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	Scientific contribution in Iraq war undermined
...Britain's Armed Forces may 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...
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	Japan's uncertain guilt for sex slavery during World War II
...nister Shinzo Abe, was not convincing enough to acknowledge their responsibility. Earlier this month Shinzo Abe disapproved Japan's implication into the women's sex slavery during the 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-wi...
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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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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...e 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 dollars each year. Due to the f...
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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...obel 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 have brought them to breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and ways of recombining the DNA code in mammals. These discoveries led to...
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	DNA research approaches the origins of human beings
...me 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 world regions to find traces of human ancestry. Aside from DNA information collected from indigenous people, other people can also have their genetic data teste...
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	Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says
...etermine 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. After a revision of the studies, where the m...
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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
...ice officer. Fortunately, there were no death reports of sleep-driving. These reports from citizens have also gained some scientific background, as there is a series of institutions, foundations and scientists to run various tests in this sphere. Such examples of scientific proof were given by Laura J. Liddicoat in Wisconsin. She made a presentation based on six examples of driving 'under Ambien'. Other scientists, Dr....
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	To live or die - computer will decide
... than those of the patient's close people. Usually, when a doctor deals with an incapacitated patient and the chances for treatment are not evident, the decision is handed in to surrogate. But NIH scientists revealed, the surrogate decision may not be precise. A thorough analysis of the 20,000 choices of surrogates and patients showed that their decisions coincided only in two third of the times. NIH professor Davi...
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	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
... or in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis. This way the current study is directed at finding a new approach in fighting upper mentioned bacteria; and a result has been already found. This time scientists didn't spend their time finding substances that were capable of defeating a certain bacteria in laboratory, but they tried to find a way to 'help' the body's own defense systems defeating these bacteria. Pradeep S...
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	Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery
...ttery 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, Hiroaki Konishi and Takeo Suga, all of them from the Waseda University, are considered to improve the technology. Their development is based on a redox-active pol...
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	Career growth: Look from inside
...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 mentioned above. 26 women and 6 men have also agreed to be interviewed more thoroughly by the researchers. It was determined that...
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	Invisibility is now one step closer
...Using the nanotechnology scientists were able to make a significant step towards inventing an "optical cloaking", which represents a device able to make objects invisible. The device guides light around anything that is placed withing the so-called "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 i...
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	Cloned Dogs Will Serve for the South Korean Customs
...red 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 made a series of breakthroughs on stem cell research, which though turned out to be f...
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