High school type research projects

	Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy
...revised by Britain's drug experts to reveal that alcohol and tobacco put your health at greater risk than such dangerous drugs as LSD, cannabis and ecstasy. Experts conducted a new all-compassing research with the government top advisory committee involved to make a shocking conclusion on the harm of regular tobacco and alcohol. A modern classification of drugs doesn't reflect the real situation on harmful substan...
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	Career growth: Look from inside
..."What do men and women bet on during their career growth?" The University of Maryland has conducted a three year research 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 mentione...
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	School Runs - Danger Warning
...Study shows that during the last five years over 460,000 car accidents took place to British parents while taking their children on the school run. About 115,000 parents were not informed about the requirements of seat restraints for children in vehicles. Sainsbury's Bank has conducted the survey that showed that there are more than 5 million parents driving their children to school between 8.30 and 9 AM, which is the ...
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	Additional Billion PC Users for Microsoft
...ho do not presently belong to PC owners. By 2015 Microsoft hopes to reach the first billion. Governments will have an opportunity to purchase directly from Microsoft PCs for students to use in their school studies and at home. Gates will announce the program at a special forum launched for government leaders. The collection of software will comprise Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Live Mail Desktop, Office Home a...
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	Alcohol Consumption at Home Can Prevent Binge Drinking
...hose shops that sell boose to underaged teenagers. Statistics show that 40 percent of 15 and 16 year old teens, who consume alcohol, bought their own drink. The study analyzed the situation in 130 schools in the north-western part of England. There were more than ten thousand questioners gathered from 15 and 16 year old pupils. The final results show that girls who live in the socially deprived areas and get the most p...
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	Cigarette Price Increase Results in Bootlegging Boost
...pants from Central Harlem, New York claimed that increased cigarette taxes in New York City led to the growth of illegal cigarette market in a poverty-stricken minority community. In the regions with higher smoking rates than in other areas, the attention of individuals motivated to quit smoking was switched to bootleggers offering low-price cigarettes. The interviewed smokers displayed high interest in quitting the ba...
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	There Are Successful Bloggers in Africa Too
...amkwamba got an opportunity to surf the net when he attended a TEDGlobal conference in Arusha, Tanzania, aimed to promote new ideas in the technology, design and entertainment fields. The 19-year-old high-school student was invited to the conference to share his personal experience of designing and building a windmill completely on his own. Kamkwamba left school when he was 14 as his family was not able to afford the ...
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	Police Allowed to Use Taser Stun Guns Against Minors
...s. The research undertaken by the committee suggested children shot by Tasers could then suffer from serious cardiac problems. The committee also stressed it was necessary to update the guidelines to highlight the risks to youngsters and adults of low stature. According to Amnesty International, Taser stun guns became the reason of 220 deaths in the USA since 2001. Many American cities have prohibited the use of Taser...
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	A Memorable Speaker - Not the One Speaking Clearly
...sentences with inserted disfluencies, the volunteers got 62 per cent of words correct compared to 55 per cent for sentences with no stumbles. According to Dr Martin Corley, Edinburgh University's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, a disfluency becomes a useful interruption to the expected ritual of things. It is the same as if we were saying to ourselves "It's better to pay attention now, because ...
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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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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...ould be brought the semiconductor industry, which depends on the knowledge, acquired by this branch of chemical industry. Gerhard Ertl's accomplishment in the area is that he founded an experimental school of thought, where he showed the reliability of the results attained in this area of research. This scientist has left a priceless impact on this branch of chemistry: his methodology has become a basis both for academic...
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	The Choice of Social Network Linked to Race, Ethnicity and Education
... parent's education influence student's choice of social network community with Facebook and Xanga being a choice of more students with parents having college degree. Students with parents not having high-school education were found among MySpace users. In general, as much as 80 percent of all students said they used Facebook, 54 percent were socializing on MySpace and less popular being Xanga, Friendster, Orkut and ...
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	Vulture - The Unmanned Aircraft Able to Stay in the Air for 5 Years
...he design of the aircraft, it will probably be the one seen in the picture, developed by NASA, however, there is no certain time table on when the craft will actually be ready. US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency looks forward to push the limits of unmanned aviation to extremes. The latest UAV project of DARPA currently raises eyebrows. "We want to completely change the paradigm of how we think of aircraft,...
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	Tongue Drive System to Operate Computers
... mobile to activate the system. "Tongue movements are also fast, accurate and do not require much thinking, concentration or effort." said Maysam Ghovanloo, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The motions of the magnet attached to the tongue are spotted by a number of magnetic field sensors installed on a headset worn outside or an orthodontic brace inside the mouth...
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	New Powerful Weapon from Pentagon's DARPA Was Inspired by a Novel
...em from a device that creates a powerful electromagnetic field using an explosion and not huge capacitors. MAHEM prototype is similar to weapons that already use explosions to shoot out a jet of high-velocity molten metal on collision. Just like the High-Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) devices, the MAHEM is now foreseen as a tool brought by a missile, rather than a cannon. According to specialists from DARPA, the weapon ...
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