Entries from July 2007
Invisible projection screen created
German company Woehburk will soon put on the market new projection screen CristalLine which features so high cleanliness and transparency that is almost invisible.
The projection screen looks as a very clean glass - its transparency can reach 91 %. Its distinctive feature is ability to create images floating in the air. At that the glass […]
Categories: Inventions
The robot - crab with GPS-navigation
Researchers from Garbi University of engineering have presented their creation: this is bionic robot - crab equipped with GPS, for underwater researches.
It is informed, that the length of the robot is 24 inches, width - 14 inches, height - 10 inches, and weight - 26,5 lbs.
Developers inform that the crab has already passed the […]
Categories: Inventions
Computers deprive us of an opportunity to think
Japanese scientists have decided to prove in practice danger to a person of addiction or getting of psychological dependence from computer or mobile phone.
According to the data of the research, consequences of habituation to various kinds of digital technical equipment, which ostensibly simplify life, can be serious problems with memory and in general ability remember […]
Categories: General
In three years Microsoft will let out new OS Windows version
Microsoft has declared that in three years they will finish work above the new version of operational system Windows. This was informed by the sources close to Corporation.
At present the system has working name Windows Seven or under the number of NT nucleus version which is used in the system. Similar to operational system Vista, […]
Categories: General
Saturn has one more satellite
NASA experts with the help of wide-angle Cassini’s camera have discovered near Saturn one more satellite - 60-th.
The newborn satellite, which is about two kilometers, was named Frank. This one is the smallest of satellites as till now three-kilometer Mrtona was considered as such, and the majority from new opened bodies rotating around the giant […]
Categories: Space
An alternative to liquid crystals is created
The group of chemists from university of California in Riverside headed by Professor Jadun Yin has managed to create magnetic nanosolution which changes color if exposed to the external magnetic field.
This marvelous substance is a solution of ferric oxide nanoparticles collected in the special way. These particles, which Jadun Yin calls light crystals, have evident […]
Categories: Chemistry
Geologists found traces of 1,85 billion years meteorite in Canada
The Canadian geologists have found out traces of the large meteorite collided with our planet about 1,85 billion years ago. The unique discovery has been found in 497,10 miles from city Sudbury in Ontario province (Canada).
According to geologists, traces of a meteorite have been discovered casually when in May, 2007 in 560 miles from Sudbury […]
Categories: Space
Cellular telephone - the house for microbes
It is known, that a surface of any mobile phone is a shelter for the whole colonies of microbes and bacteria, many of which can cause various skin diseases.
During experiment the scientist has borrowed phones from eleven casual passers-by and has subjected each of them to the special test. It appeared that cases of almost […]
Categories: General
Mankind faces the prospect of dying out because of the global warming
Global warming, which is recently much spoken about, in opinion of scientists, can become the reason of increased death rate during the summer period all over the world.
The matter is that in result of global increase of temperatures, heat comes into regions with moderate temperature conditions and inhabitants of these areas can not resist to […]
Categories: General
Water on a far huge planet
Astronomers have discovered water vapour in an atmosphere of a huge planet outside the Solar system. It became possible with the help of a powerful NASA telescope Spitzer.
The signs of water vapour have been found in the rays of light in the atmosphere of a planet called HD 189733b when it passed in front of […]
Categories: Space