It became known that yesterday at least six people were killed when a shallow, 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit Colombia, destroying homes and shaking buildings in the capital Bogota, where panicked residents fled into the streets. The quake blocked a highway out of Bogota and flattened ten houses and a church near the epicenter, authorities said. Francisco [...]
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Ecologically Better Way Construction.
Five designs have been shortlisted in a competition to create an iconic visitor centre for a Lancashire wildlife haven. Lancashire Wildlife Trust has won the race to save Brockholes Wetland, a former gravel extraction site near Preston. The first phase will include the restoration of the wetlands, creation of ponds, seeding of meadows, planting new [...]
Mars Rover program is Continuing.
On Monday we’ve head that scientists plan to put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and limit the activities of the other robot to fulfill a NASA because their budget was being cut by $4 million. But on the next day NASA says that it has absolutely no plan to turn off either [...]
Robot Big Dog.
Watching the Big Dog lifelike moves and balances I was filled with mixed feelings. I would not like to meet this monster tête-à-tête:-) But it’s really good job! The robot was created by Boston Dynamics Inc and you can see here its climbing through the woods, through snow, and recovering its balance while trying to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Falling Satellite.
Unfortunately besides expected astronomic events there are unexpected ones. It appears that a large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit the Earth in late February or March, government officials said Saturday, AP reports. The satellite, which no longer can be controlled, could contain hazardous materials, and it is unknown where [...]
Astronomical Events 2008.
Don’t be asleep at the early morning of Friday, February 1, 2008. It will be the time when Venus, the closest planet to Earth, and Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, appear the closest together in the night sky, dont miss it The most spectacular celestial sights over the next couple of weeks [...]