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Time magazine decided not to wait for the end of the year (and maybe in America already pre-holiday mood or they simply took over Ukrainian tradition "to catch up to the elections" - only their own and presidential) and already in the beginning of November has started to sum up the results, published a selection of the most successful and/or important inventions 2012. For us, this rating is of particular interest because in the list came startup Ukrainian students - Enable Talk, which in July, won one of the most prestigious nominations of the competition Microsoft Imagine Cup.

About 74 thousand years ago on the island of Sumatra there was a terrible eruption of Toba. According to estimates, it was 5 thousand times bigger eruption of mount St. Helens in 1980. Yes, there is a major eruption on the planet for the last 2 million years!

NASA scientists are conducting the work associated with the establishment of the satellite, which was not launched into outer space, and purposefully will be destroyed on Earth.

The discovery, which has the potential to make a real revolution in medicine that has made the American scientists from the University of Rochester. They found the body of rodents-mole rats special protein INF beta, which literally includes a function of self-destruction inside cancer cells, thereby giving the rodents immunity to cancer.

Archeologists say that the age of the bones is from 10 to 30 thousand years.

It appears from our home Galaxy is very good appetite! Still milky Way regularly "eats" small galaxies and star clusters, and the deeper they fall into its area of gravitation, the stronger draws them in. However, in this gluttony positive side - swallowed all the stars become part of our Galaxy.

In Novosibirsk died academician Eduard Kruglyakov, who headed the Commission against pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research of RAS

In ancient times, all the phenomena that people could not understand and explain, it was decided to attribute otherworldly forces. This was especially the case of natural disasters of various kinds. Perhaps it is because in the ancient sources as often mention the mysterious aliens or gods, which have their invisible part in the life of the earth's inhabitants.

America just had a real catastrophe from the hurricane. On the border with Canada to the storm has increased also earthquake. Venice floods for the second time in 2 weeks. Muscovites even freezing rain was suspicious that something is wrong in the nature. And nobody laughs at the Mayan calendar. According to their predictions, the end of an era is coming December 21. Did storms, floods, earthquake forerunners of this Apocalypse? "AiF" has remembered all cases the end of the world and listened to scientists.

In a half-ruined Church that stands in one of the "bear corners" Estonia is a fresco depicting "flying saucer". And among local people since olden times legend which says that to this godforsaken place should not be approached for half a kilometer, and even more - building next to the house...

Such strongest flash from the area of a supermassive black hole at the center of the milky Way humanity is not yet fixed.

About these huge birds tell legends, it would seem that this is a purely mythical creatures, do not have any connection with reality, however, a number of facts proves just the opposite - thunder-birds is not fiction, they actually sometimes appear in the sky and sometimes they present to the people the real danger.

Since the times of the pharaohs powerful rulers often used the architecture as a way to Express their worldview and, at other times to influence his people.

French ufologist Emma Michel somehow made the experiment. He outlined on the map of France where was observed UFOs. It turned out that the message about monitoring UFO in one day come from places on the map on the same line. Moreover, it was about seeing not one UFO flying in a straight line, but for various "machines"with different forms. In this Michelle saw the pattern and described his observations in the book "inexplicably Mysterious objects".

There is nothing that manages the life, all of our lives, as the time. People in prehistoric times already knew how to count the days, months and years with great accuracy. At first, they looked at the sky with the naked eye, watching the Sun, Moon and stars.