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A recently-developed tiny solar array is sparking a very vivid interest in Army officials. The array is comprised of 20 small solar cells, each a little over a millimeter long. This early version of the solar device built from organic polymers is able to generate only 7 volts of electric power for the time bein... |
8 November 2008
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By studying the scaled armor of a species of fish that have been swimming through the freshwater pools of Africa for the past 100 million years or so, engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now revealed the secrets to one of the most effective aquatic armors, which could eventually lead to the devel... |
29 July 2008
10:33 GMT |
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If this intercession succeeds, it would be a world's first. A soldier's widow has achieved success in having sperm taken from his body and frozen four days after he died in Iraq. Sgt. Dayne Darren Dhanoolal, 26, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armour Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Divis... |
9 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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In 1974, while digging for a well, the Chinese farmers from a village in the Shaanxi province discovered several terracotta statues. They were the first of thousands of statue-soldiers of an army buried in the tomb of the Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang, who died 2,200 years ago. The 8,099 soldiers, 300 horses and 200 c... |
19 March 2008
09:51 GMT |
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Romans created and maintained the greatest ancient Empire for centuries, spreading their Greek-influenced culture. Their culture was the model for subsequent European cultures. About 40 % of the people in the European Union speak a language of Latin origin (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and others). ... |
18 March 2008
10:37 GMT |
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1. Ancient Greek culture founded the western culture, with its modern traits of developing intellectual and scientific skills, a culture based on reasoning, investigation and experimentation. Ancient Greeks developed medicine, logics, aesthetics, metaphysics, mathematics and geometry, and this gave them a profound in... |
5 February 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Assyrians were one of the most warlike people in history, lovers of the violence of the war and hunt. Amongst the people of the ancient Middle East, they were famous for their cruelty. At the peak of its power, Assyria stretched from Egypt to Persian Gulf. Their aggressiveness was partially attributed to their locati... |
26 January 2008
03:44 GMT |
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If war does not kill them, veterans will kill themselves anyway. A recent research at Portland State University and Oregon Health & Science University has shown that male veterans present a double likelihood of committing suicide as compared to their civilian counterparts. "We clearly demonstrated that independent of... |
12 June 2007
09:16 GMT |
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Google's representatives offered a funny reply to the recently imposed ban for the US soldiers looking for entertainment content on YouTube. Earlier this week, the Pentagon blocked YouTube on all the computers connected to the Defense Department network because they regarded the website as a loss of bandwidth. H... |
18 May 2007
15:56 GMT |
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The US soldiers are now banned on YouTube after the Department of Defense decided to block the access on numerous online website including Google's video sharing service. Besides YouTube, the troops are banned on MySpace, MTV, Hi5, Pandora and some other Internet websites. Although the official refused to sustai... |
14 May 2007
09:36 GMT |
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Since their discovery in 1974 in Shaanxi province, the ancient Chinese terracotta army posed a puzzle: Ancient pollen could lead scientists to the kilns where the figures in China's terracotta army were made. The 2,200-year-old clay army made of 8,099 soldiers, 300 horses and 200 chariots guards the tomb of Qin ... |
27 March 2007
09:36 GMT |
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The invisible soldier is the dream of any troop commander. But till an invisibility cloak will be created, a science project realized by two school students could very well become an important defense strategy employed by soldiers. Using the so-called electrochromism, the students have made a soldier's uniform t... |
24 March 2007
08:22 GMT |
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