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Many smokers claim that a cigarette helps to relax in a stressful situation, focus on the problem, better learn the material when preparing for an exam or report... According to researchers from Uppsala University (Sweden), there is a truth: the special brain cells that are sensitive to nicotine and is responsible for memory.

What can I do for microorganisms to mankind during the colonization of the planet Mars? In fact, many people: bacteria are able to deliver astronauts large amounts of oxygen, as well as sufficient food and building materials. Moreover, the latter ones they will use a very unusual raw materials - waste of human life.

Archaeologists discovered the tomb of the legendary Queen Maya Cable, wife of the ruler of the city-state of Calakmul. According to historians, this woman played a much more significant role in the management of their people and the Kingdom than her husband the king Kinic Balam II. She was an outstanding military leader, its glory was more men survived the Queen.

The moon is closest to our body, so it is no surprise that constantly appear new and new projects related to its development. So recently, the press picked NASA plans for the organization in lunar orbit manned space station. And on the surface of our satellite is planned to put powerful supercomputer.

Browsing the richest collection of Harvard University, American paleontologists have discovered the remains of an interesting dinosaur from South Africa, which ran on our planet 200 million years ago. This creature (it was somewhat larger cat) had a thin and stiff feathers, which could toporets and give reptiles similarity with a hedgehog.

New data extracted from the glaciers of Greenland, suggest that the concentration of methane in the atmosphere follows the rise and decline of civilizations.

Practically any technical device causes gossip about her unhealthy. Microwave ovens, TVs, monitors, mobile phones (and most phones at the beginning of their existence), masts cellular, Wi-Fi, smart electricity meters - everything becomes a cause of concern.

Two independent teams of astronomers have confirmed that "Kepler" has opened 41 exoplanet 20 stellar systems. The first work was conducted JI Wei Xie from the University of Toronto (Canada), and authors of the second, which was led by Jason Stefensen of National accelerator laboratory them. Enrico Fermi (USA), working in several American universities, and the Harvard-Smithsonian center for astrophysics.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) used a new method to detect black holes, hidden powerful gas-dust clouds. Its essence is in the monitoring of the interaction with BH galaxies in which they reside.

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.

One of the main problems of modern man - the inability to cope with stress. When appropriate we will either start to panic or try to suppress their emotions, leading to discomfort. Meanwhile, recently psychologists from the University of California in Los Angeles came to the conclusion that the verbal expression of stress reduces its level.

Venus is traditionally considered to be "hot" planet, because it has the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and the hot surface. However, recently space probe Venus Express has revealed in the upper layers of the Venusian atmosphere is an area where the temperature is from -175 to -73 degrees Celsius. This is very strange, because Venus is much closer to the Sun than Earth.

Recently scientists have found that the wind emitted by quasars, the most powerful "lamps" in the Universe, too, may subside. And this is because gas clouds, about existing active centers of quasars, like everything else, quietly runs out and give of their substance. When all it flies away in the nearby space, the wind ceased.

Paleontologists from the UK found out what life led the kings of the early Cretaceous seas marine crocodiles from the family Metriorhynchidae. It turns out that they hunted like modern killer whales: threw the victim and tore it. However, some of them didn original - sucking prey in its mouth, like a huge vacuum cleaner.

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.