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Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says |
...e study, people can adapt to such events like marriage or death of a spouse, but are mostly unable to return to the previous level of well-being after divorce, serious illness and unemployment.
But what became really surprising during the research was the fact that individual factor cannot be underestimated. It was found that those individuals who had quite harmonious long-lasting marriage are disposed to feel happy lon... |
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European Intelligence: In April U.S. Military Could Attack Iran |
...Russian Intelligence reports the fact that American military has almost finished its built-up near the Iranian frontier. An officer from the Russian Intelligence said in an interview to Russian news agency RIA Novosti the U.S. will be able to commence the attack in the first half of April. He also added that one cannot exclude the fact that after launching rockets at Iranian objects, suspected of producing nuclear weapons... |
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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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Anti-abortion Activist Life Sentenced for Murder |
... house when his family was at home. One of the sons tried to stop the blood flow. Lynne Slepian addressed the audience saying that many other people can become victims of anti-abortion extremists who are still free and ready to commit another crime.
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Yawning Saves Your Brain From Overheating |
...When you see the other person yawning in the room, your instinctive response is to yawn too. However, it doesn't mean you are fighting with the urge to sleep. Scientists discovered that yawning is a process that protects our brain from overheating and serves as an alert signal to others.
Andrew C. Gallup and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr., researchers from University at Albany studied yawning in college students to find out th... |
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Scientists Discover New Facts about 'Placebo Effect' |
...New study conducted by scientists helped them discover a brain region responsible for the placebo effect when a person strongly believes in the effectiveness of the received treatment, thus boosting its effect. Even if a patient is given a sugar pill instead of real drug, his belief in the therapeutic effect actually makes him feel better.
The University of Michigan researchers studied the nucleus accubens (NAC), a re... |
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Schizophrenia Mouse Grown to Find a Key to Mental Health |
...Scientists found a new way to explore schizophrenia by developing a mouse model that will have all the symptoms of this complex brain disorder.
Mouse model of schizophrenia is the first animal model created for research purposes. The mouse is genetically changed to have the behavioral patterns and anatomical changes that happen when a person suffers from this disorder.
Earlier, Akira Sawa, M.D., Ph.D., associate ... |
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Levitation Possible in Real World |
...red for the first time in 1997. At present day the Casimir force is the cause of friction in the nano-world, and micro-electromechanical systems in particular.
If two objects, for example mirrors, are positioned very close to each other, the Casimir force can push these objects together. It can cause serious problems in the field of micro-machines, when it makes minute components stick together, thus causing friction i... |
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Male birth decline - an environmental fault? |
...Researchers are concerned about major male birth decline and blame air pollution for this. The drop in number of male babies born in comparison to female babies was largely observed in United States and Japan.
Devra Davis, a scientist from University of Pittsburg suggests in the publication of June issue of Environmental Health Perspectives that there is a strong tendency for less boys to be born lately. She says th... |
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The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away |
...iscoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and ways of recombining the DNA code in mammals. These discoveries led to a new technology, named gene targeting in mice. This technology is applied in many areas of biomedicine, which encompasses basic experiments, researches and development of therapies.
The new technology is used to make particular genes inactive and such experiments have led to understanding of the roles of ... |
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A Man's Satisfaction Lies in Earning More than His Pals |
...e scans where directed to monitor blood circulation changes in the men's brains and to reveal regions of high blood flows, to show which nerve cells where especially active. The ventral striatum, the area, which showed much activity when a player received money for a successful task, showed the most activity when they knew other men earned less.
The scans proved that if two partners both completed a task successfully, bu... |
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Recordings on Predicting the Existence of Parallel Worlds Found |
... 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 documentary included Mark Everett, the son of the physician, who tries to understand the work of his father.
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Caves With Stone Age Paintings Have Better Acoustics |
...oths 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 paintings are situated in the resonant Salon Noir, which sounds like a Romanesque chapel," said Iegor Reznikoff, an expert in the acoustics of 11th and 12th century European churches, who works at the University of Paris. He was the on... |
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Japanese Scientists Developed Flash Able to Function for Hundreds of Years |
...ry with a potential lifetime of hundreds of years. Working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and the University of Tokyo, scientists mentioned that the new chips are able to work at lower voltages than the usual ones.
It is worth mentioning that Flash memorychips are included in such products as Apple's iPhone, mini laptops such as Asus Eee PC, Nintendo Wii console, Flash memory car... |
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