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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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Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery |
 ...a, from the University of Strathclyde, was impressed by the high stability of the material. The polymer-based production of the battery was also something Dr. Skabara mentioned, while describing this invention.
In his opinion this film battery will make all technologies based on organic devices will highly benefit from this film battery.
Among devices, which potentially could need a flexible battery Dr. Nishide mainly m... |
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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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The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity |
 ...ing to that survey:
- the second most important discovery, following the Mendeleev's period table of elements, was the discovery of iron processing (Egypt 3500 B.C.);
- transistor discovery was the invention 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 17t... |
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Robot to Help Neurosurgery |
 ...ch centre when it began the development of the first intraoperative MRI scanner in the world.
The NeuroArm required an international collaboration of professionals from different fields, including physics, software, optics and mechanics.
Dr. Sutherland outlined that the team is not only looking forward to create a robot, their creation is going to build a medical robotics program. "We want the neuroArm technology to... |
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New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans |
| ...lgium, Italy and Denmark. Only the European countries and China will receive financial aid from the European Union.
The coordinator of Modecom is Dr Alison Walker, who represents the Department of Physics of the University of Bath. "This is a long-term project, and the contributions of many scientists are needed for its success ... Success in achieving the goals of cheap, efficient and long lasting devices is essentia... |
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School to be Guarded by a Robot |
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After the robot has alerted teachers, they have several opportunities: whether to warn the offender via loudspeaker or send school's security guards.
The firm's officials stated that their invention is the world's first robot that is used for the purpose of guarding an educational institution. The speed of OFRO is 5km/h. The robot is able to patrol pre-programmed routes or it can be controlled by a human, i. e.... |
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Animal Crew Returns from Space |
 ...d cockroaches on board, will land in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after 12 days of experiments.
During a 12 days' flight there were 26 unique experiments conducted in chemistry, biology, physics and bio-technology, funded by Russia and the European Space Agency.
Mice were placed in air-tight module cells equipped with life-support system, were they were videotaped. Scientists tried to study the impact of ... |
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The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think |
 ...indhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands was applauded for the study of all the insects, bacteria, fungi, shellfish, mites, ferns and other living things that sleep with us each night.
Physics
L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, were awarded for finding the key to how sheets become wrinkled.
Chemistry
Japanese scientist Mayu Yamam... |
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The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away |
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It is a fact that the most renown and prestigious scientific award is the Nobel Prize, which takes place once a year in the Swedish capital. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five nominations: Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace and Economics (the latter only 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 ... |
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NASA Starts 2007 Competition to Build Space Elevator |
 ...o by fiction writers and scientists, no one managed to build one yet. Experts at Beam Power Challenge hope to find a key at least to an answer of getting the power to the space elevator.
If the invention of space elevator becomes a reality, the cost of sending payloads into space will be considerably reduced in hundred times, revolutionizing space technology.
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Recordings on Predicting the Existence of Parallel Worlds Found |
 ...oting for several universes were all the possibilities of life play out.
Presumably the tapes were recorded in 1977. This was the year when the physicist presented his idea on parallel worlds at a physics conference. His theory was lying rejected for 2 decades after finally coming to life in 1977. The tapes disappeared after the scientist's death in 1982.
Tapes were discovered during a TV documentary filming. The do... |
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Prizes $27,000 Worth For the Best Undergraduate Inventor |
| ...An event meant to encourage young inventors will be held on Monday and Tuesday, February 11th and 12th in the University of Wisconsin Madison.
The UW-Madison Invention Days competitions will house 14 inventions designed and built by 49 UW-Madison undergraduate students. Among the presented inventions there will be solutions for ice fishermen, for tailgaters, for potato farmers, for modern laptops and even for airlines.
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The Evolution of the First Stars that Lighted Up the Universe Revealed |
 ...cientists, the information collected by the WMAP proves the theories linked with the level of helium observed today. The early Universe resembled a hot, nuclear reactor that produced helium. Particle physics state that because of such resemblance, there must have been a sea of neutrinos.
The data from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy probe also gives evidence that it took a very long period of time for the stars to start... |
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