Entries from May 2007
Unique Encyclopedia of Life has appeared in Internet
The international group of scientists from leading universities of the world has launched in Internet the Encyclopedia of Life - many mullions project which will incorporate and catalog all known biological species on the Earth.
By analogy to Wikipedia encyclopedia it is planned to introduce a system of free editing on a site - users can […]
Categories: Internet
Spirit vehicles threaten the ecology
Scientists from Stanford University have conducted researches and found out, that replacement of gasoline with spirit can cause negative consequences. Spirit (ethanol) considered to be non-polluting automobile fuel, however, that appeared only a myth.
Within the framework of research scientists used the computer model simulating a situation which can develop in the USA by 2020 when […]
Categories: Chemistry
Americans interbred computer and animals
American Internet – site, where inventors-amateurs spread their creations, put the thing that shows that information technologies and the nature can be easily combined even if it looks awful.
The 34-years American Casey McMahon from Los Angeles has presented her last invention - the computer which has been built-in stuffed beaver.
The invention which took her 3 […]
Categories: Inventions
Microsoft has declared Windows Longhorn open testing
Microsoft Representatives declared the beginning of the open testing of a new server operational system Windows Longhorn. The final Longhorn version is expected not earlier than the second half of 2007.
Microsoft Company expects that the new system will be tested by hundred thousands of experts in the information technologies field. The third Beta-version of the […]
Categories: Internet
First created Tera-pixel image
American company Aperio Technologies for the first time has created the digital image with one trillion points` resolution - Tera-pixel.
Aperio Technologies Company creates devices and technologies for digitization of images, made with the help of microscopes. Scanners, made by the company, are able to make pictures from microscopes with the resolution in one Gpixel less, […]
Categories: General
Orbital satellite COROT has found the first planet
The orbital satellite COROT launched at the end of 2006, has found the first planet which has received the name COROT-Exo-1b. It is informed, that the accuracy of devices is so high, that they even managed to fix some seismic activity inside a parental star of this planet.
Scientists managed to find a new planet with […]
Categories: Space
Scientists: Mars is half covered with ice
The American researchers informed that they have obtained the data by means of a new Mars scanning method. It has shown that the surface of the planet can half consist of ice.
The new method of water search, applied by the American scientists, gives more exact results, than the earlier one. With the help of this […]
Categories: Space
Venus and Mars - victims of climatic disasters
Astrobiologist David Grinspun from the Denver Nature and science museum considers that Venus and Mars in the past have been subjects to the climatic disasters.
David Grinspun has assumed that the climate on Venus and Mars was similar to that on the Earth, but then changed.
The reason of climate change on the Venus was a greenhouse […]
Categories: Space
The Sun utters organ sounds
The statement of the antique philosopher and mathematics Pythagor that the universe is filled with the “music of spheres”, has found confirmation in the modern science.
Professor Robert fon Phai-Shibenberg has declared at session of the British Royal Astronomical Society that protuberance emissions from a surface of the Sun are accompanied by organ sounds. Thus pipes […]
Categories: Space
Inet grasps the globe
The annual report of the economic intelligence department of Economist magazine (EUI) which estimates readiness of the world countries to use Internet - technologies, affirms that Inet helps to reduce a gap in digital technologies between the countries.
Economist annual report shows, that the Asian and African countries catch up with the largest network users, such […]
Categories: Internet