In late 2003, a small company from the San Francisco Bay Area demonstrated a unique revolutionary display technology. The (then) prototype device projected an image in thin air just above it, creating an illusion of a floating hologram, reminiscent of the famous scene from ‘Star Wars’ in which R2-D2 projects a hologram of Princess Leia.

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Tests on the “stickiness” of blood were underway at Johns Hopkins University (part of the GeneSTAR program), but rather than new insights emerging into blood’s properties the researchers have carried out the first biochemical analysis that can explain why just a few squares of chocolate a day can almost half the risk of heart attack [...]

The research conducted by Luc Moreau and his team has focused on the need to determine the provenance of digital objects, a concept whose importance is already well understood in areas such as art collection, where the provenance of an object helps determine its authenticity.

The work was done as part of the PASOA (Provenance Aware [...]

Dr Professor Adil Aliyev, the leading specialist on mud volcanism in the country, the head of the section of "Mud volcanism" at the Geology Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (GIA) says most of them are in the active phase.
The height of some of these marvels of nature is 400 meters in Azerbaijan. [...]