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“The Art of Ironing” features famous paintings by Dutch authors, being recreated with nothing but a cotton white cloth and an iron.
The clip is part of a Philips commercial campaign in Russia, which tries to make ironing fun. It doesn't look very fun, rather quite complicated, but the results are tr... |
14 November 2012
12:05 GMT |
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An international collaboration of astronomers established in a new study that several metals play a key role in the formation and development of low-mass extrasolar planets. The team was led by EXOEarths experts at the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto's (CAUP).
In order to arrive at this co... |
17 August 2012
10:25 GMT |
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Scientists with the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) say that iron did the job of magnesium some three million years ago, when it helped ribonucleic acid (RNA) take on the molecular shapes that ultimately enabled it to support complex biology.
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1 June 2012
09:14 GMT |
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University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists determined that teens who exhibit a deficiency of iron tend to be at higher risk of suffering conditions affecting the brain later on in life.
The risk mostly addresses forms of dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease. This correlation has been hinted at ... |
16 January 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Iron is the most important element in our planet's core, that much is known. What is still a mystery is how it behaves under the extreme pressure and temperature levels inside Earth. Thanks to a new series of experiments, scientists now have a much deeper understanding of what is happening down there.
One of t... |
20 December 2011
05:35 GMT |
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The results of a new scientific study refine our knowledge about how Earth's oceans looked like about a billion years ago. The picture the research paints has tremendous implications, since it shows that iron was the prevailing nutrient for prolonged periods of time, rather than oxygen.
Experts already know ... |
8 September 2011
05:23 GMT |
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A shrimp-like animal that makes up the basis of the food chain spreading across Antarctica has been found to be the most important player in bringing iron to the Southern Ocean. The creature, called krill, contributes to the growth and blooming of phytoplankton. These are microscopic organisms that make up the first ... |
4 July 2011
10:27 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that icebergs melting in the world's oceans are actually helping make the waters more fertile. This is accomplished by adding more of the chemical iron into the water mixture, which in turn leads to more phytoplankton blooms.These blooms are... |
16 May 2011
11:00 GMT |
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On dry land, animals get their daily iron supplies from plants or read meat, but in the deep ocean things are a bit more difficult. Yet organisms living here need iron just as much as their more complex counterparts on the surface. A new study shows that hydrothermal vents are providing the chemical.These natural chi... |
10 May 2011
09:28 GMT |
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University of Leeds experts have determined that expecting mothers who do not consume sufficiently large amounts of iron during the early stages of pregnancy tend to have children with reduced weight.According to the group, the early pregnancy is a critically-important stage in the life of an embryo. It is believed t... |
4 March 2011
10:26 GMT |
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Developer BioWare, best known for creating the Mass Effect and the Dragon Age series, has offered the first information about a new project it is working on, suggesting that it is somehow linked to the Mass Effect game universe and promising a more complete reveal at the Spike Video Game Awards which take place on De... |
18 November 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Civilization V is the new turn based strategy game from Jon Shafer, Sid Meier and the team at Firaxis, allowing players to take control of a nation as a mythical leader and lead them to glory in search of victory via domination, science, social policies or democratic world vote.I settled on going for a few cities ear... |
5 October 2010
18:31 GMT |
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The iron-making process is very toxic for the environment and it contributes to climate change so scientists from the United States and China have found a new production method, with zero pollution.Iron metal is produced in the same way since the industrial revolution: iron ore is melted at temperatures over 2000°... |
10 September 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Scientists from the University Joseph Fourier (UJF), in Grenoble, believe that our planet's solid core may be caught in an endless loop of melting and liquefying. The processes partially affect the innermost, solid core, in the sense that the entire structure is moving through the mantle. As it does so, the team... |
5 August 2010
06:06 GMT |
