| Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors |  | Quantum dot photodetectors have just taken a very important step towards large scale, low-cost applications. The fields where this new imaging technique would be invaluable are medical and biological ... [read more >>] | | Date: 21 May 2007, 12:05 |
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| Sex on Drugs and Alcohol |  | Many people consider drugs and alcohol as sexual stimulents and aphrodisiacs.
The can have a deep impact on sexuality, but the effects can be far from the desired ones.
Alcohol is employed to ... [read more >>] | | Date: 19 May 2007, 19:06 |
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| Some Dog Records |  | The dog is the first domesticated animal, from the time when people were just hunters-gatherers and long before the emergence of agriculture, about 18,000 years ago. It is regarded as the most devoted ... [read more >>] | | Date: 19 May 2007, 14:15 |
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| What's Behind the Croc Attack at Taiwan Zoo? |  | Allegations about lousy conditions on the state-run Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung, the second largest city of Taiwan, where a crocodile bit off the forearm of a veterinarian last month seem to explain the ... [read more >>] | | Date: 19 May 2007, 12:55 |
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| RFID Tagging Could Mean No More Money |  | In the near future, shopping may become a lot easier and will no longer mean that people must carry money or credit cars and fear theft. With the help of RFID technology, new tags placed on individua ... [read more >>] | | Date: 19 May 2007, 12:13 |
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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?
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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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