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Paramount Digital Entertainment has announced the release of Top Gun, a new game for iPhone and iPod touch. Immediately available for download from the iTunes App Store, Top Gun places players at the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, where instructors Maverick and Iceman will help them compete to become the ... |
8 May 2009
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As it turns out it really pays to be stupid. Well, at least for flies it does. A study carried out by a team of researchers from a Swiss university revealed that dumber flies live much longer than their geeky cousins. According to the results of the study revealed today by Tadeusz Kwackei and Joep Burger at the Unive... |
4 June 2008
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For most of us, a fly is a pest but, it turns out, its eyes could revolutionize robot vision (employed for unmanned vehicles, guided missiles, and high-speed industrial inspection robots in medical, commercial, industrial, and defense areas), improving and speeding up the detection of edges and boundaries of objects ... |
12 May 2008
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The simple theory of natural selection says that the fittest males will father the next generation. But a new research published in journal PLoS One and carried out by a team at the University of Southern California shows that this is not the real case, explaining a paradox that goes from insects to humans: if the be... |
17 April 2008
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Well not really, because it's still cold outside. But just wait until summer, you'll see then; there will be flies and fly-spies all over the place, you won't be able to make the difference! Just kidding! Well, it seems that science fiction has given some 'mad' scientists new ideas, not that ... |
10 March 2008
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When technology advances made humans to attempt flying during the 19th century, motorized flight proved impossible as the engines of those times were too heavy. The German engineer Otto Lilienthal tackled the issue differently: he first decided to perfect the art of gliding through air, achieving the required ascenda... |
5 January 2008
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Glory Days 2 is mainly an airborne combat title, where gamers have to manage tactics, rescue civilians, capture enemy bunkers, in epic war stories and unforgettable battles. The game allows players to soar through the sky like a regular ace fighter pilot and literally dive-bomb into the opposing military forces.Feat... |
14 December 2007
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We proud ourselves with the latest technological achievements, the performances of the latest computers, or newly discovered galaxies and black holes, but in the XXIst century, there are still infections against which we are defenseless and which, with all the medical advances, keep on killing millions of people ever... |
12 November 2007
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There is a sex ratio of about 1:1 in most species, including humans, meaning that an approximately equal number of males and females are produced. For the first time, geneticists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, have discovered a genetic mechanism delivering this balanced ratio, at least valid for fruit flies... |
7 November 2007
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When Google released the 4.2 version of Google Earth, the fans from all around the world were absolutely amazed by the Sky function which brings a new perspective for the available imagery. As you probably heard, Google Sky allows you to analyze the starts and the galaxies straight from your computer. Soon after that... |
3 September 2007
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In the western world, people are used mostly with parasites located in their guts. That's why when doctors looked at the weird, bleeding bumps on Aaron Dallas' head, they believed it could have been from gnat bites or shingles. But when the bumps started moving, it appeared that there were five active bot ... |
23 July 2007
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This is the largest flying bird ever: Argentavis magnificens, having a wingspan up to 8.3 m (28 ft) and weighing up 100 kg (220 pounds). This bird resembles a condor and was somehow related with the condors and the ... storks! It inhabited the pampas of Argentina about five million years ago. Now, researchers investi... |
3 July 2007
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It seems that even microscopical brains have free will. Or at least a behavior that may hint at it, as in the case of the minute fruit fly, new findings could explain the nature and evolution of free will in humans.If researches could develop robots with free will, it "may lead to more realistic and probably even mor... |
16 May 2007
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Being a freak has its advantages. You can appear as different, mysterious, or do what the others cannot do. Now, Professor Marla Sokolowski, a biologist at the University of Toronto Mississauga, revealed an advantage of being different. She found that the gene affecting the foraging behavior of fruit flies has two di... |
10 May 2007
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In some western African villages, most of the elders die blind. This is the result of onchocerciasis or river blindness provoked by the female black flies (Simulium) which transmit the disease through their bite. These flies reproduce in the fast flowing rivers. Fortunately, river blindness is not so easy to catch li... |
14 March 2007
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