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The oldest and most complex system of iron forgeries was recently discovered in Scandinavia. The find was made by a group of researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s (NUST) Museum of Natural History and Archeology, who were led by archaeologist Ruth Iren Oien. When she discovered th... |
28 December 2009
09:03 GMT |
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The American space agency's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) space probe is currently orbiting around in the inner solar system, on a course that will set it into Mercury's orbit in early 2011. The probe has just recently completed its third and final flyby of the inn... |
4 November 2009
03:05 GMT |
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It has been widely agreed upon that oceans act as the largest carbon sinks of the world, engulfing vast amounts of carbon dioxide each year. The water in itself does not draw in carbon dioxide (CO2) – the main greenhouse gas that causes global warming. Rather, tiny organisms known collectively as the phytoplank... |
1 August 2009
06:42 GMT |
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In a mind-boggling piece of engineering achievement, experts at the University of California in Davis (UCD) used a supercomputer to model the early stages of the Earth's crust, back in the days when the planet was just solidifying from an incandescent ball of red-hot lava. The goal of the simulation was to under... |
16 June 2009
21:31 GMT |
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Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany announced recently that they fully support the proposed action plan for the Southern Ocean, which involves it being sprinkled with several tens of tons of iron, which is supposed to help plankton in the area regenerate and take up more harmful carbon dioxide fr... |
29 January 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Paramount Digital Entertainment has released Iron Man: Aerial Assault for iPhone and iPod touch. Based on the popular movie starring one of Marvel's most iconic super heroes and making the rounds on iTunes, the game has players tilting their devices and engaging enemies in mid-flight melee combat quicktime event... |
17 December 2008
07:57 GMT |
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A new study on the evolution of life as related to the diversity or scarceness of some chemical compounds in the oceans may shed new light on the steps to follow in the attempt to investigate the possible presence of life in the oceans of alien worlds. Life is not restricted to water, though; instead, it involves a b... |
10 December 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Recent calculations performed by a US plasma physicist suggest that noctilucent clouds do not bounce off radar signals because of their silver plating, but because of their, albeit small, metal content.Blue polar mesospheric clouds, as the late twilight residents are sometimes called, form at the boundaries between a... |
16 October 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Alarming hair loss is a dilemma most modern women have faced over the past years. Whether it's because of an erratic diet or simply because of the high level of stress we have to live with every day, we lose more hair now than we used to lose five or ten years ago - and that feeling of standing in front of the m... |
11 June 2008
16:55 GMT |
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It was first discovered in 1911 during experiments with mercury cooled at temperatures close to absolute zero and nearly a century later, superconductivity still manages to baffle the minds of researchers. Scientists from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University recently discovered a ne... |
2 June 2008
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On 14 April 1912, RMS Titanic, an Olympic-class passenger liner, struck an iceberg while in the waters of the North Atlantic. Three hours later, on 15 April 1912, the so-called 'unsinkable' luxury liner sank, killing more than 1,500 people on board. Ironically, the biggest passenger liner of its time was in... |
21 April 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Isomers are very important to scientists mostly because their ground state atomic nuclei can provide with valuable information regarding interactions between the protons and neutrons present inside the nucleus. Some isomers may only live for a few fractions of a second while others, for millions of years at a time, t... |
25 March 2008
03:27 GMT |
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Simply put, rust is the common term for iron or iron alloy corrosion. Though most of the metals present on Earth eventually go through a corrosion phase, we only refer to the iron metal corrosion when we say the word rust. Iron corrosion represents a set of chemical reactions between iron, water and oxygen, which end... |
11 February 2008
10:37 GMT |
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You are an animal lover, and you have decided not to eat anything coming from an animal. But with the meat and animal products out, you're going to miss many minerals, vitamins and nutrients. Watch out to this:1. Proteins are the "bricks" of the organism, and must contain all the essential aminoacids, in precise... |
