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Only 200 years ago, the doctors had given up before smallpox, from ancient times was considered a human disaster. In the XVIII century from it died every year 400 thousand Europeans, and vaccination against this plague was a real miracle. Modern scientists create vaccines that, under forecasts, will cope with not less terrible disease...

The United Nations has warned that world cereal stocks are so dangerously low that severe weather conditions in the U.S. and other exporting products to countries in the next year may provoke a major crisis of hunger.

Around protection Agency U.S. environmental broke a major scandal: the Federal court initiated against the organization case on charges of illegal experiments on human beings. Even now it is clear: despite the outcome of the proceedings, the reputation of the office already heavily damaged, writes The Washington Times.

The attention of all who wants to make a wish! According to reports of the International meteor organization, early on Sunday morning, October 21, meteor shower orionids reaches a peak of activity. This means that if you closely monitor the sky, you can see hundreds of falling stars. Promise that the number of meteorites can reach 25 per hour.

How rapidly time: I remember that not so long ago we have read, seriously denied the possibility of the existence of planets around normal double stars is because of their instability, caused by the large number of light. They say, Tatooine could arise only in the fevered imagination of science fiction (Hollywood writers). As we now understand, the planets around binary stars have: at least six, and this considering the fact that the characteristics of binary systems hamper their detection is the most popular method.

On Sunday, the 43-year-old Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner broke the world record in high-altitude parachute jumping. Austrian rose to a height of 39 kilometers to the stratosphere, where, and jumped.

This month you will see two dwarf planet Ceres and Vesta which will be visible next to Jupiter, but they are in the asteroid belt, and 2 meteor shower.

The scandal surrounding the Japanese scientist Hisashi, Moriguchi, who allegedly had several successful transplants patients with tissue grown from stem cells, acquires new details. At a press conference, Moriguchi admitted that he lied about the number of successful operations.

Planet Cancer 55 e, "super-earths", located in a sun-like star HD 75732 (55 Cancer, spectral class G8V), was opened in 2004. This is one of the closest to the Earth "supertall": up to its planetary system just 40,9 light years. It is about 8.6 times heavier than Earth, and its diameter is twice bigger than ours. Thus, the density of the Earth and Cancer 55 e quite comparable.

The new analysis showed that in the first ten seconds after the descent to the surface of Titan probe Huygens" jumping, gliding and battered.

Extremely clean sky observed above the South Atlantic region on September 29, 2012, has enabled NASA satellite photograph two large iceberg near the island of South Georgia.

For insulation of houses is often used polystyrene, one of the types of foams. To cut sheets of the necessary size and shape is usually applied hot string. The method is simple and fast, but as it turned out, dangerous for health.

Street in Kirovograd - October 8, 2012 - has turned into rivers. Several cars were drowned in the city centre - the water level in places reached meters and more. Move was difficult for both machines and people, says TSN.
Forecasters predict that the rains will not cease in Central Ukraine and 9 October.
The researchers argue that in the next 30 years the number of extreme precipitation will increase approximately twice.

EMERCOM of Russia provides geological service of the USA to unite efforts in the prediction of large earthquakes. At the meeting of the working group on cooperation in the field of prevention of emergency situations of the Russian-American presidential Commission was asked to create a program for the prediction of strong earthquakes in the first place for the Pacific region, using various technologies.

Excessive body weight increases the risk of many diseases, including cancer of the pancreas, breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, uterus and bladder.