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The first studies on radiation: Geissler, Crookes and Rontgen. The second half of the nineteenth century was particularly fruitful for the development of Physical Science, which began to shed light on the intimate constitution of matter with constant and meticulous efforts of a large group of scientists from various European nations. The principle of self-reliance was released, as the scientific research,... 

Cadillac Announces Self-Driving Cars

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There has been quite a lot of news about self-driving vehicles in recent months. Google is currently working on an autonomous car, while BMW is designing a “highly automated” vehicle capable of navigating through traffic. Now Cadillac has announced a new self-driving vehicle that seems somewhat similar to BMW’s approach, with “super cruise” technology that could be ready... 

US Congress wants all Cars to be Equipped with Tracking Devices

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The federal government is about to become the country’s worst backseat driver. Congress wants to put tracking devices in the car of every American, and that’s not even the scariest provision in a new bill being passed around Washington. The US Senate has already signed off on a new legislation that, if cleared by the rest of Congress, will see to it that the government gets its eyes and ears inside... 

Baboons Can Recognize Actual Words

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A new study conducted by French researchers has suggested that Baboons are capable of experiencing the first step in reading and can identify actual words. Researchers tested a group of Guinea baboons in a specially built facility at the Aix-Marseille University in France. The study revealed that after being trained, the animals were able to recognize words after seeing them once and differentiate... 

Monsanto hooks Nepal on GMO corn

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The Nepalese government has teamed up with notorious agricultural giant Monsanto to force farmers use its GMO seeds. The strain, banned in several EU countries, will be used to substitute imports and boost the starving nation’s maize production. ­Corn is one of Nepal’s biggest crops but the country produces only about half of what it needs for its feed industry, and imports some 130,000 tons... 

Earth from the International Space Station as never seen before

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Kuipers inside the Space Station. The Dutch astronaut is one of the most prolific photographers on the ISS An astronaut on the International Space Station has designed a ‘tripod’ for taking spectacular night-time pictures of Earth – quite a technical feat when you’re on board an orbiting craft that moves at more than four miles a second. Andre Kuipers installed ‘Nightpod’... 

Samsung overtakes Nokia, ending their 14-year reign

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Samsung Galaxy Note: The poll showed analysts on average expect Samsung to have sold 88 million cellphones in January through March, surpassing the 83 million which Nokia sold in the quarter Samsung ended Finnish phone maker Nokia’s 14-year leadership of the global mobile phone market in the first quarter of the year, outselling the struggling handset maker for the first time ever. It’s... 

North Korean Satellite Carrier Rocket Fails Shortly After Launch

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In this file picture taken on April 8, 2012, the North Korean Unha-3 rocket is pictured at Tangachai-ri space center A North-Korean carrier rocket took off at 7:39 am local time on Wednesday. However, the launch has been confirmed to have failed. The North American Aerospace Defend Command (NORAD) says the first stage of the rocket fell into the sea, while the other two stages failed. And a North Korean... 

Wearable Computers to Replace all Smartphones

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Google unveiled the details of the development of devices in the class of computers that users can wear like glasses. RIA Novosti reported that the information about Project Glass was obtained from Google+ social networks and informal blog Google Operating System.

 Formally, even now many electronic devices can be attributed to the class of wearable computers, but many experts believe that the... 

No Real Evidence for Dinosaur to Bird Evolution

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The Microraptor The sensational news media has made a big deal over some evolutionist claims of fossils showing dinosaurs having evolved into birds. As usual, not even all evolutionists agree with the conclusions being drawn from these fossil finds, but the mainstream media love to use what a few evolutionists say to speak for all evolutionists and for science in general. Fossils of dinosaurs have... 

Working quantum computer developed inside diamond

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The quantum circuit used in the demonstration is a 3mm x 3mm chip with a 1mm x 1mm diamond in the middle. Scientists have created a working quantum computer inside a diamond that includes protection against ‘decoherence,’ noise that prevents it from functioning properly. Researchers of the University of Southern California, Iowa State University, University of California, Santa Barbara,... 

Iranian researcher produces smart Anti-Cancer Medicine

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Dr. Omid Farrokhzad Iranian researcher Dr. Omid Farrokhzad of Harvard Medical School has produced a smart cancer drug that is capable of targeting cancer cells in animals. Farrokhzad and his colleagues made the drug in nano scale which enables it to distinguish and target cancer cells without causing common side effects of chemotherapy. In popular cancer treatment with chemotherapy, both cancer cells... 

Plasma Fusion Becomes a Reality

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Scientists in a New Jersey laboratory say they are close to a major breakthrough in the field of fusion that they predict will soon allow for an unlimited source of the cheapest, cleanest and safest energy ever. Researchers at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics in Middlesex, NJ have published the results of their recent work in the Physics of Plasmas journal last week, and expect one of their next rounds... 

Impressive Flying Cars Unveiled

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For decades science fiction writers, and their more practical cousins, engineers, have dreamt of building a flying car. Now that one is about to arrive on the market, the real question emerges: what are flying cars actually for? ­US company Terrafugia has variously labeled its Transition model as a “roadable aircraft” and a “street-legal airplane”, perhaps in a quest to avoid the inherent... 

Pentagon to Create Terminators?

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Representatives of the U.S. Department of Defense announced the launch of a project to develop computer systems with elements of artificial intelligence. But we are not talking about creating a “computer mind”. The military are no longer satisfied with the speed of analysis and data quality of modern computers. No one is going to produce “terminators” at this point. It seems... 
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