1 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The Hittites were mentioned even in the Bible. Their roots started with the Indo-European invasion in Anatolia (Asia Minor, now Turkey) 4,000 years ago. Around 1530 BC, the Hittites already made rapid invasions in the neighboring areas, and destroyed Babylon. By those times, Hittites were a warlike people involved in... |
31 January 2008
14:46 GMT |
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The Earth's mantle can stretch up to 2,900 kilometers below the surface, thus the only way to study it is to conduct measurements on the speed of seismic waves which travel through it, in order to determine the rough composition and density. However, a new research conducted relatively recently has shown that ag... |
25 January 2008
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Most of the metals we use are alloys, combinations in which one chemical is a metal. That's because pure metals rarely have the ideal properties for a certain task, but they can be improved by adding other metals. Resistance, hardness, melting point and electric conductivity are properties linked to the crystall... |
3 January 2008
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Earth, like many other bodies in space, is constantly being bombarded with streams of highly energetic sub-atomic particles of matter, coming from all directions. But, while some emissions of particles inside the atmosphere can be explained relatively easy, one type of cosmic rays remained, so far, mostly a mystery. ... |
4 December 2007
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The main tourist attraction in Cerne Abbas village (Dorset, England) is not its river, nor the streets lined with stone houses, not even the Abbey; it's its famous giant, a 55 m (180ft) naked figure carved into the chalk hillside. Many would think of the giant, property of the National Trust, the same age as Sto... |
12 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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On November 19, 1703, in the fortress prison of Bastille, Paris, a mysterious character of unknown identity died. His face was covered by a mask of black velvet cloth since he was made prisoner 25 years before, and his guardians had received the order to kill him if he uncovered his face or addressed other issues tha... |
10 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Mars' surface is a frozen wasteland composed primarily of basalt and full of craters. Much of the surface is deeply covered by a fine iron(III) oxide dust that has the consistency of talcum powder. The planet has no intrinsic magnetic field, even though parts of the planet's crust have been magnetized.But ... |
1 June 2007
02:54 GMT |
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Too much of anything, be it even a good thing, may result harmful. Iron is often taken against anemia, as it raises the blood's number of red blood cells. In pregnancy, women are preventively prescribed iron and many take extra iron separately or in a multivitamin pill. But a new research at Tarbiat Modarres Uni... |
31 May 2007
09:26 GMT |
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Could the humble iron make us rich? Swedish researchers tend to say yes, as they linked iron ore deposits to gold deposits. In northern Sweden, iron ore has been extracted for many centuries and today it is still mined from two places-Kirunavaara and Malmberget. Kirunavaara site has also given its name to the Kiruna ... |
28 May 2007
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Most astronomers believe that our solar system formed from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud, which was likely several light-years across and probably birthed several stars. But a new find contradicts that nebular hypothesis, saying it wasn't a black hole that gave birth to the Sun and the p... |
25 May 2007
06:53 GMT |
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What does kitchen physics have to do with astronomical measurements? Well...everything. Pop quiz: You have two eggs on the kitchen table. How do you know which one is boiled and which one is raw? Easy: you spin them and the raw egg will spin slower that the hard-boiled one.A team of scientists led by Jean-Luc Margo... |
4 May 2007
04:40 GMT |
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A new research points out the fact that the smallest particles in lunar dust might be toxic, and could be a possible threat to astronauts inhaling them. These health effects have been signaled since NASA's Apollo missions. Astronaut Harrison H (Jack) Schmitt, the last man to step on to the Moon in Apollo 17, com... |
20 March 2007
04:07 GMT |
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Iron production was the most sophisticated form of metalworking for ancient civilizations. The complicated technology of the iron ore reduction has its roots in ancient Anatolia (today Turkey) in the Hittite and Mitanni kingdoms, 4,000 years ago. There is evidence that in northern India, it appeared 3,800 years ago. ... |
9 March 2007
10:41 GMT |
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Watermelons are believed to have originated in India, where they are extensively used for their sweet taste and beneficial properties upon our health, but some experts say that they may have also come from tropical Africa. Watermelon is the fruit of a vine-like herb and has a dark green skin and rich red flesh.Waterm... |
18 July 2006
06:06 GMT |
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