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The amazing, new find was made in Staffordshire, where archaeologists discovered the largest such pile of gold in the entire United Kingdom. The Anglo-Saxon hoard features approximately 1,500 pieces of silver and gold, and is estimated to be around 1,300 years old. Experts say that more than a year will most likely g... |
24 September 2009
17:01 GMT |
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By incorporating inorganic nanoparticles on silk templates, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have recently developed a new method of obtaining strong and flexible composite structures, as well as composite films made of silk-silver nanoparticles. The latter product can be used to crea... |
21 August 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Silver-treated antibacterial bandages are nothing new in hospitals around the world, but, while the chemical indeed kills most of the pathogens, it also harms certain cells in the patients' skins, which are necessary in order for the healing process to go as fast as possible. This happens on account of the large... |
19 August 2009
20:41 GMT |
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Usually, when a burn victim is brought into the emergency room, their wounds are treated using some type of silver-based gel, which is known to promote and accelerate healing. Silver sulfadiazine and silver nitrate are potent germ fighters, and their actions have saved the lives of countless patients that would have ... |
23 July 2009
04:49 GMT |
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If there's anything inseparable from the handhelds released by Nintendo, it's the Pokemon franchise, which has generated one of the most important series of videogames for the platform, with huge sales and a very big fan base. And it seems that the Japanese videogame developer and publisher is getting ready... |
4 May 2009
05:23 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, Sony Ericsson will indeed release a Silver version of its upcoming Sony Ericsson Idou mobile phone. We've already had the chance to take a look at the Silver variant of the device a while ago, and now more images with it have made it into the wild. It has been said befo... |
9 April 2009
04:09 GMT |
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Online services have begun to play a major role for all consoles, as a lot of customers are now basing their decisions on the advantages they can have once the device has been connected to the Internet. Despite all their combined efforts, the PlayStation 3 and the Wii can't really touch the Xbox 360's extre... |
6 March 2009
02:45 GMT |
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Another piece of evidence to the fact that hobbies can help science was provided recently, as a college professor from the Netherlands, with the help of his metal detector, came upon a Celtic coin cache. The coins were made of gold and silver during Caius Julius Caesar's time (sometimes in the middle of the fir... |
14 November 2008
07:36 GMT |
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Alchemy defines an occult art, a mix of science, mystical philosophy and a hint of magic, with the intended purpose of finding ways to extend lifespan and cure illnesses by discovering the elixir of life. During this search, alchemists focused on obtaining silver and gold (the perfect metals, since they were always s... |
14 October 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson unveiled today that its C902 Cyber-shot handset would have a James Bond Limited Edition. Coming in a new color, titanium silver, the James Bond C902 will be available starting November, at the same time with the worldwide release of the newest movie featuring the 007 agent, namely Quantum Of Solace.The ... |
4 August 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Super atoms are bundles of several tens of individual atoms in a vapor state that have a collective chemical behavior similar to that of a single atom of the same element used to create the super atom. Super atoms have been proven to exist for the first time back in 2005 when a team of researchers created a super ato... |
2 July 2008
02:22 GMT |
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Retired consumer electronics appliances could bring you a fortune, even before recycling, if you decided to mine them for precious metals. The new trend is as scientific as possible, and even got a name: "Urban mining". The idea behind it is the fact that scrap parts hold significant amounts of gold, silver, copper, ... |
29 April 2008
06:55 GMT |
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The fashionable Sony Ericsson S500i is now offered in a new color version, Steel Silver, which makes the phone look better than did all the other colors available until now: Spring Yellow, Mysterious Green, Ice Purple and Contrasted Copper. Released in the summer of 2007, the S500i doesn't have too many advanced... |
23 April 2008
09:16 GMT |
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Nokia 6500 Classic is now available in a new silver version, along with the already existing black and brown ones, offering a new choice for all the Nokia fans out there. Silver is always nice when it dresses a mobile phone, so the silver 6500 Classic is obviously a good looking handset. Aside from the color, Nokia... |
16 April 2008
05:14 GMT |
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LG announced it will launch a Silver edition of its much appreciated LG Prada (or LG KE850), after almost a year since the original black version came out (in March 2007). This is great news for those who like LG Prada but wished from the beginning for another color. Considering the black Prada has been sold in more... |
14 January 2008
10:06 GMT |
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Silver has been priced for millennia and even from the Middle Ages, royal and noble houses used silver dishes due to their disinfectant effect. Colloidal silver is still sold as an universal panacea, being advertised as a cold drug, decongestant, all-around germ fighter, a type of universal remedy. But is there any r... |
21 December 2007
08:43 GMT |
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The two membership levels available for Xbox Live subscribers (Gold and Silver) allow Xbox 360 users to access different items and features at different price levels. Everything (well, almost everything) you needed to know about the differences between the two subscription levels and which one is most suitable for yo... |
29 November 2007
06:50 GMT |
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HTC has just announced that it will release the HTC Touch in a new silver color in the future. This comes after the wasabi green version proved to inexplicably have little success, as the greenish shade looks great on the Touch shine.In fact, there are so many silvery phones out there that it sounds a bit disappointi... |
4 October 2007
10:06 GMT |
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Even from the Middle Ages, royal and noble houses used silver dishes due to their disinfectant effect. Colloidal silver is still sold as a cold drug, decongestant, all-around germ fighter, a type of universal panacea. But is there any real reason to take colloidal silver as a dietary supplement? The answer is a clear... |
24 July 2007
03:36 GMT |
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Vikings were like ants: raided everybody and everything and buried the loot for better times. And as they could all die during their bravery acts, some Viking treasures remained hidden till nowadays. Now one of the biggest Viking treasures ever has been found on an English farm by a father-son team of treasure hunter... |
20 July 2007
03:00 GMT |
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The Indian city of Calcutta is experiencing a mysterious phenomenon, involving coins. It seems that almost all the coins have fallen into a "black hole", causing a shortage never seen before in the eastern Indian city.No one knows exactly why there is no change in Calcutta, but the 14 millions citizens are getting d... |
19 June 2007
16:46 GMT |
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Deep-sea explorers have encountered what seems to be the richest sunken treasure ever found: about 500,000 of colonial-era silver and gold coins, which could worth $500 million.The trove was discovered on a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean. "For this colonial era, I think [the find] is unprecedented. I don't know... |
19 May 2007
08:11 GMT |
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When Columbus made his first steps on the American ground (or better said, Caribbean), his mind was set on an El Dorado, a realm of gold and silver riches. And indeed, they soon discovered two El Dorados: the Inca and the Aztec Empires. In 1532, Incas paid to Pizzaro, the conquistador of their empire, a ransom consi... |
21 April 2007
06:23 GMT |
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