Tweet The Milan designer Omar Huerta has reached a very useful and unique invention that is solar powered light trees which is not like all solar powered street lights, as the new invention can grow actual plants on their branches. The tree uses LEDs at the base of the tree that are powered entirely by the [...]
Tweet The silicon based counterparts used in photovoltaic cells, are expensive than the carbon based organic photovoltaic cells, but they are more efficient in harnessing sunlight and producing it to electricity. The team led by Prof. Yang Yang from UCLA, working with Xing Wang Zhang from Beijing’s Chinese Academy of Science, and Ziruo Hong from [...]
Tweet The future ships are going to be cloaked against sonar, but researchers might make the ships cloaked against the water itself by acting as if they are not there. The Duke University researchers reached a new cloaking system that depends on a new metamaterial can make the water stand still as the ships move [...]
Tweet A research team in Kyoto University lead by Hidehito Nakamura, developed a new detectors for radiation. After Japan’s disaster of radiation that followed the big tsunami few month ago, the team worked in cooperation with Teijin Ltd. to reach the new gadget. The idea of the new gadget lies in “Scintirex,” a plastic resin that [...]
Tweet Fire is used to warm us, to cook and it is a major factor in all industries nowadays. But for the cavemen it was a matter of life and death as they used it to not only to cook or warm; But they also used it to preserve food by smoking to be able [...]
Tweet The gravity is a natural phenomenon. The scientific term for gravity is the force that is required to change the speed or direction of a moving object. There is a gravity between any two bodies with a force proportional to their mass. The factors that affect gravity are mass, distance and placement. the gravity [...]
Tweet The University of Pennsylvania researchers have reached a new discovery, they started treating the most common type of leukemia, chroniclymphocyte leukemia, by another disease HIV. By Engineering the patient’s T-cells to destroy the tumors. The treatments by Chemotherapy and radiation can give the patients of leukemia for years. But the only cure for that kind [...]
Tweet Do you think that the flu is not a dangerous disease? You should not, as the flu causes millions of hospitalized cases and sometimes it can lead to death. The available vaccines are not so efficient as they have to be taken yearly. Those vaccines concentrate on the external proteins the H and N strains, as H1N1 [...]
Tweet Vestas, a manufacturer of wind power turbines, recently announced that it will build the largest offshore wind turbine in the world. This turbine, when completed, will measure in at 164 meters (538 feet) and will surpass the current King of wind turbines, a 420 foot rotor in Spain. This is almost as large as [...]