Dec 4, 2008
The technology is improving every day in all aspects. Be it the Space Science, Gadgets, Computer Hardware, Medicine or whatever you name it.
In this post you will see some most amazing physical robots today. Robots belong to gadgets. In the 20th century first fully autonomous machines appeared, but stories of artificial helpers and attempts to create them have a very long history.
Nowdays, robots are very widely used and they replace humans in many everyday jobs. They are widely used in manufacturing, transport, ... Read More
Nov 24, 2008
Dolphins are mammals, not fish! They are social, living in pods (also called "schools") of up to a dozen individuals. They are warm bloodeed just like humans and give birth to one baby called a calf at a time. All these facts show us the bond between humans and dophins. Dolphins have long played a role in human culture, they are even common in Greek mythology.
Dolphins have a universal appeal, symbolizing freedom, joy, grace and serenity. Every time we need to relax ... Read More
Oct 25, 2008
#1: Demikhov’s Two-Headed Dogs
In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world by unveiling a surgically created monstrosity: A two-headed dog. He created the creature in a lab on the outskirts of Moscow by grafting the head, shoulders, and front legs of a puppy onto the neck of a mature German shepherd.
Demikhov paraded the dog before reporters from around the world. Journalists gasped as both heads simultaneously lapped at bowls of milk, and then cringed as the milk from the puppy's head dribbled ... Read More
Oct 19, 2008
According to scientist Stone Age man used herbal mixtures to get "high". Scientist have found equipment used to prepare hallucinogenic drugs for sniffing.
Quetta Kaye, of University College London, and Scott Fitzpatrick, an archeologist from North Carolina State University, discovered an amazing proof on the Caribbean island of Carriacou.
They found ceramic bowls, as well as tubes for inhaling drug fumes or powders, which fitst appeared in South America between 100BC and 400BC and were then carried 400 miles to the islands.
Scientists believe that ... Read More
Oct 15, 2008
Almost everybody think that the Great Wall of China is the only manmade object visible from space. In reality, many human constructs can be seen from Earth orbit.
Astronauts can see highways, airports, dams and even large vehicles from an Earth orbit that is about 215 kilometers high. Cities can easily be distincted from surrounding countryside, and that's true even from the higher perch of the International Space Station, which circles the planet at about 400 kilometers up.
"You can see an awful lot ... Read More
Sep 14, 2008
DAMASCUS, Syria- Scientists have unearthed a camel jawbone in the Syrian desert that they think may be a previously unknown tiny species of the animal and say it's old around a million years.
The jawbone was found last month near the village of Khowm in the Palmyra region, about 150 miles northeast of Damascus, said Heba al-Sakhel, the head of the Syrian National Museum who was one of the leaders of the team of Syrian and Swiss researchers.
Last year, the team discovered the ... Read More
Sep 10, 2008
A huge ancient lake once dammed up by the vast ice sheets of the last Ice Age has been found by geologists in Russia.
Large glacial lakes were known to cover parts of Russia and North America during the Ice Age. Most well-known is Lake Agassiz, which covered portions of Canada and northern Minnesota more than 10,000 years ago. At the time it was the largest freshwater lake on the planet, with an area larger than all of the present-day Great Lakes combined, ... Read More
Sep 6, 2008
DARMSTADT, Germany - The European deep space probe Rosetta was successfully completed. Rosseta finished a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped working shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday.
Rosetta caught up with the Steins asteroid, also known as Asteroid 2867, just after 8:45 p.m. Friday in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The probe came within 500 miles of the asteroid.
Officials at the European Space Agency were ... Read More