All light sources are not made equivalent, and Several are much more energy efficient than some other. Fundamentally artificial illumination was based on the emission of radiation brought about by burning fuels, oil-vegetable and animal. Modern-day illumination comes most from…
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Sometimes the smallest invention can have an enormous impact far beyond anything ever imagine by its inventor. That was certainly the case when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. His invention made cotton a more economically viable cash crop and…
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The United States Navy is testing new technology that brings a new twist to a timeless tool: the catapult. Used throughout history in warfare, modern catapults have been used on aircraft carriers for decades to accelerate airplanes across short flight…
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A thousand years ago the knowledge of how to make gunpowder was a closely guarded secret. The secret though would finally leak out of China, through the Middle East and into Europe, and as it spread westwards it would revolutionise…
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Robot scientists from the future could win Nobel Prizes for autonomous scientific discoveries. With robot science, scientific questions can be investigated more efficiently, outer space can be explored and studied faster, and human scientists may be asked to pick up…
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When the factors that affect intelligence are debated, heredity and environment come up immediately. Factors that affect intelligence are either heredity or environment, and, except for spiritual or supernatural intervention, those are the only available factors. Many people say there…
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Death by hand soap? It’s no joke and worried researchers are trying to get the word out to the public about this latest health risk. The Western world has become phobic about germs—just about any kind of germ, even good…
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Determining which science magazines are the best depends a little on the taste of different individuals. People are interested in different kinds of science and since different magazines offer different information, they might not always be what one is trying…
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We have all seen some of those sci-fi thrillers on the big screen. Movies like Terminator or the Matrix give us glimpses of how battles might be waged many years from now. Did you ever think though that perhaps it…
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Nanotechnology made a significant advance in December 2010 as scientists contsructed the world’s first nanoradio receiver using graphene, the film-like carbon compound which made headlines earlier this year when its discoverers were awarded the Nobel prize. According to the arXiv…
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