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	DNA research approaches the origins of human beings
...medicine will reside in 10 world regions to find traces of human ancestry. Aside from DNA information collected from indigenous people, other people can also have their genetic data tested and take part in the research on voluntary basis. Scott Woodward, one of John Hopkins University researches emphasizes that a person's DNA holds an enormous amount of information to discover, including the origins of all human bein...
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	Worms and Humans Are One Family
...From now on if someone says that 'you think like a worm', it would not be that offensive. As a matter of fact, it is now a scientific fact, as results of a research of the European laboratory for molecular biology in Heidelberg show that the human brain and the entire human nervous system finds its roots in the most primitive creatures - such as worms and insects. The human brain has always been a very attractive objec...
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	Levitation Possible in Real World
...ly cause revolutionary changes in the field of nano-technology as well as the construction of micro-machines. The theory suggested by the British scientists is based on a quirk of nature that lets particles to pop into existence from actually nowhere. This phenomenon is known in science as the 'Casimir force'. Quantum physicists predicted the 'Casimir force' in 1948. It was measured for the first time in 1997. At prese...
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	Message from Aliens to Arrive in 2015
...panese toast of "cheers!" along with the English word "toast." According to Hirabayashi, he came up with the idea when having a drink and jokes that there's little chance that aliens will get that part of the message. Powered by www.infoniac.com ...
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	Ex-Astronaut Says Plan to Blast Asteroids With Nuclear Weapons is Bad
...According to former NASA astronaut, the plans of the Agency to blow up asteroids "attacking" Earth using nuclear weapons is a bad idea to dodge the threat. In a response to NASA report, which referred to nuclear weapons as the most effective option to prevent a catastrophic asteroid collision with our planet, Rusty Schweichart mentioned that the majority of heavenly bodies might be redirected by a smash from behind or ...
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	Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs
...have transplanted to three recipients organs that were infected by HIV. The information was provided by the hospital in Florence. The doctors from the Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus. The chief of Careggi hospital, Edoardo Majno, confessed that the...
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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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	Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says
... will have their life run in a more balanced way are predominantly inclined to feel happy long before the fortunate occurrence in their life. Latest psychological studies have found that the feeling of happiness is not related to outside circumstances or turning points of one's life. This means that prosperity, marriage or health do not determine our subjective well being. This theory has proved to be basically true, b...
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	Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
...cience Summit Week, which started on Wednesday in New Hampshire to make up their mind on crucial changes in the North Pole that highlights global warming more than ever before. Ross Virginia, one of the organizers of the Arctic Science Summit on global warming, pre-opened the summit with a speech that was to make everyone realize the problem of the environment. She asked everyone to join scientific and policy efforts ...
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	Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men
...Till now scientists have been aware of the fact that exposure to phthalates is linked to reproductive issues. Recently they have discovered that this chemical, found in nearly everything including plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, lubricants, paint and soaps, is strongly connected to abdominal obesity and insulin resistance in adult males. This scientific discovery was made by the University of Rochester Medical Center. Sci...
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	To live or die - computer will decide
... to a computer? Researches say that a new computer program can make life-or-death decisions for disabled people better than their closest relatives. A new research conducted by National Institute of Health (NIH) introduced a software program that can calculate all the pros and contras for further treatment of the seriously ill patients based on the mathematical formula. The decisions made by computer calculations are ...
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	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
...Researchers at the University of Washington have probably found a way to defeat the bacteria, which become more and more resistant to drugs. A new method of fighting such bacteria was recently used and it proved to be successful on mice. One of the problems of today's medical researches is the fact that bacteria become more and more resistant to antibiotics. The medicine cannot provide an effective drug to kill all the c...
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	Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery
...A new type of battery invented in Japan, in the University of Waseda. This is a flexible rechargeable battery, based on polymers. The development of this type of battery was conditioned by the permanently developing industry of portable devices, which become smaller and smaller each year. Researches on this device have been conducted for several years, but the scientists, working on this battery are Drs. Hiroyuki Nishide...
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	Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies
...Half a year ago Microsoft decided to try another approach in their search engine business, so that they could at least somehow compete with the "big G" - Google. Microsoft tried to convince the public that the Google's mathematical algorithm gave too many results and actually annoys its users. Microsoft thought it would be better using some other concepts of searching. They said that they'd develop absolutely ground-bre...
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	No PowerPoint, please!
...Scientists from the New South Wales University in Australia have studied, again, the effects Microsoft PowerPoint has on viewers of presentations made with the help of this software. The Australian scientists think that according to the "cognitive load theory" the human brain cannot receive and 'decode' visual and audio information at the same time for longer than a few seconds. Thus information consisting of diagrams an...
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