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TUDOR VIERU
As a science editor, Tudor focuses mostly on issues such as climate change, history, medicine, behavior and health, with the occasional scy-pry article. Even though he possesses a biology, physics and chemistry background, Tudor admits that writing for the science category at Softpedia can be challenging at times. Still, seeing our users read more and more motivates him to keep writing better articles.
His favorite topics are medicine and the environment, with behavior being the runner-up.
Tudor's spare time is occupied with composing music and playing with his band. Skating or watching movies are also favorite pastimes.
Personal motto: I'd like to think that each individual is capable of so many deeds, that incorporating them into a motto would be impossible. But if I'd have to select one for myself, it would sound like "what does this button do?", seeing how I'm always curious and hungry to learn more.
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Global warming is more familiar to people for its potential effects in melting the polar ice caps, and in endangering low-lying countries and coast lines. However, one of its most devastating aspects is the fact that it can effortlessly promote desertification in areas that are already arid, and therefore prone to su... |
10 February 2010
03:59 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that children who tend to indulge in sweet stuff more often and more intense than their peers have a history of alcoholism in their family. All children like their candies, there is no doubt about this, but some of them really cannot get enough chocolate bars, and other ... |
10 February 2010
03:45 GMT |
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Movie piracy is a very widespread phenomenon, especially in areas of the world where authorities have not yet set up any sort of rules on how people should be held accountable for their online activity. With the advent of 3D productions, more and more of which are beginning to make their way in movie theaters around ... |
10 February 2010
03:29 GMT |
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A new scientific study turns many a Hollywood sport films into fantasy and fiction. The investigation has revealed that the underdog theory is in fact wrong, and that the favored team is usually the one focusing most on its training, rather than the least favored one. In other words, members of large teams give all t... |
10 February 2010
02:59 GMT |
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Scientists have recently created a new type of sensor, one that is capable of working almost around the clock. The device could enable a wide array of new medical implants that could be used in situations where conventional sensors are too large, bulky, or have insufficient battery life. This particular machine is ve... |
10 February 2010
02:44 GMT |
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Around midnight today, the space shuttle Endeavor finally caught up with the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit, while the facility was flying above the Atlantic Ocean, off western Portugal. The two linked at approximately 12:06 am EST (0506 GMT), and the hatch separating them opened at around 2 am EST (0... |
10 February 2010
02:26 GMT |
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Lately, more and more companies from the private sector have begun to team up with partners from academia, in order to conduct investigations on multiple lines of stem cells. These studies are mainly aimed at using these cells to screen for any potential drugs that certain corporations may be manufacturing. At this p... |
10 February 2010
01:47 GMT |
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When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was reopened, not two months ago, the high-energy physics community was excited that the largest scientific experiment on the planet was operational. Then came the milestone that everyone wanted to see, namely the fact that the machine became the most powerful particle accelerator... |
9 February 2010
11:05 GMT |
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In addition to threatening the low-lying coasts of the world, and bringing about climate changes that would instill extreme weather patterns, global warming will also change water patterns, the way in which land is used, as well as the amount of precipitations that usually befall a certain area. When this happens, pl... |
9 February 2010
10:51 GMT |
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A new study has revealed that parents seeking to get their children interested in a certain activity are better off letting them explore whatever they want, before finally deciding on what they want to do full-time. Passions for things such as music, sports and a variety of other hobbies are not instilled in the youn... |
9 February 2010
19:01 GMT |
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The new NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is one of the first telescopes to be launched into space based on an idea that would have seemed heresy to the astronomical community just decades ago. The Sun is apparently a variable star, which is something of a new idea in scientific circles. The new instrument is des... |
9 February 2010
09:56 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, the use of electronic media is not directly linked to the increase incidence of headaches that children, adolescents and teens experience today. The investigation revolved around youngsters, because they are most likely to get affected if these devices were to pose any harm. The s... |
9 February 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Curious about what teens perceive as grounds for suicide, a scientist has traveled to Australia, Italy and India to find the answer. She was also curios about the values and social significance that teenagers gave to this action, as well as about the attitudes associated with it. The investigator interviewed more tha... |
9 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Two teams of British scientists from the Oxford University have recently managed to lay the groundwork for the development of artificial bacterial cells, capable of responding and adapting to new stimuli in their environment. This is something that only living organisms have proven to be able to do thus far, therefor... |
