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Apple introduces their newest iPods, Apple TV and Ping

The huge success of the iPhone, especially the iPhone 4, has made sales of the iPod go down drastically. To try and fix this, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, announced their new line of iPods, Apple TV, and a social network available on iTunes that they are calling Ping at an event in San Francisco on September [...]

September 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Science | Read More »

Earth is warming rapidly

The Earth is warming rapidly according to American scientists who announced this shocking news after monitoring temperature datas regarding the first five months of the year. Since 1880, scientists didn’t measure so high temperaratures in the first five month of the year like they measured this year. – says the U.S. National Climate Data Center in one of its latest report.

July 7th, 2010 | Posted in Science,The Big Stories | Read More »

Does child’s eye color clearly prove paternity?

Blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women – say Norwegian scientists, who explained this with the fact that in this case the child’s eye color clearly prove parternity. As the researchers from University of Tromso claimed in the Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology journal, a blue-eyed father and a blue-eyed mother can only have blue-eyed child, if a [...]

June 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Science | Read More »

Fungus instead of fertilizer

Swiss researchers reported the discovery of a fungus which has the ability to accelerate the pace of the growth of rice. In the report – which was published by the Lausanne University – authors have claimed that the adaptation of the mycorrhiza fungus may reduce the use of phosphate fertilizers, while it’s “completely natural”. According [...]

June 12th, 2010 | Posted in Science,The Big Stories | Read More »

Infectious diseases heading to north due to climate change

Perhaps the increasing global average temperate has already reached that level to push infectious diseases to north – says a recent study. European researchers reported that there can be a connection between the increase of average temperature and the appear of dengue fever, yellow fever, malaria and human plague. UN climate experts believe the best [...]

June 10th, 2010 | Posted in Science,The Big Stories | Read More »

Understanding OCD patients

With an iconic representation of frequent hand-washing, OCD is one of the most paralyzing mental disorders which is mainly diagnosable in the young adults older than 18.

June 9th, 2010 | Posted in Science | Read More »

Thinner and faster new iPhone 4G

The new iPhone generation lives up to the expectations as it’s thinner, faster and has a longer battery life. After the prototype of the new iPhone made public in April, experts and fans of Apple products were arguing whether the new gear will differ much from what it was described at Gizmodo portal. The phone [...]

June 8th, 2010 | Posted in Science,The Big Stories | Read More »

Earth in trouble: Rising average temperature

Earth’s global average temperature in no way should rise three Celsius degrees, because this could lead to the melt of polar ice sheets and the rise of sea level which is very dangerous – climate researchers say. There’s a price of climate changing. According to scientists one of the adverse effects of climate changing is [...]

June 4th, 2010 | Posted in Science,The Big Stories | Read More »

Five million Skype downloads for iPhone 3G

Nearly 5 millions users downloaded the new Skype internet telephone created for iPhone 3G, which provides opportunity for cheaper mobile phone calls and conversations, not only on Wi-Fi networks but on 3G mobile networks as well. Before the software’s official end of May release, iPhone owners could enjoy the benefits of Skype only by connecting [...]

June 4th, 2010 | Posted in Science,The Big Stories | Read More »

One-fifth of bird species may disappear from Earth

Nearly two thousand out of the ten thousand of bird species exist on Earth have been threatened by extinction – scientists announced this year. This year another bird species, the Alaotra Grebe extincted from Earth, BirdLife International reported. This unique bird species lived  on  the  Eastern coasts of Madagascar and its extinction was caused by [...]

June 1st, 2010 | Posted in Science,The Big Stories | Read More »