| China Will Launch the First Moon Orbiter |  | An official from the Chinese Space Administration declared that the first step in Moon exploration will take off later this year. It's a Moon orbiter, part of an ambitious Chinese space exploration p ... [read more >>] | | Date: 21 May 2007, 22:31 |
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| Steroids Use Is Booming |  | People have started to employ steroids like proteins or other nutritional supplements. However, what they don’t realize is that they face health risks involving liver damage, high cholesterol and stro ... [read more >>] | | Date: 21 May 2007, 18:06 |
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| 1024 Bits Encryption Can Be Cracked |  | Mathematics is not so easy, once you get past the "exact change" problem and the yearly taxes. Here's a mathematical record that might sound simple to achieve, until you try it.
An international t ... [read more >>] | | Date: 21 May 2007, 17:51 |
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| Why Do Transplants Induce Skin Cancer? |  | The techniques of organ transplanting may have developed at an astonishing pace and more patients can survive now, but this came with a side effect: 90 % of them get skin cancer.
In case of the tr ... [read more >>] | | Date: 21 May 2007, 16:43 |
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| Chinese Writing is 8,000 Years Old! |  | Chinese writing is thought to have resisted for 4,500 years. And the greatest danger for it was the attempt of replacing it with the Latin script.
But this did not work due to ethno-political rea ... [read more >>] | | Date: 21 May 2007, 13:39 |
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| Nanotechnology for Regenerating Nerves |  | Nanotechnology could now perform what was regarded before as a miracle: nerve regenerating.
As a first approach at the University of Miami, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) were used to build mechanic ... [read more >>] | | Date: 21 May 2007, 12:30 |
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| Switch or Router? |  | Get the appropriate network device for your LAN
Browsing the network forums on the Internet I came across lots of stupid questions and even more stupid answers. At one point a “networkly retarded” guy (these are his own words) was asking for ... [read more >>] | | Why Are People of Okinawa the Most Long-Lived on Earth? |  | Diet and lifestyle
The source of the youngness is not located in Shangri-La, the mythical place on Himalaya where people never got old. The heaven of longevity is encountered in the Japanese island of Okinawa, wh ... [read more >>] | | What Is the Link Between a Horse's Arse and Space Shuttles |  | The oldest and the newest means of transportation
You're probably wondering what does a horse's arse have to do with the most modern spacecraft. Well...everything.
First, a simple truth. Most of you know the popular saying " ... [read more >>] | | Gladiators and Beasts in the Roman Arenas |  | The barbarity of the civilizing empire
It all started in 264 BC at the obsequies of Junius Brutus when, in the honor of his memory, three pairs of gladiators fought.
Just three!
50 years later, Aemilius Lepidus threw in the a ... [read more >>] | | Star Trek: Science vs. Fiction |  | How much of it is real?
Generally, Star Trek is pretty intelligently written and more faithful to science than any other science fiction series ever shown on television. Star Trek also attracts and excites generation ... [read more >>] | | Windows Vista and the Sins of the Forbidden Fruit – Apple |  | Tiger barely rises to the inferior level of Windows Vista Home Basic
The world's most advanced and still advancing operating system will never be the same in the Wow aftermath. Mac OS X Tiger has been downgraded to nothing more than a modest platf ... [read more >>] | | Mac OS Crushes Vista in OS Deathmatch! |  | Wanna know why is Mac OS better? Read this!
As I was saying a few days ago, the Mac team here, at Softpedia, was challenged to a "duel of operating systems" by those at Windows, who claimed Vista has dethroned the Mac OS as &qu ... [read more >>] | | What's in the Mind of the Workaholic? |  | And how to treat it ...
He/she’s got 30 and a professional status which allows him/her to mortgage without fear, to see the world and enjoy the latest in technology and leisure.
He/she is one of the few in his/her ... [read more >>] | | 10 Popular Myths in Science, Busted! |  | You know them, now let's bust them
1 - Men think about sex every seven seconds.
Males are driven to reproduce, evolutionarily speaking, but there is no scientific way of measuring to wha ... [read more >>] | | The Stones That Have Sex |  | Kama Sutra carved on the walls
On the walls of the XI century edifices of Khajuraho, there's only one ruler: sex.
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