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In 2006, 147 Japanese Died of Overwork
Japanese people are famous for their long office hours and this marks their physical and mental health, and this comes with a heavy toll, as each year registers a new record of people dying from overw ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 16:37
Males Can Manipulate Sperm Quantity Depending on Competition and on Female's Quality and Novelty
A male's mission is to mate with as many females he possibly can and as often as he can, n order to spread his genes as much as possible. But it doesn't stop here. If a male mates only with on ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 15:52
Old Buildings Defy Gravity – Modern Standards Say They Should Have Collapsed
Some of the oldest buildings have curious design solutions to help them defy gravity, like the arches. Modern architects should learn old tricks, since according to modern regulations, such buildings ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 15:32
Alien Planet Covered in Hot Ice
European astronomers have just discovered a strange planet roughly the size of Neptune, made of hot, solid water. It has been named GJ 436b and it orbits a cooler red star located about 30 light-year ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 15:06
Scientists Have Obtained the First Images of How Memory Forms
The latest technological achievements enable us to track down the biochemical and physical processes found behind the memory formation. But now, for the first time, we have an image of how our mem ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 14:18
Cancer Killing Gene and Chemotherapy Do Not Match
Chemotherapy has a lot of side effects, from leaving you bald to severe pain, not to mention that is not 100 % effective and recurrent cancer may still occur. But a new research made on ovarian ca ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 13:39
New Silicon-based “Spintronics” Device for Ultrafast Computers
Silicon components may have reached the maximum degree of miniaturization, but this wonder-material still has an ace up its sleeve. The newest electronics field where it proved to be, yet again, the ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 13:23
Nanotechnology For Precise And Controlled Gene Delivery
Inserting a gene into a cell is hard work. But it is even harder when it's about a plant cell. Now a team of Iowa State University has managed to do it and to trigger the gene's expression with co ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 12:14
Colloids May Produce New and More Efficient Optical Fibers
Colloids have been used for over 3,000 years, since the invention of ink, but only recently have scientist been able to decipher some of their unique properties. They are heterogeneous mixtures made ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 12:12
Strongest “Nanoglue” Ever Bonds Anything Together
Few people know that not all materials normally stick together, but many of you have had troubles sticking two surfaces together that no superglue seemed to be able to hold in place. A new adhesiv ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 11:38
Manipulating Stem Cells to Treat Baldness
Some salamanders can regenerate limbs and some lizards can regenerate tails, not mentioning that reptiles constantly regenerate their teeth while in mammals this phenomenon is far more limited. But ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 11:30
An Irish Stonehenge Has Been Discovered
Great archaeological discoveries come when not expected. The construction of a controversial four-lane highway in Ireland dug up the site of an open-air royal temple dating from the Stone Age. The ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 10:47
Geysers on Saturn's Moon Enceladus Froze All Chances of Life
The geysers on the Saturn's moon Enceladus are one of the most spectacular shows in our solar system. In 2006, NASA's Cassini spacecraft discovered in 2006 plumes of icy water vapors that kept intrig ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 09:56
New Strange Deep-Sea Species Found on the Depths of Antarctica
If you think that the deep cold waters of Antarctica have no life, forget it. A new research of the Antarctic Benthic Deep-Sea Biodiversity Project (ANDEEP) has found over 700 new species in the ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 09:53
The Latest: G-Spot Enlargement Procedure
The Grafenberg-spot (commonly known as G-spot) is still a vivid subject of debate amongst specialists in what concerns its existence, but there are already doctors that execute procedures for its enla ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 02:06
The Killer Coral
A coral is a colony made of small animals, called polyps. The polyps live in symbiosis with algae called zooxanthellae, that make photosynthesis, that's why the corals live only in lighted places. The ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 00:06

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Steve Jobs, Apple, iPOD
The three synonymes of succes [read more >>]
Category: Press releases Date: 09 March 2005, 15:10
Flamingo announces the first release on the Romanian market of the V500 Cordless Notebook mouse from Logitech
The Logitech product received the Inovation Award at CES 2005 [read more >>]
Category: Press releases Date: 09 March 2005, 10:08
Ashampoo CD 2 iPod with clear advantages over competitors!
“Ashampoo CD 2 iPod” - More Music for the iPod® ! [read more >>]
Category: Press releases Date: 22 February 2005, 11:55

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Daily Gadget: Make a Wish Using the USB Fishbowl: “I Wish My Tamagotchi Were Alive!”
Make bubbles, change water temperature or monitor the filter device

Remember Tamagotchi, the Japanese virtual being stuck in a tiny device that slowly dies if you don't virtually feed it? I do. Well, if you find the ti ... [read more >>]
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Sci Pry: Extra, Extra, Read All About It: Fraud, They Wrote
Tips and tricks: careful on where you are buying

Easy money has always been the basic preoccupation of some people. Fast money is an appealing deal for some regardless of its (in)compatibility with t ... [read more >>]
(c) 2007 Softpedia
Gadget Review: Oh No, Pandora Blocked Outside The US!
No more free Internet radio

Pandora, the Music Gnome Project, is now restricted outside the US after the international licensing guidelines forced the producers to allow only loc ... [read more >>]
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Sci How To: Apple iPod - The Past, Present and Future King of MP3 Players
MP3 players market to expand to 286 million units in 4 years

Apple iPod still amazes MP3 players’ market, as In-Stat consumer survey data shows that 49% of MP3 player owners possess an iPod, the company predicti ... [read more >>]
(c) 2007 Softpedia
SOFTPEDIA OPINIONS
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. In this peak of the Hindu architecture, the temples are covered by the oldest taboo of the ... [read more >>]

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