Washington Post science writer Juliet Eilperin took part in a debate on the occasion of the future of the earth’s oceans and answered some interesting questions. Eastern Market, D.C.: Juliet, Having just seen “An Inconvenient Truth,” I am more than ever convinced that the unprecedented (and therefore unpredictable) melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Apple, Touch Panel, RFID readers.
As it became known Apple Corporation had tendered the US patent agency with a new invention which will give users of sensor screen gadgets more operative possibilities. The innovation will let users just using up their fingers to cut, copy and paste fragments of text and to work with files. This is a logical pace [...]
Gaming As a Life.
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” Albert Einstein said and that is very right because great scientist meant not only game as such but the life of course. Since the first arrow hit the mark, since first Greek games, even since the [...]
Bio-Electromagnetic Weapons.
At the beginning of February the U.S. Navy test fired an incredibly powerful new big gun designed to replace conventional weaponry aboard ships. New weapon uses electromagnetic energy instead of explosive chemical propellants to fire a projectile farther and faster. The railgun, as it is called, will ultimately fire a projectile more than 230 miles [...]
Blue Eyes
“Blue eyes Baby’s got blue eyes Like a deep blue sea On a blue blue day Blue eyes” It appears that beautiful blue eyes is the result of a genetic mutation that likely occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, researchers say. Scientists believe they have tracked down the cause of the eye colour of [...]
At the Beginning.
Many of us using computers, faxes and other printing devices probably don’t think that ink printer cartridges which we usually use as the primary source of the printing just did not exist prior to 1984 and like most modern technologies, the present-day inkjet has built on the progress made by many earlier versions. Yes, today [...]
Do We Have a Future?
Recent scientific researches argued that a new epoch in the planet’s geologic history has begun. It seams that we have to say goodbye to the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch and hello to the Anthropocene. Our world is in trouble. Among the major changes heralding this two-century-old man-made epoch: Vastly altered sediment erosion and deposition patterns. Major [...]