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Friday, December 29, 2006

Meat and dairy products from clonal animals

In the nearest future U.S. officials will announce about letting to sell meat and dairy products which were cloned. After that this news will be discussed in mass media and at last those products will be in grocery stores. These groceries will be marked, so that customers notice them. They say that meat of cloned animals does not differ from the regular ones and their usage is safe. First announcement about cloned animal was in 1996 about Dolly. Cloning is a process of inserting a cell of a grown-up animal into an ovule and after that an electric discharge makes this cell to believe it was impregnate. Of course, different types of microscopes help a lot in this process.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

The Human Upcoming Apocalypses

Scientists added up all the numbers and came to the conclusion that the "representatives" of homo sapience will be played out pretty soon. According to their opinion, this will happen on October 31, 2252006. From the "Apocalypses Date" we are separated only by two and a quarter millions of years. This conclusion was made by geologists and paleontologists who were researching under a microscope the fossils, which are twenty two and up million years old. A group of scientists determined, that the average mammals' lifetime is two and a half million years, but the modern human had already spent its 250 million years. Supposedly, the "Ice Age" which will take after that, will destroy all living creatures.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

The smallest Christmas Greeting Card ever…

As known, children love unusual present for Christmas and New Year. Without any doubts, any kid will be delighted with this miniature greeting card. Though, to be able to see it, you'll need a very good and powerful compound microscope with great magnification. The fact is, that this card of a micron size. It's smaller of the human's hair's width and even smaller than the diameter of one red corpuscle, so it can definitely be called the smallest greeting card in the world. This card was created in the laboratory of Leeds University. And the pictures that are on it were drawn by the local school children.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Humans handwriting through Stereo Microscopes

Not many people know that human's handwriting is unique as well as his fingerprints. And even if you try very hard, you won't be able to fully falsify someone's fingerprints! In addition, fingerprints allow getting enough information about its owner. For example, you can learn about traits of someone's character, health and even age. Thanks to a handwriting examination, many crimes are being solved day after day. By the way, this examination is held with the help of the Stereo Microscope and methodical literature. Though the last word is always stands after a specialist. Because none of the machines is be able to compete with people, ever!

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The extremes of nature...

The creatures, which are called archeis, are the extremes of the nature. They are able to survive in geysers and volcanoes. They poison the atmosphere, but at the same time they can improve the quality of soil. They are the most ancient creatures on Earth and can help reveal the mystery of creation. These microorganisms are unique in their antiquity, genetic features and chemical structure. Their ancestors emerged at the beginning of the life. Their specific features, which are noticeable only to scientists under the microscopes, make them even more unique and distinguish them from everyone else - bacterium, toadstools, plants and animals. Most likely, many of these microorganisms consist of chemical structures, which are still unknown to science.

Friday, December 08, 2006

Medecine Microscopes

During many years a microscope had been used in ophthalmology, neurosurgery and many other fields of medicine. Now it becomes an essential part, which helps greatly increase the level of competency and the level of immediate help to patients. The capabilities of the modern surgical microscope allow image magnification up to 25 times and even higher in some cases. At this enlargement a doctor can better see the structure of a tooth, distinctive anatomic features of the root canals, orthopedic constructions and much more. Surgical microscopy is necessary for detecting diseases at the early stages. The use of a microscopy expert increases the quality of cavity treatment and filling. The root treatment contains in full removal of the root canals' contents and in dense waterproof filling. Surgical microscope allows easily find root canals and at the same preserve tooth tissues, it also allows to control the cleanness of the root canals. So, this instrument is totally a must for the every dentist office and for safety of every patient

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Scientists revealed the structure of ancient Egyptian pyramids

A group of French and American scientists found the proof of ancient Egyptians using concrete when building pyramids. Supposedly, this technology was used at the upper layers of the buildings. The results of this research were published in French magazine "Science et Vie". The researchers analyzed the structure and limestone lattice of the milestones blocks, which had been used for building pyramids in Giza. It turned out that constructors used not only natural stone, but also blocks, witch were made of something like hydro mixture - artificially gotten grout, which was mixed with lime, ashes and salt. Outer looks of many of the blocks became the evidence In favor of this "concrete hypothesis". This theory first had been set up at the end of 1970's by the French chemist Joseph Davidovits. His researches were continued by the expert from French agency of aerospace researches (ONERA) professor Gilles Hug and scientist from Pennsylvania University Michel Barsoum. In order to discover the signs of the quick chemical reaction, which prevented natural crystallization, X-ray beams, electronic microscopes and plasma torch had been used. There is no explanation for this phenomenon for the natural stones, but it only verifies the artificial origin of these limestone blocks.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Atomic microscope for IBM

Several months ago IBM Company presented a new method of processing the substrates with the help of atomic force microscope (AFM). In the present method the microscope is used as a device, which rules and controls the process of a lithographic treatment on the molecular level. The traditional controlling method with deep ionic implantation resembles so called 'reconnaissance' of the surface. This method isn't only for the lithography. But also it may be used for another nano devices, such as devices for decoding DNA to instruments for the simple blood tests. Improved control and increased speed of the processing will enable to separate the biological molecules in many medical tasks. This atomic microscope, which is a real Microscopy Expert was invented by the Nobel Prize Winners Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer who worked in the laboratories in Zurich, Germany.