iTapemeasure a gadget to take measurements with help of your iPhone
The iTapemeasure is a gadget combination app and case with an attached digital tape measure to your iPhone always in your hand for sure...
The new ice age could start in the next millennium
Research shows that a new ice age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2...
Harvesting Energy from Cellphone Calls
Sounds incredible but the scientists from Korea have turned the main ingredient of calamine lotion into a tiny material that converts sound waves into electricity.
Just...
How to convert waste heat to electricity at the nanoscale
Scientists have discovered that a class of materials known to convert heat to electricity and vice versa behaves quite unexpectedly at the nanoscale in...
Forests Fight with Water Shortages
Forests have been the place where we believe our ancestors lived since time immemorial.
I have a technical background and I plead for simple and...
A New Logic Prototype Chip Based on Bayesian Probability
A probability-based processor may speed up flash memory, and eventually much more. A computer chip that performs calculations using probabilities, instead of binary logic, could...
The effects of climate change in the Arctic
Two decades after the United Nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change in order to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”,...
The most fuel efficient couple had broken a new world record with Volkswagen
A couple of Australians set up a world record of driving 1,626 miles with only a full tank of gas.
John and Helen Taylor from...
Graphene is the new electronic material for high-performance devices
That material, the focus of the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics, is graphene – a fancy name for extremely thin layers of ordinary carbon...
Researchers use nanotechnology to harness the power of fireflies
What do fireflies, nanorods, and Christmas lights have in common? Someday, consumers may be able to purchase multicolor strings of light that don’t need...