All Stories in Science News 2012

Cyborg Beetles: Future Military Spies

Cyborg Beetles: Future Military Spies

American scientists are on the verge of making cyborg beetles a reality. Researchers from theUnited Statesare getting close to successfully creating cyborg insects that may serve purposes like spying and recon operations. This project was made a reality with the funding received from theUSAarmy, cyborg …

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Antiperspirants Can Cause Cancer?

Antiperspirants Can Cause Cancer?

Information stating that antiperspirants can cause cancer is flowing around the media for a couple or years. The first such claims revealed that the underarm area (in which antiperspirants are applied) it’s the same zone where the lymph nodes are presents and where cancer cells …

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Blood Pressure Drugs To Cure The Effects Of Smoking

Blood Pressure Drugs To Cure The Effects Of Smoking

Recent studies conducted by Johns Hopkins present a new way of dealing with the fatal effects of cigarette smoke. The treatment, if proven viable on humans, could cure and prevent any lung damage caused by active or passive smoking, using blood pressure drugs. The laboratory-studies …

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Human Brain Cannot Multitask

Human Brain Cannot Multitask

When it comes to human performance, especially the one regarding the brain, modern man believes multitasking is they key to success. It is a known fact that modern computers and even gadgets have this ability to multitask, but is this capacity resembled in the human …

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Self-healing Circuits: The future of Electronic Devices And Batteries

Self-healing Circuits: The future of Electronic Devices And Batteries

It’s a well known fact that once a circuit fails, then an entire chip or even an entire device may suffer dramatically, reducing performance or even making a device inoperable. But science may find a way of reducing such damage, and even save a device …

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IBM Predictions For 2017 – The 5 in 5 Project

IBM Predictions For 2017 – The 5 in 5 Project

With all the technology surrounding mankind in the modern society, one can only wonder what the future may hold. Well, IBM Company conducted various studies in order to determine the major new features that should be widely available in near future in about five years …

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Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC): Fermilab’s New Particle Accelerator

Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC): Fermilab’s New Particle Accelerator

With particle accelerators being a relatively new way of conducting scientific research and come up with brilliant new ideas for various domains, the question remains: what exactly can such an accelerator do? For example, the European Large Hadron Collider is conducting studies in search for …

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Outwit The Grim Reaper By Walking With 3 Miles Per Hour

Outwit The Grim Reaper By Walking With 3 Miles Per Hour

A study published in the British Medical Journal states that death can be outwitted by walking at a specific pace. The experiment conducted by Australian scientists in five years involved 1705 men older than 70. The elders were part of CHAMP (The Concord Health and …

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Dinosaur Killer-Claws Shaped The Evolution Of Birds

Dinosaur Killer-Claws Shaped The Evolution Of Birds

Researchers from Montana State University’s Museum believe they found conclusive proof regarding the evolution of the dinosaurs into birds. Apparently, the flight capability came from the extended usage of the killer claws found in dinosaurs like the Velociraptor or the Deinonychus, claws that eventually evolved …

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Low-Mass Faint Stars Proven Real – Gravitational Microlensing Discovery

Low-Mass Faint Stars Proven Real – Gravitational Microlensing Discovery

Even with modern technology it still is hard to detect all the elements of the vast cosmic space. The hardest celestial bodies to detect are the faint stars with low-mass. Using microlensing, an astrophysicist from the University of Zurich accomplished such a hard task, observing …

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