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Native Americans Descend from Six Mothers |
 ...DNA study revealed that almost all of today's Native Americans originated from six women whose offspring immigrated about 20,000 years ago.
The DNA of those six women passed on to almost 95 percent of Native Americans, the study published in the journal PLoS says.
The study suggests that those women lived between 18,000 and 21,000 years ago, but that doesn't indicate they all lived at the same time.
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First Antarctic Educational Center to be Opened Soon |
 ... 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 power supply systems: wind and sun. On the roof of the base a camera will be set. Thus the teachers will be able to use in class the educational material provided by the website. The online broadcast will include image... |
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China's Google in Japan |
 .... The company's representative was out of reach to give any comments.
Being based in Beijing, Baidu recently has set up its branch in Japan and registered the Web address for its portal in Japan's native language.
A source mentioned that Robin Li, the chairman of Baidu, also became interested in the search services provided in Korean language.
It is worth mentioning that Baidu competes with number one search eng... |
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11 Sleepless Days - Not a Problem |
 ...d by fruits, salads, nuts and his relatives, who kept talking and entertaining the record holder.
After having spent 15 years researching sleep, Tony Wright, 42, started his record in a bar in his native town Cornwall on May 14th at 6 AM and stayed awake during exactly 11 days.
This way he broke the record of 264 sleepless hours set by Randy Gardner, USA, in 1964. The Guinness Book, however, does not acknowledge any... |
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Software Programmers Cannot Reach Supercomputers |
 ..."Currently, transistor performance is limited by power constraints, causing microprocessor clock speeds to saturate and high-performance microprocessor cores to dissipate more power than simpler alternatives," Tilak Agerwala, vice president of systems at IBM Research mentioned.
Intel, IBM, AMD and Sun, as the major chips producing companies, have all announced that the multicore chips production will soon be well under ... |
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Putin Offers a Surprising Alternative for Missile Defense System |
 ...Surprisingly, after heavy discussions regarding the White House plan to place defense missiles in Europe, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, proposed an alternative, i.e. to create a joint system in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet Republic.
The system is meant to guard against possible missile attacks from Iran. However, experts say that Putin's offer may face serious diplomatic and technical barriers. United States ... |
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Google is the Most Desirable Employer |
 ...ntil Google was added to the list of desirable employers. Google was included in the list only in 2006 annual poll due to the fact that last-year students often mentioned the search engine as an alternative option to other companies.
The results coincided with the policy of the number one search engine, which started employing graduates in Europe last year.
The second ideal workplace was a well-known German car com... |
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Computers of the Future to be Made from Pencil Trace |
| ...o pass through the copper, and any remaining electrons turn into heat that negatively effects the speed and performance of a computer chip.
Industry and academia researchers hope to discover alternative materials that would replace copper as interconnects. Graphene could become copper's successor due to metallic graphene's perfect conductivity. When metallic graphene is heated just to room temperature, electrons pass... |
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Police Allowed to Use Taser Stun Guns Against Minors |
 ... of particular severity, implying they will need force.
The Tasers fire darts into targets delivering strong electric shocks via a copper wire. They are considered to represent a less lethal alternative to commonly used police weapons. The Tasers were initially introduced in the UK in 2003.
Police Minister Tony McNulty did not say a word about Government advisors warnings of a potential risk to minors. However, he... |
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Second Smallest Country on Earth is Disappearing |
 ...nd going underwater in less than 50 years and probably even sooner if unexpected storm occurs.
The Government of Tuvalu calls to other countries to take urgent action on global warming as lives of native island people could be soon destroyed by climate changes.
The tiny country is located about 1,000 km north of Fiji and is quite isolated. Tuvalu does not have any resources to sell to the world. The main industries ... |
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One Million of 100-Year-Olds by 2050, Half of Them to Face Dementia |
 ...oin efforts and attack ageing and the miseries of ageing. He thinks that the research funding should be redirected rather than just provided for death-preventing. Scientists have to come up with alternative ways to drug development for therapies that are not economically sensible for the pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries to follow. The researcher added that hospices should to be as well-funded as maternity hospitals.... |
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The Main Genetic Difference between Humans and Chimpanzees Revealed |
 ...icing process a number of biochemical reactions occur to produce proteins that is a core of cell's structural and functional elements, resulting in modification of the genetic information. In alternative ways splicing can lead to generation of more than one type of the protein.
As researchers revealed, six to eight of alternative splicing were different in chimpanzees and humans. Some of these splicing events are r... |
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sbie Ends with Extraordinary Success and Nets Multimillion Riyal Deals for Exhibitors |
 ...e increasing costs, as well as the reasons for the rising housing costs what ways exist of checking the trend.
A lot of equipment units where shown at various stands of foreign companies, as well as native ones. Visitors could find at those stands various building materials and hardware, construction equipment and tools, equipment for climate control, electricity and lighting, environmental conservation, marble, granite ... |
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Raw Milk - Bless or Curse? |
 ...s, ready to pay up to 20 US dollars for a gallon of raw milk, feel like they are drug traffickers when buying it.
It has been estimated that about half a million people consume the "natural" alternative to pasteurized dairy products in the United States, and their number has been rapidly growing in recent years.
Meanwhile, the US Food and Drug Administration strongly believes that the consumption of raw milk is uns... |
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