Graphic timeline of inventions

	DNA research approaches the origins of human beings
...Enthusiasts of genografic project unite to collect the DNA database all over the world so to make every person aware of the place where his or her ancestors come from. The National Geographic Society together with IBM initiate a global project where more than 10,000 inhabitants will have their DNA tested to make up a huge database. Efforts of well-known scientists in geography and genetic medicine will reside in 10 wor...
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	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...An American Science Community has concluded after one of its researches that 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...
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	Secret US military data was disclosed thanks to porn images
... whose name is undisclosed, is being inquired on charges of accessing secret data on US combat system. The officer claims he was unaware of the confidential information that came along with the pornographic files. Kanagawa prefectural police doubts the reasoning of the officer as he may not have an access to such kind of information. Japan now has five military vessels equipped with this combat system. The Aegis mili...
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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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	Israeli consul works in gay porn
...A member of Israeli consulate administration in New York has been working part-time as a gay pornographic actor, Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported. The consulate official, after being involved in the scandal, left his post. However, members of administration staff are not diplomatic officials, embarrassing incident published in New York press undermined Israel image once again. That is a second time when Israeli F...
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	World's First 4D CAVEman to Help Treat Various Diseases
...ject to the University of Calgary the two found themselves working together on further development of the model. The human body computer model is created according to the basic anatomy books. The graphic artist transformed the main systems and organs of a human body into animated images and then converted them into Java 3DTM. Thus the 4D human atlas was bought to life inside the CAVE environment. The virtual body can ...
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	Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Gran Paradiso Alpha 5: out in June
...ere able to essentially change the source code of the software. Mozilla representatives state that the fifth alpha version will feature many new functions and abilities, such as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), which gives support of a wide range of vector graphic formats. The developers say that Gran Paradiso will be characterized by great stability and security and that it will give the users ability to work with their ...
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	Robots Assist in Rescuing Disaster Victims
...en throwable. Among the sensors featured by the robots there will be chemical sensors, color cameras, 3D mapping systems, thermal imagers, two-way audio transmitters, and GPS locators working with geographic information systems. Such testing programs help robot developers find out what kind of emergency responders are required to perform their functions safely and effectively. In their turn, the emergency responders get ...
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	15-Year-Old Boy Performs Caesarian Surgery
...nds himself not guilty and he does not repent over his action, saying that he wanted his son to become a part of the history. "He said there was no need for him to worry since it was no blue (pornographic) film that he had shot but only one showing his son's achievement," outlined Dr. T. N. Ravishankar, the secretary of the state branch of the Indian Medical Association. Dr. Ravishankar mentioned that he does not h...
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	Virtual Policemen to Purify the Chinese Internet
...Two police officers of the virtual Chinese world are to begin their "work" on purifying major Chinese Internet portals. The "work" consists in identifying pornographic content, as well as other 'illegal' activities, such as propaganda of oppositional ideas or the ones that might seem suspicious to the two police officers. On-line gambling is also regarded as an illegal activity. Every 30 minutes users will see a pictur...
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	Comments from Digg
....com, Netscape.com, Shoutwire.com and the like, would start a comments, or quotes, section, where users would promote the comments from the entire network. This post should be considered as a sequel of the upper-mentioned, as it should become an example, of what we were talking about. This is a list of some comments, selected from several posts some two or three weeks ago. Actually it doesn't matter, when the comments we...
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	Russia Could Claim Rights for North Pole Territories in 2009
...ssia launched a scientific program, during which a scientific ship - "Academic Fedorov" - and an ice-breaker - "Rossia" (Russia) - would run a series of tests to prove that the Lomonosov Ridge is, geographically, part of Russia. Those tests included deep seismic scans, collecting specimen from the sea grounds, measuring gravitational nonuniformities, aero-physical survey and using several drifting stations. Powered by ...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
...Scientists of the research projects that "first make people laugh, and then make them think" were awarded with Ig Nobel Prize. The 17th ceremony of Ig Nobel Prize or also called Improbable Research took place at Harvard's Sanders Theatre on Thursday night, October 4. The Ig Nobel Prizes that are parodies of the real Nobel Prizes, are awarded annually to celebrate unusual, creative and improbable achievements in sci...
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	New Tool to Link Web 2.0 and Search
...ports social networking. It includes workers' profiles, these profiles being created from various repositories and then showed as a mashup application that includes contact information and certain biographical information. The services provided by the new tool also include an executive dashboard that illustrates a map of hot topics that are being argued within departments. Vivisimo Velocity 6.0 will be officially launc...
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