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  The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...An American Science Community has concluded after one of its researches that 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...
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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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  Biofilm Bacteria Protect Themselves With Chemical Weapons
...According to the researchers from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, they were able to discover the strategies that biofilm bacteria use. In most cases biofilm bacteria develop in crowds and squat on areas where they create a community with other bacteria. They can develop on any surface to which bacteria can affix to. It is interesting to note that these biofilms cannot be destroyed by any disinfectants and a...
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  U.S. to Place its Antiballistic Missile Defense System in Britain
...ion with the United Kingdom. He mentioned that the United States radar systems were already in their final stage of testing. The results of the negotiation might create acute disputes at a time when most representatives in Blair's Labor Party are looking forward for Britain to distance itself from the United States. The reason for this was created by a quite unpopular alliance of Britain with U.S. in Iraq. It is to be m...
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  China Denies the Accusations on its Military Build-up
...ws conference held on Tuesday, Qin Gang, the spokesman of Chinese Foreign Ministry, stated that China continues walking on the road of peaceful development. He also mentioned that China represents an important power of maintaining world peace. Qin said that the peaceful position of China can be proved by the role it has played as an opposition to the development of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction in North...
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  Google's New Purchase Called Adscape
... success in creating a Web search advertising business having a huge list of small and large marketers, Adscape is to strike a jackpot if it makes a deal with Google, which currently holds one of the most experiences ad sales staff. Adscape has already received funding from Atlanta's HIG Ventures. Several large players in the industry of video games starting gaining more interest in in-game advertising, however, they ...
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  First Antarctic Educational Center to be Opened Soon
...uild a center on a Russian base, which is situated on King George Island. The center is to teach children about several important things about Antarctica. They will learn about the climate change and most importantly they will learn about the things that they can do for protecting our planet. The base itself has a size of 40 by 10 feet. The material from which it is made is recyclable. It functions using alternative po...
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  Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says
... that prosperity, marriage or health do not determine our subjective well being. This theory has proved to be basically true, but only for some changes concerning the character of the event. Though most people can adapt to variety of negative and disturbing circumstances like death of a close person or significant changes in marital status, and return to a normal level of well being, individual differences still matter....
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  Aggressive women - genes' fault
... was revealed that variations in serotonin receptor gene are closely related to hostility and ill temper in women. As it was previously showed by various researches, the hormone serotonin plays an important part in regulating aggressive behavior for animals and people. Thus the lower level of serotonin, the more are the chances that an individual will show hostility or act in aggressive and anxious manner. The high lev...
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  Iraq Asks for Help to Stop Violence
...Foreign Ministry were shut down, two mortar rounds landed nearby. No one was injured; however, the mortars somehow reminded that the government of the country is under siege. The countries that were mostly concerned with Prime Minster's speech were the United States, Iran and Syria. Bush administration criticized Iraq's neighbors, stating that they were the main cause of worsening the situation in Iraq. The United States...
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  A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
... human body. Thus the function of the cells defending the human organism is to keep the iron away from the bacteria, while the latter will 'try to steal' the iron from the host cells. Iron is a very important material for growth of bacteria and without iron they wouldn't have the ability to built biofilm or colonies of microbes to cause chronic infections. "Because iron is so important in infection, we thought infecting ...
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  YouTube to Award Best Videos
...ing the last year proved to be very important for content and video that are generated by web fans. Google's $1.65 billion acquisition will present the following categories: Best series, best comedy, most creative or inspirational video, as well as best music or commentary. The last category, according to Byrne, will be "most adorable video ever." This category seeks to continue the "so cute it hurts" cats and dogs videos...
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  River Drying Up to Lead to Freshwater Crisis
... situated in Asia. These include the Yangtze, the Salween and the Ganges. In serious danger are also: Danube, that flows in Europe, African Nile and Rio Grande, flowing in South America. One of the most important issues that the report focuses on is concerned with the dams and dykes, like the ones along the Danube. The representatives of WWF stated that both dams and dykes were the cause of destruction of the river basi...
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  Appointees are said to weaken the tobacco case
...point of view, and the public opinion as well, as she added. Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum, Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler and other less important figures have interfered the most in the current case, Mrs. Eubanks reported to the Post. Sharon Eubanks is a 22-year veteran of the Justice Department, retired in December 2005. She said that her current reports about this case were caused by a major p...
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