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Perhaps the most important thing that separates us from other animals is the fact that we are able to use tools proficiently, and to a great extent. One could easily argue that the instruments are what allowed our species to evolve to the point it's at today, alongside fire and speech. These three aspects of hum... |
12 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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New archaeological finds cast a new light on the life of early humans, living as far back as 72,000 years ago. It would appear that even in those remote times, toolmakers knew the fact that treating their tools thermally, as in with fire, provided a new set of traits, that could not be obtained naturally. The finds w... |
14 August 2009
02:34 GMT |
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Australian experts from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have announced that they are working on a new class of flame-retardant materials, called HIPS (Hybrid Inorganic Polymer System). Reportedly, the innovation is able to withstand temperatures of up to 1,000° Celsius (18... |
21 July 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Over the past two weeks, it has been revealed that Apple’s iPhone 3G S suffers from overheating issues. Perhaps not all handsets are faulty, but, certainly, the issue exists with some devices, several reports have confirmed. White iPhone 3G S models, for example, get so hot that the plastic case on the back tur... |
1 July 2009
06:48 GMT |
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A MacBook Pro user writing over at MacForums claims his laptop caught fire during an over-night backup session. Apple instructs Mac users to leave their notebooks running with the MagSafe adapter plugged in while long backup sessions take place. The user reveals this is actually the third MagSafe adapter his MBP has ... |
21 May 2009
06:02 GMT |
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A new archaeological dating technique could become as useful for dating ceramic materials as carbon dating has become for testing organic materials over the years. By using two of the basic elements on Earth, water and fire, a research team from the University of Manchester managed to devise a new process to determin... |
20 May 2009
09:05 GMT |
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The free iPhone app Virtual Zippo Lighter has been downloaded over three million times since its debut last October, Zippo and Moderati have announced. The feat makes it one of the most popular and prevalent branded applications in the App Store’s history, according to the duo. The report notes that Virtual Zip... |
30 March 2009
14:31 GMT |
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New reports of malfunctioning Apple notebooks are doing the rounds, none of which tell stories any different than what we've heard so far. Yet another notebook battery shot off flames and sparks in an office somewhere, while a user is currently at his eighth replacement MacBook – evidently, the crack-plagu... |
27 February 2009
09:25 GMT |
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The first screensavers appeared on the “scene” to protect CRT computer monitors, similar to television sets, from crashing. After that, developers thought about images that moved against a black background, interesting images that would change position on the computer screen, which would be a much better ... |
2 January 2009
05:31 GMT |
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Gaming companies are often blamed for quite a lot of things, such as patent infringements or intellectual theft but every once in a while, people or institutions find the weirdest claims against these corporations. We recently saw two people file class-action suits against Electronic Arts, claiming that the SecuROM D... |
23 December 2008
11:01 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have discovered that carbon nanofibers added to the polyurethane foams used at upholstered furniture in order to decrease its flammability enhance the effect by as much as 30 percent. Usually, the foam drips while burning, and forms a miniat... |
11 December 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Some time ago, we shared a few weird facts about the Earth, but the planet still has many feats in store that never cease to amaze us. The latest is its surface's weird ability to catch fire. Well, not really at random, as the catalysts of the peculiar process seem to be landslides. Following a series of this ty... |
5 December 2008
09:47 GMT |
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Far Cry 2 was a very good game that offered players quite a lot of interesting features, never employed in any other titles, and which took realism to new heights in game design. From the weapons that begin to jam if you use them too much, to the fact that you need to fix your car in order to keep it running, everyth... |
24 November 2008
03:04 GMT |
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As it frequently happens, some dig works destined for maintenance and building purposes have lead to the accidental discovery of an ancient village close to Vassili village located in the central Thessaly periphery of Greece, about 170 miles (280 kilometers) north of Athens. While attempting to place a gas pipe, duri... |
21 November 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Latest discoveries made at archaeological sites in northern Israel push back the estimated period in which man discovered fire by as much as 500,000 years. Scientists working at the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov dig site uncovered bulks of burnt items on top of each other, organized in layers. The deepest such layer was ... |
27 October 2008
09:04 GMT |
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A recent discovery indicates that early humans have first known the principles of fire-making 790 millennia ago, when mastering this skill allowed them protection against wild animals, and also ensured light and warmth in their sturdy hearths. This superiority made them boldly explore and expand the territorial domin... |
27 October 2008
07:44 GMT |
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When a fire starts and spreads inside a building and smoke fills the rooms and hallways, one major problem can represent a very serious hazard: not seeing your way towards the exit as you evacuate the premises. This is one of the things that can cause massive injuries and even victims during an evacuation in a fire s... |
17 October 2008
02:56 GMT |
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Between September 6 and 11, two ancient sites of Inca ruins from Machu Picchu were threatened by a huge forest fire, which was eventually put off. More than eight hundred hectares of forest in the valley situated between Cuzco city and the ancient Machu Picchu fortress burned, causing great damage to the pair of... |
25 September 2008
09:20 GMT |
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The modern flamethrower is a pyrotechnic weapon originating from an idea several thousands of years old, used in modern warfare as a weapon of intimidation, to flush a hideout and to fight off enemy forces. The basic idea behind the concept is to spread fire in a designated area by launching burning fuel from a dista... |
14 July 2008
07:43 GMT |
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Lithium-ion batteries are a type of rechargeable batteries that work by exploiting the movement of lithium ions between the anode and the cathode. Due to their low weight to power ratio, lack of memory effect and the slow rate of charge loss, they are currently the most popular type of rechargeable batteries availabl... |
11 June 2008
08:32 GMT |
