The most impotant discovery

	Aggressive women - genes' fault
...A new research has found the true cause of aggressive behavior in women. The University of Pittsburgh conducted a study where it was revealed that variations in serotonin receptor gene are closely related to hostility and ill temper in women. As it was previously showed by various researches, the hormone serotonin plays an important part in regulating aggressive behavior for animals and people. Thus the lower level of ...
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	Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
...Scientists gathered at Arctic Science 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...
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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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	Now one blood group fits everyone
...A new discovery was made by international scientific team who established a way to convert one blood group into another. The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, ...
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	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...An American Science Community has concluded after one of its researches that Mendeleev's periodic table of elements was the most important discovery the humanity made... even more important than the discovery of iron. The Community has published a list of 10 most important discoveries the humanity ever made. The results of this research were based on answers of a survey conducted by the community. According to that...
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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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	Women Find $70,000 on Junk-Yard
...An interesting case happened in Aguazul, Colombia. A group of women were gathering old paper, glass and cans, when they ran onto a rather impressive sum of money: something equivalent to $70,000. Jose David Castaneda, the public prosecutor in the Department of Casanare, said that this discovery was a simple accident. The finding was reported by one of the relatives of the women, thus the police could retain the mone...
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	Software Programmers Cannot Reach Supercomputers
...Although programmers mentioned that in the near future computers will have an unimagined power, they still wonder if today the developers of hardware have gone as far as the developers of software. The senior research scientist for Information Technology at Purdue, Faisal Saied mentioned that parallel computing has been an obscure skill, which is limited to those that work in the field of high-performance supercomputing....
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	Levitation Possible in Real World
...According to two British scientists, levitation may become possible not only in fairy-tales and advanced yoga practice but in the real world, too. Sad as it may seem, but this amazing theory so far applies only to tiny objects. At present moment scientists have not revealed the secret of levitation for human beings. If the theory is borne out, it will most probably cause revolutionary changes in the field of nano-tech...
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	Scientists Found a Way to Store and Erase Memories Long After Their Formation
...The Head of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department, Prof. Yadin Dudai, together with his co-workers tried to answer questions related to human's brain, and namely what really happens inside our brain when we try to remember something and are our memories recorded in a stable physical change, like writing a permanent inscription on a clay tablet. Scientists found that the process, during which a person stores...
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	Oldest Planet Discovered Suggests: Earth May Survive an Apocalypse
...An international astronomers team has come up with new clues to solve the mystery about our solar system's future as it orbits a dying sun. The team of 23 researchers used telescopes around the globe, having spent seven years in Naples studying the pulses of the V391 Pegasi star. Their collaboration has led to the discovery of a new planet, Peg V392b, the oldest planet so far discovered in the universe. The astron...
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	The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...Right after the Ig Nobel Prize Awards has taken place, serious people from Stockholm have come into play. 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 me...
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	Nanotubes Can be Produced from Bacteria
...Scientists discovered that living bacteria can produce semiconducting nanotubes that have a great potential for their application in electronics, nanotechnology and other fields of material science. Experts at the the University of California-Riverside and South Korea's Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology said that this scientific breakthrough might help in developing new nanoelectronic devices. Nosang M...
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	Glowing Pig Gives Birth to Glowing Piglets
... A pig that was cloned by Chinese scientists passed its genes to the piglets. This discovery will be helpful for the development of human transplant organs. The researchers from Chinese university said that the birth of fluorescent piglets proves that cloned pigs are fertile and they can pass their genes to their offspring. Liu Zhonghua, a professor at Northeast Agricultural University claimed that this breakthrou...
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