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Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming |
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Nowadays no one should feel indifferent about the serious consequences that global warming entails. One of the main goals set on the summit is to consolidate for appeal to policy makers. The latest Congress debates held in Washington, where Bush administration was criticized for inadequate response to global warming danger, showed that there is a necessity for scientific appeal to policy makers. Thus a new commit... |
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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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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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4D Ultrasounds Challenge Abortion Laws |
 ...The latest 4D ultrasounds that can give video-like images of the foetus will change the views on the time when the foetus can be considered a person.
Dr Kristin Savell, of the University of Sydney, Australia, says that people would be more willing to change current regulations on late-term abortions.
The 4D scan gives a strong visual imagery giving a video-quality view of the foetus in real time. With this scient... |
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The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away |
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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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Scientists Find a Way to Make People Live for Hundreds of Years |
 ...It can soon become possible for humans to live up to 800 years with the latest scientific breakthrough.
Researchers at the University of Southern California said that they managed to extend the lifespan of a strain of yeast fungus that can live 10 times longer than normal.
Valter Longo, the leading researcher of the study removed two genes RAS2 and SCH9 within the yeast's genome, that is responsible for aging in y... |
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NASA to Strike the Moon with a Double Sledgehammer |
 ... Two spacecrafts are going to be launched by NASA in hope of slamming into the South Pole of the moon and find out if the double explosion on the surface of the moon will be able to reveal the hidden water ice.
Undoubtedly the Earth-on-moon violence may lead to serious discussions on the topic, but the history of NASA demonstrates that such missions may bring a lot of useful information.
"I think that people are app... |
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Vulture - The Unmanned Aircraft Able to Stay in the Air for 5 Years |
 ...owever, 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," stated Daniel Newman, who holds the post of Vulture project manager. "Aviation has a perfect r... |
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Fox Interactive Media Purchased Strategic Data Corp. |
 ...On Thursday Fox Interactive Media, owned by News Corporation, stated that it has acquired Strategic Data Corp., a company that deals with interactive advertising technology. This step was made to improve Fox's advertising, and mainly the way marketers perform it.
MySpace's officials stated that the technology used by Strategic Data is to help Fox Interactive Media automatically match advertisements with those users that ... |
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Google's New Purchase Called Adscape |
 ... Adscape Media Inc. is a company that provides in-game advertising. Google has agreed on purchasing the company for $ 23 million. This information was provided by Red Herring, a technology site which cited in a report made on Thursday the sources that are familiar with the matter. However, the spokesman of Google did not leave any comment stating that the current policy of the company is not to respond to "rumor or specul... |
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European Union is Angry on Microsoft |
 ...e with Brussels, the company faced further fines for seeking unreasonable prices from the software developers for vital data. The European Union criticized Microsoft. The EU executive stated that the latest formal charges might lead the American software corporation to additional daily penalties.
Jonathan Todd, the competition spokesman of European Commission, said that the EU, for the first time in its antitrust policy... |
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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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Only 13 % People Have Internet Access |
 ...Only 13 percent of people on the planet have access to the Internet. This statement was made by the United Nations News Center. The majority of Internet users (90 %) live in industrialized countries. The gap in the field of information technology between the developed countries and those that are in development, is continuously increasing.
In its statement the UN News Center mentioned that most developing countries canno... |
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