| Raven, as Intelligent as Apes |  | Birdbrain is for many an insult.
But researches have proven that some birds can be really intelligent, even if their intelligence is different from that of the mammals and has other brain support. ... [read more >>] | | Date: 18 May 2007, 11:23 |
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| The World's Oldest Wooden Anchor |  | One of the first maritime civilizations rose on the Mediterranean, so it's no wonder that now archaeologists have found embedded in the mud of the seafloor the world's oldest wooden anchor of an ancie ... [read more >>] | | Date: 18 May 2007, 09:47 |
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| Herpes Viruses Reject Bacterial Infections! |  | The herpes is nasty, widespread and has no cure at the moment.
But with all the damage they induce, researchers have found a positive side in these viruses: they can boost the body's resistance ag ... [read more >>] | | Date: 18 May 2007, 00:06 |
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| How to Cut a Liquid with a Knife |  | What happens when you stick a knife into a solid material and drag it through? A cleavage splits the two sides of the material, leaving a visible trace of the knife. And when you do that to a fluid? ... [read more >>] | | Date: 17 May 2007, 23:06 |
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| How Much Does a Black Hole Weigh? |  | A recently developed method has successfully been applied for weighing a black hole named Cygnus X-1, located in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan) approximately 10 000 light years away in our Galax ... [read more >>] | | Date: 17 May 2007, 23:06 |
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| Secret of Titan's Smog |  | Saturn's moon, Titan, has a strange atmosphere, and astronomers are very interested in finding the source of the phenomena that led to the forming of the only nitrogen-rich mix of gases in the solar s ... [read more >>] | | Date: 17 May 2007, 22:46 |
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| Soon, Human-Animal Hybrids |  | The day when we will see the man-animal mutants from the Ninja Turtles on the streets is approaching.
British ministers have allowed the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos for scientific purp ... [read more >>] | | Date: 17 May 2007, 17:14 |
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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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