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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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Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability |
...Users who work with the latest versions of Windows should be aware that they are at a great risk of being attacked by hackers. This statement was made by Microsoft's officials. There is a certain vulnerability in the operating system that can affect all recent versions of Windows, this includes Vista. In a security advisory the company's representatives stated that Windows' software is flawed in a way it operates with its... |
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Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies |
... users. Microsoft thought it would be better using some other concepts of searching. They said that they'd develop absolutely ground-breaking new ways of filtering and displaying search results. This invention even got a bit of back-up with a statement that the developers are those, who "didn't even pass calculus." "Algorithm. Meet Humanity." - this was the motto of that program.
However, those developers of that ingeni... |
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Biofuel Vehicles to Put Our Health at Risk |
...The latest scientific research reveals that biofuels used in vehicles may be more harmful for human health than the petrol used today. By 2020, 10% of all transport means should run on biofuels as agreed by the EU.
The researchers invented a special computer model to determine air quality in 2020. The model showed that ozone level in some regions would grow if bioethanol was used for all cars. It would cause more ail... |
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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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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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Psychiatrists to Officially Recognize Internet Addiction as Brain Illness |
... An exaggerating number of e-mails as well as text messages may very soon be officially recognized as brain illness.
According to an editorial published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging" is considered to be a widespread compulsive-impulsive disorder. Such disorder should be included in the official psychiatric guidebook of me... |
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TV Dust Carries Harmful Chemical |
...rize as TV set heats up and this gas turns into dust that coats household objects.
The flame retardants accumulate in the body over the time and may have harmful effect on individual's health. The latest studies on animals showed that PBDEs interferes with the normal functioning of nervous system and hormonal function, may also harm reproductive organs and was found to cause cancer in lab rats.
Scientists are concer... |
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Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled |
... Recent studies showed that the surgeons who play video games are more skilled. It seems that video games contribute to a more precise technique of using different medical instruments. The February issue of Archives of Surgery states that there is a direct link between having video game skills and the abilities of a surgeon to perform a laparoscopic surgery.
The term laparoscopy refers to surgeries that are made by wat... |
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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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Humanoids continue invading |
...The 21st century is not the time, when people can be easily impressed, this can be refered to another, whether weird or wise, invention of the Japanese, that is a humanoid robot.
On the other hand the most impressive thing is that people are still striving to create somebody, or something, to resemble themselves.
This game has ended up in a demonstration of bots to help the aging population of Japan in their everyda... |
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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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Microsoft to Connect Xbox 360 and PC Gamers |
...On Wednesday, the software giant Microsoft Corp. announced the opening of its Live on-line service that will connect users of both Xbox 360 console and PCs. The company stated that the service will open in May. It is to be reminded that Live has attracted about six million Xbox 360 console gamers and now Microsoft looks forward to launch it on new Windows Vista system.
The software giant decided to make this step after i... |
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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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