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 Recent research shows that our Sun is not the cause of the dramatic climate changes witnessed on Earth and that the global warming cannot be entirely explained through Sun’s activity.
The UN’s allegations that the climate changes are mainly caused by industrial activities here on Earth have been countered by some scientists who claim...
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 How do people respond when they see an advertising poster? Do they stop and turn to look at it with interest, or do they walk angrily past?
A new system of detailed facial analysis developed in Germany can recognize a person's mood in an instant.
Take an advertisement for a new perfume hanging in the departure lounge of an...
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 All women will now bravely say:
“I knew it!” It’s true, men turned out to be as talkative as women, as the
recent studies showed. The myth turned out to be just a wrong common belief,
which science has now quickly corrected.
A group of American researchers
published on Thursday their study after counting the words that about...
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 The population of common birds in the US is sharply declining, according to a new report from Audubon Society.Audubon enlisted 20 species of birds in the US on its Common Birds in Decline list, among which the Northern Bobwhite (a chubby, robin-sized bird found in the Eastern United States), Evening Grosbeak (a rotund, robin-sized bird...
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 Google and Intel are just two of the members of a new green alliance that comprises high-profile names like HP, Dell, IBM, Microsoft or Lenovo, poised to fight against climate change.Called Climate Savers Computing Initiative, the alliance will be focused on energy-efficient policies and the reduction of greenhouse gases, by setting...
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 The crew is already preparing for lift off while NASA officials are confident that the weather will not be an obstacle for tomorrow’s launch.NASA Test Director Steve Payne was happy to report at this morning’s Countdown Status Briefing that months of hard work at the external tank- damaged in March by an unusually powerful haze storm-...
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 The US Congress recently adopted a law that will protect water bodies and their adjacent wetlands from pollution only if they are big enough to allow sailing, while at the same time neglecting the smaller bodies.The Clear Water Act or the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments was voted in 1972 and established the basic structure...
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 So say the scientists from Northeastern University, who are now credited with solving the pesky cube’s combinations in only 26 moves, 1 less than the previous record.Rubik’s cube, despite the fact that sometimes even 6 year old kids manage to solve it, is in fact one of the most complicated problems in mathematics, since it has no less...
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 Michael Griffin, head of NASA, declared recently that global warming might not be such a big of a problem, intriguing both scientists and the media.Griffin said that he is not sure whether global warming is “a long-term concern or not”, despite heavy criticism from the media and the ecologists, who are accusing NASA’s policy of cutting...
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 On Monday, during the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society held in Honolulu, Hawaii, a team of astronomers have officially increased the number of alien planets to 236.The first exo-planet (a celestial body that orbits a star other than our own Sun) was discovered more than 12 years ago. Since then, every year, astronomers...
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