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Dec 17, 2014
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We all feel blue sometimes, and we may say “I‘m depressed”. However, when depression exists it intrudes on our everyday life causing serious problems to us and to people around us. There are different types of depression. The main three are the following: Major Depressive Disorder is characterized by a combination of symptoms causing […]
Dec 07, 2014
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Micro- or even nano-robots could someday perform medical tasks in the human body. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have now taken a first step towards this goal. They have succeeded in constructing swimming bodies that simultaneously meet two requirements: they are small enough to be used in bodily fluids […]
Dec 05, 2014
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean. The patch extends over an indeterminate area, with estimates ranging very widely depending on the degree of plastic concentration used to define the affected area. The patch is characterized by exceptionally […]