Greatest scientist of the year 2007

	Scientific contribution in Iraq war undermined
...Britain's Armed Forces may no longer take part in operations countering Iraq's threat without considerable funds in essential technology advancements, where scientists make their greatest contribution, announced a committee of MPs. As it was disclosed by the Commons Defense Committee report, scientists from Dstl (Defense Science and Technology Laboratory), an agency of the Ministry of Defence, have their final word for...
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	Google's Domination to Distort the World's Reality
...Austrian scientists claim that Google became the world's largest search engine that may soon become the greatest danger for the world. Researchers at Graz University, Austria conducted a study where they tried to analyze the Google's impact as a largest internet search engine. Professor Hermann Maurer, chairman of Graz University's Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media said that Google developed an unacc...
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	Cellphones Kill Sperm Cells, Study Says
...gary. According to the study, men using cellphones on a regular basis lose about 30% of their active sperm cells. Men carrying their cellphones in the pockets of their pants subject their potency to greatest danger. These were the conclusions of a medical research conducted by Hungarian scientists from the University of Segeda, where 221 men were observed and inspected during 13 months. These men were divided into two gr...
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	Golfers Live Longer Than Other People
...ex, age and socioeconomic status do not influence the death rate of golfers. It was also suggested that golfers having blue-collar jobs had more benefits than those who have white-collar job. And the greatest health benefits were seen among golf players with the lowest handicap. Powered by www.infoniac.com ...
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	Storm virus attacks blogs
...Storm virus is back again to infect blogs, webmails and bulletin boards. British and Korean computer security scientists claim it's a new variant of malware that is extremely difficult to detect. The Storm worm looks like a message that features news about Europe's storms. In fact, this virus can evaluate network traffic on the computer and later insert a link to malicious website into user's post, webmail or bulleti...
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	DNA research approaches the origins of human beings
...me 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 world regions to find traces of human ancestry. Aside from DNA information collected from indigenous people, other people can also have their genetic data teste...
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	Aggressive women - genes' fault
...o have a relation with aggressive feelings. The close association of genetic marker makes it easier to foresee the signs of hypertension or other related diseases. The results will be discussed by scientists of University of Pittsburgh at American Psychosomatic Society's Annual Meeting in Budapest....
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...Till now scientists have been aware of the fact that exposure to phthalates is linked to reproductive issues. Recently they have discovered that 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. Sci...
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	Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking
...ice 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 presentation based on six examples of driving 'under Ambien'. Other scientists, Dr....
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	To live or die - computer will decide
... than those of the patient's close people. Usually, when a doctor deals with an incapacitated patient and the chances for treatment are not evident, the decision is handed in to surrogate. But NIH scientists revealed, the surrogate decision may not be precise. A thorough analysis of the 20,000 choices of surrogates and patients showed that their decisions coincided only in two third of the times. NIH professor Davi...
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	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
... or in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis. This way the current study is directed at finding a new approach in fighting upper mentioned bacteria; and a result has been already found. This time scientists didn't spend their time finding substances that were capable 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 S...
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	Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery
...ttery was conditioned by the permanently developing industry of portable devices, which become smaller and smaller each year. Researches on this device have been conducted for several years, but the scientists, working on this battery are Drs. Hiroyuki Nishide, Hiroaki Konishi and Takeo Suga, all of them from the Waseda University, are considered to improve the technology. Their development is based on a redox-active pol...
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	Japan's uncertain guilt for sex slavery during World War II
...e World War II and that caused negative response all over the world. More than 200,000 women from Korea and China were exploited for sexual service in military-run brothels. The Prime Minister of Japan made him clear and the right-wing policy makers that stand up for him put their efforts in revision of landmark apology that was made in 1993. They defend a standpoint in which Asian women were paid for prostitution ...
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	Career growth: Look from inside
...to establish the main differences between women's and men's approaches towards their careers. Men and women, having leading positions in the U.S. chemical industry were the researchers' objects. The scientists from have questioned 1800 women and 300 men, who have leading posts in the industry mentioned above. 26 women and 6 men have also agreed to be interviewed more thoroughly by the researchers. It was determined that...
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	Invisibility is now one step closer
...Using the nanotechnology scientists were able to make a significant step towards inventing an "optical cloaking", which represents a device able to make objects invisible. The device guides light around anything that is placed withing the so-called "cloak". The engineers at Purdue University have followed mathematical guidelines that were devised last year by the UK physicists to create a theoretical design, which in i...
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