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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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	Caves With Stone Age Paintings Have Better Acoustics
...that people, who lived in prehistoric times, preferred to draw their famous cave sketches in locations that have a natural resonant sound. Researchers found at least 10 places with the prehistoric pictures of horses, bison and mammoths in which the sound of human voices, as well as the sound of musical instruments could be focused, amplified and transformed. "In the cave of Niaux in Ariege, most of the remarkable p...
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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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	Scientific contribution in Iraq war undermined
...ay no longer take part in operations countering Iraq's threat without considerable funds in essential technology advancements, where scientists make their greatest contribution, announced a committee of MPs. As it was disclosed by the Commons Defense Committee report, scientists from Dstl (Defense Science and Technology Laboratory), an agency of the Ministry of Defence, have their final word for measures taken to oppos...
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	DNA research approaches the origins of human beings
...Enthusiasts of genografic project unite to collect the DNA database all over the world so to make every person aware of the place where his or her ancestors come from. The National Geographic Society together with IBM initiate a global project where more than 10,000 inhabitants will have their DNA tested to make up a huge database. Efforts of well-known scientists in geography and genetic medicine will reside in 10 wor...
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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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	Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking
...Ambien and Lunest are often prescribed sleeping pills. These pills, however, cause the most strange side effects. The Food and Drug Administration reported yesterday such strange behavior as eating or driving while asleep. These reports have provoked the F.D.E. to order the drug makers to make certain fliers for such sleeping drugs, where patients could read detailed instructions on how to use them. The investigation of...
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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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	Japan's uncertain guilt for sex slavery during World War II
...e World War II and that caused negative response all over the world. More than 200,000 women from Korea and China were exploited for sexual service in military-run brothels. The Prime Minister of Japan made him clear and the right-wing policy makers that stand up for him put their efforts in revision of landmark apology that was made in 1993. They defend a standpoint in which Asian women were paid for prostitution ...
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	Career growth: Look from inside
..."What do men and women bet on during their career growth?" The University of Maryland has conducted a three year research to establish the main differences between women's and men's approaches towards their careers. Men and women, having leading positions in the U.S. chemical industry were the researchers' objects. The scientists from have questioned 1800 women and 300 men, who have leading posts in the industry mentione...
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	Invisibility is now one step closer
...d "cloak". The engineers at Purdue University have followed mathematical guidelines that were devised last year by the UK physicists to create a theoretical design, which in its turn uses an array of very small needles. The latter radiate from a central spoke outwards. The theoretical design looks like a round hairbrush. It would bend around any object that is "cloaked". Those objects that are situated in the backg...
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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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	Cloned Dogs Will Serve for the South Korean Customs
...The customs service of South Korea has unveiled seven cloned Labrador retrievers, bred to serve at the customs and sniff out explosive materials and drugs at ports and airports. The institution responsible for cloning of the Labrador retrievers was Seoul National University, whose scientists cloned the first dog in 2005. The leader of the scientific team is a former aide of Hwang Woo-suk, Lee Byeong-chun. Doctor Hwang ma...
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