Almost 70 % of the largest cities of our planet are under the threat of flooding because of climate warming and increase of World Ocean’s level.
Such data was published in the report of the Washington Research Institute.
Scientists mark that from 33 cities which population will exceed 8 million people by 2015, 21 - “are […]

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NASA management on Friday, October, 26, has agreed to study the archives connected to mysterious incident in state Pennsylvania in 1965 when, according to statements of eyewitnesses, in 60 kilometers from Pittsburg UFO has fallen on the ground.
An official version, however, sounds much more prosy. US Air Forces experts who have surveyed the place of […]

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There are more than 20 thousand elements of waste products in a space orbit, declared on October, 22 Vladimir Priklonsky, the deputy representative of Roskosmos in the International coordinating board on space waste.
“These are only accounted elements of waste products, not including invisible from the Earth fractions”, - told Priklonsky, adding that, in his opinion, […]

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On October, 23 in Tokyo has opened the Big exhibition of robots, where were presented more than 100 Japanese robots, including the moving dolls of 17 century and the newest modern developments.
The exhibition is being held in two halls of the State science museum.
The separate hall is given to a child of Honda - […]

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Employees of the Chinese industrial technologies institute have announced supercompact single-seated vehicle named Ecooter.
This vehicle is a shows electroscooter with the closed cabin and an original diamond-shaped arrangement of wheels - one wheel ahead, two on both sides and one behind.
Developers inform that each wheel of their scooter is set in motion by the […]

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Researchers from York University have found out a new short cycle of carbon circulation, which proceeds due to the microorganisms living on roots of plants and eating sugar made by them.
Green leaves of plants, using sun energy, develop sugar from water and carbonic gas which provides growth of plants. However, as has shown the […]

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Developers of the American corporation iRobot have created new generation of the fighting robots iRobot which are much larger and faster than their predecessors.
Model Warrior x700 is the most perfect robot for a battlefield or police operations. The novelty weighs 113 kg, at the same time its useful load can reach 180 kg. The maximal […]

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Representatives of Apple informed a date of issue of new operational system MacOS X Leopard, informs Reuters.
The system will come into the market on October, 26, 2007, and will be on sale in two variants - one-user and a family one.
It is known, that new OS Leopard is equipped with the improved system of […]

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As writes state information site Chzungovan, China is going to launch first own artificial satellite on Moon Chan-Ye-1in the period from October, 22 till October, 25.
Launch of the satellite will carry out rocket-carrier Chanchzhen - 3Ð? from a platform number 2, or from a platform number 3 at Sichan cosmodrome.
It became known also about […]

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The Japanese company OMRON, which develops medical devices, has created technology of smile recognition and has presented it at an exhibition CEATEC 2007.
Authors of the technology claim that their development allows to estimate objectively sincerity of a person’s smile. And it is measured evidently - in percentage. Such development may be used by personnel managers […]

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