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Nano-nose to help identify illnesses |
 ...Nanoparticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist.
According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thu... |
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Terrorists Threaten the British Queen and the ex Prime Minister Personally |
 ...Al-Qaeda has directly threatened the Queen of England and ex Prime Minister, Tony Blair, for honoring British-Indian novelist Ahmed Salman Rushdie the title of knight.
Messages to the Queen and Tony Blair were found on the Internet. The threats were maid by the second most sought after terrorist, Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri. As ground for threats was the fact that the British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie was hono... |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Saturday, 00:00 - Sales Start |
 ...The second most awaited event of this summer worldwide, after the iPhone, is the last book of adventures of Harry Potter and his friends.
The sales of the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" began on Friday night. Fans in America, England, Australia, Peru and Ireland were eager to find out what the adventure will end with. But first they had to get the book.
John Howells, spokesman at Waterstone's, London's Pic... |
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Over a Quarter of Japanese Want an iPhone, Survey Showed |
 ...A survey showed that about 27% of Japanese are willing to purchase an iPhone from Apple. Taking into consideration that Japan is the land of hi-tech novelties and a test ground for them these 27% should be considered flattering for Apple.
It is a fact that an outlander smartphone has slight chances in winning a good place on Japanese market, because in most cases authentic manufacturers' smartphones are more function... |
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Crime Story Writer - a Cruel Killer? |
 ...A Polish writer has been accused of a murder - he wrote a crime story, having precisely described the facts of a real-life murder.
According to investigators, travel writer, journalist and author Krystian Bala, aged 33, sent them his bestseller novel Amok that provided a detailed murder account in an attempt to draw attention to it. It raised strong suspicion of the police as the writer's account turned out to be amaz... |
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Russian Fighters Will Show Wonders at MAKS-2007 Air Show |
 ...Today, on August 21st, starts the 8th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2007, which is one of the major opportunities for companies from all around the world to get acquainted with the novelties of the aviation and space industry. This air show features over 200 aircrafts representing manufacturers from over 100 countries.
The star of the show is expected to be one of the newest Russian jet fighter Su-35, whi... |
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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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Programmers Created Writer-Robot |
 ...A novel that was written by a computer program, will be released in January 2008 in Russia. A new novel called "True love" was developed by Russian programmers and philologists with the help of a new software. The author of the novel will be written as PC Writer 2008.
The computer program creates a bestseller as fast as possible and you only need to develop the plot, language style, time and place of the story. The ... |
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Apple Introduces the Multi-Touch Touchpad with the New MacBook Air |
| ...After Apple introduced the world's thinnest laptop at MacWorld 2008 - MacBook Air - the company presented also their trackpad, based on the multi-touch technology, designed for the new series of Apple laptops. This trackpad was used for the first time with the highly popular iPhone and experts are of opinion that this is a truly a revolutionary technology, as unlike the common two-finger manipulations on MacBooks, the new... |
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New Powerful Weapon from Pentagon's DARPA Was Inspired by a Novel |
| ...In his novel, entitled "Earthlight," the famous Arthur C. Clarke brought fame to a new type of weapon. Today this weapon is being developed by Pentagon's DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency). The weapon that will most probably turn the writer's dangerous ideas into reality is entitled Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM).
One of the key parts of the novel, written in 1955, focuses on the confro... |
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'Porn Inspector' Asks Free Porn Videos |
 ...A man who claimed to be a police detective made several attempts to get free pornographic video from a novelty shop in the United States. He said that his goal was to make sure that the actors in the videos were not underage.
He made three attempts to get video with pornographic content for free but each time the "porn cop" got rejected. After his third try the manager of the store contacted the police.
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