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The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity |
...ntion of (John Bardeen and colleagues in 1948);
- fourth invention was declared the glass processing (circa 2200 B.C in South-Western Iran);
- fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century;
- invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions;
- the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in... |
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Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says |
...atus, and return to a normal level of well being, individual differences still matter. After a revision of the studies, where the most important factor proved to be the adaptation to life events, new discoveries were made to prove the counter evidence.
First of all, it was proved that the level of happiness is not a standstill state only perturbed by negative and positive events. Some major disturbances may affect your h... |
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Antarctic Microbes to Tell about Past and Future of Climate Change |
...at because groups of invertebrates, as well as plants and microbes inhabit only a small portion of a huge continent, most scientists did not take them into consideration seriously.
However recent discoveries and technical advances in the field of molecular biology and biogeography help scientists find that these plants and microbes are indeed very important for understanding the glacial history of our planet.
Pete... |
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Computer Simulation Unveils Unexpected Process on the Surface of the Sun |
...ecrets, which are still to be discovered one day. A mathematician from the University of Vienna along with his colleagues astronomers has simulated the solar granulations and has made some surprising discoveries.
According to Herbert Muthsam, professor at the Mathematic Institute at the University of Vienna, the solar granulation is a process similar to the waves of boiling water in a kettle. It is a process during which... |
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The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away |
...y since 1969).
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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Solar System Similar to Ours Discovered |
...ing distant star more prominent.
Scientists manged to discover as much as six stars, including the new ones. During the Scorpius event, they found several planets and this gives a hope for future discoveries.
Dr Scott Gaudi, a leading researcher explained that new planetary system is like a scale model of our solar system and other planets that are "suitable for life" well co-exist unnoticed. The study is published... |
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Biofilm Bacteria Protect Themselves With Chemical Weapons |
... that biofilms use in order to defend themselves against the attack of phagocytes.
Teamed up with colleagues from Australia, Great Britain and the United States, scientists are now publishing their discoveries in the popular specialist publication PLoS ONE. The finding states that biofilm bacteria apply chemical weapons to protect themselves.
Until recent findings, researchers could not understand the core of the biof... |
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Bones of 6000 Year-Old Ancient Wild Camels Found in Desert |
...discovered at sites such as Umm an-Nar, archaeologists previously considered that for the first time the camel was domesticated in the period of the Bronze Age, about 4,000 years ago. However, recent discoveries made at Tell Abraq and Muweilah in Sharjah emirate showed that the camel was domesticated later, about 3,000 years ago during the Iron Age.
"The new discovery of a large quantity of wild camel skeletons in Abu... |
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