One of the latest developments in aviation is the Very Light Jet (VLJ). These small aircrafts have a maximum take-off weight of less than 10,000 pounds (4,540 kilograms), carry between one and nine passengers and are certified to be flown…
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The engineering of nano applications took root in the 1990s and has now branched out to touch every field of technology . Nanotechnology is the study and engineering of matter on either an atomic or molecular scale. The potentials for…
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born in Charlestown Massachusetts in 1791. He was the first child of Jedidiah Morse a Congregational Minister and geographer and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese. During the course of his life and in the subsequent decades…
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One beautiful, spring morning you get up and get ready for work just as you do every day. With a fresh cup of steaming coffee in hand you step out onto the porch, breathe in the fresh air and bend…
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Can the eyes play tricks on the ears? With the dawn of new studies about how the brain processes sight and sound, efforts have been launched to intentionally trick the ears so as to help the bind to see. It…
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UFOs definitely do exist. If you look up into the sky and see something but don’t know what it is, then it is by definition an Unidentified Flying Object. This could be something as simple as an aircraft you can’t…
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Is seeing believing? Researchers from the University of Chicago say that, in certain situations, it indeed can be. There, a new study was published on December 20, 2007 which identified the regions of the brain that are responsible for tricking…
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Pondering Space and Time A shift in perspective Pondering over the subject of time and space from a society & lifestyle’ angle brings about a new perspective. Time is money – so is space in today’s world. When man first…
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“Machines will never be as smart as us.” is something you will hear people mutter when the topic of Artificial Intelligence is brought up. AI was first formally studied in a conference at Dartmouth College in 1956. The scientists were…
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An overview of nuclear meltdown shows reason for caution in the nuclear power industry, and explains the reasons for public fear. A nuclear meltdown can happen when the cooling systems in a nuclear reactor fail. It may also be caused…
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