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Prevent Heart Disease with these Healthy Tips

February 22, 2013

Prevent Heart Disease with these Healthy Tips

25% of the American population is suffering from heart related problems. It’s extremely important to carefully check our health, taking all necessary precautions to avoid heart disease.  The most common ways to prevent heart disease include avoiding smoking, exercising regularly and eating a healthy diet.   Check out the health infographic…

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Happy 540th birthday Copernicus

February 20, 2013

Nicolaus Copernicus

On February 19th was Nicolaus Copernicus‘s 540th birthday. He is widely known as the father of modern astronomy and for arguing that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He never earned a bachelor’s degree and he practiced medicine, without a medical degree.    Image © wikipedia

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Danger of death

February 20, 2013

Danger of death

The chart below compares the odds of dying in any given year from various reasons like fire, alcohol, heart disease, cycling, being struck by lightning, firearms discharge and more.

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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider stops for two years of maintenance

February 18, 2013

 Simulated particle events that would indicate the existence of supersymmetry

CERN‘s Large Hadron Collider stops for two years of maintenance and tune-ups, after three-year running period with major advances in physics, including the discovery of the ‘God particle’, the Higgs boson, announced on 4 July 2012.   Watch the video…    Simulated particle events that would indicate the existence of supersymmetry.   Image © CMS experiment

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This is How your Brain Works

February 17, 2013

This is How your Brain Works
Ever wonder how your brain processes information? This video explains the brain tricks and illusions helping to demonstrate the two main systems of Fast and Slow Thinking in your brain.

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3-D Micro Printed Spaceship

February 9, 2013

3-D Micro Printed Spaceship

This video shows a realtime recording of the 3D micro printing process by two-photon polymerization. The length of the spaceship is about equal to the diameter of a human hair!

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The end of Painful Injection

February 4, 2013

The end of Painful Injection

A Patch containing hundreds of ‘microneedles’ that penetrate the skin, could mark the end of painful injection and used to deliver radical new DNA vaccines.

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Mysterious purple spheres found in the desert

February 4, 2013

Mysterious purple spheres found in the desert

Mysterious thousands of tiny purple spheres found by a couple in the in the middle of Tuscon desert.   Watch the full report in the video…

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EU Invests $1.35 billion to develop Graphene

February 3, 2013

EU Invests $1.35 billion to develop Graphene

EU invests $1.35 billion to research and develop Graphene. A consortium of companies and research labs receive a giant research grant of 1 billion Euro, and giant Nokia is carrying the flag for the electronics researchers in this group. Image © Nokia

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$1.5-billion Supercomputer to simulate the Human Brain

February 1, 2013

$1.5-billion Supercomputer to simulate the Human Brain

The European Commission has announced, the Human Brain Project, a $1.5-billion Supercomputer to simulate the Human Brain.    Image © wikipedia

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