Topic: SCIENCE - on September 29, 2002 at 1:20:37 AM CEST
Boeing tries to defy gravity
Researchers at the world's largest aircraft maker, Boeing, are using the work of a controversial Russian scientist to try to create a device that will defy gravity.
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 12:52:42 PM CEST
Bees Trained to Sniff Land Mines II
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Six years ago, we began development of methods to add the capability of detecting and monitoring volatile and semivolatile chemicals in the air inside beehives and real time monitoring of the responses of honey bee colonies to exposures to these and other harmful substances. This work was sponsored by the U.S. Army's Center for Environmental Health Research. They are leaders in the area of health risk assessment research using non-mammalian animal models.
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 3:22:39 AM CEST
Did the Vikings Spread HIV Resistance?
The chemokine receptor CCR5 is one of two receptors on macrophages, an immune cell, used by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) early in the establishment of an infection. Individuals with two mutant copies of this receptor (homozygotes) have proven to have high, but not absolute, resistances to infection, while those with one copy (heterozygotes) have a delayed progression of AIDS.
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 2:44:45 AM CEST
Spermicide offers no HIV protection
A widely used spermicidal gel, which was thought to protect against HIV infection, has been shown to increase the risks of acquiring the virus. The discovery has prompted scientists and AIDS-awareness groups to call for a ban on the use of the spermicide Nonoxynol-9 in lubricants and condoms. They fear it gives users a false sense of protection.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 28, 2002 at 1:36:05 AM CEST
Bees Trained to Sniff Land Mines
Trained honeybees have shown a remarkable ability to sniff out land mines, suggesting a possible new way to find the estimated 110 million unexploded land mines around the world, according to researchers at the University of Montana.
Jerry Bromenshenk has studied bees as pollution sensors and environmental sensors for the past 30 years. He said honeybees have proven themselves to be easier to train, harder working and more accurate than bomb-sniffing dogs.
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Topic: - on September 28, 2002 at 1:32:11 AM CEST
Wie werden eigentlich chrash test dummies gebaut ?
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Topic: - on September 27, 2002 at 3:19:49 PM CEST
Natural blondes are an endangered species and will be extinct by 2202
There are too few people carrying the blonde gene for the hair colour to continue down the generations. So women and men with blonde hair, blonde eyebrows and blue eyes will vanish from the face of the earth within 200 years, says the World Health Organisation. Researchers predict the last blonde will live in FINLAND which has the highest number of true blondes in the world.
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Topic: - on September 27, 2002 at 1:13:38 PM CEST
Tibetan culture finds digital saviour
Thousands of historical Tibetan books are going digital in an attempt to save Tibet's rich Buddhist-influenced literature. At the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center in New York, a non-profit organisation, workers are scanning hundreds of thousands of pages onto a computer.
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 3:32:16 PM CEST
M400 Skycar
Using a principle similar to that of the British Harrier jump jet, the Moller Skycar volantor incorporates a patented thrust deflection vane system that redirects thrust, enabling it to hover or to takeoff and land vertically from almost any surface. This capability plus the added safety of ducted fans makes it ideal for a wide variety of commercial and military applications. These include private and charter air travel, express delivery, news gathering, border patrol, police and fire work, and search and rescue, to name just a few.
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Topic: - on September 26, 2002 at 2:25:58 PM CEST
"Verborgener" Schatz: Das medizinische Wissen indigener Völker
München - Vom 11. bis 13. Oktober findet an der Münchner Universität die Weltkonferenz für Ethnomedizin statt. An drei Tagen stellen am Vormittag in Vorträgen traditionelle Heiler und Schamanen des World Wide Healer Forums ihre Fertigkeiten und ihr Wissen vor.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 26, 2002 at 12:49:56 PM CEST
Fundort der "Himmelsscheibe" erstmals besichtigt
Auf der zwei Kilogramm schweren Scheibe, die einen Durchmesser von 32 Zentimetern hat, befinden sich Goldauflagen, die von den Archäologen als Schiff, Mond, Sonne und Sterne gedeutet werden. Eine Ansammlung von sieben Goldpunkten wird als Sternehaufen der Plejaden in einer Konstellation wie vor 3600 Jahren gedeutet. Der von Holzpalisaden umzäumte Ort auf dem Mittelberg hat einen Durchmesser von 200 bis 350 Metern und war von einem komplizierten Grabensystem umgeben.
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Topic: - on September 25, 2002 at 9:22:19 PM CEST
Moor dig finds Roman iron factory
A huge Roman iron factory has been unearthed at a remote spot on the southern edge of Exmoor. Scientists believe the site near Brayford would have supplied markets right across the Roman Empire. Archaeologists have found furnaces and equipment buried which would have been used to smelt hundreds of tonnes of iron nearly 2,000 years ago.
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