Martin Cooper was the lead engineer responsible for the creation of the hand held mobile phone. Born in Chicago in 1928, Dr.Cooper led Motorola, using his skills as an electrical engineer to produce the first mobile phone. After serving in…
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Science is above all the study of nature. Before science was developed, humanity explained things with stories. While this was satisfying, it did not allow people to do anything much with nature. One of the first sciences was the making…
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The possibility that we will mount a manned expedition to Mars in the coming decades has forced NASA to return to a question which it has not had to grapple with in quite some time: what happens if someone dies…
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In the book 1001 Things you Should Know About Science, renowned American physicist and George Mason University professor James Trefil offers an interesting twist on various science topics which both high school and elementary students often tag under the boring…
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How can we analyze our beliefs objectively to determine their validity, to find whether or not our beliefs are true? Is thinking scientifically the answer? Some believe that the scientific method of research is the only way to determine the…
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Nylon is a synthetic fibre, nicknamed the ‘miracle fibre’ which was invented in 1934 by DuPont cooperation as a replacement for silk. The fibre was an immediate hit and remained so until World War II when in 1941 both silk and…
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Everything we have today came from some original invention possibly created millions of years ago. Inventions are like dominoes one person invents something. Then that inventions falls on some one else. Suddenly he gets an idea and builds off that…
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The X-51A WaveRider is an unmanned U.S. Air Force experimental aircraft capable of reaching hypersonic speeds (specifically, six times the speed of sound, or 4000 miles per hour) using new scramjet engine technology. Test flights began in December 2009 and…
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Because scientific breakthroughs can’t really be predicted and because of the limitations of gravity and wind drag, aircraft of the future aren’t expected to fly much faster than they do now; at least not the kind that flies in the…
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The Earth’s energy grid. It’s a term that gets used in many ways. Lately, it brings to mind that we’ve always been a part of this living environment called Gaia, but somehow, along the way, we’ve lost much of what…
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