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  Japanese Scientists Work on a Flexible Battery
...tery will make all technologies based on organic devices will highly benefit from this film battery. Among devices, which potentially could need a flexible battery Dr. Nishide mainly mentioned small memory cards with integrated circuit. He said that within the next three years such cards would benefit from using this invention. Dr. Nishide added that in the future the battery could be also used in devices, requiring a h...
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  Football fans have bitten off the ears of a tavern keeper
...vern keeper said that one of the football fans grabbed his ear and the other one started chewing the other. They have bitten off some pretty big pieces of his ears which, he said, he still keeps as a memory. Now he needs a plastic surgery. The police caught three of those who started the fight and they are still looking for the fourth one. Meanwhile, the Greek team, which by the way lost 1:4, might receive an amendmen...
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  Plastic Blood and Airplanes Shifting Shapes – Close to Reality?
...arry and store it. Although plastic is widely used in aircraft manufacturing, scientists work on the development of plastics that would 'fly' airplanes directly into the science-fiction age. Shape memory polymers shift shape when heated - in future they can be used for producing aircrafts with wings becoming shorter or longer in mid-flight. If you associate silicon with the computer age, the situation may soon chang...
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  Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming
...mense weight of these masses of ice. Yet when they started to thaw, with the global warming as the main cause of this, the rocks are rebounding faster when there is nothing to push them down. 2. The memory doesn't remain There are not so many 'live' monuments remaining, which prove the existence of ancient civilizations. These monuments are not as stable and strong as the engineering wonders of today. Thus the extreme w...
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  Bad Memories Can Be Suppressed If Only You Really Want It
...emotions or not. During the learning process, brain scans of the volunteers showed that two regions of prefrontal cortex were working to block brain areas that are responsible for visual memorizing, memory encoding and emotional response. Scientists say that these findings indicate one thing- we are able to control negative emotions and thus forget what we don't want to remember. Mr.Depue said that the ability to ...
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  Underfed Embryo Could Result in Adult Obesity, Study Says
...rth. Thus the fetus prematurely adapts itself to the future, and possible, conditions of life. The research showed that if a mother supplied a small amount of nutrient materials, the child's genetic memory would choose a scheme, which enabled the child's metabolism to gain and retain weight. However, after the birth, the environment often to have a sufficient supply in fat rich food, thus the child and, subsequently, the...
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  Scientists Found a Way to Store and Erase Memories Long After Their Formation
...esearchers were also able to find that in case the machine is briefly jammed this can lead to the erasure of a person's long-term memories. This discovery should be useful in finding ways to treating memory problems. Prof. Yadin Dudai and a Reut Shema, a research student, and Todd Sacktor, the representative of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center, made experiments on rats, training them to avoid certain tastes. After the...
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  Flash Memory Will Soon Become Obsolete
...Researchers developed a new type of memory that soon will replace the flash memory. A study at Arizona State University lead to a development of an advanced technique of storing memory. This method, called PMC (programmable metallization cell), will increase the physical limits of storage technology by 1,000 times in comparison with flash memory used nowadays. This means that memory of digital cameras, MP3 players and ...
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  The World's Oldest Woman Dies at Age 117
...as having dozens of grandchildren and great grandchildren. The centenarian woman enjoyed good meal and would eat a boiled meat, bread and butter and tea for dinner. She was told to have a great memory, although her hearing and eyesight became worse. Yakutia, the north region of Russia is famous for its centenarians with 254 people aged over 80 and 55 over 100. The overall population of this region is 950,000 p...
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  Man with Dead Brain Recovers
...covery. His mother told that finding about her son being alive was the most miraculous feeling, going from the deepest sorrow to 'the top of the mountain'. Dunlap is now feeling good, though his memory did not fully recover. It may still take about a year for the man to have a full recovery. "Just makes me thankful, makes me thankful that they didn't give up," he told in the interview, "Only the good die young,...
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  Woman Turned Her Pet Cat into Black Diamond
...A woman, who was mourning over the death of her cat, decided to turn her pet into a one-third-of-a-carat black diamond. Sue Rodgers, a 45-year old woman from UK wanted to have the ever-lasting memory of her beloved cat and had the unique diamond set in a gold ring. The black diamond was the world's first gem created from ashes by the US company LifeGem that offers to transform dead people and animals into precious...
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  Scientists Create World's Fastest SuperComputer
...rs. It took more than six years to develop a computer technology like this. Built from computer chips used in popular video game PlayStation 3 and 12,960 cell engines, it can boast 80 terabytes of memory. The interconnecting system takes 6,000 square feet, having 57 miles of fiber optics and weighs 500,000 pounds. The supercomputer will be used for nuclear weapons research, but will have a numerous applications in m...
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  Japanese Scientists Developed Flash Able to Function for Hundreds of Years
...Japanese scientists claim they have developed world's first flash memory 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, mi...
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