Increased public interest in so-called "swine flu" are struggling kyberprestupnyki, long accustomed to profit at others' misfortunes.

According Infox.ru, a new form of fraud arranged for the standard pattern: a user receives an email that offers to protect him from the swine flu vaccination. In exile, which is attached, the victim goes to a page that copies the design site of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention USA.

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Mathematicians have found another solution funny, that is: how to arrange the oars on board the boat, so that while sailing in it do not raise cross-point, ie, the boat went smoothly and did not hesitate. Article scientists have not yet accepted for publication, but its preprint available at arxiv.org.

As part of scientists interested in the issue of athletes in the seating of eight - a boat in rowing, which sit eight oar and steering. Each rower in one oar that is that it can accommodate the left or right side. This eight to go much better if the rowing (it is believed that oar exercise movements simultaneously) is not exploring movement perpendicular oscillations (in this case say that the transversality time zero).

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Climatologists have determined that global warming is to get to the last bastion of the ice - such scientists called East Antarctic ice sheet, which was considered until recently affected by climate change. Research article appeared in the journal Nature Geoscience, and its brief cites New Scientist.

The new study researchers used data collected by a pair of spacecraft NASA GRACE. These devices were launched from the cosmodrome Plesetsk in 2002, devoted to studying the dynamics of the terrestrial gravitational field.

Downloaded, they said "most detailed available data on the change of the gravitational field in recent years, the computer model, scientists were that East Antarctic ice sheet is currently intensively melts. By their calculations, from 2002 to 2009 range annually lose 5 to 109 billion tons of ice (error calculations extremely large).

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The world's first solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse made a test flight, according to the official website of the project.

Went the flight of a minimum height - Solar Impulse has lifted off from Earth for no more than a meter and flew about 350 meters. Project Engineer emphasize that the purpose of testing was not to lift the aircraft at high altitude, and check the characteristics of aircraft.

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Burgess Hromtau Aktobe region of Kazakhstan Diyar Hylmanov a patent "Rospatent on improvements to their Kalashnikov assault rifle, says Kazakh weekly" Caravan ". The device is called "Muzzle brake-compensator Diyara and to improve the accuracy of aiming at medium and far distances, reducing the consumption of patrons.

The validity of a patent on Muzzle brake-compensator is 25 years. It is possible that the new invention will extend the life of the Kalashnikov assault rifle in the armed forces. Now the Supreme Council of some countries are planning to shoot with automatic weapons.

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The average American consumes about 34 gigabytes of information per day. Top sources of information content is television, after the computer goes.

The data obtained in the new study scientists at the University of California San Diego, said Ruformator from exile to the newspaper The New York Times.

Total, the researchers calculated, all U.S. households consumed together in 2008, 3.6 zettabayt (zetabayt - a billion trillion bytes). This includes information obtained from various sources, including television, radio, Internet, text messaging, video games and more.

With regard to time, information on various vzhytok Americans, on average, does the 11.8 hours a day. The most popular information channel is television - on average, each American consumes him about 4.5 hours a day.

Next on the amount of time spent, is the computer - about 2 o'clock in the day. Other important channels are radio, music, and printing or publishing books.

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