WHEN news spread in December 2007 that an ageing nuclear reactor in Canada might shut down for much longer than its scheduled two weeks, the world caught its breath. The reactor, at Chalk River in Ontario, is the world’s biggest supplier of radioactive isotopes for medical use, and diagnostic tests for cancer and heart disease [...]
When an ad hoc team of 5000 people who assembled in just two hours found 10 weather balloons hidden across the US by the Pentagon’s research agency earlier this month, it was just another demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing – solving a task by appealing to a large undefined group of web users to [...]
Stop by here if you are looking for some interesting facts about Earth. Some of these are quite interesting while others border the thin line between strange and bizarre. Read on to know more.
Our planet is truly very interesting, indeed. While 70% of the planet is covered with water, the most advanced life form on [...]
It has been a whipping boy for its critics, but NASA’s Ares I rocket has received a rare boost.
Despite budget and technical concerns, NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) believes Ares I is the best bet for flying astronauts to the International Space Station after the space shuttle retires, because it has been designed from [...]
Bermuda triangle, also referred to as the Devil’s triangle, is a region in the Atlantic Ocean, renowned as a mysterious place owing to the disappearances of a number of aircraft’s and vessels traveling through this part. The demarcated triangle is located off the Bermuda coast, from which it derives the name ‘Bermuda triangle’. Although, there [...]
Initially thought to be hydrogen and helium, it took researchers many years to find out what is the Sun made of. The efforts on the part of researchers yielded results, when it came to light that besides, hydrogen and helium, the mass of the Sun also, consists of elements, such as neon and iron.
Everybody knows [...]
Can an understanding of science improve our cooking?
There will never be science in the home. Science takes place in the lab. That produces knowledge, and if you use that knowledge when you cook then it becomes technique and technology.
How did you get into the science of cooking?
I was making a Roquefort soufflé for friends on [...]
Buying a projector is an investment that you want to be sure you make wisely. So taking the time to do some comparison [...]
Spyware has become the most prominent computer security problem. How do you choose a good spyware removal tool? Beware of antispyware [...]
If I asked you the question: which part of your computer is the most fragile, what would you say? What if I asked: [...]
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