The Ashes

I think many people will have some w3t dr3ams tonight after they’ll see this gScreen dual-screen laptop! Enough with the renderings as an Alaska-based company will launch Spacebook just in time for Christmas. Spacebook will be a dual 15.4-inch screen laptop, a first in the world, and definitely one which will help designers, photographers, and [...]

Marco Queral, an ocean photographer, found himself swimming with one of the seas giants– the humpback whale. Queral has been into ocean photography for the last 17 years, so he’s lost a lot of the natural fears you and I would have about being that close to a sea beast. Marco called the whales extremely [...]

Our thoughts color our perception of reality. Whatever we see is filtered through the lens of thought and it often becomes twisted and transformed into something else. The great German philosopher Kant reminds us that we can never see “how things really are”, all we are left with is our version of how things may [...]

Cells from flakes of skin have grown into living, breeding mice, through a bit of biotechnological wizardry. This feat helps confirm that reprogrammed adult cells, considered a potentially convenient source of stem cell therapies, share the shape-changing powers of embryonic stem cells. The goal was to create an animal made entirely from reprogrammed cells, and [...]

A desert plant has apparently figured out how to water itself. Ecologists had been puzzling over the desert rhubarb for years: Instead of the tiny, spiky leaves found on most desert plants, this rare rhubarb boasts lush green leaves up to a meter wide. Now scientists from the University of Haifa-Oranim in Israel have discovered [...]

Only two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they’ve never been able to find one until now. Astrophysicists identified what appears to be the first-ever medium-sized black hole, pictured in an artist’s rendition above, with a mass at least [...]

The enemy of our enemy may be our new partner in stopping a global health crisis.With World Malaria Day (April 25) around the corner, new discoveries suggest our greatest allies in the fight against malaria may be the mosquitoes themselves. Although saddled with a lousy public image, mosquitoes have immune systems that actually kill 80 [...]

An atomic line filter (ALF) is an advanced optical band-pass filter used in the physical sciences for filtering electromagnetic radiation with precision, accuracy, and minimal signal strength loss. Atomic line filters work via the absorption or resonance lines of atomic vapors and so may also be designated an atomic resonance filter (ARF). The three major [...]

A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variation of a ramjet distinguished by supersonic combustion. At higher speeds, it is necessary to combust supersonically to maximize the efficiency of the combustion process. Projections for the top speed of a scramjet engine (without additional oxidiser input) vary between Mach 12 and Mach 24 (orbital velocity). The [...]

The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle and Galen [...]