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How Does the World's Biggest Combustion Engine Work?
What is the world's biggest internal combustion engine? Here are some clues: it's running on diesel and it's used to power the world's largest ships. The name is Wärtsilä RTA96-C and it's the lar ... [read more >>]
Date: 17 May 2007, 00:06
New NMR Microscopic Detector Gets Smaller and More Efficient
A new radical approach to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) uses a microscopic detector to severely decrease the amount of proteins required to measure molecular structures and could eventually produc ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 23:06
Do We Live in a Two-Time Universe?
A theoretical physicist is stating that a second dimension of time could help physicists better explain the laws of nature. Now, the dimension of time has an important role in describing matter, grav ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 22:31
Gigantic Ghostly Ring of Dark Matter Discovered by Hubble
Hubble Space Telescope has just discovered a gigantic, ghostly ring of dark matter at a distance of 5 billion light-years from Earth. So far, it's the most compelling evidence of the existence of the ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 21:26
The Most Realistic 3-D Virtual Tours of Ancient Egypt or Rome
Do you feel like visiting ancient Roman vestiges or the Egyptian pyramids? Or maybe you already have, but the thousand-year-old remnants failed to impress you like the originals would have? The ex ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 17:47
Testosterone Saves the Brain
Testosterone is not good just for growing big muscles and turn men and women horny. A pilot research at UCLA indicates that testosterone fights multiple sclerosis (MS) in men after another large-scale ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 16:40
Car Crashes Caused by Women Increase Alarmingly
Automobile crashes, also called road traffic accidents (RTAs), kill around 1.2 million people worldwide each year and injure about forty times this number. The most known causes in the mind of the ge ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 16:18
A Better Way of Drugging with Cannabis
This "social" drug comes to us under the form of marijuana and hashish. Cannabis has been proved beneficial in relieving pains in some severe diseases. But smoking cannabis, besides the drug's effe ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 16:11
Electric Vehicles Powered by “The Will of The People”
Electric cars are an environmentally friendly alternative to old internal combustion engines that use fossil fuels and pollute the atmosphere. For now, they have their limitations regarding the auton ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 15:38
Egg Freezing, the Reproductive Fashion of the Future?
Humans employ modern technology to completely manipulate their reproduction: from in vitro fertilization to the sex determination of the embryo in just 6 weeks after fertilization. Perhaps the ne ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 15:34
Revolutionary Hydrogen Extraction Technique Can Replace Gasoline in Engines
A breakthrough has been made in the field of alternative fuels. A new method can generate hydrogen from water with the help of an aluminum alloy, which can be used in fuel cells or internal combustio ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 14:06
Faster Reproduction Saves Animals from Being Slain to Extinction
Faster mating means safer existence. This is valid at least in the case of the large herbivorous mammals, from rhinos and elephants to deer and antelopes: the slower their reproductive period, the ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 13:52
Experimental Sleep Treatment for Mars Astronauts
NASA has asked doctors to come up with ways of helping astronauts heading for Mars get used to the long Martian day. They could be facing the same problems as a frequent traveler, as their internal c ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 13:17
Females Change Their Sexual Behavior to Get the Best Hunk
Hens mate in the morning in male-dominated groups of chickens to avoid an evening of "sexual harassment" from amorous cockerels, according to a new research. People say that birds – and especially ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 13:11
Too Many Vitamins Kill a Man's Sex Life
There is a great danger threatening a man during his life: the prostate cancer. The surgery for prostate cancer leaves most men impotent, as nerves can be touched. Moreover, this is the second lea ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 12:30
Mystery of Mars' Sand Dunes Solved
A long-standing mystery about Mars' sand dunes may have just been sold by scientists. The strange thing about the dunes is that they look as if they were created by winds, but there are no winds on t ... [read more >>]
Date: 16 May 2007, 12:01

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Peter Balbus Chairs M.I.T. Enterprise Forum Panel on Capital Market Trends
Strategic consultant sees indications pointing to start of a new venture capital cycle and predicts higher level of VC investments in younger, early-stage companies in 2005 [read more >>]
Category: Press releases Date: 21 February 2005, 20:28
Smartphone Sales Will Grow at a Compound Rate of 28% through 2009
Smartphones will not replace dedicated devices [read more >>]
Category: Press releases Date: 18 February 2005, 20:31

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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 >>]
(c) 2007 Softpedia
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 >>]
(c) 2007 Softpedia
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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