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, will analyze doubtful cases based on their external features and observe sex hormones, genes and chromosomes from blood samples.
It is worth mentioning that sex testing has been practiced at the Olympic Games for many years. The reason to launch the procedure was the fears that male athletes might cheat pretending to be females.
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Bones of 6000 Year-Old Ancient Wild Camels Found in Desert |
 ... will focus on the environmental side of the site along with a more detailed study of the ancient bones.
"The camel skeletons discovered in the Baynunah region of Al Gharbia represent the largest sample of ancient wild camel bones so far discovered in Arabia," outlined Dr Mark Beech, Cultural Landscapes Manager in the Historic Environment Department at ADACH.
The team of Dr Mark Beech includes the following exper... |
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