Archive for April, 2011

Improving Harvesting Fog to Collect Clean Water

Tweet According to the World Health Organization, nearly 900 million people worldwide live without clean drinking water. MIT might have solved this problem by using the fog. MIT has an easier and improved fog-harvesting materials that could solve the problem of drinking water in the countries that suffer from that problem. They can collect water from [...]

New Technologies to Treat Cancer

Tweet By 2015 there is going to be a better treatment than chemotherapy in treating the deadly disease the Liver Cancer. Instead of the Chemotherapy and it’s awful side effects, the new treatment can help shrinking the tumors but with much less side effects and also the patient will stay hospitalized for only one day [...]

Solving Molyneux’s Puzzle

Tweet It has been now  more than 3 centuries since Molyneux, the Irish philosopher, wondered if a blind from birth person can see all of a sudden will that person be able to recognize the difference between the shapes as he used to distinguish the difference by touch when he was blind. Researches have recently reached [...]

The UK is not Investing Enough in Electric Cars

In 1912, Thomas Edison’s invention, the nickel-iron storage battery, was used in one of the first electric cars. Almost one hundred years later, there are relatively few electric cars on the world’s roads. There are, of course, many reasons for this. However, it is worth asking: could many of these reasons be overcome with proper investment?

Ethical Shopping Advice on Your Phone

The iphone has taken the world by storm and has spawned a countless number of apps for every occasion. The latest app for the iphone is an ethical shopping app.