9 February 2010
08:55 GMT |
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Scientists managing the recently launched NASA planet-tracking telescope Kepler announce that the observatory suffered another safe-mode event on February 2. This is the fourth such event to plague the instrument since it was deployed, on May 12, 2009. Such occurrences are not normal, and the protective mode is engag... |
9 February 2010
08:38 GMT |
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The effects of smoking on one's health have long since been established. The harms of second-hand smoking have also been carefully investigated, and its threat level assessed. But very few investigators ever considered the influence of so-called “third-hand” smoking on people's health. Researche... |
9 February 2010
06:59 GMT |
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High-level sports competitions are occasions on which, theoretically, only the best of the best should gather to match their skills against others. But, in some cases, a few of these athletes “enhance” their performance by nefarious means, such as illegal substances. It is the job of doping officials and ... |
9 February 2010
06:43 GMT |
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Following decades of ongoing studies, climate researchers have discovered a very peculiar link between the southwestern corner of Australia and a region of eastern Antarctica. It would appear that a negative correlation exists between them, in the sense that, when the Australian land is battered with drought and lack... |
9 February 2010
06:06 GMT |
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Chinese experts have recently unearthed one of the most well-preserved fossils ever. It was left behind by a type of spider known as Eoplectreurys gertschi, of which only two other specimens were ever recovered. However, the newly discovered one is more than 120 million years older than its “peers,” as it... |
9 February 2010
05:47 GMT |
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New data collected by the Cassini spacecraft has demonstrated once again that the possibility of a liquid ocean existing underneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus is very significant. During its last fly-by of the celestial body, the NASA/ESA mission managed to discover clouds of negatively-charged w... |
9 February 2010
05:03 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, one of the major drawbacks of wars is the fact that people die in them. Military analysts and strategists have tried for a long time to reduce the number of casualties by as much as possible, but the best they could come up with until now was flying airplanes high in the sky, and striking their targets f... |
9 February 2010
04:50 GMT |
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Many people use colors to describe their emotions either unintentionally, or because this is how they learned to do it from their peers and family. Some say that they are green with jealousy, whereas others see red when they are angry. At the same time, depressed people are in a gray mood, but these colors that we at... |
9 February 2010
04:29 GMT |
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One of the most enduring theories in science is the one stating that life emerged from a primordial soup, a mix of chemicals that promoted over eons the creation of organic molecules, amino-acids, and eventually proteins. But some researchers are arguing at this point that it's time for this theory to be discard... |
9 February 2010
03:53 GMT |
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Learning how cells respond to various stimuli is one of the areas of research that have the potential to reveal a wealth of data about biological systems. These pieces of information could inform experts in designing better drugs and therapies for a variety of medical conditions, but a more in-depth study of complex ... |
9 February 2010
03:14 GMT |
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The six astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavor have overnight conducted the first heat shield inspection of the STS-130 mission. The spacecraft is currently on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), where it's due to arrive tomorrow, February 10, at 12:09 am EST (05:09 GMT). According to officia... |
9 February 2010
02:52 GMT |
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Thorough astronomical observations have revealed that the long-held belief that states that spiral galaxies form over time, through various shape modifications, is probably wrong. Experts now believe that the galaxies formed from structures that developed a short time after the hypothetical Big Bang explosion that cr... |
9 February 2010
02:34 GMT |
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Researchers at the American space agency NASA have recently announced that they managed to create a new method of using modest, ground-based telescopes for producing amazing new science. The technique was just recently used on an exoplanet some 63 light-years away, with the 30-year-old, 3-meter-diameter (10-foot) NAS... |
8 February 2010
11:34 GMT |
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Following the December 2009 United Nations Summit on Climate Change (COP 15), international analysts drew attention to the fact that nothing was actually decided, or made legally-binding. In fact, everything was left to be decided by each individual nation, and a deadline, January 31, was imposed so that countries ha... |
8 February 2010
19:01 GMT |
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As anyone working in shaping materials can tell you, there is a certain limit to the degree of accuracy a press can instill into solids such as metals. From a certain point on, the force the press needs in order to make the modifications starts producing cracks, and perforates the material being shaped, causing imper... |
8 February 2010
19:31 GMT |
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In a new study, researchers in Italy have managed to prove the craving can override adversity to pain. The work was conducted on lab mice, which were trained to have a conditioned response to painful stimuli. The researchers say that the rodents, which were craving for chocolate, were ready to brave assured pain in o... |
8 February 2010
10:00 GMT |
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