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Google Earth provides support, yet again, for victims of another disaster that struck in the United States this time, in Santa Cruz Mountains. This time around, the disaster came in the form of a large fire, the likes of which Santa Cruz Mountains has never seen before. It appears that the area was full of flammable ... |
23 May 2008
10:35 GMT |
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It looks like a crater with a volcanic lava lake, but it is not. It is said that the hell is located underground. In this case, "The Door to Hell" is this site in Uzbekistan, located close to the small town of Darvaz. This phenomenon started during the Soviet times, 35 years ago. Geologists and miners were drilling i... |
8 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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What reason(s) do you think would someone have to set on fire hundreds of mobile phones? There aren't many reasonable ones that you can think of, right? Well, a woman from China burned more than 400 handsets because she was dumped by her husband. The couple was living in Weifang, Shandong, somewhere south of ... |
10 March 2008
06:00 GMT |
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Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG (also known as SEN), the telecommunications branch of Siemens AG, today announced that it plans to restructure its orientation and activity and transform from a hardware supplier into a software and solutions provider. In today's continuously changing telecommunica... |
26 February 2008
14:52 GMT |
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The first Homo sapiens employed caves against the cold or the hot weather, or to shelter against rains and wild beasts. Even chimps in Senegal were found to use caves against heat and rain. But what is more important is that caves have preserved many aspects of the life of the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) people. Incl... |
14 February 2008
09:27 GMT |
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Fire is the biggest destroyer of human life and goods. Now the ultimate technologies fights against it. Conventional firemen cars for putting out building fires are endowed with tanks of 1,365 liters of water and telescopic stairs with a length of 9-15 m (30-50 ft). This water is used only when there is no other sou... |
4 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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I must say, someone out there really hates our guts. And I have a shrewed suspicion that that someone also had a long conversation with Jordan, during which they told her a whole bunch of lies - one of which being that the world loves her and that the one thing we really need to be happy for Christmas is more of this... |
14 December 2007
06:12 GMT |
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The world "volcano" comes from the Roman god of fire Vulcan, the equivalent of Hephaistos in the Greek mythology. In the ancient times, people attributed to the volcanoes a supernatural personality, which was worshiped. Old Greeks believed the Earth was a floating disc over the surface of an ocean whose storms trigge... |
3 November 2007
07:07 GMT |
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iPods are not as innocent as they look. They might reveal a cute milky white look, but on the inside, they can turn into real monsters and jeopardize your life, for reasons unknown.We have recently informed you about the research which proved that the MP3 player and iPods can interfere with the activity of cardiac pa... |
30 October 2007
09:11 GMT |
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We all know Southern California was recently assaulted by an impressive avalanche of wildfires which had a huge impact over the community of residents and their lives. Because of that, numerous organizations and companies encourage people all around the world to donate money and help the fire victims. Google is just ... |
29 October 2007
10:06 GMT |
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Following the recent damages caused by the South California fires, the Mountain View company decided to help the authorities and designed a special Google Earth layer containing high-resolution photos with the area in order to show all the details that can be discovered from the satellite. The Google Earth content is... |
25 October 2007
02:40 GMT |
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We've heard about overheating issues before, but this seems to go beyond the general phenomenon, as a Playstation console has just set on fire an apartment complex. This is not our lucky guess, but the firefighters' statement and it turns out that the Xbox 360 is not the only console causing trouble.Well, ... |
11 September 2007
03:15 GMT |
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Guys love beer and that can be easily seen in beer ads, where besides the actual product, you can see all kinds of sports and beautiful women, mostly naked or who are about to lose their clothes to the happy owner of a can/pint.But there is more to beer than meets the eye. Many interesting stories circulating on the... |
30 July 2007
05:00 GMT |
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A new discovery in the world of nanotechnology led to the production of a hard wearing and fireproof paint, by replacing the soap used to stabilize latex emulsion paints with nanotech sized clay armor. Latex is used in paint because it solidifies by coalescence of the polymer particles as the water evaporates and th... |
27 July 2007
06:37 GMT |
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Plastics are made of semisynthetic polymerization products composed of organic condensation or addition polymers and may contain other substances to improve performance or economics. Their widespread use made them indispensable in almost all industry areas.Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst were... |
30 May 2007
09:25 GMT |
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Pneumatic tires or tyres are used on all types of vehicles, from cars to earthmovers to airplanes. A significant disadvantage of tyres is the fact that recycling them is not very easy and so mountains on tyres are gathering all across the world.It may come as a surprise, but the same technique that makes tyres so du... |
29 May 2007
08:03 GMT |
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There are a lot of puzzle games that go around in the wide virtual world. The reason for which there are so many is pretty simple: all of them are addictive and have something that keeps the person playing no matter what.For some it's the funny story. Or maybe the story behind the game is pretty interesting and ... |
11 May 2007
17:32 GMT |
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Hendersonville, Tennessee - The former longtime residence of legendary music star Johnny Cash burned down to a pile of ashes and charred logs just few hours ago, reports Yahoo News quoting Associated Press. The exact cause of the fire is unknown yet, but firefighters say that everything came down in ashes very fast m... |
11 April 2007
10:32 GMT |
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The MacBooks tend to become more and more popular, being regarded as the perfect alternative for the old-fashioned Windows or for the difficult to use Linux distributions. Today, Macworld reported a case that might make the aspirants for a MacBook think a little before they decide to acquire a new computer. mattyb, a... |
14 March 2007
05:12 GMT |
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Nintendo brings us the perfect tactical role-playing game and I'm talking about the ninth title in the Fire Emblem series. You'll be exploring a continent called Tellius and keep in mind that the plot is not linked in any way to the previous games. Our hero's name is Ike, a new member of the Greil Merc... |
7 March 2007
04:00 GMT |
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