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Archive | April, 2009

Current flu vaccines inactive against the Swine flu

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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For some reason, many people believed the current flu vaccine will be effective against this swine flu that’s already expanding and very difficult to control. Still, even some researchers claimed that it will be at least somewhat effective. Guess what - it won’t. Or at least the vast majority of scientists claim it won’t. The U.S. [...]

Could humans have learned from Hobbits?

Sunday, April 26, 2009

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There has been a lot of debate around the whole ‘hobbit issue‘ and I’ve been watching that pretty closely. It was especially interesting to see how creationists adapted to the situation. The thing is every answer raises even more questions. Recently, researchers discovered thousands of small, sharp-edged objects made from volcanic tuff or chert in the [...]

Friday Round-up

Friday, April 24, 2009

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Because of insufficient time and man power (if you want to help, just look at the banner in the right), we can’t tackle all the topics; but there’s so much going on in the world right now, something just had to be done. So I’m going to start this weekly round-up, in which I’ll just [...]

How house ants pick their dream home

Friday, April 24, 2009

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Seeing all the available houses in the neighborhood and then choosing is not necessarily the best option, especially if you’re an ant. These house-hunting rock ants manage to make a decision together even without going through the options they have. In this recent study conducted by Dr Elva Robinson and colleagues from the Bristol University, they [...]

Earth Day 2009 - don’t let it be just another day!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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In case you didn’t know, today is Earth Day and this year we are celebrating it for the 39th time. If you gladly supported Earth Hour this is a great new opportunity to show that you do care about the environment and that you believe in a sustainable future ( see here how). If you [...]

US and Brazil scientists team up to show we’re all pot heads deep down

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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It seems you can blame everything on drugs, as researchers show that the human brain manufactures proteins that act on specific receptors in the same way that marijuana does; those receptors are actually situated in the brain itself. This discovery was published online in the FASEB journal, and Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of the journal synthetized [...]

Body odour - now essential for online dating!

Monday, April 13, 2009

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So, you’ve been talking with him/her onĀ  the Internet for the last four months: personality? check. sense of humor? check. good looks? check. Ready to meet you perfect half? Well, don’t forget about checking the body odor first! This is not a joke, as weird as it may sound. It won’t be long before online dating [...]

Touch and sight - more connected than previously thought

Friday, April 10, 2009

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What you see may be very much related to what you’ve just felt. Even though we were taught at school that each sense is processed in another area of the brain it seems that this theory may be wrong and that there is a lot more to understand about the way human brain works. As an [...]

Cleaning products give birth to deadly antibiotics-resistant bugs

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

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Disinfectants, all kinds of shampoos, fabric softeners…we love them , we use them and then they go down the drain. Nothing bad about cleanliness, isn’t it? Unfortunately, our foamy friends can prove to be a timebomb as they can create invisible monsters: bugs that are not affected by antibiotics. Researchers from England have discovered this phenomenon [...]

The mysterios green glow of the sea decoded

Monday, April 6, 2009

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In the past the sea was considered a truly miraculous place especially as many phenomena seemed to have no logical explanation. Sea creatures have also troubledĀ  the sailors as they were like nothing else they had ever seen. Now science proved that most of our fears are not justified, but also that miracles can have [...]

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