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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
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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
04:41 GMT |
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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
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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
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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
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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
08:32 GMT |
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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
06:12 GMT |
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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
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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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